HBD - Summer 2023 Mixed-Genre Catalog

Mixed-Genre Summer 2023

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Catalog Summer 2023

Coronation – Music for Royal Occasions

Coronation – Music for Royal Occasions spans 500 years of royal music – for celebration, for prayer and for commemoration – varying in scale from private devotion to full state coronation. The collection, featuring Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Purcell, Tippett and Britten, looks to the coronation of Charles III, and back to the ancient rituals of royal ceremonial. (Coro)

1CD# COR16196 $19.99

Love at Last / Lara Downes

Love at Last is pianist Lara Downes’s first Pentatone album, inspired by the poem Sachki, Sachki by the Odessa-born Jewish writer Shaul Tchernichovsky. 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

Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3

Friedrich Wührer was appointed Professor at the Vienna Academy of Music at the age of 28 but he did not confine his activities to teaching. He soon became increasingly active as a concert pianist. His concert tours led him to most countries in Europe, and earned him the reputation as one of the finest keyboard artists of his time. Conductor Walther Davisson leads the Pro Musica Orchestra Stuttgart in this recording of Beethoven's 2nd and 3rd piano concertos. (Vox)

1CD# VOX-NX-3003CD $16.99

Schubert: Symphonies Unfinished & Great / Marek Janowski

Marek Janowski presents his first purely-orchestral Schubert recording, together with the Dresdner Philharmonie, performing the composer ’s two final, groundbreaking and most famous symphonies. Working with the Dresdner Philharmonie, Janowski’s interpretation combines a sense of tradition with vitality and intensity. (Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5187065 $19.99

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. The themes of these recent works are remembrance, memorialization, and hopefulness. Elegy addresses ideas of harmony and discord through contrasting thematic ideas. The Violin Concerto No. 2 follows the ‘symphony-concerto’ model with a resonant and lyrical slow movement inspired by Jewish mysticism at its core. Pulsating harmonies eventually subside into serene and hopeful writing in "Of Thee I Sing," written to commemorate the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. (Naxos)

1CD# 8559927 $13.99

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

The Baroque dream team of Rachel Podger and Kristian Bezuidenhout interpret the astonishing music of C.P.E. Bachʼs Violin Sonatas in C Minor, B Minor, D Major and G Minor. The two early sonatas here from the 1730s resemble the older style of his father. Listening to these works, you can imagine J.S. Bach glancing over Emanuel's shoulders while he wrote them as a teenager at home in Leipzig. The later sonatas, written 30 to 50 years later, reveal the directly emotional and rhetorical style characteristic of north-German music of the time. (Channel Classics)

1CD# CCSSA41523 $21.99

Maria Mater Meretrix / Anna Prohaska; Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Soprano Anna Prohaska and violinist

Patricia Kopatchinskaja are both well known for their taste for eclecticism, experimentation and adventure. As they are also are friends, it was only to be expected that one day they would devise and record a program together, and here it is: Maria Mater Meretrix. The expression of two women musicians of today. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA739

$18.99

Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2; Prelude in C# Minor

John Wilson and Sinfonia of London release their second album of Rachmaninoff. The Second Symphony was mostly composed in Dresden in 1906–07. An hour’s worth of music, the symphony is one of his largest works after the operas, and is widely viewed as one of his greatest works. It was possibly of some significance to the composer, following the less than auspicious début of his First Symphony. (Chandos)

1SACD# CHSA 5309 $21.99

Saint-Saëns’: Cello Concerto in D Minor

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

British Invasion / Alexander String Quartet; William Kanengiser

The Alexander String Quartet and guitarist William Kanengiser form a dynamic collaboration that explores the music of Sting, Led Zeppelin, John Dowland and The Beatles by way of contemporary composers Ian Krouse, Dušan Bogdanovic and Leo Brouwer. All of these artists made a lasting impact far from the shores of their small island. (Foghorn)

Karl Böhm: The SWR Recordings (Beethoven, Brahms, Dvořák, Mozart) [6

CDs]

The lasting fame of conductor Karl Böhm is based on qualities that were praised by listeners, musicians and critics throughout his long career: his discipline and meticulousness when rehearsing compositions as well as his modesty, his willingness to take second place to work and composer.

(SWR Classic)

6CD# SWR19123CD $44.99

Beethoven & Berwald: Septets / Wigmore Soloists

For their latest project on BIS, the Wigmore Soloists perform two works with unusual instrumentation: Beethoven’s and Berwald’s septets for violin, viola, cello, double bass, clarinet, bassoon and horn. In the tradition of serenade, this work in six movements represents Beethoven at his most warm-hearted and relaxed, yet his compositional craft and subtlety are typically sharp. (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2707 $19.99

Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4 / Boris Giltburg

Rachmaninov’s First Piano

Concerto was composed while he was a student at the Moscow Conservatoire, then fully reworked before he left Russia in 1917 and again in 1919. It is hard to explain why it never achieved a higher level of popularity – it has all of the melodic beauty, passion and brilliance found throughout the composer’s music. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574528 $13.99

Komitas, Aghabab, Aprikian & Ganatchian: Mayrig – To Armenian Mothers

1CD# FCL2023

Solo Cello / Nina Kotova

$16.99

Breathtaking performances of both unusual and beloved repertoire for solo cello. Works include Hindemith’s Cello Sonata, Op. 25, No. 3; Cassado’s Suite for Cello Solo; and Beethoven’s Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009. (Delos)

1CD# DE 3588

$16.99

Komitas is the voice of the land of Armenia, of its churches and its stones which remained silent for many centuries’, the violinist David Haroutunian tells us. Along with the mezzo-soprano Eva Zaïcik and the pianist Xénia Maliarevitch, he pays tribute to this great musician and to the French-Armenian composer Garbis Aprikian, now ninety-six years old. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA947 $18.99

Mahler: Symphony No. 9

For the latest installment in their Mahler series, the Minnesota Orchestra under the direction of Osmo Vänskä presents what many consider to be the pinnacle of the Austrian composer’s entire work, the Ninth Symphony. To the bitter irony and anger of the third movement the last movement, a mystical Adagio, seems to respond with ineffable tenderness. (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2476 $19.99

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

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

2CD# BRK900196 $21.99

Korngold: String Quartets Nos. 1–3 / Tippett Quartet

Erich Wolfgang Korngold wrote a significant body of chamber music, with his three String Quartets reflecting differing periods of composition. The First marries impetuousness with enticing harmonies and rapt eloquence. The Second dates from 1933 and has great clarity and rhythmic impetus, with a full complement of Korngold’s lyricism. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574428 $13.99

Mahler: Symphony No. 2

After critically-acclaimed recordings of Mahler’s Fourth and Fifth Symphony, the Czech Philharmonic and Semyon Bychkov continue their Pentatone Mahler cycle with a rendition of the composer’s Second, nicknamed “The Resurrection”. They are joined by soprano Christiane Karg, alto Elisabeth Kulman and the Prague Philharmonic Choir. (Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5186992 $15.99

Carl Maria von Weber: The Clarinet as Prima Donna

On this recording, Belgian clarinettist Roeland Hendrikx intends to rehabilitate Weber by playing his best music. Weber was an animal of the theatre in all his works: the Clarinet Concertos are increasingly recognised as early highlights in Weber’s career. (EPR Classic)

1CD# EPRC 0053 $16.99

Guðmundsson: The Gospel of Mary

The Icelandic composer, Hugi Guðmundsson, has penned a new oratorio infused with religious themes and featuring an ensemble of orchestra, choir, and soloists. The Gospel of Mary draws inspiration from a long-forgotten gospel written in the early centuries after Christ’s birth, which challenges the established narrative surrounding the role of Mary Magdalene. (Dacapo)

1CD# 8224736 $15.99

Holst: The Planets / Daniel Harding

Seven musical character images – each one immensely sensual and expressive, and standing on its own like a monument. The British composer Gustav Holst, fascinated by (esoteric) astrology, chose the planets of our solar system and the characteristics attributed to them as the basis for what he referred to as musical “mood pictures” or “embodiments”. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900208 $17.99

Nikodemowicz: Piano Sonatas

Compositrices – New Light on French Romantic Women Composers

[8 CDs]

In this eight-CD set featuring several hundred performers, the Palazzetto Bru Zane present works by female composers from nineteenth-century France. They highlight twenty-one female creators, from already identified personalities like Hélène de Montgeroult, Louise Farrenc,and Mel Bonis to such lesser known figures as Charlotte Sohy and Madeleine Lemariey. (Bru Zane)

8CD# BZ2006 $49.99

Révélations – 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 with her new album. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96743 $14.99

Andrzej Nikodemowicz (1925–2017) was a versatile composer. The piano was a particularly important instrument for the composer. He knew how to extract from it a cosmos of colours, a condensed sonic matter, the spectrum of which contained a palette of orchestral-like sounds. Those qualities can be perfectly heard in the compositions presented on this album. (Dux)

1CD# DUX1896 $19.99

Schubert: In Memoriam I

The first of two discs by Pieter Wispelwey that will be released in this year is a re-assembling of previously released recordings of works by Schubert. This short series is titled In Memoriam I and is inspired by a grave loss Pieter suffered a few months ago. The disc includes Schubert’s masterpieces for violin and piano, transcribed for cello – and the most famous Trockne Blumen, originally for flute. (EPR Classic)

1CD# EPRC 0050 $16.99

Santtu Conducts Strauss / Philharmonia Orchestra [2 CDs]

Santtu Conducts Strauss is a 2-volume album featuring four works by Richard Strauss conducted by Principal Conductor SanttuMatias Rouvali, two of which are live recordings of Santtu’s 2021/22 opening concert and first concert as Principal Conductor at Royal Festival Hall. Eine Alpensinfonie and Also sprach Zarathustra are live recordings of Santtu’s opening concert of the 2021/22 season. (Signum Classics)

2CD# SIGCD720

$25.99

Renee Fleming – Greatest Moments at the Met [2 CDs]

Renee Fleming celebrates three decades at the Metropolitan Opera. This first-ever, specially remastered collection compiles highlights she has chosen of her "most magical experiences," captured live on stage in this pinnacle of opera houses featuring duets with Cecilia Bartoli, Susan Graham, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Samuel Ramey, Bryn Terfel and more. Works are included from Otello, Peter Grimes, Don Giovanni, The Merry Widow, La Traviata, and more! (Decca)

$22.99

Price: Songs of the Oak – Orchestral Works

The rediscovery of Florence Price’s music has revealed one of the most significant bodies of work by an African American composer in the 20th century. The variety of genres represented on this release place Price’s immense artistic imagination on full display. (Naxos)

1CD# 8559920

$13.99

Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 4 / Julia Fischer

Pentatone re-issues Julia Fischer’s epoch-making Mozart Violin Concertos recordings, starting with her readings of the famous 3rd and 4th concertos, as well as the Adagio in E Major and Rondo in B-flat Major, first released in 2005. Fischer performs them together with the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Yakov Kreizberg. (Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5187016 $15.99

Franz Schubert: Die Liebe liebt das Wandern –Audiobiography [4 CDs]

Admittedly, Franz Schubert’s biography offers little in the way of great adventures, love affairs, glamour and long journeys. Jörg Handstein devotes himself here to a composer with an altogether quieter life. Schubert’s unhappiness in love, his terrible illness, and probably also his early death were, ultimately, the price he paid for this unconventional life. (BR Klassik)

4CD# BRK900927 $34.99

Kapustin: Piano Concerto No. 5, Concerto for 2 Pianos and Percussion

10/10! “This splendid new release confirms the excellent impression made by its predecessors, especially the remarkable disc containing the Fourth Piano Concerto and other orchestral works. Kapustin’s jazzinflected style offers a full range of expressive nuance projected in a consistently kinetic, refreshing and melodically attractive language that is uniquely his own.” – Classics Today (Capriccio)

Beethoven

for Three – Symph. No. 6 / Yo-Yo Ma, Kavakos, Ax

Like their first Beethoven for Three release — Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5 — this recording challenges the traditional boundary between chamber and orchestral repertoire to offer the listener two very different sides of the composer using the same three voices. In the C Minor piano trio, we hear Beethoven’s brilliant exploration of three instruments’ essential expressive capabilities. (Sony)

1CD# 19658739372 $13.99

Wagner: Parsifal Suite / London PO; Andrew Gourlay

Andrew Gourlay conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in his new Parsifal Suite, a finelywrought concert piece consisting of instrumental music from Wagner’s Parsifal. In keeping with the fluidity of Wagner’s score, Gourlay has carefully selected the order of the excerpts so that they flow into one another without breaks, using the tiniest tweaks to allow the instrumentation to connect. (Orchid Classics)

1CD# ORC100207 $16.99

1CD# C5495 $19.99

Donizetti: Signor Gaetano / Javier Camarena

“Above all, there’s simply an enormous amout to enjoy in Camarena’s singing, right from the ranz des vaches-like solo that opens the first track. But this album is so much more than a vocal showcase. All in all, this is a hugely enjoyable and unusually satisfying and engaging operatic recital....”

– Gramophone Recording of the Month (Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5186886 $15.99

Vaughan Williams; Howells; Delius; Elgar: Music for Strings / John Wilson

“A new release from John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London – a well-known ensemble in the 1950s, relaunched in 2018 by Wilson for special projects – has become a redletter day in the recording calendar. As ever, the brilliance of the playing makes this essential listening, the precision and attention to detail alive and exhilarating.” – The Guardian (Chandos)

1SACD# CHSA 5291 $21.99

2CD# MOB535699

Dvořák: Poetic Tone Pictures, Op. 85 / Andsnes

A rare jewel among the piano repertoire, Dvořák’s Poetic Tone Pictures, a cycle of piano solo works, is mostly unknown to the public. Following the great success of his Sibelius album in 2017, Leif Ove Andsnes once again brings lesser known piano music into the spotlight, delivering a treasure chest of accessible and romantic tunes performed with artistic brilliance.

(Sony)

1CD# 19439912092 $13.99

Pavarotti in Hyde Park – The Legendary 1991 Concert [DVD]

This legendary concert of Luciano Pavarotti in Hyde Park 1991, was held to mark the 30th anniversary of the start of Pavarotti’s operatic career. Luciano Pavarotti thrilled the electrified audience with a popular program from Verdi to Puccini, from Mascagni and Leoncavallo to Bixio and Di Capua, which is now available for the first time available here, digitally remastered! (C Major)

1DVD# 762404 $32.99

Godowsky in Asia / Charisse Baldoria

Philippine-born pianist, composer, and educator Dr. Charisse Baldoria draws upon Western pianism, her Southeast Asian and Hispanic heritage, and various art forms in her work. Her recently recorded all-Godowsky album features the complete Java Suite inspired by pianist-composer Leopold

Godowsky’s travels to the island of Java in 1923, as well as other pieces inspired by non-Western cultures. (Centaur)

1CD# CRC3972 $15.99

Tom + Will – Weelkes & Byrd: 400 Years

400 years ago, in 1623, England lost two of its greatest composers, William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes. In a program marking this double anniversary, The King’s Singers and Fretwork turn their focus to the bold personalties of these two men, Will and Tom. This release unlocks the humanity behind these two giants of Elizabethan music. (Signum Classics)

1CD# SIGCD731 $17.99

Martinů: Cello Sonatas / Moser, Korobeinikov

Cellist Johannes Moser and pianist Andrei Korobeinikov present Bohuslav Martinů’s complete cello sonatas. These works belong to the most significant twentieth-century repertoire for cello and piano. After their award-winning recording of works by Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff from 2016, Moser and Korobeinikov demonstrate their congeniality once more. (Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5187007 $15.99

J.S. Bach: The Secrets of Harmony (Audiobiography) [4 CDs]

Bach’s biography also provides a fascinating insight into an age that is very distant and foreign to us today. This narrated biography includes 9 chapters on 3 CDs, featuring a large cast of notable speakers. Included are 140 musical examples from Bach’s great works as well as several rarely-heard pieces. Includes a bonus CD with recordings of one large choral work and one orchestral work. (BR Klassik)

4CD# BRK900936 $34.99

Great composers in words & music (Audiobiography)

Tchaikovsky

This narrative is illustrated with musical excerpts from Piano Concerto No. 1, the 1812 Overture,The Nutcracker, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty, among others. (Naxos)

1CD# 8578369 $13.99

Debussy

Claude Debussy is regarded by many as the quintessential French composer, with music that invited both warm applause and frosty criticism in his day. (Naxos)

1CD# 8578364 $13.99

Chopin

This account of Chopin’s life and times separates myth and reality. Illustrated with musical examples, the narrative takes us from his youthful beginnings as ‘a second Mozart’. (Naxos)

1CD# 8578367 $13.99

Beethoven

Musical excerpts include the ‘Diabelli’ Variations, Symphonies Nos. 2, 3, 6 and 9, ‘Emperor’ Concerto, Missa solemnis and Fidelio, among many others. (Naxos)

1CD# 8578363 $13.99

J.S. Bach

Discover this fascinating biography of a composer who, to Max Reger, represented ‘the beginning and the end of all music’. (Naxos)

1CD# 8578362 $13.99

Mozart

This narrative is illustrated with music from each stage of Mozart’s intense career, including the ‘Jupiter’ Symphony, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute and many more. (Naxos)

1CD# 8578361 $13.99

La Femme – Journey of Female Composers / Flaka Goranci

‘Flaka Goranci has showcased composers whom we should know better. I look forward to hearing more from her and from them. She is also the leading performer, and her stunning voice is ably and sympathetically accompanied by the World Chamber Orchestra conducted by Konstantinos Diminakis.’

