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BIS - SACD 1950 SIGNUM U.K. 297

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OCTOBER CATALOG 2012

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ACCENT SACD 25315 Label Code 196 Price Code V JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH; CANTATAS Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht: BWV 52 O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort: BWV 60 Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ: BWV 116 Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme: BWV 140 ARTISTS: La Petite Bande; Kuijken In the beginning there was great scepticism towards the thesis that Bach’s sacred vocal works were originally written for solo voices. Now this interpretation is establishing itself more and more. With this edition of one cantata for each Sunday and the great feasts of the ecclesiastical year Sigiswald Kuijken and La Petite Bande want to strengthen this new approach and prove it right by their excellent performances. This Vol. 15 of the edition contains cantatas which Johann Sebastian Bach wrote for the last four Sundays before Advent: BWV 52 „ False world, I trust thee not!“, BWV 60 „O Eternity, thou thunderous word“, BWV 116 „Thou Prince of Peace, Lord Jesus Christ“, BWV 140 „Awaken ye, the watchman calls us“. “Among current cantata series Sigiswald Kuijken‘s has a distinctive place, his one-to-a-part voices and few instruments achieving striking delicacy. His vocal soloists sing with disarming simplicity and ease in arias, and blend superbly in ensemble. A rare treat, Kuijken – and Bach – at their very best.” (BBC Music Magazine, March 2010, review vol. 9)

ARS PROD. SACD 38116 Label Code 449 Price Code V LOUIS SPOHR SONGS AND DUETS VOL.1 ARTISTS: Felicitas & Judith Erb, Sopranos; Doriana Tchakarova, Piano Despite of the amazing quality and scope of his song work it puzzles why the music of Louis Spohr still has a very minor role in musical life today. Scarcely anybody of his now much more famous contemporaries has managed to combine Beethoven‘s achievements with the new tendencies of Romanticism as convincing as Louis Spohr. ARS PRODUKTION starts with a small series of songs and duets for voice(s) and piano. It is an emphatic pleading to get to know the neglected song composer Spohr.

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ARS PROD. SACD 38119 Label Code 449 Price Code V ÉDOUARD LALO/DARIUS MILHAUD; CELLO CONCERTO Édouard Lalo: Cello Concerto in d minor - Divertissement pour orchestre - Scherzo Darius Milhaud: Cello Concerto No.1 Op.136 ARTISTS: Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen; O Rudner, Conductor; N. Rochat, Cello French composer loved the cello in its variety which you can easily hear in this recording by the Swiss cellist Nadège Rochat and the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen conducted by Ola Rudner. The impressive solo concertos by Édouard Lalo (1832-1892) and Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) show that the instrument can appear as Orpheus as well as a spirited race horse. Two orchestral encores by Lalo top off this successful CD. ARS PROD. SACD 38120 Label Code 449 Price Code V FILM MUSIC SOUNDS OF HOLLYWOOD VOL.2 ARTISTS: Vogtland Philharmonie; Stefan Fraas The Vogtland Philharmonic, conducted by the music director Stefan Fraas, present their second album with next highlights from famous Hollywood fi lm scores from the recent years, as well as popular classics of the genre fi lm music. Appropriate for Hollywood fi lm music it is presented in spectacular surround sound. Track Listing: Mission impossible - A tribute to John Williams - Scent of a woman - The last Samurai - Ben Hur - SpiderMan - Gabriel‘s Oboe - The Pink Panther - Troja - The Typewriter - Doktor Schiwago -The Dark Knight - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Pirates of the Caribbean: At world‘s end

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BIS - SACD 1947 Label Code 419 Price Code P ANTONÍN DVORAK ; SILENT WOODS Original works and transcriptions for cello and piano Sonatina in G major, Op.100; Rondo in G minor, Op.94; Silent Woods, Op.68 No.5; Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op.55 No.4; Good Night, Op.73 No.1; Polonaise in A major, Op.posth.; Larghetto in G minor, Op.75a No.4; Song to the Moon from Rusalka, Op.114; Lasst mich allein, Op.82 No.1 ARTISTS: cello: Christian Poltera; piano Kathryn Stott Antonín Dvo!ák’s path to his famous cello concerto was long and far from direct. Certainly he had used the instrument to great effect in his orchestral music, but for a long time he doubted its suitability as a solo instrument. To some extent, this disc charts the process of the composer towards the recognition of the full capabilities of the cello, as it includes chamber works that Dvo!ák composed directly for cello and piano, or arranged for the combination. The earliest of these, although not published until long after the composer’s death, was the Polonaise in A major, a piece lyrical and virtuosic in turns. Some thirteen years later, in 1892, Dvo!ák composed the Rondo in G minor and arranged Silent Woods, originally a piano duet. Shortly after he also made versions for cello and orchestra of both pieces, almost as if preparing himself for the concerto, which he began writing in 1894. Dvo!ák’s own practice of arranging existing works has encouraged Christian Poltéra to select a number of the composer’s violin pieces and songs, performing them here in his own transcriptions. These include the Violin Sonatina, from the same time as the Rondo and Silent Woods and originally intended for Dvo!ák’s own children. Among the songs are Lasst mich allein, which Dvo!ák quotes it in the slow movement of the cello concerto, and the ever-popular Songs My Mother Taught Me, as well as Rusalka’s Song to the Moon, as eloquent a declaration of love as can be, even when performed without words. Christian Poltéra and Kathryn Stott are regular partners in chamber music, and have previously recorded music by Honegger and Frank Martin together, on discs that have received distinction BIS - SACD 1950 Label Code 419 Price Code P RICHARD STRAUSS Eine Alpensinfonie, Op.64; Symphonische Fantasie aus ‘Die Frau ohne Schatten’ (1947) ARTISTS: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra; Frank Shipway Called a ‘symphony’ by its composer, Richard Strauss’ Alpine Symphony is nevertheless a symphonic poem, and as such it is the last in a series of works that includes such masterpieces as Don Juan, Also sprach Zarathustra and Ein Heldenleben. In 1900, when Strauss first mentioned any plans for the work, he spoke of a symphonic poem in two parts that would begin with a sunrise in Switzerland. When he returned to the idea some ten years later, the work soon grew so vast that he decided to be content with one single movement, depicting the ‘worship of eternal glorious nature’. To regard the Alpensinfonie simply as an impression of landscape would be a mistake, however. It does make use of Strauss’ entire repertoire of orchestral pictorialism, but behind it are ideas much less simple: nature is being worshipped in the intoxicated spirit of Nietzsche’s superman, the liberation of the soul is achieved through hard work – the climber’s struggle to gain the mountaintOp.The work is divided into 22 sections that flow in an unbroken sequence, marking the ascent and descent of the mountain, from before sunrise to after sunset. It was scored for the largest orchestra ever used by Strauss for a purely orchestral piece, and he later said that it was in the Alpine Symphony that he had ‘finally learned how to orchestrate’. The experience must in any case have been useful when he composed his next work, the opera Die Frau ohne Schatten, with an even more opulent orchestration. The opera was premièred in 1919, but it wasn’t until 1946 that Strauss, in his 82nd year, returned to the score in order to make his Symphonic Fantasy, based on high points from the opera. These huge, and enormously colourful works are performed here by the eminent São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, whose highly praised recordings of the Choros by Villa- Lobos have been described as ‘an orgy of colours and rhythms’ (Diapason) and ‘an assured blend of lush colours, pulsating rhythms and supple phrasing’ (International Record Review). The orchestra is conducted by Frank Shipway, with fine credentials in late-Romantic Austro-German repertoire.