– MusicWeb International (Naxos)

1CD# 8551470

$13.99

Mazzoli: Dark with Excessive Bright

Named ‘2022 Composer of the Year’ by Musical America, Missy Mazzoli inhabits an exquisite and mysterious sound-world in which indie-rock sensibilities meet American minimalism, European modernism and classical traditions. Through her music, she reaches to the roots of tradition, inhabits and renovates older forms while using every resource at her command. (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2572 $19.99

The Passionate Amy Beach / Solungga Lui

Solungga Liu has been acclaimed as a pianist of great breadth. She is a champion of early twentiethcentury American music and underrepresented works of the standard repertoire. She is also known as an uncanny interpreter of new music. (Centaur)

1CD# CRC3990

$15.99

Bonds: Credo & Simon Bore the Cross / The Dessoff Choirs

New York City-based The Dessoff Choirs, instrumental in re-establishing the music of 20th-century African American composer Margaret Bonds, present two more Bonds premieres: new orchestrations of her cantata, Simon Bore the Cross, created with long-time collaborator and friend Langston Hughes, and the largescale Credo set to prose by W.E.B. Du Bois. (Avie)

1CD# AV2589 $17.99

Three Centuries of Female Composers / Various [10 CDs]

Ranging from the 18th century to the music of our time, this collection of critically acclaimed recordings explores the significant contribution to solo piano repertoire made by a wide variety of women composers. Tanya Ekanayaka continues the lineage in her own diverse and hybrid pieces. (Grand Piano)

10CD# GP897X $54.99

Boulanger, Schumann: Two Columbines / Bols & Bjørkøe

Clara Schumann and Lili Boulanger – Duo Bols & Bjørkøe – The Duo Bols and Bjørkøe have their fifth anniversary in 2022. In 2020, the Roskilde Music Association encouraged the duo to perform a program consisting only of female composers, a program that was also recorded for the Danish National Radio. This program became the basis for the repertoire on this CD. (Danacord)

1CD# DACOCD959 $16.99

Brouwer: Reactions, Songs & Chamber Music

Margaret Brouwer’s music has for decades been admired for “inhabiting its own peculiarly bewitching harmonic world”(New York Times). These recently composed pieces reflect her musical representations of particular events: Rhapsodic Sonata charts an internal journey of love, whereas Declaration is a set of songs that addresses ideas of violence and war. (Naxos)

1CD# 8559904 $13.99

Martinaityte: Hadal 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. Performed by the adventurous Lithuanian ensemble Synaesthesis. (Cantaloupe)

1CD# CA21182 $19.99

Musickè – Harpsichord Music by Contemporary Female Composers

A transcontinental exhibition of modern female composers writing for the harpsichord in a dazzling array of styles, featuring many first recordings. Ursula Mamlok’s Three Bagatelles are miniatures characterized by a free application of serial technique, courting expressionist parallels with rhetorical, concentrated gestures. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96476 $14.99

Bacewicz: Piano Concerto

This album includes some rarely recorded gems: Grazyna Bacewicz’s Piano Concerto together with the late Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in its first digital recording. Also included is the composer’s homage to Bartók, Music for Strings, Trumpets and Percussion, as well as the composer’s early exuberant Overture written during the German occupation of Poland. (Ondine)

1CD# ODE 1427-2 $16.99

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

Hymns from Cambridge / Trinity College Choir

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

Maria Kliegel – Anniversary Edition [3 CDs]

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

boxed sets

Mozart: Four Complete Operas [10 CDs]

Mozart created 22 stage works in his lifetime. This 10-CD box comprises the world-famous ‘evergreens’ in historical recordings from Vienna 1955. Soloists include Christa Ludwig, Lisa della Casa, Hilde Gülden, Alfred Poell, Cesare Siepi, Fernando Corena, Kurt Böhme and many more. (Profil)

10CD# PH23005

$34.99

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

This release is a source of pride for guitarist Alberto Mesirca for several reasons. First, it’s the culmination of a recording endeavour begun in 2016, which sprung from an idea Mesirca had during an after-concert dinner with his beloved, late mentor, violist Vladimir Mendelssohn. Mesirca then managed to convince Vladimir Mendelssohn to prepare scores for the complete repertoire. (Brilliant Classics)

3CD# BRI96872 $16.99

Complete Warner Recordings (Updated) / Jacqueline Du Pré [23 CDs]

Jacqueline du Pré was recognized during her brief prime as one of the supreme cellists of the 20th century, with an intense commitment and a well-honed technical mastery to back up her heaven-sent talents. The way her career was snatched away from her by a remorseless illness, leading to her early death, has inevitably cast a romantic glow over her life story.

(Warner Classics)

23CD# MOB611384 $99.99

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

The start of a major new series on Brilliant Classics –historically informed accounts of the violin sonatas by a Classicalera master of Rococo charm and invention. Boccherini, still in his mid-20s, dedicated his Op. 5 violin sonatas to the Parisian keyboard soloist Mme. Brillon de Jouy. Movements from these sonatas appear in reworked guises in other chamber works and symphonies. (Brilliant Classics)

5CD# BRI96612

$19.99

Legendary Pianists – Famous Piano Concertos [10 CDs]

For many decades the orchestras of the German broadcasting service SWR have worked together with many famous musicians from all over the world, including the outstanding pianists selected for this collection, among them Clara Haskil, Jörg Demus, Paul Badura-Skoda, Alicia de Larrocha, Wilhelm Backhaus, and Géza Anda. (SWR Classic)

10CD# SWR19433CD $51.99

Cécile Ousset: Complete Warner Recordings [16 CDs]

The EMI Classics recordings of Cécile Ousset (b. 1936), spanning the years between 1982 and 1991, would mark her third and most prestigious recording collaboration, launching her, at age forty-six, into the international limelight. Indeed, recognition did not come easily to this grand dame of the piano, who, at the age of fourteen, obtained her prize at the Paris Conservatoire. (Warner)

16CD# MOB436246 $44.99 $36.99

Beethoven: Complete String Quartets: Vol. 3 [3 CDs]

The celebrated Dover Quartet, the young, GRAMMY-nominated ensemble brimming with prestigious awards and residencies, concludes its critically acclaimed, three-volume Beethoven cycle with the composer’s five monumental, revolutionary Late Quartets and imposing Grosse Fugue. The triple-album release comprises Beethoven’s very last compositions. (Cedille)

3CD# CDR 215 $32.99

Ivry Gitlis – The Legend [4 CDs]

The concert programs of Ivry Gitlis were often challenging for the audience. Nevertheless, when Gitlis plays the great concertos whose timeless worth still dominates today’s concert programs, his own, sometimes idiosyncratic interpretation is audible, challenging the listener to more intensive engagement with that which is already well-known. (Profil)

4CD# PH19056 $22.99

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

Bruckner: The 9 Symphonies / Herbert Blomstedt [10 CDs]

Bruckner’s symphonies are strenuous alpine hikes, and Blomstedt is a mountain guide who not only has the next fork in the road in mind but knows every stone on the path before the group has even started. The nine symphonies released in this box were recorded at the Gewandhaus Leipzig between 2005 and 2012. (Accentus)

10CD# ACC80575

$89.99

ballet works

Anna Karenina – A Ballet by John Neumeier [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, stating: “My challenge was therefore to give true life and relevance to the story by selecting key emotional situations and essential characters to fit within the framework of an evening-long ballet.” (C Major)

2DVD# 763108

1Blu-ray# 763204

$37.99

$42.99

Adam: Orfa – Romantic Ballet in Two Acts

Orfa was Adolphe Adam’s penultimate ballet, with an intriguing scenario based on Nordic mythology. Adam’s writing shows increasingly vivid orchestral imagination, drama and tonal colour, with roles for several instrumental soloists. This world premiere recording uses a new edition copied from Adam’s original manuscript score held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574478 $13.99

Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Marius Petipas and Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty was a global success in 1890. Christian Spuck worked with the Ballett Zurich on a new version of the classic that challenges cherished cliches. Recorded live at the Opernhaus Zurich in June 2022. (Accentus)

1DVD# ACC20586

$38.99

1Blu-ray# ACC10586 $32.49

Prokofiev: Cinderella & Romeo and Juliet Ballet Suites

Of the major works of Sergei Prokofiev, none (apart perhaps from Peter and the Wolf ) have become so well loved by a wide audience as the ballets Cinderella and Romeo and Juliet. Ian Scott and his producer Malcolm McMillan have added a further 12 movements from the ballets, which has resulted in a lovely collection of pieces that are at once very familiar but also heard in a completely new light. (Divine Art)

1CD# DDA25232

$18.99

Saint-Saëns: Dances & Ballet Music

This album presents a selection of Saint-Saëns’ incidental music and music from his operas. From Samson et Dalila – the only one of Saint-Saëns’ operas to remain in the repertory – we hear two memorable and adrenalin-fueled dances including the famous Bacchanale. Henry VIII drew from the composer music of regal solemnity with plenty of colorful scoring, praised by Gounod. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574463

$13.99

Teatro alla Scala Ballets [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

The present release showcases five outstanding ballets from the legendary Teatro alla Scala. First is Romeo and Juliet The stars of this masterly performance are Roberto Bolle and Misty Copeland, together for the first time in this ballet. Next is The Sleeping Beauty which received fantastic reviews. (C Major)

7DVD# 758608

5Blu-ray# 758704

$85.99

$85.99

Lord Berners: Ballet Music – Les Sirènes –Cupid and Psyche

Lord Berners excelled in the ballet medium where he enjoyed collaborations with leading choreographers and conductors with whom his natural flair for spectacle and design could be explored to the full. Cupid and Psyche was not a critical success but its music transcended weaknesses in the scenario and the suite is both orchestrally deft and thematically memorable. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574370 $13.99

The Snow Queen / The Scottish Ballet [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Scottish Ballet’s 50th anniversary year came to a spectacular close with the world premiere of The Snow Queen. This glittering new production is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s much-loved tale – which was also the basis for Disney’s Frozen. It is set to the music of RimskyKorsakov, performed live by the full Scottish Ballet Orchestra. (Opus Arte)

1DVD# OA 1329D $29.99

1Blu-ray# OA BD7284D $39.99

Tchaikovsky: Complete Ballets / Royal Philharmonic [5 CDs]

Brilliant Classics’ exciting 5-album sets series: Quintessence features compact box sets containing essential core classical repertoire in outstanding performances. A great series at an unbeatable price! This release features the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performing Tchaikovsky’s complete ballets. (Brilliant Classics)

5CD# BRI96195 $26.99

Delibes: Ballet Suites / Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Neeme Järvi returns to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for a dazzling album of suites from the ballets Sylvia, La Source, and Coppélia by Delibes. On this album Neeme Järvi adds several additional movements to expand upon the suites which appeared in Delibes’s lifetime. (Chandos)

1SACD# CHSA 5257 $19.99

organ works

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). (Solo Musica)

1CD# SM422

$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

Schneider & Kirkberger: Organ Music / Walter Gatti

Hendrie: Complete Organ Music, Vol. 1 / Tom

Winpenny

The organ music of Gerald Hendrie –born in England in 1935 but resident in France since 1996 – encompasses a huge range of influences, among them the organist-composers who went before him, dodecaphony, medieval plainchant and modality and jazz. The resulting works are as varied as the styles that fed into them, from grandiose to gentle, from severe to whimsical, from lyrical to lively. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0684 $18.99

Bottazzi: Choro et Organo [2 CDs]

Choro et Organo by Bernardino Bottazzi (1560–1614) may be considered the most extensive and best-known collection of Italian organ works from the early 17th century. In the beautiful edition printed by Giacomo Vincenti, the musical notation used relates to a tradition that is more Renaissance than early baroque. (Brilliant Classics)

2CD# BRI96823 $14.99

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 littleknown repertoire that deserves today, 150 years after Caruso’s birth, to be rediscovered by a new audience. (Urania)

$10.99

Johann Schneider was a German organist, violinist and composer. He was a pupil of Nicolas Mueller in his hometown and continued his studies with Johann Hartmann Reinmann in Saalfeld between 1717 and 1720. Around 1720, he became Johann Sebastian Bach’s organ and harpsichord pupil in Köthen. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96752

$12.99

Viennese Reflections for Organ / Pier

Damiano Peretti

The present Reflections juxtapose four composers of the so-called First and Second Viennese Schools. Pier Damian o 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

2CD# LDV14096 $29.99

Franck & Vierne: First & Last

The Quoirin organ is a very good fit for the colorful demands of Franck and Vierne’s music, and it was a perfect scenario to record at Ascension Church. With Vierne at the height of his artistry, his 6th Symphony marks the apex of the French symphonic organ tradition — a fitting culmination of the style enshrined with Franck’s Grande pièce symphonique. (Azica)

1CD# ACD-71356 $16.99

Moore: Via Crucis / Richard Moore

Explore this premiere recording of Philip Moore’s Via Crucis, performed at Guildford Cathedral by organist Richard Moore, with Rev. Dr Barry Orford. The album includes a foreword by the composer. (Convivium)

$16.99

1CD# CVI079

Piano releases

Beethoven Symphonies, Vol. 3 / Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman

Somm Recordings announces Volume 3 of the Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman Piano Duo’s groundbreaking series exploring Franz Xaver Scharwenka’s arrangements of Beethoven Symphonies. A composer of no mean stature in his own right, Scharwenka’s transcriptions were once widely admired, his treatments of Beethoven’s symphonies a highwatermark of the genre. (Somm)

1CD# SOMMCD 0666 $18.99

Stravinsky: Piano Music / Emanuele Delucchi

This young Italian pianist continues to go from strength to strength and to broaden his already diverse catalogue of recordings for the label with this new album of Stravinsky’s works for the piano. The music of Stravinsky, like Beethoven, unmistakably bears the imprint of being composed at the piano – think of the pounding chords of The Rite of Spring. (Piano Classics)

1CD# PCL10169 $18.99

Liszt: Song Transcriptions, Vol. 3

In this third volume of Liszt’s Schubert song transcriptions, which includes some rare versions, the composer’s prodigious capacity for colouration, shifting textures and use of myriad pianistic devices brings refinement and beauty to each song. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574095 $13.99

Einaudi: Clouds / Jeroen van Veen [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, which spin unbroken songs from the simplest material and cast a spell of relaxed enchantment over their audience. Jeroen van Veen is the Dutch pianist who has likewise won an international following for his many albums of Minimalist piano music. (Brilliant Classics)

7CD# BRI96912 $52.99

Meeting My Shadow (Piano Stories) / Giorgi Gigashvili

Giorgi Gigashvili is only twentytwo, but he is already hitting the headlines: now a pupil of Nelson Goerner, he is a protégé of Martha Argerich, who gave him the urge to play the piano alongside his first love, pop singing: at the age of thirteen, he was a contestant in The Voice in his homeland, Georgia, and won the prize! (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA930 $18.99

Corigliano: Complete Piano Works

The Piano Concerto ranges in expression between lyricism and atonality and is extremely virtuosic and theatrical, while the competition piece Fantasia on an Ostinato investigates the performer’s imagination and musicality through minimalist techniques. The Prelude for Paul echoes the soul of Rachmaninov. (Naxos)

1CD# 8559930 $13.99

Grieg: Complete Music for Piano 4-Hands

The four Norwegian Dances, Op. 35 are arrangements for piano fourhands of old folk tunes that Grieg took from a collection published by the musician and researcher Ludvig Mathias Lindeman. The composition was sketched in Copenhagen in January 1880 and brought to completion in the summer of the following year during a holiday in Lofthus. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96284 $12.99

Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 / Pietro de Maria

Fresh from his success in Vienna with the Rondo à la Krakowiak, Chopin decided to explore the piano concerto genre. Dedicated to Kalkbrenner, though inheriting influence from Hummel, the Piano Concerto Op. 11, No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 is discreetly orchestrated and marries brilliant virtuosity with expressive melancholy. (Dynamic)

1CD# DYN-CDS7978 $16.99

Rieti: Complete Piano Solo & Duo Works, Vol. 1 The Second Avenue Waltzes for two pianos, one of Vittorio Rieti’s greatest works, is an expression of his maturity and full of charm, whereas the later Twelve Preludes for solo piano reveal a wealth of inventiveness. One of his most successful pieces, the Suite champêtre for two pianos, is fuelled by grace and elegance. (Grand Piano)

1CD# GP921 $16.99

Chopin: Works for Piano & Orchestra / Ekaterina Litvintseva

Russian pianist Ekaterina Litvintseva presents a beautifully polished new album of Chopin pieces, for which she receives warmly idiomatic support from the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra of Pardubice, on an intimate scale which the composer would have recognized. (Piano Classics)

1CD# PCL10142 $18.99

chorus/vocals

Mozart: Anime Immortali / Franco Fagioli

Counter-tenor Franco Fagioli makes his Pentatone debut with Anime Immortali, together with the Kammerorchester Basel, exploring the music that Mozart composed for castratos. Ranging from opera to sacred music and culminating in Exsultate, jubilate, the recorded works share a sublime and profound demonstrating Mozartʼs strong connection to the castrato voice.

(Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5187044 $15.99

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. These, just like his canonically treated instrumental works, reflect his changes of style. Ligeti exclusively set Hungarian poetry to music, showing a marked preference for texts by Balint Balassa and Sándor Weöres. (SWR Classic)

2CD# SWR19128CD $26.99

Trotta: Intimations of Immortality / MSU State Singers

This recording includes a fivemovement work by Michael John Trotta along with three a cappella traditional works. Intimations of Immortality is based on Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. (Gia Choral Works)

1CD# GIACD-1129 $16.99

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. (Challenge)

1SACD# CC 72936 $18.99

Brahms: Ein Deutsches Barockrequiem / Vox Luminis

Johannes Brahms drew texts from various Biblical sources for his Deutsches Requiem. As we hear in his choral music, he had a passion for polyphony and was inspired by models from the great Lutheran tradition of the late Renaissance and the Baroque. (Ricercar)

1CD# RIC445 $18.99

Sword in the Soul / London Choral Sinfonia

In an album that includes worldpremiere 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. Alongside Grier’s Sword in the Soul, we also hear Lux Eterna. (Orchid Classics)

1CD# ORC100223 $16.99

Coleridge: Requiem

“Composers have been setting the Requiem texts to music since the late Middle Ages, and it was to these early settings that I was drawn when writing my own offering: with simple, flowing melodic threads combined to create a richer fabric. My thanks to Rupert Gough and the vibrant young voices of the Choir of Royal Holloway.” – Matthew Coleridge (Convivium)

1CD# CVI081 $16.99

This Island / Susan Narucki; Donald Berman

GRAMMY Award winning American soprano Susan Narucki, “one of the great practitioners of contemporary vocal music” (Opera News) presents This Island, a specially curated, unique set of 21 art songs written in the first half of the 20th century, chiefly by women and some receiving their world premiere recordings. (Avie)

1CD# AV2592 $17.99

Mahler, Strauss: Befreit – A Soul Surrendered Having won both the Kathleen Ferrier Award and Royal Overseas League Award in the same year, mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately writes of this project: ‘It has been my great pleasure to record with Joseph once again. We have long shared a mutual passion for early-twentieth-centuryromantic Lieder and talked of making a disc including songs by Mahler and Strauss. (Chandos)

1CD# CHAN 20177 $20.99

Jonathan Dove: Sappho Sings

“It’s testament to the force of Sappho’s art that, even though practically all that remains of her work is, tantalizingly, just fragments, those fragments of her work still have the power to move, intrigue and inspire us. Huge thanks to Ralph Woodward for giving me the opportunity to set Alasdair Middleton’s wonderfully immediate translations.” (Convivium)

1CD# CVI076 $11.99

Opera

The Monteverdi Trilogy / John Eliot Gardner; Monteverdi Choir [3 DVDs]

This set brings together Monteverdi’s three surviving operas: the splendorous L’Orfeo and, from later in his life, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in 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)

3DVD# OA 1349BD $39.99

3Blu-ray# OA BD7300BD $54.99

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

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

Puccini: Tosca [DVD or Blu-ray]

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)

1DVD# 2110752

$27.99

1Blu-ray# NBD0166V $27.99

Mocnik: Johannes-Passion

For this CD production, Damijan Mocnik has created a reduced version of his “St. John Passion” for woodwind, percussion and strings, originally composed with a considerably larger orchestra. The recording took place on March 5, 2022 in Studio 1 of the Bayerischer Rundfunk. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900343 $17.99

So Romantique! / Cyrille Dubois

‘So Romantique!’ illustrates the ‘profoundly sentimental’ side of French opera from the 1830s to the 1900s, which gradually came to be judged overwrought and was condemned to partial oblivion. 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

Cavalieri: Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo

Emilio de’ Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo was premiered in 1600 in Rome. It was conceived to be performed in costume, bringing text and music together in a dramatic form, and is accepted as the first surviving opera, pre-dating works by Peri and Monteverdi. “An unmitigated, tremendous success’ and its ‘musical production was extraordinary...” – Bachtrack.com (Naxos)

1DVD# 2110750 $27.99

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)

2DVD# 762508 $47.99

1Blu-ray# 762604 $42.99

Tafreshipour: The Doll Behind the Curtain [CD]

An original and challenging work of musical theatre, The Doll Behind the Curtain was composed in 2015 and is Tafreshipour’s first opera as well as the first Iranian opera with an English libretto. It was premièred in London in 2015 and is here heard in a recording by the team that also performed it at the Royal Danish Opera in 2020. (BIS)

1CD# BIS-2596 $19.99

Saint-Georges: L’Amant Anonyme [3 CDs]

Haymarket Opera, Chicago’s premier early opera company, performs on this world-premiere recording of L’Amant Anonyme (The Anonymous Lover) by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745–1799).

Premiered in 1780, L’Amant Anonyme was the most successful of Bologne’s six operas and is the only one to survive to the present day. (Cedille)

3CD# CDR 217 $32.99

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

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, well versed in popular music. (Naxos)

1DVD# 2110757 $24.99

1Blu-ray# NBD0169V $24.99

Music Under the Swastika –The Maestro & The Cellist of Auschwitz

This music documentary by Christian Berger focuses on star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, and Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. Featuring interviews with musicians like Daniel Barenboim and Christian Thielemann. Archive film footage, restored and colorized, brings the story to life, and bears witness to an agonizing chapter in history. (C Major)

1DVD# 762808 $29.99

Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos is one of the early 20th century’s most peculiar operatic works. Set in the beautiful Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Matthias Hartmann’s 2022 production was a triumphant success both for its soloists and conductor Daniele Gatti in his first season as musical director at the Maggio Musicale Foundation. (Dynamic)

1DVD# DYN-37970 $27.99

1Blu-ray# DYN-57970 $27.99

Memory in Motion: Percussion in Surround DVD

Memory in Motion: Percussion in Surround was a research project developed to examine how percussionists memorize musical actions within ensembles. As part of this research, director Aiyun Huang commissioned new works to compliment selected existing repertoire. (Mode)

1DVD# MOD-DV-325

$29.99

Palais Garnier – Building the Paris Opera House DVD

The thrilling tale of the construction of the Palais Garnier, a total work of art built over fifteen tumultuous years by the brilliant architect Charles Garnier. Commissioned by Napoleon III, the Palais Garnier is the symbol par excellence of the Second Empire, a building set apart by its technical and artistic ambition. (BelAir)

1DVD# BAC184

$24.99

Dvořák’s Prophecy – DVD Documentaries

Film 1: Dvořákʼs New World Symphony – A Lens on the American Experience of Race

This first film in the series keys on Dvořákʼs prophecy and explores its present-day pertinence. Acclaimed and ridiculed at the time, it remains inspirational. (Naxos)

1DVD# 2110703

$12.99

Film 2: Charles Ives’ America

A musical Whitman or Melville, Charles Ives embodies the American trope of the “self-made genius,” heeding Emerson’s call to cut the cultural umbilical cord with Europe, forging an original path. (Naxos)

1DVD# 2110701

$12.99

Film 3: The Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music

If George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess embodies a glorious fulfillment of Dvořákʼs prophecy, there also exists a lineage of exceptional compositions by Black composers following in Dvořákʼs wake. (Naxos)

1DVD# 2110700

$12.99

Film 4: Aaron Copland – American Populist

This film highlights Aaron Copland’s ingenious music for Lewis Mumford’s 1939 World’s Fair film The City, itself a complex product of the Popular Front. (Naxos)

1DVD# 2110698

$12.99

Film 5: Beyond Psycho –The Genius of Bernard Herrmann

Hollywood’s supreme film composer Bernard Herrmann was a casualty of the standard narrative – as he was also a formidable concert composer. (Naxos)

1DVD# 2110702

$12.99

Film 6: Lou Harrison & Cultural Fusion

Sampling gamelan-inspired works by Debussy, Poulenc, Messiaen, and McPhee, we arrive at Lou Harrison – and a pair of concertos, for violin and piano, unsurpassed by those of any other American. (Naxos)

1DVD# 2110699

$12.99

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

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 is available together for the first time in this 3-DVD collection. (Opus Arte)

3DVD# OA 1365BD $39.99

Shakespeare: Richard III [8 DVDs]

Richard III is a savagely comic analysis of the exercise of power. It reminds us both of the dangers of tyranny and of our duty not to let it go unchecked. 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

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. This uniquely complete edition from the Musikverein and Salzburg Festival, featuring 11 symphonies, also includes extensive conversations with Christian Thielemann about each symphony and insights into his rehearsal work. (Unitel)

2DVD# 807508 $37.99

1Blu-ray# 807604 $42.99

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. First built in 1982 and heard worldwide by millions on the Rev. Robert Schuller’s “Hour of Power” broadcast, Hazel now enjoys a renewed musical life following her full restoration in 2022. This is Hazel’s Story. (Gothic)

1Blu-ray# G-DVD-0100

$19.99

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

Le Chevalier de Saint-George –The Enlightened Violinist [DVD]

An emancipated slave, the Chevalier de Saint-George managed to elevate himself to the highest spheres of the Enlightened 18th-century French society, thanks to his incredible accomplishments as a fencer, horseman, and musician. This film narrates his extraordinary adventures. (Belair)

1DVD# BAC190 $19.99

Home Music Berlin – Documentary & Concerts

[DVD or Blu-ray Video]

When lockdown was imposed in 2020 many artists began streaming performances from their own homes. In response, pianist Francesco Piemontesi and director Jan Schmidt-Garre launched a concert series to showcase artists living in Berlin, given in the renowned Schinkel Pavillon with an expert technical team assembled at short notice. (Naxos)

2DVD# 2110681-82 $24.99

2Blu-ray# NBD0124-25V $24.99

Pavarotti in Central Park [Blu-ray]

When more than 500,000 people gathered in New York’s Central Park on 26 June 1993, they wanted to hear only one thing: The voice of the greatest tenor of the twentieth century: the voice of Luciano Pavarotti. He is accompanied here by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Leone Magiera, featuring the flutist Andrea Griminelli and The Boys Choir of Harlem. (C Major)

1Blu-ray# 762704 $32.99

Beethoven and His Contemporaries, Vol. 1 [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

The award-winning Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin has become one of the world’s leading chamber orchestras on period instruments. These concerts reveal some of the foundations of Beethoven’s genius, and capture vital performances from the 2020 SWR Schwetzingen Festival, the biggest radio festival for classical music in the world. (Naxos)

1DVD# 2110704 $22.99

1Blu-ray# NBD0135V $22.99

Bruckner 11, Vol. 2 [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

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

2DVD# 806908 $36.99

1Blu-ray# 807004 $41.99

The Scarlatti Book (feat. Fabrizio Cassol, Stéphane Galland)

The intrepid experimental jazz trio Aka Moon has represented an approach to jazz that has seen them collaborate with a multitude of artists from different backgrounds in their richly filled career. Their new collection ‘The Scarlatti Book’ is devoted to the music of Italian Baroque composer Domenico Scarlatti. (Outhere)

1CD# OUT658

$18.99 $15.19

Dutch Hidden Gems / Anna Fedorova, Phion Orchestra

This program is a wonderful little treasure chest overflowing with musical gems for the viola, all composed in Holland in the twentieth century. Even more delightful is the thought that these pieces and their four composers abide in the twilight of Dutch musical life and seldom if ever come to the attention of soloists and orchestras. (Channel Classics)

1CD# CCS41222 $18.99 $15.19

Musique classique persane / Mohammad Firouzi

The present release is a wonderful concert by Mohammad Firouzi, a master of Persian classical singing, both composer and performer at the same time: inspired improvisation, poems chosen with great taste, subtle instrumental accompaniment. Traditional Iranian music is a message, a call from the artist’s inmost consciousness, which is tightly linked to his age-old history and culture. (Ocora)

1CD# C582097 $18.99 $15.19

Sibelius: The Complete Symphonies [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Paavo Berglund, born in Helsinki in 1929, was, until his death in 2012, the greatest of all the contemporary interpreters of Sibelius’s music. His idiomatic and convincing recordings have done much to fire the revival of interest in the composer, with vivid performances that capture its unique qualities of grandeur and instrumental color. (ICA Classics)

1Blu-ray# ICAD5163 $41.99 $33.59

2DVD# ICAD5162 $38.99 $31.19

Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven & Brahms / Chamber Orchestra of Europe [4 CDs]

This set is a testament to a remarkable collaboration between the conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929–2016) and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE) and its release this year marks the Orchestra’s 40th anniversary. These recordings also trace the relationship between Harnoncourt and the Styriarte Festival which started in 1987 and lasted for over 30 years. (ICA Classics)

4CD# ICAC5161 $41.99 $33.59

Beethoven: Rondino & Wind Octet - Mozart: Serenade

/ MIB Wind Ensemble

This is the first recording on Channel Classics with the Italian based MIB Ensemble. Comprising the best players from the top orchestras of Italy, the ensemble felt the need to create their own ensemble to fill the gap in repertoire and concert possibilities for wind instruments. (Channel Classics)

1CD# CCS44122 $18.99 $15.19

Formidable! (French Chansons)

Thomas Oliemans writes: “I have had French chansons in my head for as long as I can remember: on a scratchy car radio or a cassette player. I moved primarily into the world of classical singing, in opera, lied and oratorio, but the chanson was never far away. Indeed, at almost each stage of my musical development it appeared to grow with me.” (Channel Classics)

1CD# CCS43321 $18.99 $15.19

Playlist / Ensemble Perspectives

Ensemble Perspectives, an a cappella vocal quintet founded and directed by Geoffroy Heurard, creates programs that blend the mainstream classical repertory with lesser-known composers and folk and pop songs. These pieces are sung in transcriptions ‘tailor-made’ for Perspectives, which works with world-renowned arrangers and composers of all aesthetic persuasions. (Outhere)

1CD# OMF704 $18.99 $15.19

Fabrizio Cassol: I Silenti

I Silenti is conceived around the Gypsy jazz singer and multiinstrumentalist Tcha Limberger. He embodies a musical and literary nomadism that extends into the geographical and timeless depths of orality. The fact that he has been blind from birth has protected him from the superfluity of appearances, so that he has always remained connected to the essential. (Outhere)

1CD# OUT665 $18.99 $15.19

Opus 111 / Aka Moon

In addition to being one of Beethoven’s most emblematic works, the Piano Sonata Op. 111, No. 32 (1821–22) is a manifesto of radical modernity. It begins the process of disintegration of sonata form, and introduces in its second movement a new method of constructing the musical phrase, to such an extent that some commentators regard it as marking the first stirrings of jazz. (Outhere)

1CD# OUT664 $18.99 $15.19

Dvořákʼs, Mozart: Romance / Munchner Rundfunkorchester

Very appropriately, Valentina Nafornita devotes half of her debut album released on Outhere to Mozart. The second part of the CD is devoted to the Slavonic repertory. With her rich, bronze timbre, she is ideally suited to the tragic depth of expression of Dvořákʼs ‘Song to the Moon’, with which she made her breakthrough at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. (Outhere)

1CD# OMF705

Cassol: Requiem pour L.

$18.99 $15.19

Mozart’s Requiem is one of the most iconic works in the history of western music. After exploring its labyrinth of secrets in several years of research, Fabrizio Cassol wanted to reframe the mournful ritual of the Requiem to express other emotions as well. Five African languages intertwine with the ancient Latin text, and invocations to the ancestors ring out – a journey open to the reality of the world today. (Outhere)

1CD# OUT663 $18.99 $15.19

Cassol: Now / Aka Moon

NOW confirms this cohesion thanks to an ongoing counterpoint in which three mysteriously complementary worlds intertwine, revealing their own originalities and styles. The titles of the compositions evoke the themes of travel and the fascination of elsewhere, as well as an artistic and human commitment always in the forefront. (Outhere)

1CD# OUT662 $18.99 $15.19

Constellations Box [20 CDs] / Aka Moon

Since 1992, the year Aka Moon was formed, a series of albums has marked the history of the legendary jazz trio, which this set of twenty albums now gives you a chance to relive. To discover or rediscover this unique music is a very special experience, an inexhaustible source of inspiration. The twentieth album in the box is a previously unreleased recording: Light Ship Trio. (Outhere)

20CD# OUT661 $18.99 $55.99

Songs of Experience / Ensemble Perspectives

Perspectives is an a cappella ensemble comprising five singers who explore every kind of music, from the Renaissance to jazz and popular song. This release is a journey through emotions and sentiments, travelilng on a musical itinerary that begins in the Renaissance, enters Romantic territory with Schubert, then traverses the golden age of choral music in the Victorian age. (Outhere)

1CD# OMF 702 $18.99 $15.19

Strange Fruit / Fabrizio Cassol

Strange Fruit is aproject of the protean composer-saxophonist Fabrizio Cassol, which takes the form of a concept album that could be described as “world opera”. This songbook was elaborated over a period of more than four years, in the company of a group of renowned singers who wrote or co-wrote each piece in their own, very different expressive and stylistic traditions. (Outhere)

1CD# OUT660 $18.99 $15.19

Musiques d’Alep / Wajd Ensemble

The WAJD ensemble is made of five Syrian refugee musicians who recently arrived in Europe. Their repertoire is representative of oriental music from Turkey, Syria and Egypt and revolves around Suffi music from Aleppo. WAJD highlights musical pieces that are little known and rarely played, they are reinventing through improvisation, sung or played, rhymed or unrhymed. (Outhere)

1CD# OUT685 $18.99 $15.19

Live 91 / Nasa Na

Nasa Na was formed in 1989 in Brussels. At De Kaai, all risks were not only permitted but encouraged and a series of musicians experimented together to create a new kind of music. The group broke up in 1992 with three members forming AKA Moon. This release is the answer to cries, based on live recordings from 1991, a must have for all Nasa Na fans from the beginning. (Outhere)

1CD# OUT659 $18.99 $15.19

Cassol: Quality of Joy / Aka Moon

“The question of the quality of joy seems to me today to be increasingly vital.” (Fabrizio Cassol) The instrumental line-up on this outstanding release includes a permanent base of harmonic instruments in addition to the trio of accordion, guitars, cello) as well as guests (trumpet, voice, brass ensemble) on some tracks. The music is accessible, shareable, lyrical and melodic. (Outhere)

1CD# OUT666 $18.99 $15.19

Aka Balkan Moon / AlefBa (Double Live) [2 CDs]

Aka Balkan Moon and AlefBa are two projects, the core of which is the Aka Moon jazz trio. The Aka Balkan Moon project draws its inspiration from the Balkan gypsy tradition. With assistance from a pair of fellow musicians, the trio went in search of musical fellow travelers, finding four virtuoso Bulgarian musicians for this recording. (Outhere)

2CD# OUT657 $27.99 $22.39

stage favorites

Broadway By Day / Spencer Day

Broadway by Day celebrates the unlikely friendship between jazz and musical theatre with swinging numbers from A Chorus Line, South Pacific, Hello, Dolly! And others. Tracks include “One,” “Getting to Know You,” “I Don’t Know How to Love Him,” “Bali Ha’i,” “On the Street Where You Live,” and more. (Sony)

1CD# 64315745135 $13.99

The Greatest Broadway Hits, Vol. 2 [3 CDs]

This massive collection contains some of the most memorable Broadway songs ever, performed by iconic voices such as Julie Andrews, Rex Harrison, Carole Lawrence, Chita Rivera, Ethel Merman and others. Selections are from My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Gypsy, The Music Man, The Sound of Music and more. 69 Legendary recordings on 3 CDs! (Dynamic)

3CD# MOB358228 $29.99

Bernstein: Broadway to Hollywood (Live)

SOMM Recordings celebrates the centenary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth in style with a remarkable 1993 live broadcast recording – never before issued and newly mastered – with the Hannover Philharmonie conducted by Iain Sutherland. Five of Bernstein’s era-defining works for Broadway and Hollywood revel in his inexhaustible gift for memorable melodies. (SOMM)

1CD# ARIADNE 5002 $18.99

Tina – The Tina Turner Musical

The Tina Turner Musical received it’s world premiere in London and subsequently broke all box office records at the Aldwych Theatre. The Broadway production was nominated for 12 Tony Awards! From humble beginnings in Nutbush, Tennessee, to her transformation into the global Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Tina Turner didn’t just break the rules, she rewrote them. (Ghostlight)

1CD# MOB457728 $18.99 $13.99

Oklahoma! (1979 Broadway Revival Cast)

Directed by William Hammerstein, the son of Rodgers’ lyricist partner Oscar Hammerstein II, the new 1979 Broadway revival production was a faithful reproduction of the wildly successful original, retaining the Robert Russell Bennett orchestrations conducted by Jay Blackton, who had wielded the baton back in 1943 as well as for the 1955 film version. Even Agnes De Mille’s revolutionary choreography was reproduced. (Sony)

1CD# 88697562032 $11.99

Gershwin Songbook / Enrico Fagnoni

Enrico Fagnoni offers this new recording of the Songbook as a tribute to Gershwin’s genius. Gershwin compiled the Songbook in the early 1930s at the invitation of his publisher. Jazz, ragtime and klezmer all inflect these songs with their own unique harmonies. Tracks include “Do It Again,” “Strike Up the Band,” “Do-Do-Do,” “My One and Only,” and more. (Piano Classics)

1CD# PCL10228

$18.99

The Music Man (Broadway Cast with Hugh Jackman) [2 CDs]

Hugh Jackman, the Tony, Emmy and GRAMMY Award winner performer as well as Tony Award winner Sutton Foster lead an all-star cast in the Broadway revival of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man. Often cited as the quintessential American musical, with fan favorites “SeventySix Trombones,” “Gary, Indiana,” “Pick-A-Little, Talk-A-Little” and more. (MM Recordings)

2CD# MOB115786

$24.99

& Juliet (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

The Broadway run of & Juliet follows a sold-out engagement in Toronto, which closed on August 14, 2022 as the third highest-grossing show in Mirvish Productions history. & Juliet flips the script on the greatest love story ever told, imagining what would happen next if Juliet hadn’t ended it all over Romeo, and got a second chance at life and love – on her terms. (Atlantic)

1CD# MOB628436 $16.99

Paint Your Wagon (NYC Center Encores!)