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BIS - SACD 1962 Label Code 419 Price Code P COLORATURA Reinhold Glière: Concerto for coloratura soprano and orchestra, Op.82; Ambroise Thomas: Scène et air d’Ophélie from Hamlet; Léo Delibes: The Bell Song from Lakmé; Alexander Alyabyev: The Nightingale; W. A. Mozart: Der Hölle Rache from Die Zauberflöte; John Zorn: La Machine de l’être; Jean Sibelius: Luonnotar, Op.70 ARTISTS: Anu Komsi, soprano; Lahti Symphony Orchestra; Sakari Oramo Coloratura – the colouring of a note, a phrase, an entire aria with trills, ornaments, death-defying leaps and dynamic shadings of infinite variety. For more than two centuries, the art of coloratura was a central aspect of the vocal art, and especially of opera, developed largely by the castrato singers at first, and later by generations of star performers and their vocal coaches. In the mid-nineteenth century this great tradition was all but broken – neither Wagner nor Verdi were prepared to accommodate it in their different brands of music drama, and as both the opera houses and their orchestras grew larger, a different, heavier and more powerful style of singing was favoured. But the fascination and awe inspired by this almost supernatural phenomenon has never died, among audiences, singers or composers. Anu Komsi, Finland’s ‘coloratura assoluta’, here presents a selection almost as wide-ranging as her own vocal technique, with mad scenes and rage arias from 18th- and 19th-century operas, Alyabyev’s ever-soaring Nightingale and the silvery tinkling of Lakmé’s Bell Song. Later examples of the lengths a singer may be expected to go to are Glière’s glittering (and strikingly anachronistic) Concerto for coloratura and orchestra from 1943, and La Machine de l’être by the composer John Zorn (b. 1953). Described by Zorn as a monodrama, this 11 minute-long work in three parts received its scenic première in 2011,by Anu Komsi at the New York City Opera. Throughout the programme, Anu Komsi is supported by the Lahti Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo, and in the closing work all involved find themselves on familiar ground in a thoroughly idiomatic performance of Sibelius’ Luonnotar, with its text from the Finnish national epos Kalevala, and a vocal part which is among the most challenging in the literature.

FARAO SACD 108061 Label Code 128 Price Code E ROBERT SCHUMANN CONCERT PIECE FOR 4 VALVE HORNS RICHARD WAGNER SIEGFRIED-IDYLL RICHARD STRAUSS METAMORPHOSEN ARTISTS: Bayerisches Staatsorchester; Kent Nagano cond.; Solo Horn: Johannes Dengler, Franz Draxinger, Rainer Schmitz, Max Hochwimmer Recorded at Farao Studios, Munich November 2008 A new dawn and history When conducting the Bavarian State Orchestra, a matter which is of key importance to Kent Nagano is the orchestra’s special character, which has evolved from out of its almost 500 years of tradition, it being one of the oldest orchestras world wide. For Nagano, herein lies the analogy which is necessary for his commitment for all that is new in music. The distinguishing feature of this orchestra is its unmistakable warm and dark string sound, having been fostered by the great operas of Mozart and Wagner, and enriched not only through the works of Richard Strauss but actually working with the composer himself. What culminates from out of this, through the tonal contributions of the horns and brass, is a basic tone quality which is wonderfully rounded, never stressing brilliance merely for the sake of brilliance.

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GLOSSA SACD 921116 5 CD SET Label Code 159 Price Code V LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: LIVE FROM ROTTERDAM 2011 THE SYMPHONIES ARTISTS: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century; Brüggen LIVE It was some years after founding the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century in 1981 that Frans Brüggen first turned his attention to the music of Beethoven’s Nine Symphonies and endeavoured to perceive that special orchestral landscape, in order to transform it into musical sound, with the use of period instruments rediscovering historical tonal colours. Now, his quest undimmed, Brüggen has submerged himself once more into the glories of Beethoven’s orchestral music for a new cycle being issued in a sumptuous new hybrid SACD box set by Glossa. Likewise undimmed is the rapport he shares with his orchestra for one of classical music’s greatest challenges of realizing the intimate and the familiar in these symphonies, a challenge achieved here on record by way of concert performances (Brüggen has long distanced himself from studio recordings). As well as being a witness to Brüggen’s communing with the spirit of Beethoven, this Glossa edition comes with a series of powerful and elegant photographs of conductor and orchestra by Annelies van der Vegt (also one of the orchestra’s first violinists), taken during the tour which led up to the “Beethoven Experience” in the Rotterdam concert hall of de Doelen last year, where the symphonies were recorded.

ACCENT 24274 Label Code 086 Price Code F CIACCONAS, CANZONAS & SONATAS Violin music from the collection Partiturbuch, Ludwig: Johann Michael Nicolai: Sonata a 6; Antonio Bertali: Sonatas – Ciaconna; Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: La bella Pastora - Sonata Tubicinum ARTISTS: Deuter/Harmonie Universelle Only fourteen years had passed since the end of the Thirty Years’ War when the musician and collector Jacob Ludwig compiled a comprehensive collection of violin music in 1662 containing contemporary works played at German courts from this period. The collection termed by experts as “Das Partiturbuch Ludwig” was created for the culture-loving Duke August of Brunswick and his wife and was presented to him on the occasion of his 83rd birthday. It is amazing that despite the devastating effects of such a long period of war in Germany, cultural life had never come to a complete standstill, and Jacob Ludwig succeeded in discovering a whole series of musical jewels to add to his collection. The works of Das Partiturbuch Ludwig were arranged according to the number of instruments involved and include sonatas, canzonas, chaconnes and other works influenced by the modern Italian trends of this period. The volume is one of the most valuable sources north of the Alps for works displaying the technical and compositional potential of the violin whose popularity was on the rise at this time. The renowned Baroque violinist Florian Deuter and his ensemble Harmonie Universelle have compiled a selection from the 114 works included in Das Partiturbuch Ludwig which not only demonstrates the incredible variety of music from this source, but also offers listeners a broad palette of different genres and instrumental scoring.