Masterworks Broadway presents the cast recording of Lerner & Loewe’s Paint Your Wagon starring Keith Carradine, Justin Guarini and Alexandra Socha. Filled with gorgeous standards such as “They Call the Wind Maria,” and “Wand’rin’ Star,” Paint Your Wagon is Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s sweepingly ambitious and surprisingly realistic take on life in the Gold Rush-happy America of 1853. (Sony)

1CD# 88985334092 $11.99

American Soul: from Broadway to Paris / Duo Rosa

American Soul: from Broadway to Paris is the title of Duo Rosa’s second opus, featuring art songs, Broadway melodies and cabaret tunes. In this new project, the two musicians maintain a concept that was one of the keys to the previous album’s success: a blend of classical and popular music in a varied, accessible program that pleases audiences of all ages. (Haenssler)

1CD# HC19026 $18.99

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(Original Broadway Cast)

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Charlie

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Dahl’s Matilda the Musical (Original Soundtrack)

Anne of Green Gables (Original London Cast Recording)

West Side Story (Original Cast Recording)

Funny Girl (New Broadway Cast)

Flying Over Sunset (Original Broadway Cast)

Head Over Heels

& the Chocolate Factory (Original Broadway Cast)

Hello Dolly! (New Broadway Cast)

Groundhog Day (Original Broadway Cast)

Spoon River Anthology (Original Broadway Cast)

A Christmas Carol (Original Soundtrack)

Heavenly (Original Broadway Cast)

On Your Feet! (Original Broadway Cast)

A Chorus Line –40th Anniversary (Original Broadway Cast)

An American in Paris (Original Broadway Cast)

film music

Morton Gould Conducts Film Score Classics

BSX Records, in association with Citadel Records, presents Morton Gould Conducts Film Score Classics & Rarities featuring works by Aaron Copland, John Williams, Alfred Newman, Jorome Moross, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and others. Included herin are suites and themes from The Red Pony, Star Wars, Airport, The Sea Hawk, The Big Country, and more! (Citadel)

1CD# MOB488129 $12.99

Hollywood Soundstage / Wilson, Sinfonia of London

Sinfonia of London and John Wilson present an album that celebrates the golden age of Hollywood. Sinfonia of London rose to fame in the 1950s as the leading recording orchestra of the day, appearing in the musical credits of more than 300 films, including the 1958 soundtrack by Bernard Herrmann for Hitchcock’s Vertigo (Chandos)

1SACD# CHSA 5294 $19.99

15 Movie Highlights – Original Soundtracks [10 CDs]

Enjoy this 10-CD collection of some of cinema’s greatest scores for only $19.99! This box set includes music from 15 films including High Society, The Magnificent Seven, The King & I, Exodus, Giant, Gone With the Wind, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Some Like it Hot, La dolce vita and more! Composers include Tiomkin, Newman, Bernstein, Rota, Mancini, Steiner, and more. (Document)

10CD# MOB004901 $29.99 $17.99

Music from the Pirates of the Carribean Trilogy

Music from the Pirates of the Carribean trilogy brings together for the very first time, the music from all three record-breaking films. The three suites that comprise this album capture the very best themes and cues from these much loved films. (Silva Screen)

1CD# MOB124120 $16.99

Dances With Wolves – Original Soundtrack

This reissue of the 1990 motion picture soundtrack for Dances With Wolves includes sweeping themes which transport you into the grand vistas from the celebrated film. This recording features expanded and unreleased music and two bonus tracks,”The Buffalo Hunt,” and “The John Dunbar Theme.” (Sony)

1CD# 63555 EK $9.99

Psycho Suite / Bernard Herrmann & The National PO

Without Bernard Herrmann’s accompanying score, you could argue that Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1960 movie starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh, would not be celebrated as one of the greatest chillers of all time today. Conducted by Herrmann himself at London’s Barking Assembly Hall in 1975, the piece is performed by The National Philharmonic Orchestra. (Acrobat)

1CD# MOB440527 $16.99

Ennio

Morricone: Cinema Suites

For twenty years Marco Serino was Ennio Morricone’s violinist, the soloist on his film soundtracks and on world tours where they were reworked for the concert hall. In January 2020, after his last public concert, Morricone finished the transcription of this magnificent and unpublished collection, which recasts the themes of his most famous scores in suites transcribed for violin and orchestra. (Arcana)

1CD# A495 $18.99

The

Game of Thrones Symphony

In 2011 composer Ramin Djawadi was first asked to score a new TV series called Game of Thrones. This release celebrates the rich tapestry of music over the series’ production with the full firepower of an 80 piece symphony orchestra and choir. Game of Thrones was a television phenomenon, and you can enjoy themes from across the entire series with this recording. (Silva Screen)

1CD# MOB605629 $16.99

The Film Music of Nino Rota (arr. for piano)

Pianist Massimo Palumbo presents a recording of original scores & transcriptions from the legendary Nino Rota. Works are included from films such as Death on the Nile, The Godfather, The Leopard, The Taming of the Shrew, 8 1/2, and more. 25 tracks in all! (Chandos)

1CD# CHAN 9771 $18.99

Malcolm Arnold: A Centenary Celebration

Somm Recordings is delighted to mark the 100th anniversary of Sir Malcolm Arnold’s birth with seven first recordings of arrangements for violin and piano. A prolific composer with a prodigious gift for memorable melodies and technical brilliance, Malcolm Arnold – A Centenary Celebration reflects both the serious and lighter sides of one of the most distinctive voices of post- war British music. (SOMM)

1CD# SOMMCD 0640 $18.99

chandos film series

The Film Music of Ron Goodwin 1CD# CHAN 10262 $18.99

The Film Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Vol. 1 1CD# CHAN 10007 $18.99

The Film Music of Erich Korngold 1CD# CHAN 10336 $18.99

The Film Music of George Auric 1CD# CHAN 9774 $18.99

The Film Music of William Alwyn 1CD# CHAN 9243 $18.99

The Film Music of Bernard Herrmann 1CD# CHAN 10577 $18.99

The Film Music of Dmitri Shostakovich, Vol. 1 1CD# CHAN 10023 $18.99

The Film Music of Sir Arthur Bliss 1CD# CHAN 9896 $18.99

The Film Music of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett 1CD# CHAN 9867 $18.99

The Film Music of Alan Rawsthorne 1CD# CHAN 9749 $18.99

The Film Music of Sir Malcolm Arnold, Vol. 1 1CD# CHAN 9100 $18.99

The Film Music of Constant Lambert & Lord Berners 1CD# CHAN 10459 $18.99

The Film Music of John Addison 1CD# CHAN 10418 $18.99

The Film Music of Sir Arnold Bax 1CD# CHAN 10126 $18.99

The Film Music of Richard Addinsell 1CD# CHAN 10046 $18.99

16 Most Requested Songs / Billie Holiday 1CD# MOB84982

Music from the Hobbit & Lord of the Rings 1CD# MOB13972

$12.99

Classic Crooners –Essential Collection [3 CDs] 3CD# MOB131506 $16.99 $7.99

Klezmer Music – Early Yiddish Instrumental Music 1CD# MOB703427

Game Show Favorites

MOB106521 $14.99 $7.99

The Love Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber 1CD# MOB205645 $9.99 $5.99

Tears of Stone / The Chieftains 1CD# MOB869726

Beethoven: Last Six Piano Sonatas / Peter Serkin [2 CDs] 2CD# MOB001223 $14.99 $9.99

Symphony –The Lost Session 1972 / Tubby Hayes 1CD# MOB438326

From This Place / Pat Metheny

1CD# MOB924374 $18.99 $13.99

Complete Singles 1956–1962 / Buddy Holly [2 CDs] 2CD# MOB323226 $16.99 $10.99

MOB016225 $18.99 $9.99

Ben-Hur (Original Soundtrack) [2 CDs]

2CD# MOB024927 $16.99 $10.99

MOB658663 $18.99 $14.99

Earl Hines/Marva Josie: His Old Lady & My Old Man 1CD# MOB401825 $14.99 $8.99

Violin Jazz / Joe Venuti 1CD#

Italian Lieder / Diana Damrau; Jonas Kaufmann 1CD#

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Essential Collection / Ricky Nelson

MOB181826

$5.99 Complete Releases 1947–1961 / Big Maybelle [2 CDs]

The Debut / Jackie Evancho

MOB782524 $14.99 $9.99 Africa – The Voices & Drums of Africa

Francoise Choveaux –Symphony Indigo

The Best of Jimmy Reed

The Steep Anthology / Branford Marsalis

British Modern Jazz 1960–1962

/ J.D. Allen 1CD# MOB217727 $16.99 $11.99

Edith Piaf – 100 Songs [4 CDs]

Boogie-Woogie

Complete Recordings 1961–1963 / Dick Morrissey

MOB437329

$7.99 Songs of the Cello / Taeguk Mun

Intimate Duo, Trio Recordings / Coleman Hawkins

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Tribute to Frank Yankovic

Blues at the Manor 1959–1960 / Tubby Hayes

Dear Blossom / Various Artists

Live at Club Hangover 1953 / Muggsy Spaniel

The Road I’m On / Garth Brooks [DVD]

Live at the Black Sheep 1961 / Earl Hines

This is Clarence Carter / Dynamic Clarence Carter

Love the Moment / Oscar Hernandez

Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section

Complete Singles 1954–1962 / The Coasters [2 CDs]

Live at Club Hangover 1955 / Teddy Bruckner

The Ronnie Scott Anthology 1956–1962

Live at Club Hangover 1954 / Earl Hines

world music

Greek Bouzouki Classics / Dimitris Papageorgiou

The bouzouki is the most iconic instrument in Greek music and has dominated Greek repertoire for the past 90 years. Here, Dimitris Papageorgiou performs timeless bouzouki masterpieces by composers such as Panagiotis Toundas and Giovan Tsaous, as well self-composed compositions honouring the likes of Alexis Zorba. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2966

$18.99

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

Tanya Ekanayaka presents a stunning array of 43 works for solo piano composed between 2021 and 2022, drawing inspiration from 40 languages. Mystical, vibrant, contemplative and poetic, the sutras and pianisms traverse a broad spectrum of moods and thought. Throughout, the prolific composerpianist’s fearless musical authenticity glistens on this remarkable double album. (Naxos World)

2CD# NXW76163-2 $21.99

Songs of the Islands 1937–1957 /

Harry Owens & His Royal Hawaiians

[2 CDs]

Harry Owens was a cornetist, bandleader and musical director of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki in 1934, who became indelibly associated with the music of Hawaii. This 49-track 2CD collection comprises recordings made by Owens with his Royal Hawaiians during the primary era of his career when he established his reputation composing and performing music in the Hawaiian idiom. (Acrobat)

2CD# MOB345921

$16.99

The Best of Scottish Pipes & Drums

Following the strong discography that already exists, The Best of Scottish Pipes & Drums brings all of the best together in one release. This music takes you on a musical journey through time in Scotland, from the Pride of Murray Pipe Band who was formed in 1952 to the 1st Battalion Scots Guards who were deployed in Afghanistan recently. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2655 $14.99

Carribean Moods

The melting pot of cultures in the islands and coastal areas surrounding the Caribbean Sea have made this region one of the most musically fruitful in the world. Artists featured include ARC veterans, including Blind Blake, The Sons of Buena Vista, King Selewa & His Calypsonians, and more. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2916 $12.99

Korea – Gayageum Sanjo

Derived mostly from pansori singing and originally largely improvised, sanjo became (especially in the stylistic school of Master Choi Ok-sam) a structured instrumental suite: On the 12 silk strings of the gayageum zither, Kim Hae-sook paints with virtuosic serenity, a musical landscape of exaltation and restrained emotion. (Ocora)

1CD# C 561247 $18.99

Norway – Song & Hardingfele

Two major facets of traditional Norwegian music: the beguiling richness of ancient melodies in ballads, love songs, wedding marches, dance-tunes, nursery rhymes, lullabies, coupled with the singular charm of hardingfele music, a singular violin considered the king of Norwegian instruments. (Ocora)

1CD# C 561157

$18.99

Arabic Café / Various Artists

Be transported to the cafés of Arabia with chilled grooves from across the region. This mostly acoustic set is performed by top musicians from Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. Artists on this compilation include amine and Hamza, two Tunisian brothers who, together with The Band Beyond Borders, create musical voyages. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2888 $14.99

China: The Art of the Pipa / Wang Weiping

Wang Weiping belongs to the generation of pipa lute performers that has taken over brilliantly from the historical masters. The pipa, an instrument with a rich repertoire and advanced playing technique, has long been in the hands of the professionals, and occupies an important place at the Conservatory as well as concerts. (Ocora)

1CD# C 561128

$18.99

South America / Antonio Lysy; Alberto Lysy

South America pays tribute to the historic and contemporary ingenuity of musicians and composers from South America, including Astor Piazzolla, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Carlos Gardel, Antonio’s father the violinist Alberto Lysy, and new work by the Argentine bandoneon master Coco Trivisonno. (Yarlung)

1CD# YAR80167 $19.99

Ubuntu / Jonathan Butler

Legendary singer-songwriter Jonathan Butler traveled back to his home country of South Africa to craft his most exciting and deeply personal album to date. Featuring producer/ bassist Marcus Miller, Ubuntu is a reintroduction of Butler’s life story, going back 60 years to his upbringing in apartheid-era Capetown, which shaped his world view. (Artistry)

1CD# ART7080

Real

World 25 [3 CDs]

$17.99

Beautifully packaged clamshell box with 3 CD wallets, 28 page booklet containing the story of 25 Years of Real World Records. The 48 tracks trace the history of the label: tracks that have been significant highlights or ‘classic’ points in the label’s history; deeper tracks that beg rediscovery – the buried treasures; and the listeners choice – fans were asked to choose their favorite Real World track. (Real World)

3CD# MOB00251

Best of Welsh Choirs

$22.99 $9.99

This new release features a varied collection of beautiful music from Welsh choirs, both a cappella and with instrumental accompaniments. This album presents a wide repertoire, covering three decades of choirs formed in Wales from 1986 to the present day. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2865

$14.99

Karnatik Roots / Aditya Prakash

Crossover and Global music fans may know Aditya from his jazzinfused Karnatik blend on his Aditya Prakash Ensemble releases. Thankfully, were able to make this recording using the beautiful natural acoustics in Samueli Theater at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa. These ragas express Aditya’s roots as learned at the feet of his many illustrious gurus. (Yarlung)

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – In Concert in Paris, Vol. 2

The tradition of qawwali, originally limited to mausoleums and brotherhoods, has now spread everywhere, carried by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – an exceptional performer. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s group is the leading proponent of this secular tradition. (Ocora France)

1CD# C 581659

Bagpipes of Celtic Galicia

$18.99

The bagpipes, which the Galicians call “gaita galega”, can be traced back to the 13th and 14th centuries and are a staple instrument in all of the regions fiestas. Pepe Romero, head of an outstanding family of folk musicians has been playing the bagpipe since he was twelve years old. He is known today, as one of the best bagpipers in Galicia. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2681 $14.99

Mandolins from Italy

A romantic selection of the most famous and popular Italian mandolin melodies, such as: Azzurro, O’ Sole Mio, Notte Di Christallo, Tarantella Di Napoli, Volare, Piccola Maria, Tarantella Meridionale, Marina, Che La La, Santa Lucia, O Maria, Valsa Della Primavera, Funiculi Funicula, La Passeggiata, Arrivederci Roma, Il Padrone - Rota and many more. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2439

$12.99

Le salon de musique / Satyajit Ray

The music of Satyajit Ray’s cinematic masterpiece (Jalsaghar, 1958), by Ustad Vilayat Khan (sitar) with the participation of Imrat Khan (sitar, surbahar), Bismillah Khan (shehnai), Akhtari Bai [aka Begum Akhtar] –thumri singing, Salamat Ali Khan – khyal singing etc. (Ocora)

1CD# C 582022 $18.99

1CD# YAR54475

$19.99

The Sound of Tiki / Various Artists

A musical cocktail: The ‘Sound Of Tiki’. Travel to distant tropical places in the confines of your living room! Experience the popular myths of Tiki through music! This finely balanced mix of esoteric mood music and swinging lounge songs creates a harmonious yet never boring listening pleasure. (Bear Family)

1CD# MOB163387 $16.99

Antonio Lysy at The Broad – Music from Argentina

“Argentine virtuoso Antonio Lysy captures the cultural range of his country in our recording. He chose these particular works because they all draw inspiration from the folk music traditions of Argentina. This album highlights the cello as a solo instrument and illustrates the impact of pre-Hispanic Amerindian traditions and Spanish based Creole influences.” – Bob Attiyeh, producer (Yarlung)

1CD# YAR89457-15 $21.99

china, japan & the far east

Music of Japan / Yamato Ensemble

Performing traditional Japanese music on traditional instruments, Yamato Ensemble honours the legacy of Myoonten, the Japanese goddess of music and art. Yamato Ensemble have been playing together for decades; on this special recording, they perform on koto, shakuhachi, jushichigen, shakuroku, and the now-rarely heard kokyu. “graceful and supple musicianship…” – Mixedworldmusic.com (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2897

$18.99

Best of China & Japan / Silk String Quartet

This captivating album presents a beautiful cross-section of music from China and Japan, from tender and contemplative Chinese string melodies to the powerful thunder of Japanese taiko drums. Featuring a great variety of music played on traditional instruments in traditional and contemporary arrangements. Extensive information about each of the artists and the pieces. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2559 $14.99

Men of Dharamsala / Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts

Joining TIPA musicians on this album are monks of Nechung Monastery, singing special pujas (prayers) unique to this specific monastery. The album opens with a blessing of the environment recorded in the Nechung monastery, and a Losar prayer for the New Year. Tibetan wind instruments, human skull rattes and Tibetan long horns accompany them in vigor. (Yarlung)

1CD# YAR70902

$19.99

The Best of Korean Gayageum Music / Byungki

Hwang

An atmospheric, relaxing and hauntingly beautiful album of new gayageum music, written and played by Hwang Byungki, one of the most distinguished composers and gayageum players of Korea, accompanied by janggu (hourglass drum). Occasional vocals as well as a daegeum piece (transverse flute) and geomungo solo piece (6-string fretted board zither). (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2097 $14.99

Tibet: Traditions Rituelles Des Bonpos

These recordings illustrate various facets of the religious activities of the Bonpos through their chant and their psalmodic recitation. They intend to bring to a wider audience the musical aspects of a ritual tradition that is largely unknown to the Western World and has remained obscure to the Tibetan themselves. (Ocora)

1CD# C 583016 $18.99

Japanese Drums

From Autumn harvest festivals to traditional Japanese folklore steeped in rich history, this album shows the diversity and power of the Japanese drums. This release also features ‘purification drumming’ heard in Buddhist temples before, during and after ceremonies and a famous taiko drum beat symbolizing the sounds of samurai riding on horseback. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2866 $14.99

Folk Music of China

Folk Songs of the Tuija & Sui Peoples

On this volume, enjoy folk songs from the Tujia and Sui peoples of Hubei and Guizhou Province. All played on traditional instruments such as bronze drums, gongs and suona. (Naxos World)

1CD# NXW76104-2 $18.99

Folk Songs of the Dong, Gelao and Yao Peoples

This album features the grand songs of the Dong, love songs of the Gelao, and two-voice songs of the Yao peoples. (Naxos World)

1CD# NXW76103-2 $18.99

Folk Songs of the She, Miao & Li Peoples

This series explores folk songs from the She, Miao and Li peoples of Fujian, Guizhou and Hainan Provinces. All played on traditional instruments. (Naxos World)

1CD# NXW76102-2 $18.99

Songs of the Tibetan Plateau

Beautiful folk singing, atmospheric soundscapes of nature and varied traditional instruments are heard in this colorful album from Tibet. (Naxos World)

Folk Songs of the Dai & Hani Peoples

On this release, enjoy recordings of folk songs from the Dai and Hani peoples of Yunnan province. (Naxos World)

Folk Songs of the Uzbeks & Tatars of China

The songs featured in these recordings are folk songs from the Uzbek and Tatar peoples of the Xinjiang province. (Naxos World)

1CD# NXW76100-2 $18.99

1CD# NXW76098-2 $18.99

1CD# NXW76096-2 $18.99

Naxos world

The Art of the Chinese Xiao & Hulusi / Heart of the Dragon Ensemble

The Heart of the Dragon ensemble and Chinese composer Jiang Li present this elegant union of ‘East meets West’. Featuring the sophisticated Chinese xiao and the Dai nation’s joyous hulusi, they seamlessly blend a range of traditional Chinese music with western drums, bass, guitar, piano and strings. The result is a beautiful amalgamation of classic Chinese heritage and western influence.