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ARS PROD. CD 38819 Label Code 448 Price Code F CONCERTI & SYMPHONIE; Pleyel Dussek RARITIES FROM THE PLEYEL MUSEUM VOL.9 ARTISTS: I Marsoner- Klavier; M Rácz- Fagott; P Weigold Ignaz Pleyel biography and music have everything a composer need not only for the contemporaries but also for posterity to be in the center of attention: a remarkable talent, with Haydn a prominent teacher, a successful artistic career, business acumen and much more. After all Pleyel was still a leading composer of its day in the end of the 18th Century. The Pleyel community in Ruppersthal has been campaigning for the composer‘s work for years and wowed the music lover with many first recordings in the Pleyel series on ARS PRODUKTION.

BIS CD 2002 11 Disc Set for the price of 4 Label Code 001 Price Code P MENDELSSOHN- THE COMPLETE SYMPHONIES, STRING SYMPHONIES AND CONCERTOS Violin Concerto in E minor: Stradivarius, 1732 Violin Concerto in D minor, Concerto for Violin & Piano: Federico Goldnagl, Vienna 1993 Concerto for Violin & Piano, Concert Pieces: Steinway D. Piano technician: Theo Verheijen Piano Concerto in A minor: Steinway D. Piano technician: Thomas Nielen Piano Concertos in G minor & D minor: Fazioli. Piano technician: Gerard van Hazendonk Concertos for Two Pianos: Steinway D. Piano technician: Hans Bos ARTISTS: Bergen Phil. Orch. Andrew Litton cond.; Amsterdam Markiz; Isabelle van Keulen violin,; Roland Brautigam piano; Amsterdam Sinfonietta/Lev Markiz

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BONGIOVANNI 1225 Label Code 002 Price Code C IL MITO DELL' OPERA VERDI; PUCCINI: OPERA ARIAS Arie da Gugliemo Tell, Norma, Il Pirata, Ernani, Aida, La Forza del Destino, Otello, Samson et Dalila, Tosca, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, La Fanciulla del West, Isabeau Artists: Pier Miranda Ferraro Live recordings 1957-1969

CEMBAL D'AMOUR 169 Label Code 341 Price Code B MINDRU KATZ PLAYS BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2, “The Tempest” (1802) Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106, “For the Hammerklavier” (1816-18) ARTISTS: Mindru Katz, Piano Never-before-available live recordings by the legendary pianist Mindru Katz in performances that must rank as the greatest ever of Beethoven’s celebrated sonata “The Tempest” and his formidable work “The Hammerklavier.”

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CENTAUR 3207 LAbel Code 079 Price Code C FRANZ LISZT Les cloches de Geneve; En reve; Sonetto 14 del Petrarca; Libestraum No 3; La lugubre Gondola II; View kleine Klavierstucke ARTISTS: Daria Scarano-Piano CENTAUR 3209 LAbel Code 079 Price Code C THE LUTE PLAYER&OTHER SONGS Music by Peter Croton ARTISTS: Theresia Bothe-vocals; Peter Croton-lute

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CENTAUR 3220 LAbel Code 079 Price Code C AN AMERICAN KALEIDOSCOPE Song Cycles Through the Lenses of William Bolcom, John Duke, Thomas Pasatieri, and Ned Rorem ARTISTS: Shawn Roy-bass baritone; Chan Kiat Lim-piano CENTAUR 3228 LAbel Code 079 Price Code C BOUGAINVILLEAS OF THE SOUL Two Piano Music by Elena Martin ARTISTS: Elena Martin; Jose Meliton

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CENTAUR 3233 LAbel Code 079 Price Code C A SUO AMICO: Music from the repertoire of Domenico Dragonetti and Robert Lindley ARTISTS: Querelle des Bouffons; Guy Fishman-cello; Robert Nairn-bass CENTAUR 3234 LAbel Code 079 Price Code C DUTCH MUSIC FOR OBOE AND PIANO RONTGEN, Hirtenlied, Sonata #2, Sonata #1 ARTISTS: The Lake Cottage Duo: Sheri Mattson-oboe; Juanita becker-piano

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CENTAUR 3242 LAbel Code 079 Price Code C REFLECTIONS J.S. Bach: Suite for Cello solo no.1 in G-Major E. Bloch: “Schelomo” a Hebrew Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra ARTISTS: Amit Peled-cello

CHRISTOPHORUS 77364 Label Code 034 Price Code F CHRISTMAS & ADVENT SONGS melodiously & artistically arranged Advent and Christmas in Renaissance & Early Baroque ARTISTS: Stimmwerck, vocals supported by harp, lute, and organ The vocal ensemble Stimmwerck supported by harp, lute and organ – has, with great scholarship, compiled a programme of music for Advent and Christmas from the time of the Reformation. Starting with the Gregorian chant of the Catholic liturgy, especially the socalled "O Antiphons", which were sung to the Magnificat in the last days of Advent, and elaborate Latin motets, it presents the development of Protestant German song as set by Michael Praetorius, Samuel Scheidt and Johann Hermann Schein. Here are to be found old friends, the almost "folk songlike" next to wonderful treasures, which are produced in this form for the first time all presented with the crystal clear and beautiful vocal sound, which one is used to from Stimmwerck.

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DAL SEGNO 040 Label Code 090 Price Code D THE ROMANTIC PIANO ARTISTS: W. Backhaus, Vlad De Pachemnn, R. Ganz, E. D'albert,J. Hofman Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight': Adagio sostenuto Brahms: Waltz, Op. 39 No. 15 in A flat major Chopin:Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 Waltz No. 6 in D flat major, Op. 64 No. 1 'Minute Waltz' Debussy: Clair de Lune (from Suite Bergamasque) Fauré: Pavane, Op. 50 Grieg: Peer Gynt: Morning Handel: Largo from Xerxes (instrumental arrangement) Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody, S244 No. 12 in C sharp minor Mozart: Deh! vieni alla finestra (from Don Giovanni) Rondo alla Turca from Piano Sonata No. 11, K331 Ravel: Boléro Saint-Saëns: Le carnaval des animaux: Le Cygne Schubert: Impromptu in G flat major, D899 No. 3 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Traümerei Strauss, J, II: An der schönen, blauen Donau, Op. 314 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers Piano rolls from 1908 and 1933

DORON 3058 Label Code 115 Price Code C MALGRÉ TOUT... Piano music for left hand Felix Blumenfeld, Etude in A-flat major, op. 36 ; Alexander Scriabin ,Prelude in C-sharp minor, op.9, Nocturne in D-flat major, op. 9 no.2 ; Richard Wagner/Franz Liszt, Isolde’s Liebestod, from Tristan and Isolde ; J.S. Bach, Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903 : Fantasy, Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903 : Fugue, Nun komm der Heiden Heiland J.S. Bach /Johannes Brahms; Chaconne (from Partita no. 2 in D minor for violin solo, BWV 1004); Boris Mersson, Regards perdus : Prelude for left hand, op. 60 (2007) (world first recording) ; Frank Bridge, Three Improvisations ARTISTS: Paul Coker

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DORON 4019 Label Code 115 Price Code C MENAHEM PRESSLER; CHOPIN Piano concerto No.1 in E minor – e-moll – mi mineur Op. 11 Piano concerto No. 2 in F minor – f-moll – fa mineur Op. 21* ARTISTS: Vienna Opera, Orchestra; David Josefowitz; Hans Swarowsky, conductor; Menahem Pressler, piano DORON 4020 Label Code 115 Price Code C GRIEG/MENDELSSOHN Piano concerto in A minor – a-moll – la mineur Op. 16 Piano concerto in G minor – g-moll – sol mineur Op. 25 ARTISTS: Menahem Pressler, pn; Vienna Opera Orchestra, Hans Swarowsky DORON 4022 Label Code 115 Price Code C PAGANINI/MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto No 1 in D major, Op. 6 Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 ARTISTS: Ricardo Odnoposoff, violinist; Orch. Symphony De Radio Geneve/ G. Rivoli

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ENTREE 0179 Label Code 111 Price Code MP THE QUEENES GOOD NIGHT English Renaissance Music for Harp & Lute: Callinoe (Anon.) Thomas Robinson: Passamezzo Galliard / A Plain Song / Twenty ways upon the bells The Queenes Good Night John Johnson: Dump in c / The hunt’s up / Dump in F / The leaves be green /Rogero / Wakefield on a Green / Green Garters Robin (Anon.) John Dowland: Melancholy Galliard / Sir John Smith Bergamasca (Anon.) An Almain (Anon.) Richard Allison: Spanish Measures Quadro Pavan & Galliard (Anon.) La Rossignol (Anon.) Francis Pilkington/Marchant: Echo Almain Conde Claros (Anon.) ARTISTS: Marie Nishiyama; Rafael Bonavita The reign of Elizabeth Tudor (15581603) brought with it a period of splendour for England, within which the lute experienced its moment of glory. In paintings from this time convivial scenes featuring performers of harp and lute are often depicted. Well known melodies of the epoch, as well as harmonic sequences such as Bergamasca, Ruggiero, Callinoe, Conde Claros and various Dumps were used by performers when they gathered to improvise together. Sometimes the music was dedicated to a wellknown personality of the court such as was surely the case with The Queenes good Night, inspiring sweet dreams for Elizabeth. For this recording Marie Nishiyama and Rafael Bonavita have mixed the colours of harp and lute, the characteristics of each instrument to create a dialogue of sound between the two. A dialogue that goes – as does this repertoire – beyond epochs and styles, beyond its own time. ENTREE 0181 2 CD SET Label Code 111 Price Code MP CHRISTMAS MUSIC KAIRO LITURGY OF THE COPTIC ORTHODOX: CD 1: Christmas (Hiteni efschi Scherii E parcenus Pe gen mici Apen chois Agios o theos Alleluja O seio aphschai Pihib emi Hitenieprisvija Aphini naf Alleluja ismu e efnoti Ge ephis maro ot Amen Alleluja) CD 2: Holy Week (Sok teti gom Ke eperto Chen efran in tetrias O Monogenis Golgatha) The Copts are the indigenous Christians of Egypt and direct descendants of the ancient Egyptians. The word “Copt” itself is derived from the Greek “Aigyptos”, and these “Egyptians” are frequently referred to as the modern sons of the Pharaos. Coptic Church, its tradition has been handed down orally from generation to generation by priests and cantors in wholly or only slightly changed form, so that its music has remained intact. Not until well into the 20th century was Coptic music notated. In 1927 a devout and wealthy Copt invited the noted English musicologist Ernest Newland Smith (Oxford University; Royal Academy, London) to come to Egypt, to listen to the singers

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GLOSSA 920914 Label Code 119 Price Code F CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI Selva Morale e Spirituale Venezia, 1640-41 ARTISTS:La Venexiana; Claudio Cavina, director Soloists: Rossana Bertini, Alena Dantcheva, Nadia Ragni, Claudio Cavina, Giuseppe Maletto, Sandro Naglia, Matteo Bellotto, Daniele Carnovich Ripieni: Francesca Cassinari, Paola Reggiani, Emanuele Bianchi, Giovanni Caccamo, Paolo Borgonovo, Marco Radaelli Instrumentalists: Svetlana Fomina, Carlo Lazzaroni, Ermes Giussani, Mauro Morini, Corrado Colliard, David Yacus, Giorgio Sanvito, Gabriele Palomba, Fulvio Garlaschi, Vittorio Zanon After the completion, a few months back, of their Monteverdi Edition – which gathers together the entirety of the madrigal output by Claudio Monteverdi – La Venexiana now issues three discs recorded live at the 2005 Semana de Música Religiosa Festival in Cuenca: the ensemble’s founder members (such as Rossana Bertini, Giuseppe Maletto, Sandro Naglia and Daniele Carnovich) are to be heard in the company of a select group of instrumentalists and singers, all of them under the direction of Claudio Cavina, for a memorable journey through the pieces contained within the Selva Morale e Spirituale. Rather than following the order of the printed edition, La Venexiana has preferred here to arrange the sequence of pieces into three substantial liturgical settings, each one equipped with its own self-governing character. The first two discs contain one office of Vespers each, taking advantage of the fact that Monteverdi provided double (and sometimes even triple) versions of the Dixit Dominus, Confitebor, Beatus vir, Laudate pueri, Laudate Dominum, Magnificat and Salve Regina. The programme for the third disc has essentially been created around the Messa a 4 and includes other free-standing mass sections. The effect is of constructing a grand missa solemnis that perhaps might have been heard on November 21, 1631 in Saint Mark’s to celebrate the cessation of the plague epidemic in Venice. With a recently-presented Gramophone Award for the ensemble’s indispensable recording of L’Orfeo still fresh in the mind, this disc will undoubtedly bring much delight to lovers of the music of the two Claudios: Monteverdi and Cavina… GLOSSA 921513 Label Code 119 Price Code F ANTONIO VIVALDI: LA SENNA FESTEGGIANTE ARTISTS: La Risonanza; F. Bonizzoni Continuing his captivating survey of the Baroque serenata, Fabio Bonizzoni now focuses on one of the “occasional” works – with music at a magnificently high level throughout – written by Antonio Vivaldi when in Venice: La Senna festeggiante. What animated Vivaldi to compose a work apparently extolling the virtues of the River Seine in Paris? The story goes, as described by Michael Talbot in his exemplary accompanying essay, that the serenata was written in 1726 jointly to honour the French king, Louis XV (on his name day), Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (then the Protector of the Affairs of France at the Vatican) and the French Ambassador in Venice, the Comte de Gergy; and bringing in the river to heap Baroque praise on the Sun King’s greatgrandson. An unmistakeably Vivaldian score (complete with selfborrowings and “loans” from others), the composer nonetheless makes plentiful musical allusions to his Gallic theme and setting through the music of the three named vocalists – The Golden Age, Virtue and the Seine – and through the instrumental accompaniment, handled deftly and gloriously here by Fabio Bonizzoni and La Risonanza. The singers, Yetzabel Arias Fernández, Martín Oro and Sergio Foresti, capture the spirit of the allegorical and fluvial characters superbly in this new Glossa recording, which was made at the Abbaye de SaintMichel en Thiérache (also the setting for La Risonanza’s earlier recording of Alessandro Scarlatti’s Serenate a Filli).