(Naxos World)

1CD# NXW76161-2 $18.99

Folk Songs of the Lahu, Jungpo, Jino and Achang Peoples

This is volume nineteen of a twenty album series, exploring China’s rich and diverse musical heritage. It includes ballads and love songs of the Lahu, the most famous working song of the Jingpo people, the husking rice tune Yue Lu; mountain and hunting songs of the Jino peoples, played on bamboo ideophones; and excerpts from the Achang opera of spring lantern.

(Naxos World)

1CD# NXW76106-2 $14.99

‘Sai-thaiñ ki Sur –The Weaving of Voices

Bringing together the music of Wales and the Khasi Hills in North East India, ‘Sai-thaiñ ki Sur (the weaving of voices in Khasi) is a unique cross-cultural collaboration. This three-year album project explores the folk songs, poetry, missionary hymns, folklore, and resultant culture of the crossing of Wales and India. (Naxos World)

1CD# NXW76155-2 $18.99

Afwoyo / Milégé

Milégé is a group of young talented musicians who derive inspiration from the diverse cultural musical traditions of the different tribes of Uganda, which they fuse with contemporary elements. The band’s songs tell stories from Uganda and also reflect typical aspects of everyday life in Africa. (Naxos World)

1CD# NXW76108-2 $14.99

Folk Music of China – Folk Songs of the Uyghur Peoples

This series explores China’s rich and diverse musical heritage. Folk songs from the Uyghur peoples of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. This album features six folk songs from the Yili region in northern Xinjiang, five folk songs from Kashgar and Artux in southern Xinjiang and two excerpts from the Uyghur Twelve Muqam. (Naxos World)

1CD# NXW76105-2 $18.99

Morning Meditation – Darbhanga Dhrupad Traditions

Morning Meditation focuses on Dhrupad, the oldest genre of Hindustani classical singing from the 15th century that is still in practise today. Sumeet is a promising name in the nearly 300 years old Darbhanga Dhrupad tradition. The purity in rendition of alap and composition highlight his authentic training in the Guru-Shishya tradition. (Naxos World)

1CD# NXW76150-2 $18.99

Open Barrier / Jon Hemmersam, Asal Malekzadeh, Evelyn Glennie

Open Barrier is an improvisational album proving there are no barricades in improvised music, only an ‘open barrier’. Music from around the world is presented in this stunning album by world-renowned guitarist Jon Hemmersam, international dafplayer Asal Malekzadeh and virtuoso percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie CH DBE. (Naxos World)

1CD# NXW76124-2 $18.99

The Sky is Cloudy / Authentic Light Orchestra

The Authentic Light Orchestra was founded in 2009 by the Swiss multiinstrumentalist with Armenian roots, Valeri Tolstov. His idea is to combine ancient Armenian folk songs and mix them with classical influences, jazz, rock and a touch of electronica to create a new musical form. (Naxos World)

1CD# NXW76112-2 $14.99

Shindu Shi / Fadhilee Itulya

Inspired by the 1950s finger-picking guitar style of Omutibo, Shindu Shi focuses on good time music grounded in culture, community and love for Africa and its people. An upbeat album of Omutibo, acoustic folk, pop, dance and world music inspired by the Luhya people of Western Kenya and the late pioneer of Omutibo – George Mukabi. (Naxos World)

1CD# NXW76160-2 $18.99

AADO – Senegalese Kora

Kadialy’s captivating kora skills originate from his long family history of Kouyate griots. Embracing the art of traditional storytelling, via the 21-stringed kora, he draws on his past heritage for inspiration while creating his own uplifting compositions. In the Senegalese society, ‘aado’ stands for ‘moral customs and values’. Kadialy’s enchanting songs touch on these principles and reflect on the Mandinka culture. (Naxos World)

1CD# NXW76156-2 $18.99

celtic music

Postcards from Ireland [CD or DVD]

This Celtic Woman recording represents the sentiment they would like to share with their fans around the world. One of love, hope and expectation as the world looks towards getting back together again. Postcards from Ireland features 13 new songs and is the group’s first studio album since 2018’s Ancient Land. (Celtic Woman)

1CD# MOB674350 $15.99

1DVD# MOB674398 $17.99

Music of the Celtic Harp / The Chieftains

“Produced by head Chieftain Paddy Maloney, The Celtic Harp is essentially a showcase for the very talented harpist Derek Bell. Bell handled all of the arrangements, as well as contributed harpsichord and tiompan to the proceedings. Bell infuses each note with the subtlety and grace of a true master.”

– AllMusic (Sony)

1CD# 886974884521 $9.99 $5.99

Discover Music from Ireland [2 CDs]

This 2-CD set from Arc Music contains a collection of Irish Music, ranging from the very traditional to today’s modern renditions, and they are presented by some of the finest exponents in the genre. Artists include Tola Custy, The House Devils, Golden Bough, Sean Talamh, Florie Brown, Aryeh Frankfurter, Helen Flaherty, and more! (ARC Music)

2CD# EUCD2570 $14.99

Wisps in the Dell – Arrangements of Traditional Celtic Folk Songs

In the late-classical era, an Edinburgh publisher commissioned the most famous composers in continental Europe to orchestrate traditional Scottish folk songs in their original English. A lush sampling of this music is performed here by Makaris, a new early-music super-group headed by soprano Fiona Gillespie. (Olde Focus)

1CD# FCR916 $19.99

McGlynn: Celtic Mass – MacMillan: Mass

This lovely performance from the Taylor Festival Choir presents two very different but both profoundly spiritual arrangements of the Catholic Mass. Both of these works display their composers’ strong Celtic roots. The Taylor Festival Choir, conducted by Robert Taylor, has earned itself a strong reputation for being one of America’s most prestigious professional choirs. (Delos)

1CD# DE 3493 $16.99

A Celtic Journey / Various Artists

A Celtic Journey is an album of music and song from Scotland and further afield, with pipes, fiddle, choir, courting songs, lullabies, humorous stories of whiskey smuggling and sad laments for love lost. The music comes from the Isle of Skye, Nova Scotia, Glasgow, Stornoway, Inverness, and the Scottish Highlands. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2870 $14.99

Celtic Harp / Margie Butler

In tales and legends from the Celtic lands, the harp has always been considered a magical instrument, often associated with the sea. Margie Butler presents this album of beautiful, haunting Celtic pieces that conjure a calm, relaxing, romantic atmosphere. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2831 $14.99

The Celtic Lute / Ronn McFarlane

There are differences grand and small, subtle and great in the many lands originally populated by the Celtic tribes. Distinct nations with different histories will evolve different artistic natures, and this is played out in a joyful noise in our Celtic lands. Ronn McFarlane’s heritage and lifelong interest in Scottish music allows us to walk first (as Neil Munro put it) “song-haunted over the Moors.” (Sono Luminus)

1CD# DSL-92225 $15.99

Discover Celtic Music

Celtic music is the collective name given to the native folk music of the Celtic nations. This collection is a snapshot of the living reality of Celtic musical traditions in today’s world, presenting music from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, Asturias, Wales, and Galicia in a variety of sung and instrumental pieces. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2768 $14.99

Celtic Whispers / Aryeh Frankfurter

This new release is a fine collection of romantic, delicately woven, traditional instrumental melodies featuring the Swedish nyckelharpa, supported by harp, guitar, cittern, fiddle, viola, and cello. Tunes from Ireland, Scotland, Nova Scotia, Sweden and more are featured. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2767 $14.99

unique instruments

The Art of the Theremin

The Art of the Theremin is unique among musical instruments in that is it played without physical contact. It has been hailed as one of the most difficult instruments to master and has a unique sound and range other instruments struggle to reproduce. Clara Rockmore was the foremost Theremin virtuosa of her day. This is a must for fans of unique instruments! (Delos)

1CD# DE 1014

The Golden Zither

$12.99

The concert zither was a very popular instrument during the 19th century and has a substantial classical repertoire as well as being a traditional folk instrument in central Europe. It is a beautiful and versatile instrument which deserves to be better known today. (Kado)

1CD# MOB500410 $10.99

Thunder Drums / Various Artists

Percussion instruments were the musical focus of all ancient cultures and most notably the drum. This wonderful album highlights Native American, African, Latin, Aboriginal and South American influences and then merges them with the awesome sounds of a thunderstorm....the result is stunning! (Global Journey)

1CD# MOB376921 $9.99

Longyin – The Dragon Chants (Silk-stringed Guqin with Xiao Flute)

Cheng Yu plays the original 1936 Van Gulik-Picken silk-string guqin, with Dennis Kwong Thye Lee on xiao flute. This cherished guqin, steeped in history, was previously owned by two of the world’s greatest 20th century sinologists – Robert Hans Van Gulik and Laurence Picken. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2951 $18.99

The Lute Books / Andrea Damiani

From the legendary Albani’s library in Urbino, a collection of recordings, many of which unpublished, of anonymous manuscripts alternated to compositions by the two most famous lutenists of Rome at the time: Vincenzo Pinti and Lorenzo Tracetti. The repertoire of this Album captures an almost magical moment in which two different musical tendencies meet briefly. (Urania)

1CD# LDV14097 $19.99

Famous Fados on Portguese Guitar

A selection of Portugal’s most famous fados, arranged for and performed on Portuguese guitar by Custódio Castelo, lovingly selected by the master himself. Fado, a genre of music that originated in Portugal in the early 19th century, is known for its soulful and emotive vocals, poetic lyrics, and distinctive guitar accompaniment. “Jaw-droppingly magnificent” – AllMusic.com (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2931 $18.99

Flamenco – Pasado y Presente

Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde explores the historical and musical interactions of various travelling groups, and how they have influenced the different toques heard today in flamenco music. While exploring the origins of these different styles, and how they have been established, developed and transmitted over the centuries, he crafts his own beautiful avantgarde compositions. (Naxos World)

1CD# NXW76159-2

$18.99

The Art of the Oud – From Armenia & the Eastern Mediterranean

Alan Shavarsh Bardezbanian was the unparalleled master of the oud, the Middle Eastern lute. Here he showcases many styles of oud playing, with fourteen folk songs and original compositions from his homeland of Armenia, as well as Turkey, Lebanon and Greece. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2894

Music for Glass Harmonica

$18.99

Invented by Benjamin Franklin from the idea of water-filled musical glasses. In his treadle-operated version, 37 bowls were mounted horizontally on an iron spindle. Such a unique instrument was popular at the time even drawing composers such as Mozart and Beethoven to write pieces specifically for it. (Naxos)

1CD# 8555295 $13.99

Didgeridoos: Sounds of the Aborigines

The didgeridoo, a wind instrument developed by the Indigenous Australians, has a unique sound that is instantly recognizable. Didgeridoos: Sounds of the Aborigines features an exceptional array of didgeridoo performances that showcase the instrument’s versatility and beauty. This recording is perfect for fans of world music or Aboriginal culture. (Kado)

1CD# MOB500427 $16.99

Arc music

Terri Kunda / Gao Hong; Kadialy Kouyate

Gao Hong (Chinese pipa master) discovers friendship, creativity and the joy of spontaneity with Kadialy Kouyate and his captivating Senegalese kora. With skilful balance of composition and improvisation, the two instruments and musicians converse through the expression of the strings – exchanging cultural stories, traditions and musical styles. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2963

Maelstrom / Duplex

$18.99

Damien is a mysterious violinist who plays in the “non-classical” style and prefers rock. Didier, a pillar of the Belgian folk and world music scene. It is these differences that truly characterize the band; a duplex, a duality – equilibrated by Oliver Cox’s forceful drumbeats and Quentin Nguyen’s distinctive keyboard tones. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2959 $18.99

Hunting Eagles Catching Swans

Pipa master Lin Shicheng is often referred to as the Ravi Shankar of the pipa. Lin was the teacher to the majority of prominent pipa players in the world today, including Gao Hong. Gao Hong has received numerous awards and honors and has toured internationally. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2928 $18.99

Journey

to Russia / Balalaika Ensemble

Playing on ancient original Russian instruments, the Balalaika Ensemble

“Wolga” presents the most lovely and famous melodies from “Old Mother Russia”, including the Ukraine, Georgia (Caucasia) and other regions. The aura and interpretation of this ensemble represents an eternity of Russian history – bringing feelings of memory, contentment, happiness, security, romanticism and love. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2881 $12.99

Scottish Pipes and Drums / Kinross District Pipe Band

The Kinross District Pipe Band was formed in the summer of 1946 to play at local galas, festival events and pipe band competitions. During its long history the band has been awarded at World Championships and ceremony galas. A truly Scottish, beautiful album of pipes and drums. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2879 $14.99

Divan & Divine / Zeynʼel

Divan & Divine is a synthesis of western tones and TurkishAnatolian motifs. Inspired by a selection of 14th to 16th century troubadour poems about historical injustice, Zeyn’el carries forward the messages of his much-honored ancestors, alongside some of his own original compositions reflecting similar issues still seen today.

1CD# EUCD2962 $18.99

Celtic Essentials / Various Artists

The rich, folky music of the Celtic peoples is known far and wide for its sprawling melodies, upbeat rhythms, and compelling stories. From jigs that make it hard to stay in your seat to popular ballads that paint a romantic story that’s easy to get swept up in, this release contains riveting performances by a range of fantastic Celtic musicians. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2887 $12.99

Native Chants

This new release features fourteen new mixes combining Native American chants with modern instruments and electronics. At times relaxing, at times invigorating, always enchanting. All of the tracks are performed by Brandon Friesen and James Creasy. Brandon Friesen is an American, GRAMMY Award nominated and multi-Juno Award winning songwriter, music producer, and audio engineer. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2872 $12.99

Do You Love / Otava Yo

Otava Yo play their music in a vigorous manner with uninhibited humor, mixing fierily-played traditional Russian instruments with a look straight out of Gogol – one which simultaneously frightens and attracts tourists. Otava Yo shatter any preconception that Russian folk music is flat and undanceable. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2862 $18.99

Sounds of Africa: Mozambique

The present release is a dazzling representation of Mozambique’s very own musical tradition. A dash of exotic fun, and the heady spirit of Mozambique’s nightlife. These are exciting songs with lyrics in Shangaan, Ronga, and Portuguese. Travel to the sunny southeast of the African continent for this enjoyable summer music.(ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2868 $14.99

Voices of Flowers –Spring Ragas from India 1CD# EUCD2946 $18.99

Music from Costa Rica / Grupo Quelite 1CD# EUCD2843 $14.99

The Gambia Sessions 1CD# EUCD2864 $18.99

Chinese Festivals / Heart of the Dragon Ensemble 1CD# EUCD2863 $14.99

Gypsy Flamenco / Grupo Macarena 1CD# EUCD2838 $14.99

Pure Africa / Various Artists 1CD# EUCD2903 $14.99

Hilda Bronstein Sings Yiddish Songs With Chutzpah 1CD# EUCD2902 $14.99 Netsa 1CD# EUCD2945 $18.99

Mariachi Mexico / Mariachi Sol 1CD# EUCD2847 $12.99

Most Famous Cuban Classics 1CD# EUCD2844 $12.99

Son Real Orchestra: Salsa / Son Real Orchestra 1CD# EUCD2900 $14.99

Bondona / Ligeti String Quartet 1CD# EUCD2901 $18.99

Moch / Dlù 1CD# EUCD2956 $18.99

A la manera artesana 1CD# EUCD2955 $18.99

Songs for Leena –Improvisations on the Hopi Long Flute 1CD# EUCD2953 $18.99

Relaxation/new age

Mornings, Evenings & Late Nights –Calm Piano Music / Peter Breiner

In addition to being a multifaceted composer, arranger and conductor, Peter Breiner is also a pianist, and the third of his ‘Calm Romantic Piano Music’ series melds melodic substance with delicate musical expressiveness. The original and descriptive miniatures heard on this album present music of touching tranquility and beauty. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574474 $13.99

Ultimate Yanni [2 CDs]

Ultimate Yanni collects the highlights of Yanni’s best-selling albums. The 24 selections include his themes from Wide World of Sports, Tour de France and the Olympics; and selections from his PBS staple Live at the Acropolis. Tracks include “You Only Live Once,” “Nice to Meet You,” “Flight of Fantasy,” “Desire,” “Forbidden Dreams,” and more. (Sony)

2CD# 01934181062 $19.99

The World’s Most Relaxing Spa Music

Indulge yourself with the most serene music imaginable which will enable you to leave all the stress of everyday life behind. This album features a carefully curated selection of soothing and rejuvenating tracks that are sure to help listeners unwind and de-stress. 58 minutes of soothing music! (Global Journey)

1CD# MOB900126 $12.99 $8.99

The Very Best of Enya

The Very Best of Enya brings together for the first time so much of the earth-spanning music created alongside her close friends and partners in music, Nicky and Roma Ryan. Enya has become one of the world’s most successful musicians with over 70 million album sales worldwide to her name and an array of authoritative honors including four GRAMMY Awards and three World Music Awards. (Warner)

1CD# MOB84763 $16.99

Tranquility – Music for Relaxation

This release is an album of blissful relaxation music specifically curated for meditation, yoga, and stress relief in a busy lifestyle. Crossing oceans and cultures, the music on this release comes from all over the globe including traditional music from Nepal, Russia, Egypt, Native America, India and the United Kingdom. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2814 $12.99

Music for Book Lovers – Classical Music for Reading

This is an ideal special edition for book lovers. Nestle into your favorite reading spot and experience how this music speaks volumes as the perfect accompaniment to your page-turning. Bookmarking movements in sound with chapters of narrative makes for a perfect couplet and a personal imprint! Works include pieces from composers like Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Boulanger, Ravel, Godowsky, and more. (Naxos)