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GLOSSA 921514 2 CD SET Label Code 119 Price Code F GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI TOCCATAS & PARTITAS ARTISTS: Bonizzoni (harpsichord, organ) For as much as Fabio Bonizzoni is drawn to the splendours of Baroque music for voices and orchestra – as demonstrated through his awardwinning recordings with La Risonanza – his keyboardplaying instincts are constantly urging him to tackle masterpieces of the keyboard repertory. Most recently having applied his musical insight and virtuosity to Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuge, Bonizzoni now pits himself against another, albeit earlier, Baroque master in Girolamo Frescobaldi. Frequentlycited as being as important for keyboard music as Monteverdi was for vocal and dramatic fare, the genius of the Ferraraborn Frescobaldi was amply recognized when working in Rome and Florence – periods when he published (and revised) the two books of toccatas (but including canzonas and partitas or variations sets) recorded by Bonizzoni here. Frescobaldi’s toccatas allow for – and draw from Bonizzoni – great interpretative flexibility, calling for rhythmic freedom, not to say drama and emotion. Indeed, Bonizzoni, clearly mindful of the new demands of the seconda prattica in Frescobaldi’s time, likens the toccatas to being madrigals without words:poetry lies at the heart of his performances. This new recording from Glossa has Fabio Bonizzoni playing on a splendid modern copy of an Italian Baroque harpsichord and on the idiosyncratic organ of the Basilica of Santa Barbara in Mantua. Along the way,Bonizzoni has puzzled out – and describes in the booklet – how best to draw out the sound appropriate for Frescobaldi’s music from this mysterious instrument. GLOSSA 921626 (2 CDs For the Price of 1) Label Code 119 Price Code F LES 25 ANS!!! LE CONCERT SPIRITUEL: I. Musique religieuse by Frémart Bouteiller and Charpentier II.Démesure Music by Haendel,Striggio and Purcell III.Jardin secret Music by Bodin de Boismortier, d’Agincour, G. Charpentier andGilbert IV. Opéras Music by Bodin de Boismortier, Purcell Destouches, Marais, Grétry and Campra V.Mes petits bijoux préférés Music by Bodin de Boismortier, Marais and Destouches ARTISTS: Hervé Niquet 26 years ago, Hervé Niquet recalls having become so incensed with the disparaging remarks directed at French music and the Lamentations of Jean Gilles in particular by a conductor of a choir in which he was then singing that Niquet vowed to set up his own ensemble and record the work – and demonstrate furthermore other beauties of music from his country (and beyond). And so was born Le Concert Spirituel, now celebrating its quarter century, its vocal and instrumental forces throughout that time constantly delighting audiences with its joyous celebration of music from the 17th and 18th centuries (and now with CharlesSimon Catel’s Sémiramis, the dawn of the 19th). To mark the anniversary, Glossa is now issuing an attractively priced doubledisc celebration, with Niquet pulling out the stops from across Le Concert Spirituel’s broad and expansive range (and he started musical life as an organist,after all): Baroque sacred music, MarcAntoine Charpentier assuredly; selections from Le Concert Spirituel’s “reoxygenation”, as he calls it, of the tragédie lyrique (Grétry, Campra, Destouches), but also demonstrations of his own nimblefooted theatrical tendency (Niquet is an avowed fan of the musichall!) in Handel, Purcell and Striggio. Musical ostentation and bravura are concluded on each disc by some of Niquet’s own special bonnes bouches: Boismortier, D’Agincour, Marais and excerpts from his “other” Charpentier (Gustave). All accompanied by a sparkling apéritif from the conductor himself about how Le Concert Spirituel came to reach its 25th anniversary!

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IDI 6649 2 CD SET Label Code 316 Price Code A OTTORINO RESPIGHI: Quartetto Dorico, Ill Tramonto, Lauda per la Nativita, del Signore BARYLLI QUARTET ORC.SINF.di ROMA: Conductor NINO ANTONELLINI Studio Recordings 1960/61 ARTIST: Barylli Quartet; Sena Jurinac, soprano; Liliana Rossi & Lidia Marimpietri, sopranos Tommaso Frascati tenor Up to 50 years ago the knowledge of Ottorino Respighi ‘s music was essentially limited to the three famous roman symphonic poems. The Chamber production was almost unknown , and the very beatiful recordings of the ”Quarttetto Dorico” and “Il Tramonto”, poem for voice and string quartet realized by Barylli in 1960; were a sensational news in the general conformist music background. To make this record even more precious is the presence of an extraordinary artist: Sena Juriac; at that time she was at the top of her artistic career. The great Austro - Croatian soprano died in 2011, and this cd would be also a tribute to her art. A touching of the “Lauda per la natività del Signore”the version directed in 1961 by Nino Antonellini with Rome RAI groups ends this cd. IDI 6655 2 CD SET Label Code 316 Price Code A KNAPPERTSBUSH & WIENER PHILARMONIKER VOL.2 ROBERT SCHUMANN; RICHARD STRAUSS: SYMPHONY NO. 4, Tod und Verklarung Live 1962 ARTISTS: HANS KNAPPERTSBUSH, TOD VERKLARUNG This CD completes the series of live recordings made by Hans Knappertsbush with the Wiener Philharmonic at the beginningof the 60’. These works are considered one of the highest level of Knapperrtbush career as conductor. The interpretations of Schumann’ Fourth Symphony and Rchard Strauss’ Tod and Verklärung could be considered as one of best performances of these two works now avaiable on cd. The Fourth Symphony has an epical grandeur and an expressive intensity equal only to the ones that Wilhem Furtwangler has reached. Istead Tod and Verklärung from the beginnig to the end is infused by a wild desire to claim that is immediately communicated to the listener, that made this cd one of the points of reference for Richard Strauss music.

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MYTO HISTORICAL 00317 3 CD SET Label Code 005 Price Code MP W.A. MOZART; DON GIOVANNI ARTISTS: Eberhard Waechter (Don Giovanni); Nicola Zaccaria (Il Commendatore); Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Donna Anna); Cesare Valletti (Don Ottavio); Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor; Wiener Philharmoniker; Herbert von Karajan, direction Recorded 1960 MYTO HISTORICAL 00320 2 CD SET Label Code 005 Price Code MP DONIZETTI; MARIA DI ROHAN ARTISTS: Virginia Zeani (Maria); Enzo Tei (Riccardo); Mario Zanasi (Enrico); Anna Maria Rota (Armando di Gondì); Orcestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo; Fernando Previtali, direction

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NEOS 11213 Label Code 273 Price Code F DARMSTADT AURAL DOCUMENTS - BOX 2 John Cage – Communication ARTISTS: John Cage, voice and piano; David Tudor, piano Late summer, 1958. For the first time the American composer John Cage attended the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. As so often in those years, he was accompanied by the pianist David Tudor, and together they gave the European premieres of his Music for Two Pianos, Winter Music and Variations I. John Cage’s first appearance in Darmstadt, in 1958, was a red-letter event in the history of music (his second and last appearance there would not take place until 1990, two years before his death). With his three lectures in particular he cracked open the little world of contemporary music, sowing the seeds for a rich, burgeoning, heterogeneous landscape of sound with many different concepts of what music is and can be. The Communication lecture of 1958 is, by the way, the only one of Cage’s three Darmstadt lectures that exists in the archive of the Darmstadt International Institute of Music in the form of an audio document, minus the opening minutes. There is no way of knowing today why the other two lectures, Changes and Indeterminacy, were not tape-recorded, or whether the recordings later disappeared.

NEW PAN 10274 Label Code 250 Price Code F ZELENKA Solo Motets ARTSTS: Alex Potter- countertenor; Capriccio Barockorchester Jan Dismas Zelenka is a significant but frequently neglected eighteenth century composer who received his musical training in Prague and was active from around 1710 at the court of August Elector of Saxony in Dresden where he was primarily responsible for church music at court, but also composed secular instrumental works. The accomplished young British countertenor Alex Potter succeeds in displaying this wide emotional range in selected works for alto solo: he dazzles with astounding virtuosity in the motet Barbara, dira effera and soars in tender arcs of tension in his performance of the Christe eleison from a late unfi nished mass by Zelenka.

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NEW PAN 10277 2 CD SET Label Code 250 Price Code F J.S.BACH Violin Concertos bwv 1041-1042 Psalms 51 bwv 1038 ARTSTS: Ars Antiqua Austria; Gunar Letzbor, Director The ensemble Ars Antiqua Austria under the direction of the violinist Gunar Letzbor have devoted this double CD to instrumental and vocal works by Johann Sebastian Bach with reissued recordings originating in 1995 and 1996. CD 1 focuses on the virtuoso potential of the violin featuring the two Violin Concertos BWV 1041 and BWV 1042 with Letzbor as soloist and the Double Violin concerto in which Daniel Sepec takes on the equal role of second soloist. These works are augmented by the Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 BWV 1049 in which the concertino group includes not only solo violin but also two recorders which in this recording are performed with great virtuosity and sinuous tone by Kees Boeke and Michael Oman. Bach’s arrangement of the Stabat Mater by Pergolesi known as Psalm 51 “Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden” BWV 1083 (CD 2) was only rediscovered during the last few years and is seldom performed. Bach replaced Pergolesi’s text of the Stabat Mater with the Lutheran translation of Psalm 51 and undertook a number of alterations to both vocal and instrumental parts. Bach attached great importance to the exact musical illustration of individual words of the text, producing an orchestral score with greater complexity and more heightened contrasts than the original Pergolesi. The special feature of this recording is the assignment of the St. Florianer Sängerknaben, a boys’ choir from which the excellent soloists have also been recruited. The CD is augmented by the Cantata “Himmelskönig, sei willkommen” BWV 182 in which the male vocal parts are sung by the Kepler Consort.

REGIS 1392 Label Code 207 Price Code MP SCHUBERT Symphonies 5 & 6 ARTISTS: Westdeustche Sinfonia; Dirk Joeres Dirk Joeres and the Westdeustche Sinfonia give sparkling accounts of Schubert’s 5th and 6th Symphonies. The Sinfonia’s foundation in 1987 was based on the original idea of bringing togetherleading musicians from ten major orchestras in the region of north-western Germany. Their first CD recording appeared in 1989, in 1990 they toured the USA for the first

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REGIS 1393 Label Code 207 Price Code MP THE VOICE OF PETER PEARS; DOWLAND, SCHUBERT, BRITTEN, GRAINGER, COPLAND ARTIST: Peter Pears This Regis disc celebrates the uniqueness of one of the twentieth century’s most distinctive voices in collaborations with life-long musical partners Benjamin Britten and Julian Bream. The repertoire ranges from Dowland to Schubert to Britten, in addition to featuring twentieth century English composers and folksong settings by Grainger and Copland. REGIS 6146 Label Code 207 Price Code MP THE PLAYS & POEMS OF NOEL COWARD Brief Encouters, Blithe Spirit, Private Lives, Present Laughter ARTIST: Noel Coward A unique cinematic and theatrical figure, Noel Coward is represented here in some of his most iconic creations (Blithe Spirit, Private Lives, Brief Encounter) with contributions from Gertrude Lawrence and Margaret Leighton. In addition, he reads 10 of his own poems – hilarious, poignant,insightful and rare.

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ROMEO 7291/2 2 CDS for the price of 1 Label Code 363 Price Code C The Phoenix: Music by Y. Braun and R. Luz: Y. Braun- Sonata for Bassoon and Piano (2003) Y. Braun- Sonata for Flute solo (1954 rev 1967) Y. Braun- Three songs for Zion for Bassoon and Piano (1974) R. Luz- Piano Sonata (1991) Y. Braun- Sonata piccola for Piccolo and Piano (2009) Y. Braun- Tchiri-Biri-Bom for two bassoons (1974) R. Luz- Pastorale for Flute, Bassoon, and Piano (1997) Y. Braun- Psalms for Basson and Piano (1974) Y. Braun- The Phoenix for basson and percussion (1962) R. Luz- Cana'anite Boats for two flutes (1977.2009) R. Luz- Scenes from the Red Sea for Flute and Piano Y. Braun- Trio for piccolo, bassoon, and piano (2010) ARTISTS: L. Eitan, Flute & Piccolo; U. Shalev, Bassoon; R. Luz, Piano Yehezkel Braun, one of Israel's foremost composers, was born on 1922 in Breslau, Germany and came with his parents to Palestine, then under British mandate, in 1924. The present album, designed and created by his daughter, Rotem Luz, and her close friends, flautist L Eitan and bassoonist U Shalev, is brilliant retrospective illustration of his great contribution to Israeli music, starting with his earliest works in the 1950s up to his most recent compositions written while in his late eighties. Rotem Luz, Yehezkel Braun's daughter was born in Israel in 1959. She is a graduate of the Tel Aviv University where she recieved her Master of Music degree Summa Cum Laude in 1996. Currently she has been completing her PhD. at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her research topic is the sonata from in the 20th century. Her compositions include "1991 Piano sonata", "Scene from the Red Sea" for Flute and Piano. "Cana'anite Boats" for two Flutes, "Pastorale" for Violin, Cello and Piano and "Cantata 2011" for Piccolo and Piano. Since 2007 she has been teaching music at the arts, literature and music department for Safed College.