1CD# 8578359 $11.99

Meditation – Classical Music for Relaxtion [2 CDs]

Enjoy 30 tracks of soothing classical music on 2 CDs, designed to provide listeners with a calming and meditative experience. Composers on this outstanding collection include J.S. Bach, Bizet, Chopin, Mozart, Poulenc, Vivaldi, Grieg, Britten, and more. (ART-Berlin Classics)

2CD# 0036402ART $14.99

Calming World Lullabies [2 CDs]

This beautiful selection of traditional lullabies and songs from across the globe were carefully selected to calm the minds and souls of little ones. Instrumental and vocal music from contemporary and ancient cultures and traditions blend seamlessly to encourage sleep and provide a soothing and peaceful atmosphere for children at rest. (ARC Music)

2CD# EUCD2419 $14.99

Chant – Music for the Soul

Chant, is the most peaceful music imaginable. Chant: Music for the Soul is the ultimate in relaxation and stress relief the perfect antidote to our fast-moving modern world. Chant has proven to heal, calm and also give strength; it’s power is timeless and universal. (Decca)

1CD# MOB668220 $12.99

Pure Jim Brickman

This Jim Brickman compilation leaves no stone unturned, including several fan favorites! Songs include “If You Believe,” “All I Ever Wanted,” “Angel Eyes,” “Journey,” “Amazing Grace,” “Crossroads,” “Dream Come True,” “Picture This,” “Shades of White,” and more. (Sony)

1CD# 82876816522 $7.99

native american music

Eagle Song – Pow Wows of the Native American Indians

“Pow wow” is said to derive from the Algonquian words ‘pau wau’ which means ‘he dreams,’ and denotes an originally religious significance. Today, pow wows do not retain much religious meaning. Over time, tribes joined together in these festivities and with the emergence of a new found Native American pride the old ceremonies were revitalized. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2803

Native American Flute

$14.99

The Native American flute is also commonly known as the “love flute,” or the “courting flute.” Its ethereal, otherworldly sound makes the instrument a distinctive and memorable part of American music tradition. “Spiritual music with flutes and drums… you find yourself in the dark woods above which hawks and eagles circle... In short, music from a dream.” – Country Gazette (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2660 $18.99

Powwow Songs – Music of the Plains Indians

These live recordings from the Kihekah Steh Powwow, Skiatook, and Oklahoma tribles capture the atmosphere of this inter-tribal gathering with drumming, singing and dancing. Tracks include “Slow War Dance Songs,” “Contest Song for Straight Dancers,” “Grass Dance Theme Song,” “War Dance Song,” and more. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2440 $12.99

Night Chants – Native American Flute

This release is filled with pure, haunting American Indian flute music (solo or with occasional percussion) that touches the soul. Played on a variety of Dakota, Hopi, Navajo, and other Native American flutes, these songs expressing joy, sorrow, love and belief, and show the legacy of ancient traditions of sacred and secular music that have been passed down through generations of families and communities. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2777 $18.99

Navajo: Code Talkers of World War

During World War II, a group of Native American Marines devised an unbreakable code that helped the United States maintain the upper hand in many battles and, eventually, led to the surrender of Japan in 1945. This DVD documentary provides insights into the lives of these war heroes in regards to their service on behalf of the United States and the Navajo Nation. (Dreamscape)

1DVD# MOB024433 $14.99

Eagle Dance – Ceremonial Music of the American

Authentic recordings of music of the Navajo, Cherokee, Ohkay Owingeh, Seneca, Arapaho and other tribes. Tracks include “Butterfly Dance,” “Oklahoma Two-Step,” “Women’s Brush Dance,” “Eagle Dance,” “Rabbit Dance,” “Stomp Dance,” “Ribbon Dance,” and more. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2299 $14.99

Spirit Prayer – The Best of Native American Flute

This new release features Native American flutes, solo and in various combinations with nature sounds (thunderstorm, rain, wolves, eagles, etc.) as well as in harmony with other instruments, performed by Jessita Reyes and Alice Gomez. Jessita Reyes has been known to fans of contemporary Native American flute music since her early 1990s debut release. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2706 $18.99

American Indian Pow Wow

ARC Music presents a unique set of authentic recordings of the music of the Navajo from the Four Corners area of the United States. These songs are accompanied on ceremonial drums, water drums, and rattles and resonate with the power of live field recordings. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2390 $14.99

Wind Riders – Native American Flute

The name of this new release, Wind Riders, is taken from Native American folk lore, where the best flute players were called ‘Wind Riders’ for their skill to control the air rushing through their instruments. The Native American flute is used here in a variety of groupings, and the songs on this album portray melodic stories, based on Native American lore. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2639 $18.99

Pow Wow – Round Dances & Sacred Ceremonies

This release features authentic recordings from powwows in the United States and Canada. These ceremonial dances and secular music selections come from various tribes of native American Indians. Featured artists on this release include Northern Wind from Ontario Canada, and Eyabay from Red Lake, Minnesota, who are regarded as kings of the pow wow trail. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2672 $18.99

Live at the Berlin Philharmonie 1969 / Sarah Vaughan [2 CDs]

Never before entirely released concert recorded on 9 November 1969 at the Berlin Philharmonie. The entire performance, with Sarah Vaughan pouring out her heart, seems at once perfectly timeless in terms of it’s formal classicism yet thoroughly in the fleeting moment. Tracks include “Fly Me To the Moon,” “Time After Time,” “Misty,” “Alfie,” and more. (TLR)

2CD# TLR 2004037 $19.99

Stormy Weather: All The Hits And More

1921–47 / Ethel Waters [3 CDs]

Ethel Waters was a singer and actress from Pennsylvania, whose music ranged across jazz, stage musicals, movies and pure pop in a career that spanned more than three decades. During the 1920s and ‘30s she recorded what were among the original versions of some of the most memorable standards of the era. (Acrobat)

3CD# MOB913229 $19.99

Legendary New Testament Band

1952–55 / Count Basie [3 CDs]

Count Basie was one of the most celebrated and influential personalities in jazz, as pianist, organist, bandleader, composer and innovator, both during his stellar career which spanned half a century across the middle decades of the 20th century, and in the years since then. This release presents three discs of recordings from 1952–1955. (Acrobat)

3CD# MOB913120 $19.99

Live at the BeJazz Club, Bern / Peter Schärli

“Traditional” is what Peter Schärli calls the music on this CD. But what does “traditional” mean? It’s about keeping something going that’s in danger of fading into oblivion and disappearing. A little distance makes it easier to see how ridiculous our non-stop focus on optimization –which also means non-stop neglect – really is. (TCB)

1CD# TCB 37202 $16.99

Late Night Sax / Various Artists

Two-disc collection of sax greats perfect for the late hours of the evening! Artists include Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Cannonball Adderley, Stanley Turrentine, Art Pepper, Lou Donaldson, Don Byas, Wayne Shorter, and more. (Not Now Music)

1CD# MOB494666 $9.99 $6.99

Turn Out the Stars / Pinheiro, Ineke, Cavalli

Inspired by the music of the extraordinary pianist Bill Evans, the Pinheiro - Ineke - Cavalli Trio explores in this new album musical landscapes constructed from delicate arrangements and intricate musical interaction. The album features compositions by Bill Evans, as well as works by Michel Legrand and Leonard Bernstein, all in arrangements by the trio. (Challenge)

1CD# CR 73523 $16.99

Be-Bop! / Pasquale Grasso

Guitar virtuoso Pasquale Grasso presents Be-Bop!, a brilliant new tribute to be-bop pioneers Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. The album kicks off in exhilarating fashion with Dizzy’s quintessential composition, “A Night in Tunisia,” originally composed in 1942 when he was a member of Benny Carter’s band and which marked the beginning of Gillespie’s unique blending of Afro-Cuban rhythms with American jazz. (Sony)

1CD# 19658721632 $11.99

Gypsy Jazz Style / Pietro Lazazzara

“This album represents an innovative and renewed production path started in 2020 with my first album My Art of Gypsy Jazz. The unmistakable touch and sound of the Manouche guitar and the sound, creative and emotional impacts that Django Reinhardt had on me, have inevitably influenced my vision and my path, in summary: Gypsy Jazz style”.

Pietro Lazazzara (Stradivarius)

1CD# STR57925S $16.99

Quietitude

/ Eliane Elias

Hot off her 2022 GRAMMY win for Best Latin Jazz Album, Mirror Mirror with Chick Corea and Chucho Valdés, superstar pianist, singer, composer and arranger Eliane Elias returns to her Brazilian bossa nova roots with Quietude. This recording features songs by such legendary composers as Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Dorival Caymmi. (Candid)

1CD# MOB305124 $15.99

Coming Yesterday / Martial Solal

Coming Yesterday is the recording of what turned out to be Martial Solal’s last concert; he decided to stop playing piano after that show. Martial Solal writes: “When I walked onto the stage on January 23, 2019, I did not yet know that I would decide not to play piano anymore after this concert, more than seventy years after my debut.” (Challenge)

1CD# CR 73516 $16.99

Pick Me Up Off the Floor / Norah Jones

Norah Jones’ seventh solo studio album Pick Me Up Off The Floor features collaborators from Brian Blade to Jeff Tweedy, and grew out of her acclaimed singles series of the past two years as the songs she hadn’t yet released unexpectedly congealed into an album of tremendous depth and beauty connected by the sly groove of her piano trios. (Decca)

1CD# MOB748844 $16.99

Nightconcert / Erroll Garner

Octave Music, in partnership with Mack Avenue Records, presents Nightconcert, a newly-restored live performance from the Erroll Garner archives, recorded at the height of his 1964 sold-out European tour. Nightconcert is a midnight jazz performance held at The Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, one of the premiere concert halls in the world. (Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1142 $17.99 $14.39

Sunny Side of the Street / Herb Alpert

Herb Alpert, the prolific Tijuana Brass titan, returns with Sunny Side Of The Street. This new set of 11 songs contains gentle ballads like “Childhood” and “Time After Time”, upbeat romps like “Pata Pata” and “Tickle Time” and covers of classic songs like “I’ll Remember You” and Louis Armstrong’s “On The Sunny Side Of The Street”. (Herb Alpert Presents)

1CD# MOB022369 $13.99

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

I Know I Dream / Stacey Kent

Stacey Kent stands strong among the artists that don’t have much left to prove, yet she surprises us once more with her album, I Know I Dream. Recorded inside the famous Angel Studios in London with an orchestra, this is her first orchestral album in a career that spans two decades and more than fifteen albums. (Okeh)

1CD# 88985462882 $13.99

Late Night Jazz / Various Artists

Our second jazz collection is deliberately easy listening; relaxing and enjoyable, with strong melodies and a gentle swing. Sinatra, Holliday, Ella, Nat and many more stars in possibly the ultimate fantasy night club program! Relax into the small wee hours with numbers like Sweet Lorraine, or enjoy April in Paris, and dream a little dream with Armstrong. (Gift of Music)

1CD# GCDG1195 $16.99

Live in Holland 1979 / Clark Terry

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

1CD# SVL1018529 $15.99

Live at the Berlin Jazz Festival / Duke Ellington

In 1969, the Berlin Jazz Fest took an audacious stand: it was Duke Ellington’s 70th birthday and not only did they welcome him at the head of his big band for the first time, but part of the program focused on his heritage. (TLR)

1CD# TLR 2204041 $16.99

Let’s Face the Music / Reinhardt Winkler

Reinhardt Winkler writes: “I’ve known most of the songs of my new album for a long time. As a child, I got my first jazz records and all the songs were on it. Over the years I’ve always stayed tuned to these particular songs and some of them have become my absolute favorites. So I decided to record these songs with musicians I appreciate so much.” (Challenge)

1CD# CR 73526 $16.99

Live in Hollywood 1995 / Horace Tabscott Quintet

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. (Jazzwise)

1CD# DKTE16.2 $16.99

new jazz releases

Iroko / Avishai Cohen; Abraham Rodriguez, Jr.

Iroko launches Avishai Cohen’s longtime dream “to do a Latin project with his favorite Latin musician in New York”. The Israel-based bassist and master conguero-vocalist Abraham Rodriguez Jr., brim with tunefulness, grooves, warmth, indelible melodies and the bonds of brotherhood. Iroko, the French naïve label’s unique release brims with tunefulness, grooves and warmth.

1CD# BLV8080

$16.99

There Used To Be Rain / David Detweiler

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

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. On four of the eight songs, he is joined by drummer Gregory Hutchinson, who has already been heard with jazz giants such as Joe Henderson, Wynton Marsalis, Joshua Redman and John Scofield. (Double Moon)

1CD# DMCHR71429 $14.99

Coming Home / Mathieu Clement

Drummer Mathieu Clement is only 21 years old, and he was only 20.at the time of recording “Coming Home”. Jazz is in the best hands with this young group, all of whom are younger than thirty. Mathieu Clement’s sextet celebrates the balance between tradition and modernity with great enthusiasm and shows that the label “Jazz thing Next Generation” is a never-ending source. (Double Moon)

1CD# DMCHR71422 $14.99

Copenhagen Coda / Dexter Gordon

Jazz giant and tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon bids Copenhagen farewell on his new album Copenhagen Coda – Live at Montmartre 1983. This album marks Gordon’s final farewell to friends and fans in the Danish capital, with which he had had a twenty year love affair. (Storyville)

1CD# SVL1018489 $15.99

An Evening with Lee Konitz & Frank Wunsch

“Lee 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

Bird / Wolfgang Schmidtke Orchestra

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. (Jazzwerkstat)

1CD# JW217 $16.99

From This Moment On / Matyas Bartha Trio

Elegance and passion are the outstanding qualities of Hungarian jazz pianist Mátyás Bartha, and he recorded his second album From This Moment On in trio format once again: “As a pianist, you really want to play in a trio,” he believes, “because you can’t hide behind a wind player.” (Double Moon)

1CD# DMCHR71420 $14.99

Brubeck: Debut in the Netherlands 1958

The Dave Brubeck Quartet, including new members Joe Morello and Eugene Wright, began a major tour of Europe early in 1958. Their first concert in the Netherlands was held on 26 February in the legendary Concertgebouw Hall in Amsterdam. The concert inaugurated a triumphant career in Europe. (Lost Recordings)

1CD# TLR 2204043 $16.99

Sound Bridges / Vandermark

Sound Bridges was recorded on September 24, 2021 as part of the ‘Ruhr Jazz Festival’ at the Bochum Art Museum. Sharing the stage that evening were four musicians whose paths have crossed several times over the decades: Ken Vandermark, Matthias Muche, Thomas Lehn and Martin Blume. And the fun they are having is audible – They go straight into full swing, as if they had a world to win. (JZC)

1CD# JW 219 $16.99

jazz icons

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

$7.99

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 stopped 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. The revolutions were now being made by others, but Duke Ellington remained the brilliant master of the grand musical gesture. (SWR Music)

1CD# JAH-403

$16.99

Live at Montreux 1969 / Ella Fitzgerald

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

Big Bands Live: Benny Goodman Orchestra with Anita O’Day

A singer with an exciting presence and a voice to immerse yourself in. A band leader who, when needed, take the lead as a soloist, but tended to hold back amidst his all-star band. The result a mixture that whisked the concert hall in Freiburg (Germany) for one evening in October 1959 into a wonderful world of successful jazz entertainment and sent the audience out into the night with an earworm.

(SWR Music)

1CD# JAH-404 $18.99

Charles Mingus: Landmark Albums 1956–1960 [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. Songs on this 3-CD collection include “A Foggy Day,” “Love Chant,” “Haitian Fight Song,” “Tonight at Noon,” “Passions of a Woman Loved,” and more. (Acrobat)

Cab Calloway: The Hits Collection 1930–1956 [2 CDs]

This excellent 48-track, 2-CD set features Cab Calloway releases over a 26-year period which were credited with chart positions, plus a few bonus tracks. Hits include the No. 1 “Minnie The Moocher” and the Top 5 hits “Kickin’ The Gong Around”, “St. James Infirmary”, “Tickeration”, “Moonglow”, “Angels With Dirty Faces”, and “The Jumpin’ Jive”. (Acrobat)

2CD# MOB342227 $16.99

Peace / Chet Baker

Trumpet player Chet Baker (1929–1988) came to sudden fame as partner of Gerry Mulligan in the early fifties. His clear tone and his subdued, lyrical manner became hallmarks of West Coast cool jazz. Recorded in 1982, Peace is a lovely example of his intimate combo work. “True fans will want to pick up this one.” – All Music Guide (Yellowbird)

1CD# YEB-9225 $14.99

Kind of Blue / Miles Davis [2 CDs]

Miles Davis’ magnum opus Kind of Blue is still considered by any 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

Quincy Jones – Six Complete Albums 1957–1961 [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. Tracks include “Evening in Paris,” “Be My Guest,” “Walkinʼ,” “Sermonette,” and more. (Acrobat)

3CD# MOB912727 $19.99

Charlie Parker in Sweden

3CD# MOB912420

$19.99

The 14 tunes on this CD were recorded on the 20th & 22nd of November, 1950, in Hälsingborg and Malmö, Sweden, and besides some standard melodies, the CD includes several Parker original be-bop classics. The music here represents all that was recorded with Charlie Parker on this visit to Sweden, which was his second – and last – trip to Europe. (Storyville)

1CD# SVL1018355 $15.99

The Winds of Change / Billy Childs

For his third Mack Avenue Records release, 5-time GRAMMY® Awardwinner Billy Childs assembles an allstar quartet with trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, bassist Scott Colley, and drummer Brian Blade. On The Winds of Change, the critically acclaimed pianist/composer offers 5 brand new original compositions alongside exhilarating covers. (Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1200

$17.99 $14.39

Uptown in Orbit / Emmet Cohen

On Uptown in Orbit, his sophomore release for Mack Avenue, Emmet Cohen brings the tradition of jazz to the forefront while providing the modern twist needed for the current times. Featured on this release is trumpeter/educator Sean Jones, saxophonist Patrick Bartley, bassist Russell Hall and drummer Kyle Poole. (Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1195 $17.99 $14.39

Secrets of Inanna / Connie Han

Rising star pianist/composer Connie Han brings the ancient Sumerian culture to the present day by channeling Inanna — the ancient Sumerian goddess of love, beauty and war — on her third release for Mack Avenue Records. The album harkens back to the ethereal soundscapes of 1970s spiritual jazz with truly unique soundscape of great depth. (Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1193

$17.99 $14.39

Parallel Motion / Yellowjackets

Parallel Motion from jazz fusion legends Yellowjackets — is a true testament to the longevity and resilience of a band who debuted over 40 years ago. The band consistently reinvents themselves through elevated instrumentation in their signature electro-acoustic soundscape. This album features 9 new original compositions and guest vocalist Jean Baylor on “If You Believe.” (Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1196 $17.99 $14.39

Origin / Joey Alexander

Effusive pianist Joey Alexander is joined on his new release by a stellar coterie of players including Chris Potter (sax), Larry Grenadier (bass), Kendrick Scott (drums) and Gilad Hekselman (guitar), all of whom have joined Alexander on previous records and performances.. The album was recorded at Sear Sound, June 23–24, 2021 and mixed at The Mud Room. (Mack Avenue)

Crisalida / Danilo Perez

GRAMMY Award-winning pianist, composer and educator Danilo Perez hopes to usher in a new era of enlightenment that will unite all of humanity with his epic new album, Crisalida, which in English translates to “chrysalis.” Crisalida is a holistic inter-disciplinary package that invites listeners to reimagine a world in which we all create our own crisalida of individual light and humanity. (Mack Avenue)”

1CD# MAC1178 $17.99 $14.39

Live at the Village Vanguard / Christian McBride

In June of 2007, Christian McBride returned to the Village Vanguard with a group consisting of Steve Wilson, Eric Reed, Carl Allen and a young vibraphonist whom he’d recently met, Warren Wolf. Although many iterations of his groups have played there, Inside Straight was birthed at the Village Vanguard. This particular set was recorded in December of 2014, titled Live at the Village Vanguard. (Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1192 $17.99 $14.39

A Time for Love / Oscar Peterson Quartet [2 CDs]

A Time for Love: The Oscar Peterson Quartet – Live in Helsinki, 1987 is a momentous album – but it is far more than that. The final gig of a long international tour that began with 4 concerts in Brazil, this date was the 14th of a European tour that took the quartet all over mainland Europe and Scandinavia. A stunning addition to the continuing legacy of this beloved master of music. (Mack Avenue)

2CD# MAC1151 $19.99 $15.99

Relief / Various Artists

Relief is an all-star compilation of previously unreleased music which continues the non-profit Jazz Foundation of America’s Musicians’ Emergency Fund, established in the Spring of 2020 after the pandemic ground the music industry to a sudden, catastrophic halt. Featured artists include Esperanza Spalding, Leo Genovese, Herbie Hancock, Wallace Roney, and more. (Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1185 $17.99 $14.39

More Music / Joey DeFrancesco

1CD# MAC1198

$19.99 $15.99

More Music was the final album from the late Joey Defrancesco, and offers ten originals brought to life by his scintillating trio. The master organist, who has long supplemented his keyboard virtuoso with his skilled trumpet playing, here brings out his full arsenal: organ, keyboard, piano, trumpet, and, for the first time on record, tenor saxophone. (Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1186 $17.99 $14.39

avenue sale

Jackets XL / Yellowjackets

For Jackets XL, the Yellowjackets’ 25th album, the band continues to stretch and reinvent itself with an exciting, full-bodied collaboration with the superb WDR Big Band of Cologne, Germany. The project combines the shapeshifting, multiple GRAMMY-Award-winning quartet with the renowned big band, re-imagining well-known band originals with dynamic new arrangements.

(Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1175

Be Water / Christian Sands

$17.99 $14.39

On his stunning new album, Be Water, pianist Christian Sands takes inspiration from water’s tranquility and power and muses on the possibilities offered by echoing its fluidity and malleability. Through ten gorgeous and thrilling pieces, Sands alternately conjures the serenity of a sun-dappled lake and the drama of a relentless thunderstorm.

(Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1170

While

$17.99 $14.39

Looking Up / Jimmy Greene

On his heartfelt new album, While Looking Up, saxophonist Jimmy Greene was guided by the inspirational words of his pastor: “If I’m not able to find strength or peace by looking inward,” he said, “I have to look upward.” On While Looking Up, Greene finds solace, support and inspiration from each of these directions, but in particular from casting his gaze heavenward.

(Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1154

Yesun / Roberto Fonseca

$17.99 $14.39

With deep roots in the Afro-Cuban tradition, Roberto Fonseca continues to astound. “The most exciting pianist in Cuba,” raves The Guardian, while France’s Le Figaro notes that Fonseca “Does something new with the old, without ever denying its origins, and opens himself to the world.” The New York Times adds that Fonseca “Makes all possibilities seem possible, and the moment feel perfect, intensely true.”

(Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1173

Reincarnation

$17.99 $14.39

/ Warren Wolf

On his latest album, Warren Wolf reveals an entirely different side to his multi-faceted talents. As the title implies, Reincarnation represents a rebirth of sorts for the Baltimore vibesman. In part it frees Wolf to indulge his love for the R&B and soul hits that served as the soundtrack to his formative years in the 1990s.

Symphony Hall Concert / Erroll Garner

One of the most popular figures in jazz during his exceptional career, Erroll Garner’s legacy is receiving a remarkable reinvigoration. Octave Music and Mack Avenue are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Garner’s birth with this stunning 27-song previously unreleased 1959 concert recorded at Boston’s Symphony Hall. (Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1189 $17.99 $14.39

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 $14.39

The Vagabond / Aaron Diehl

The best way to describe Aaron Diehl’s new recording, The Vagabond, is that it is a quiet masterpiece. This is thoroughly a jazz recording rooted in precedents set by Diehl’s forbearers such as Art Tatum, Mary Lou Williams, Ahmad Jamal, Roland Hana and John Lewis. (Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1153

$17.99 $14.39

A Night at the Movies / Erroll Garner

This classic Erroll Garner album contains music from some of the last studio sessions of Garner’s longest running trio, with Calhoun (bass) and Martin (drums). After nearly a decade of touring and recording together, they function here as an uncanny musical unit, deftly navigating Garner’s twists and turns. Here are a dozen of his favorite deep cuts from the movies he loved. (Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1161

$10.99 $8.79

Perpetual Optimism / Riley, Cohen, Hall, Louis, Harris

On his second Mack Avenue Records release, Perpetual Optimism, drummer Herlin Riley preaches his silver-lined gospel on 10 tracks whose joyous spirit and contagious swing are sure to convert any listener to the bright side. Perpetual Optimism reunites the quintet of rising stars that Riley assembled for his Mack Avenue Records debut, New Direction. (Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1136 $17.99 $14.39

1CD# MAC1169

(Mack Avenue)

$17.99 $14.39

classic rock

Chronicle / Creedence Clearwater Revival

One of the most essential collections a rock fan can own! Enjoy Creedence Clearwater Revival’s biggest hits on one double-length disc. Songs include “Proud Mary,” “Who’ll Stop the Rain,” “Travelin’ Band,” “Fortunate Son,” “Lodi,” “Down on the Corner,” “Susie Q,” “Bad Moon Risin,” “Born on the Bayou,” and more. (Fantasy)

1CD# MOB000222 $20.99

Mothership / Led Zeppelin [2 CDs]

Digitally remastered two-disc edition of this compilation by one of the greatest British rock bands of all time. In 1968, John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant formed Led Zeppelin, one of the most influential, innovative and successful groups in modern music. Tracks include “Whole Lotta Love,” “Kashmir,” “Rock And Roll,” “When The Levee Breaks” and “Stairway To Heaven,” and many more. (Atlantic)

2CD# MOB950934 $19.99

50 Years – Don’t Stop / Fleetwood Mac

2018 compilation that touches on every era in Fleetwood Mac’s rich history and offers a deep dive into Fleetwood Mac’s expansive catalog by bringing together essential tracks released between 1968 and 2013. Tracks include “Don’t Stop,” “Sara,” “Tusk,” Go Your Own Way,” “Second Hand News,” “Songbird,” and more. (Rhino)

1CD# MOB855773 $18.99

1 / The Beatles

In their short eight year recording career (1962–70), The Beatles changed music forever. The Beatles 1 was originally released in 2000 and quickly became the fastest selling album of all time. Featuring 27 of the band’s most significant singles, all of which reached #1 in the US or UK charts, this updated CD edition now features brand new stereo mixes by Giles Martin and Sam Okell at Abbey Road Studios. (Capitol)

1CD# MOB567928 $18.99

Live at Red Rocks / John Fogerty [CD]

Live recording from Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado! Enjoy live versions of John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival classics including “Proud Mary,” “Fortunate Son,” “Bad Moon Rising” and “Centerfield” along with live favorites “Suzie Q/” “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” and more. All your Fogerty favorites! (BMG)

1DVD# MOB538052 $16.99 $9.99

You’re in My Heart / Rod Stewart & the RPO

You’re In My Heart: Rod Stewart With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra pairs classic vocal tracks from his most popular songs with new arrangements performed by The RPO. The album also features a new version of the hit song “It Takes Two” featuring pop-star Robbie Williams and a brand-new song “Stop Loving Her Today” by Rod Stewart. (Rhino)

1CD# MOB848966 $18.99

The Very Best of the Eagles [2 CDs]

Enjoy all your favorite tracks from The Eagles on this two-disc collection! The first ever 2-CD retrospective “Best Of” from the multiplatinum superstars whose original 1976 Greatest Hits Collection is the #1 album of all-time. Songs include “Take It Easy,” “Tequila Sunrise,” “One of These Nights,” “Hotel California,” “Peaceful Easy Feeling,” “Life in the Fast Lane,” and more! (Warner)

2CD# MOB397128 $19.99

ChangesOneBowie / David Bowie

Digitally remastered 40th Anniversary edition of David Bowie’s first ever best-of compilation. Changesonebowie collects songs from the 1969-1976 period. Two of the tracks, “Ziggy Stardust” and “Suffragette City,” had never been released as singles when Changesonebowie was first issued. Songs include “Space Oddity,” “Changes,”, “Fame”, “Golden Years”, “The Jean Genie” and many more. (Rhino)

1CD# MOB991487 $14.99

America: Complete Greatest Hits

A career-spanning retrospective as vast as America itself! Rhino brings us 22 tracks from America’s Warner, Capitol, and American International years. One one disc, enjoy hits like “Sister Golden Hair,” “Horse With No Name,” “Tin Man,” “California Dreamin,” “I Need You,” “Ventura Highway,”, “You Can Do Magic,” and more. Includes two unreleased tracks. (Rhino)

1CD# MOB437527 $16.99

Live at Wembley Stadium – 25th Anniversary / Queen [2 DVDs]

Over one remarkable summer weekend in 1986, on Friday, July 11th and Saturday July 12th, Queen performed two sell out shows at Wembley, concerts which have been widely acknowledged as two of the most incredible rock events ever staged. Now Queen’s legendary Wembley concerts are reissued as a special anniversary 2-DVD edition! (Eagle Rock)

2DVD# MOB060092 $19.99

retro favorites

Olivia Newton-John’s Greatest Hits

Olivia Newton-John’s Greatest Hits features her biggest international hits from her 1971 debut through her 1976 album Come On Over. It contains all of Olivia’s US Top 40 hits from that era including the #1 singles “I Honestly Love You” and “Have You Never Been Mellow”. The album was certified double platinum and has sold over 5 million copies.

(Primary Wave)

1CD# MOB903025

$16.99

Live in New York 1979 / Liza Minnelli [3 CDs]

Start spreading the news: Liza Minnelli’s long-lost live album recorded in the very heart of New York, New York is getting the deluxe treatment. Live in New York 1979: The Ultimate Edition is available on 3 CDs, all of which overflow with showbiz sizzle: one disc with the mastered version of the original vinyl release, and two discs with the neverbefore-released complete show.

(Real Gone)

3CD# MOB013792

$36.99

Triple Gold / Frank Sinatra [3 CDs]

A prime collection of Sinatra, at the peak of his powers, taking hold of songs and investing them with a weight of emotional and musical delivery. Tracks include “Come Fly With Me,” “All of Nothing At All,” “Love Me As I Am,” “Melancholy Mood,” “Night and Day,” “Let’s Get Away From it All,” “The Lady is a Tramp,” “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” and more. 60 songs in all! (Start)

3CD# MOB033126 $12.99

Tribute to a Generation Salute to the Big Bands of the WWII Era

During World War II the big band music of Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Glenn Miller and others was the soundtrack of life on the homefront. Playing original arrangements, the Smithsonian Jazz Masterwork Orchestra pays tribute to this musical inspiration in the World War II years. Extensive notes, 36 page booklet. (Smithsonian)

1CD# MOB081723 $14.99

Complete Greatest Hits / Gordon Lightfoot

The most comprehensive single CD collection by treasured troubadour Gordon Lightfoot. These 19651987 United Artists, Reprise and Warner tracks include his Top 10 hits “Sundown,” “If You Could Read My Mind,” “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” “Carefree Highway,” and 14 more! (Warner)

1CD# MOB828721 $15.99

Harry Belafonte at Carnegie Hall

Enjoy Harry Belafonte, the King of Calypso, live in concert from the legendary Carnegie Hall! Includes remastered versions of “Darlin’ Cora,” “Sylvie,” “Cotton Fields,”

“John Henry,” “Day-O,” “Jamaica Farewell,” “Mama Look a Boo Boo,” “Come Back Liza,” “Man Smart (Woman Smarter),” “Cu Cu Ru Cu Cu Paloma,” and more. (Sony)

1CD# 88697691962 $6.99

Time Life’s Easy Listening Classics [10 CDs]

Limited 10 CD set! Easy listening music had a distinct sound. It had a home on radio... and it had a place in our hearts. This set features 152 beautiful, relaxing hit songs by dozens of artists such as Bobby Vinton, Carole King, John Denver, Mac Davis, The 5th Dimension, Barry Manilow, Paul Anka, Engelbert Humperdinck, Dionne Warwick, Glen Campbell, Anne Murray, Jim Croce, and dozens more. (TimeLife)

10CD# MOB524321 $149.99

Frankie Valli & Four Seasons: Early Years 1953–1962 [2 CDs]

The Four Seasons, featuring the remarkable and unmistakable voice of Frankie Valli, were one of the most popular and successful groups of the 1960s on both sides of the Atlantic. This 58-track 2-CD set features most of Frankie Valli’s early recordings, both solo and with various groups before they became The Four Seasons in 1960, and then presents their early successes under that name. (Acrobat)

2CD# MOB341121 $16.99

The Pipes of the Mighty Wurlitzer / Tom Hazleton

In “Pipes of the Mighty Wurlitzer” Tom Hazleton clearly feels completely at home. This disc of mostly old favorites played on the San Sylmar Wurlitzer – an instrument with which he is quite familiar – seems precisely his métier. And the congruency between artist and material shows up in the splendid product. Fans of the theater organ and of old standards are almost certain to love this CD! (Klavier)

1CD# K77014 $16.99

If You Could Read My Mind DVD (Biography) / Gordon Lightfoot

The rich baritone delivering memorable melodies like “Sundown,” “Carefree Highway,” “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” and the title song made him a mainstay of the ‘60s–’70s singer-songwriter boom and a national treasure of his native Canada. This DVD documentary portrait captures Gordon Lightfoot at 80 and his reflections upon his life and six-decade career. (Greenwich)

1DVD# MOB248833 $17.99

The Herald Records Doowop Collection

1953–63 [3 CDs]

The Herald label was a creative hub for R&B recording and most particularly becoming renowned for its output of doowop recordings during the late ‘50s and into the 1960s. Tracks on this 89-song collection include “Paradise Hill” (The Embers), “Bells of Love” (Mint Julips), “Stay” (The Zodiacs), “Ship of Love,” (The Nutmegs), and more. (Acrobat)

3CD# MOB913328 $19.99

White Silver Sands: The Singles & Albums 1959–62 / Bill Black’s Combo [2 CDs]

Bill Black was a Memphis-based bass player and entertainer who was one of the pioneers of rock and roll, performing with Elvis Presley’s early trio. This 2-CD compilation of his later 5-piece Combo includes tracks such as “Don’t Be Cruel,” “Just a Closer Walk With Thee,” “Blue Tango,” “Slippin’ and Slidin’,” “Tequila,” “Johnny B. Goode,” and more. (Acrobat)

2CD# MOB347024 $16.99

Complete Releases 1958–62 / Frankie Ford

Frankie Ford was one of the artists often referred to as being typical of “swamp rock” – the style of R&B and rock ‘n’ roll that was associated with Louisiana and New Orleans during the late 1950s. Tracks include “Sea Cruise,” “Time After Time,” “Danny Boy,” “Cheatin’ Woman,” “Dog House,” “Seventeen,” “Last One to Cry,” and more. (Acrobat)

1CD# MOB440626 $16.99

All The Hits And More 1927–54 / Duke Ellington [4 CDs]

Duke Ellington was one of the most important and influential figures in the entire history of jazz, as pianist, bandleader, composer and innovator, his career spanning a half century. Tracks include “Creole Love Call,” “Mood Indigo,” “Prelude to a Kiss,” “Moon Glow,” “East St. Louis ToodleOo,” “Solitude,” “Merry Go Round,” and more. (Acrobat)

4CD# MOB717223 $24.99

Great Scott! Collected Recordings

1939–57 / Hazel Scott [3 CDs]

Hazel Scott was a jazz pianist and singer, about whom we hear very little these, but who was a stylish and respected performer, especially known for her jazz interpretations of classical pieces and styles. Tracks on this 3-CD compilation includes “Calling All Bars,” “Embraceable You,” “How High the Moon,” “Mary Lou,” “The Sunny Side of the Street,” and more. (Acrobat)

3CD# MOB913021 $19.99

The Very Best Of Clyde McPhatter

1953–62 / Clyde McPhatter [2 CDs]

Clyde McPhatter was one of the most imitated vocalists to emerge onto the R&B scene during the 1950s, graduating from his background in gospel to become the featured lead singer of The Drifters before embarking on a solo career. Tracks include “Lucille,” “The Way I Feel,” “Money Honey,” “Warm Your Heart,” Treasure of Love,” and more. (Acrobat)

2CD# MOB346126 $16.99

Singles, Album Tracks

And Live Recordings 1949–62 / Brother Joe May [4

CDs]

Brother Joe May was one of the most revered and respected of all the male gospel singers of the post-war era, acquiring the nickname of “The Thunderbolt Of The Middle West.” Tracks on this 4-CD set include “Search Me Lord,” “Amazing Grace,” “Walk With me, Lord,” “Old Time Religion,” “Old Ship of Zion,” “Do You Know Him?” and more. (Acrobat)

4CD# MOB717322 $24.99

Wheel Of Fortune: The Singles Collection

1952–61 / Sunny Gale [2 CDs]

Sunny Gale was one of the vivacious and talented girl singers to come to the fore on the US music scene during the early ‘50s. Tracks on this 2-CD collection include “Soldier Boy,” “My Last Affair,” “The Wheel of Fortune,” “Looking Glass,” “Devotion,” “A Lasting Thing,” “You Showed Me the Way,” “Devotion,” and more. (Acrobat)

2CD# MOB346522 $16.99

Corn Bread: The Hal Singer Collection

1948–59 / Hal Singer [2 CDs]

Saxophonist, composer and bandleader Hal Singer was one of the jazz saxophonists of the 1940s who took advantage of the opportunity to make a commercial impact in the world of R&B. Tracks on this 2-CD set include “Lonesome & Blue,” “Blue Velvet,” “Easy Street,” “Rent Party,” “I Love the Way You Love Me,” the title track, and more! (Acrobat)

2CD# MOB346225 $16.99

Shangri-La: The Singles & Albums Collection 1954–62 / The Four Coins [2 CDs]