SIGNUM U.K. 259 Label Code 303 Price Code D MAHLER: TOTENFEIER LIEDER EINES FAHRENDEN GESELLEN ARTISTS: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Vladimir Jurowski conductor In this live recording from the Royal Festival Hall the OAE shines its musical torch into the realms of some later repertoire, shedding new light on the music of Mahler. Conducted by Principal Artist Vladimir Jurowski, this CD includes Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer), written in the wake of an unhappy affair with a soprano, and the extraordinarily exciting and powerful Totenfeier, Mahler’s first foray into orchestral music, and later reworked into the opening movement of his second symphony.

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SIGNUM U.K. 294 Label Code 303 Price Code D A DOLL’S HOUSE: COPELAND, FITKIN, SKEMPTON, TIPPETT ARTIST: ensemblebash Formed in 1992, the British percussion quartet ensemblebash has forged a reputation as one of the world’s most innovative and groundbreaking chamber ensembles. Using the music of West Africa as both core repertoire and a guiding spiritual influence, ensemblebash mixes contemporary classical, jazz and music theatre into unforgettable performances. This new recording marks 20 years since the formation of the group, with the programme made up of some of their best commissions from 2002 to 2012. SIGNUM U.K. 297 2 CDs for the Price of 1 Label Code 303 Price Code D THE BEST OF THE KING'S SINGERS ARTISTS: The King Singers As part of Signum's 15th anniversary year we are delighted to release this celebratory collection of The Best of 'The King's Singers' – a 2-CD collection drawn from their now extensive catalogue on Signum. The first CD includes titles from Christmas (the groups debut album with Signum, released in 2004), along with music from Landscape and Time, Treason and Discord, Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responsories, Sacred Bridges, Siglio d’Oro, Romance du soir, From the heart, High Flight and the 2012 release Royal Rhymes and Rounds. The second CD presents songs from four albums: Six, From the heart, our most recent light album Swimming over London and the Grammy Award winning Simple Gifts. OCTOBER TOUR DATES: 10/10/2012 8:15PM Arnhem (NL) Musis Sacrum Concert Hall, Arnhem 10/11/2012 8:00PM Antwerp (Belgium) de Singel 10/12/2012 8:15PM Groningen (NL) De Oosterpoort 10/13/2012 8:15PM The Hague (NL) Nieuwe Kerk 10/14/2012 8:00PM Brussels (Belgium) Théâtre Saint-Michel 10/18/2012 7:30PM London (UK) Christ Church, Spitalfields, London 10/28/2012 3:00PM Morrow, GA (USA) Spivey Hall, Clayton State University 10/29/2012 7:00PM Taylors, SC (USA) The Academy of Arts, LOGOS Theatre 10/30/2012 7:00PM Taylors, SC (USA) The Academy of Arts, LOGOS Theatre 10/31/2012 7:30PM Selinsgrove, PA (USA) Susquehanna University, Weber Chapel

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2012 marks the 15th anniversary of the first release from the leading independent classical label Signum Records. Beginning life as an early music specialist (with a landmark release of the Complete Works of Thomas Tallis with Chapelle du Roi), Signum has grown since 1997 to a catalogue of over 300 releases across a wide range of genres, featuring a number of world-class artists including: - A Cappella and Choral Music (The King's Singers, Tenebrae, VOCES8, The Swingle Singers, Rodolfus Choir) - Orchestral and Chamber Music (Philharmonia Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Gabrieli Consort & Players, OAE, LCO, Smith Quartet), - Instrumental Soloist Recitals (Jamie Walton, Alessio Bax, Matthew Barley, Llŷr Williams, James Rhodes) - Art song and Lieder (Iain Burnside, Malcolm Martineau, John Mark Ainsley, Mark Padmore, Ailish Tynan, Felicity Lott, Sarah Connolly, Jonathan Lemalu). In our new anniversary series we have drawn on this extensive catalogue to form six collectable releases, assembled around the themes of A Cappella, Early Music, Organ, Choral, Art Song, and Piano music. SIGNUM U.K. 299 Label Code 303 Price Code MP A CAPPELLA COLLECTION: ANNIVERSARY SERIES ARTISTS: The King's Singers, Tenebrae, VOCES8, The Swingle Singers & Rodolfus Choir Track Listing: A Fifth of Beethoven Ludvig van Beethoven THE SWINGLE SINGERS Hide and Seek Imogen Heap THE KING’S SINGERS Weather Report Bob Chilcott BBC SINGERS Après un Rêve Gabriel Fauré TENEBRAE Slap that Bass George & Ira Gershwin VOCES8 Helplessly Hoping Stephen Stills THE KING’S SINGERS Steal Away Trad. spiritual VOCES8 It’s Sand, Man! Lewis/Hendriks/Lambert THE SWINGLE SINGERS Oblivion Claudio Monteverdi THE LONDON QUARTET En Aranjuez con tu amor Joaquín Rodrigo CORO CERVANTES This Marriage Eric Whitacre THE KING’S SINGERS From Russia with Love Lionel Bart VOCES8 When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease Roy Harper THE LONDON QUARTET After the Goldrush Neil Young THE KING’S SINGERS Bachbeat Bach/Swingle/Shlomo THE SWINGLE SINGERS Andromeda Mia Makaroff THE KING’S SINGERS The Dying Soldier Trad. TENEBRAE Conceit Graham Lack THE KING’S SINGERS Swansongs 1 Bob Chilcott THE SIRENS Smooth Criminal Michael Jackson VOCES8