The Four Coins were one of the many vocal groups to emerge onto the pop scene in the wake of the classic early doowop groups like the Ink Spots and Mills Brothers. Tracks on this 2-CD collection include “Dream World,” “My First Love,” “I Love You Madly,” “Memories of You,” “All My Tomorrows,” “Manhattan Serenade,” “Pledging My Love,” and more. (Acrobat)

2CD# MOB346324 $16.99

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

2CD# MOB344924

$16.99

Fred Astaire –Singles Collection 1923–1942 [3 CDs]

3CD# MOB912628

$19.99

Love Song in 32 Bars –The Johnny Bond Collection [2 CDs]

2CD# MOB345624

$16.99

Singles & Albums Collection 1958–1962 / The Impressions & Jerry Butler [2 CDs]

2CD# MOB345327 $16.99

The Cisco Houston Collection 1944–1961 [5 CDs]

5CD# MOB751821

$24.99

Larry Green & His Orchestra –Singles Collection 1946–1950 [2 CDs]

2CD# MOB345426

$16.99

Snooks Eaglin –The First Decade 1953–1962 [2 CDs]

2CD# MOB345228 $16.99

Astor Piazzola: Nuevo Tango –Classic Albums 1955–1959 [2 CDs]

2CD# MOB345020 $16.99

Orrin Tucker & His Orchestra –Golden Years 1938–1949 [2 CDs]

2CD# MOB345129 $16.99

Ray Bloch & His Orchestra –The Singles Collection 1945–1956 [2 CDs]

2CD# MOB344825

$16.99

Tex Beneke – Hey Ba-Ba-ReBop! Singles Collection [2 CDs]

2CD# MOB344320

$16.99

Charlie Spivak: Chart Decade 1941–1951 [3 CDs]

3CD# MOB912321 $19.99

Eileen Barton: The Singles Collection

1944–1962 [2 CDs]

2CD# MOB343620 $16.99

Complete Releases

1944–1948 / Jack Guthrie

1CD# MOB440329 $17.99

Freddie Slack: The Singles Collection 1940–1949 [2 CDs]

2CD# MOB343521

$16.99

Sandy Denny – 5 Classic Albums [5 CDs]

We file her under folk-rock, but Sandy was a soul-stirring songstress of the highest order no matter what she was singing. Together with her Fairport Convention LPs, these 1971–77 recordings built her legend. She haunts with “Blackwaterside,” “I Wish I Was a Fool for You,” “Gold Dust,” “Who Knows Where the Time Goes?,” “At the End of the Day,” “Full Moon” and more. (Spectrum UK)

5CD# MOB702499 $26.99

The Singles & Albums Collection 1951–60 / Tommy Collins [2 CDs]

Tommy Collins was a country singer, songwriter and guitarist who was instrumental in creating the Bakersfield sound during the 1950s and ‘60s. As an artist he had a string of hits during that era, as well as writing songs which were hits for other artists, notably “If You Ain’t Lovin’ You Ain’t Livin’”. (Acrobat)

2CD# MOB346423 $16.99

Merle Travis: The Singles Collection 1946–1956 [3 CDs]

Merle Travis was a significant personality and influential country music stylist as a singer, songwriter, and notably as a guitarist, to the extent that he had an instrumental technique named after him, called “Travis picking”. This 3-CD set contains songs including “Cincinnati Lou,” “Nine Pound Hammer,” “Steel Guitar Rag,” “Divorce Me C.O.D.”, and more. (Acrobat)

3CD# MOB909628 $19.99

Kerrville Folk Festival – Happy 50th

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Kerrville Folk Festival, the granddaddy of American folk & singer/songwriter fests with this inspired collection of songs. Artists like Jimmy LaFave, Cheryl Wheeler, Eric Anderson and many more make this a celebration worth having! (Silverwolf)

1CD# MOB202025 $16.99

American Originals / Various Artists

American Originals is the latest release from the Cincinnati Pops conducted by John Morris Russell and features iconic American songs interpreted by a diverse array of acclaimed musical collaborators including Rosanne Cash, Dom Flemons, Over the Rhine, Joe Henry, Aoife O’Donovan and the Comet Bluegrass All-Stars. (CP)

1CD# FC-005 $16.99

American Epic [2 DVDs]

From executive producers T Bone Burnett, Robert Redford and Jack White, go inside one of the greatest-ever untold stories: how the ordinary people of America were given the opportunity to make records for the first time. This 2-DVD set contains four films: The Big Bang; Blood & Soil; Out of the Many, The One; The American Epic Sessions (PBS)

2DVD# MOB026086 $22.99 $16.99

The Singles Collection / Chet Atkins [2 CDs]

Chet Atkins was one of the most innovative and influential personalities in country music. This two-disc, 59-song collection focuses on his work as a recording artist over more than a decade. Tracks include “Wildwood Flower,” “Love Come Back to Me,” “Guitar Blues,” “Nashville Jump,” “Canned Heat,” “Spanish Fandango,” and more. (Acrobat)

2CD# MOB325428 $16.99

Complete Singles / Hank Williams [4 CDs]

This 103-track, 4-CD set comprises the A and B sides of Hank Williams’ releases from his debut on the Sterling label in 1947, through his years with the MGM label. Songs include “Cold, Cold Heart,” “Hey Good Lookin,” “Honky Tonk Blues,” “Jambalaya,” “Lovesick Blues,” “I’m a Long Gone Daddy,” “Mind Your Own Business,” and more. (Acrobat)

4CD# MOB710422 $19.99

Best of Zydeco Instrumentals

The Zydeco All Stars present the Best of Zydeco Instrumentals filled with 14 infectious and upbeat songs, perfect for a Mardi Gras party! Tracks include “Don’t Mess With My TootToot,” “My Zydeco Shoes,” “Dance and Show Off,” “Buckaroo’s Blues,” “Alonzo’s Blues,” “Bayou Swing,” “Hot Steppin’ Zydeco,” and more! (Mardi Gras)

1CD# MOB103925 $12.99

Sacred Harp & Shape Note Singing [4 CDs]

The Sacred Harp singing style is unique to America, treasured today both for its hauntingly attractive harmonies and its links to a seemingly lost rural past. The term ‘shape note’ comes from the book’s system of musical notation – symbols being used rather than the more familiar ‘staff’ method. Here, from its heartlands of Georgia and Alabama is a singular music for too long thrust to the sidelines. (JSP)

4CD# MOB717520 $29.99

Sing A Little Song Of Heartache: The Solo Singles 1953–62 / Rose Maddox [2 CDs]

Rose Maddox was a country singer, songwriter and fiddle player who formed a band with her brothers, who performed and recorded for a decade after WWII as the Maddox Brothers & Rose. In 1957, she started a solo career and enjoyed a string of chart entries over the next few years. Tracks on this collection include “Marry Me Again,” “Kiss Me Like Crazy,” “Tall Men,” and more. (Acrobat)

2CD# MOB346720

$16.99

Bill Monroe – Father of Bluegrass Music [DVD]

No single figure in American music so dominated a genre as did Bill Monroe with bluegrass. Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass Music features video performances by Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys, Lester Flatt, Emmylou Harris, Paul McCartney, the Osborne Brothers, Dolly Parton, and more. This is the most intimate and detailed portrait of this unique musical innovator. (MVD Visual)

1DVD# MOB457794 $19.99

Patsy Cline: Complete Releases 1955–1962 [3 CDs]

This 75-track 3-CD set, comprises every record Patsy Cline released from 1955 until the end of 1962 a couple of months before her death. It includes the A and B sides of all her singles, plus the tracks from her three albums Patsy Cline, Showcase and Sentimentally Yours which were not otherwise released on singles. (Acrobat)

3CD# MOB906429 $19.99

Oh Lordy Mama – The Buddy Moss Collection 1930–1941 [2 CDs]

Eugene “Buddy” Moss, one of 12 children of a family of sharecroppers, was a blues singer guitarist and harmonica player from Georgia, and was one of what became known as the Piedmont school of bluesmen alongside Blind Blake, Josh White, and Barbecue Bob. Songs on this collection include “Hard Time Blues,” “I’m On My Way Down,” “Bye Bye Mama,” “Red River Blues,” and more. (Acrobat)

2CD# MOB345525

$16.99

Crescent City Bounce – New Orleans R&B 1950–1958

This unique compilation examines the recordings of three legendary New Orleans piano-players, Archibald, Salvador Doucette, and James Booker, each of whom had surprisingly short discographies. Both Archibald and Booker were hugely influential players, and the latter would go on to enjoy enormous commercial success in the 1970s.

(Jasmine)

1CD# MOB319422

RCA Country Legends / Sons of the Pioneers

America’s classic singing cowboys, The Sons of the Pioneers, have delighted generations with their beautiful harmonies and touching songs. Formed in 1933 by Bob Nolan, Tim Spencer, and Leonard Slye (later know as Roy Rogers), they went on to record dozens of huge hits. This collection includes 16 of their best-known songs such as “Cool Water,” “Tumbling Tumbleweeds,” “Riders in the Sky,” and more. (Sony)

1CD# 88697502232 $6.99

Pioneering Women of Bluegrass

These 26 tracks from Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard have been remastered, resequenced, and newly annotated. Includes “Long Black Veil,” “The One I Love Is Gone,” and “I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling.” “Hazel and Alice blast out vintage bluegrass-country soundsongs with fierce, raucous energy.” – Time (Smithsonian)

1CD# MOB006528 $16.99

The Bob Wills Collection 1935–1950 [2 CDs]

Bob Wills pioneered the style of Western Swing music during the 1930s and ‘40s, combining the standard approach of hillbilly country with jazz, blues and pop styles. This 53-track 2-CD collection cherrypicks the highlights from the 300 or so recordings he made during the period, including “New San Antonio Rose”, “Smoke On The Water”, “Sugar Moon” and “New Spanish Two Step”. (Acrobat)

2CD# MOB316327 $16.99

Kitty Wells: Complete Country Hits 1952–1962 [2 CDs]

Kitty Wells was the first female country artist to establish herself as a major hitmaker in the genre, and paved the way for the many female artists who made their names in the ‘60s and ‘70s. This 49-track 2-CD set comprises every record by Kitty during the decade following her debut hit, including “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels,” “Release Me,” “Hey Joe,” and more. (Acrobat)

2CD# MOB312329 $16.99

Rhythm & Bayous – A Road Map DVD

Robert Mugge’s loving DVD survey of the diverse musical styles and genres of the State of Louisiana. Mugge compiles a singing dictionary of the state’s roots music styles and assorted hybrids, from the blues to ‘swamp pop’ to the fusion of Cajun, Creole and rock ‘n’ roll known as zydeco. (Mug Shot)

1DVD# MOB749295 $12.99

$17.99

Hollywood Blues Summit 1971 / Muddy Waters

Rock and roll hall of fame inductee Muddy Waters is one of the most important singer-songwriter/ guitarists of the post-modern blues era. This eight-song never before released set was recorded at the legendary Ash Grove club in Los Angeles over the Blue Summit weekend (with Freddie King and Lightnin’ Hopkins) over July 27–August 1, 1971. Tracks include “Honey Bee,” “Got My Mojo Working,” and more. (Liberation Hall)

1CD# MOB514327 $14.99

I’m Ready / Lucky Peterson

Guitarist Lucky Peterson is one of the most riveting performers of the modern blues era. A searing lead guitarist, powerful organist and firstrate vocalist, Lucky’s musicianship translates rock, gospel, and jazz into 21st century blues. Tracks include “It Ain’t Right,” “You Shook Me,” “Who’s Been Talkin,” “Tribute to the King,” “Precious Lord Take My Hand,” and more. (Polygram)

1CD# MOB751325 $19.99 $9.99

The West African Blues Project

In an intoxicating meeting of cultures, guitarist Ramon Goose and Senegalese singer-percussionist Modou Touré trace the ancestry of the blues – back before its birth to the dunes and deserts of western Africa. The West African Blues Project is a vibrant, exciting marriage of these two seemingly distinct but inescapably-linked musical traditions. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2873 $14.99

I Am the Blues / Willie Dixon [DVD]

This DVD demonstrates how Willie Dixon forever changed the style of the blues. He took big band music and Mississippi blues and melded them into something new, opening the door for Motown and beyond. Features eight super tracks, biography, image gallery and much more! (MVD Visual)

1CD# MOB134596 $14.99 $8.99

Blues Medicine / Little Freddie King

One Of The Last Bluesmen Of His Generation: The unstoppable Little Freddie King is a country-style blues musician, links to an era when live music poured from the back-of-town nightclubs that were ubiquitous throughout New Orleans’ African-American neighborhoods. Little Freddie King is an artist who is among the last of his kind.

(Madewright)

1CD# MOB181017 $15.99

Missisippi Son / Charlie Musselwhite

Mississippi Son is front porch country blues that is at turns raucous and languid, haunting and impossibly soulful. The track listing includes Musselwhite originals and songs by Charley Patton, Yank Rachell and Big Joe Williams. This warm, intimate recording is loaded with feeling and exhilarating, timeless music.

(Alligator)

1CD# MOB500926 $14.99

Blues in My Heart / Fiona Boyes

Guitarist and singer-songwriter Fiona Boyes is the only Australian ever recognized by The Blues Foundation in Memphis, earning 8 Blues Music Awards nominations. This is the remastered 20th anniversary edition of her debut solo album. She is truly “...one of the world’s best fingerpicking blues guitarists...” – The Guardian, Australia

(Reference)

1CD# FR-740 $16.99

Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton

Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton is the debut studio album by the English blues rock band John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers. It pioneered a guitar-dominated blues-rock sound. Included in this newly remastered edition are two bonus tracks “Lonely Years,” and “Bernard Jenkins”.

(Polydor)

1CD# MOB296720 $16.99

The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan [2 CDs]

The only 2-CD career spanning compilation of the late, great, guitar slinger Stevie Ray Vaughan. This collection covers tracks from all of Vaughan’s studio and live albums. Digitally remastered for optimum sound quality and featured rare and previously unpublished photos. Songs include “Pride & Joy,” “Texas Flood,” “Couldn’t Stand the Weather,” “Little Wing,” and more. (Sony Legacy)

2CD# E2K86423 $16.99

Blues Bash / Duke Robillard

Duke Robillard has admitted that his concept for this album was to make a straight vintage style blues album: danceable rhythms, no hook-laden songs... basically a blues party album! As always, the music is impeccable, classy and powerful. Duke is in his element here, displaying his authority, versatility, passion and virtuosity. (Stony Plain)

1CD# MOB142328 $17.99

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Odetta: The Albums Collection 1954–1962 [5 CDs]

Odetta Holmes, generally simply known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a civil and human rights activist. This 122-track 5-CD set focuses on the formative first decade or so of her recordings career, and comprises the complete content of nine of her albums for Tradition, Vanguard and RCA. (Acrobat)

5CD# MOB751227

$24.99

The Tom Lehrer Collection 1953–1960 [2 CDs]

The 1950s saw the emergence of a new and more adventurous strand of political and social satire, and one of the most celebrated satirists of the time was Tom Lehrer. This 2-CD collection comprises the complete content of all four of his LPs. It’s a comprehensive and thoroughly entertaining anthology of his bestknown repertoire of irreverent and offthe-wall compositions. (Acrobat)

2CD# MOB314927 $15.99

Doc Watson and Gaither Carlson

Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton is a new album of old-time music produced from archival recordings by two legendary musicians. These largely unheard tapes were recorded at Doc Watson’s two earliest concerts in 1962. The instrumental pieces, including Gaither’s signature tune “Double File,” include intricate musical interactions. (Smithsonian Folkways)

1CD# MOB023525 $16.99

20 Best Folk Songs of America

Margie Butler and Paul Espinoza sing some of the most famous and influential folk songs ever written. The songs reflect a wide range of musical styles that have influenced the multitute of singers and songwriters who have contributed to American folk music. Songs include “5 Miles,” “Tom Dooley,” “Sweet Betsy from Pike,” “Lemon Tree,” “If I Had a Hammer,” and more. (ARC Music)

1CD# EUCD2194 $12.99

Pete Seeger: Sing Out America [2 CDs]

An amazing 2-CD collection featuring 50 of iconic folk music legend Pete Seeger’s greatest hits as a solo artist and with The Weavers, including “Turn, Turn, Turn,” “Goodnight Irene,” “If I Had A Hammer,” “We Shall Overcome,” “This Land Is Your Land,” “Where Have All The Flowers Gone?,” “Wayfaring Stranger,” “John Henry,” “Midnight Special” and more. This is the essential Pete Seeger collection! (Dynamic)

2CD# MOB493127 $17.99

Woody Guthrie: Songs to Grow Old for Mother & Child

Beautifully remastered vintage recordings with vocals, acoustic guitar, and rattles. Includes counting songs “1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8” and “One Day Old,” playful songs “Wash-y Wash” and “Pick It Up,” and songs of adoration “Little Sugar” and “Eat You Up.” “Songs meant for you to sing with your children as parents have done for generations.” – Long Island Parenting News (Smithsonian Folkways)

1CD# MOB503522 $14.99

The Kingston Trio – Collection 1958–1962 [2 CDs]

The Kingston Trio were one of the most popular and successful groups to emerge from the growth in popularity of folk music during the 1950s, with classics like “All My Sorrows”, “M.T.A.”, “A Worried Man”, “San Miguel”, “Where Have All The Flowers Gone”, “Everglades” and “Greenback Dollar”. This great-value 55-track 2-CD set comprises all their A and B sides from the first formative years of their recording career. (Acrobat)

2CD# MOB323721 $16.99

Early Years – The First Albums 1959–1961 / Joan Baez [2 CDs]

Joan Baez is one of the most revered and important names in contemporary folk music, a pioneer of the protest movement in the 1960 alongside Bob Dylan and others. In 1959, with two other folk enthusiasts, she recorded a number of songs in a friend’s cellar, and that became the album Folk Singers Round Harvard Square, from which all the titles featuring Joan are included here. (Acrobat)

2CD# MOB341220 $17.99

If I Had a Hammer: Great American Folk [3 CDs]

It was a time when music could change the world! Relive that special time with this compelling 3-CD collection of 75 the biggest folk music hits of the 1950s and 1960s! Included are hits from Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul & Mary, Joan Baez, The Kingston Trio, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, Odetta, The Weavers, Woody Guthrie, Harry Belafonte, Chad Mitchell Trio, Lead Belly, Burl Ives and many more! (Dynamic)

3CD# MOB359324 $22.99

A Living Tradition: Selections from Folk-Legacy Records

The songs on A Living Tradition: Selections from Folk-Legacy Records offer a small sample of the vast catalog of Folk-Legacy Records, which was started by Sandy and Caroline Paton and their friend Lee Haggerty in 1961. The 15-track compilation includes the skillful old-time banjo picking of Hedy West on “Barbara Allen”, and Frank Proffitt’s rendition of the old-time standard “Little Birdie”. (Smithsonian)

1CD# MOB200127 $16.99