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SIGNUM U.K. 301 Label Code 303 Price Code MP EARLY MUSIC COLLECTION: ANNIVERSARY SERIES ARTISTS: Gabrieli Consort & Players, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Charivari Agréable, Kings Singers; et al Deus in adjutorium from Monteverdi Vespers OAE Mascara Piero Strozzi CHARIVARI AGRÉABLE Sonata No.8 in G minor: Giga Presto Antonio Vivaldi CORDARIA Esperar, sentir, morir Juan Hidalgo CHARIVARI AGRÉABLE Rosa das rosas (Cantiga) Codex Las Huelgas MILLE FLEURS Old Simon the King Trad. English EMMA MURPHY Tis now dead night Thomas Ford GALLICANTUS Cello Suite No.1, BWV 1007: I. Prélude J.S. Bach DAVID KENEDY A Fancie William Byrd THE KING’S SINGERS Concerto in G minor, RV 106: Allegro Antonio Vivaldi GAIL HENNESSY & NICHOLAS PARLE: Versa est in luctum Alonso Lobo TENEBRAE: Galliard Anon MUSICA ANTIQUA OF LONDON: Gradual: Canzona [13] à 12 Giovanni Gabrieli GABRIELI CONSORT & PLAYERS: O Beate Sebastiane Guillaume Dufay THE CLERKS GROUP: Te lucis ante terminum (festal) Thomas Tallis CHAPELLE DU ROI: Sonata for cornett and strings: III. Allegro Pietro Baldassari CHARIVARI AGRÉABLE: Nel tempo che riveste il verde manto Ioannes Lulinus Venetus MUSICA ANTIQUA OF LONDON: Mystery Sonata No. 3, “The Nativity”: Mvt. I H. Biber CORDARIA: Gott will Mensch und sterblich werden: Aria Georg Philipp Telemann CORDARIA: Cantate Domino Claudio Monteverdi VOCES8: Fair Orion, in the morn John Milton SIGNUM U.K. 302 Label Code 303 Price Code D THE ORGAN COLLECTION: ANNIVERSARY SERIES ARTISTS: Joseph Nolan, Michael Mathes, David Goode, Simon Preston, Naji Hakim, Robert Quinney & Jeremy Filsell Toccata in C major, BWV 564 J.S. Bach DAVID GOODE, FREIBERG CATHEDRAL Con moto maestoso from Sonata No.3 in A Felix Mendelssohn JOSEPH NOLAN, BUCKINGHAM PALACE: Langsam from Six Fugues, Op 60 Robert Schumann SIMON PRESTON, ROYAL ALBERT HALL: Choral Song (ed. Emery) Samuel S. Wesley JAMES VIVIAN, TEMPLE CHURCH, LONDON: Rhosymedre R. Vaughan Williams JOSEPH NOLAN, BUCKINGHAM PALACE: Prelude in B major, Op 7 Marcel Dupre ROBERT QUINNEY,WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL: Institution de l’Eucharist (Livre du Saint Sacrement) Olivier Messiaen DAVID GOODE, ETON COLLEGE CHAPEL: Te Deum Jean Langlais NAJI HAKIM, GLENALMOND COLLEGE: Poeam from Poema and Toccata Beorma George Thalben-Ball JOSEPH NOLAN, SAINT SULPICE, PARIS: Nimrod from Variations on an Original Theme, Op 36 Edward Elgar ROBERT QUINNEY, WESTMINSTER ABBEY: Minuet - Waltz from Suite des Danses Alexander ALEXANDER MASON, GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL:Toccata in G minor Johann Pachelbel MICHAEL MATTHES, TULLE CATHEDRAL: Toccata Théodore Dubois JOSEPH NOLAN, BUCKINGHAM PALACE: Adagio from Organ Symphony No.5, Op.42, No.1 Charles-Marie Widor JOSEPH NOLAN, LA MADELEINE, PARIS: Toccata from Suite Gothique, Op. 25 Léon Boëllmann JOSEPH NOLAN, SAINT SULPICE, PARIS: Final from Organ Symphony No. 1 Louis Vierne JEREMY FILSELL, SAINT OUEN,

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SIGNUM U.K. 309 Label Code 303 Price Code D ALESSIO BAX PLAYS BRAHMS ARTISTS: Alessio Bax The Italian-born pianist and Leeds competition winner Alessio Bax returns with his third solo recital disc for Signum. His programme surveys a selection of highlights from Brahms' pianistic output, charting his development from the early lyrical collection '4 Ballades' (1854) through to the 'eight perfect gems' that are the 8 Klavierstücke Op.76 (1871-78). Bax also tackles Brahms' fiendish set of 'Variations on a Theme of Pagainini, Op.35', which Bax describes in the programme notes as one of "the most fearsome works ever written for piano". On Tour Now

SUPRAPHON FL 4106 Label Code 332 Price Code C LEOPOLD KOŽELUH Sonatas for Fortepiano, Flute and Cello ARTISTS: Monika Knoblochová – fortepiano; Jana Semerádová – flute; Hana Fleková – cello Recorded for the Czech Radio at the Martínek Studio, Prague, March and May, 2011. Today, it is difficult to imagine that the renown of the Czech composer Leopold Koželuh (1747-1818) in Vienna once equalled the fame Mozart enjoyed, that he was perceived as being on a par with Beethoven or Haydn. An accomplished composer, sought-after piano virtuoso and teacher in the services of the highest aristocratic circles, including the imperial family, Koželuh ardently championed the at the time still young and modern fortepiano. This instrument plays a pivotal role in his compositions, which is also the case of the sonatas presented on this recording, with the flute and cello rather complementing, commenting on and accompanying the exposed piano part. These Koželuh pieces were published in Vienna, as well as in London, Paris, Berlin and other cultural centres. Alongside the large number of sonatas with an “accompanying” violin, Koželuh’s oeuvre contains thirteen works in which he gave preference to the flute. The five most wonderful of these have been cherry-picked for this CD by three female virtuosos performing on period instruments. With their characteristic enthusiasm, they at least partially redeem our debt to the hitherto undeservedly marginalised Czech composer.

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SUPRAPHON FL 4111 Label Code 332 Price Code C MUSIC FROM EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PRAGUE JAN DISMAS ZELENKA: MISSA NATIVITATIS DOMINI, MAGNIFICAT, O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM, CHAVALTE BOHA SILNEHO ARTISTS: Barbora Sojková – soprano; Markéta Cukrová – alto; Tomáš Král – bass; Musica Florea (on period instruments); conductor: Marek Štryncl Recorded at the Church of Saints Simon and Jude, Prague, December 7–8, 2011. Following on from the previous two titles (Sepolcri, SU 4068-2; Melodrama de Sancto Wenceslao, SU4113-2), Supraphon’s Music From Eighteenth-Century Prague series now reflects Prague-related works by Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745), whose pieces were performed at the city’s churches with increasing frequency from the middle of the 1730s. One such composition was Missa nativitatis, ZWV 8, preserved at the Saint Nicolas Church in Prague’s Lesser Town; another copy is from C. Ph. E. Bach’s personal effects, which indicates that this very piece was one of the two Zelenka masses his father Johann Sebastian had in his library. The aria of the Christmas motet O magnum mysterium is derived from the mentioned melodrama; Zelenka furnished it with a different text and added two flutes. The motet Chvalte Boha silného (Praise God Almighty), a setting of Psalm 150, is most likely the one and only Zelenka piece to a Czech text and has only been preserved in Prague copies. The Advent spirit is supplemented by with the Marian hymn Magnificat. Zelenka’s lesser-known works are once again presented within the acclaimed Supraphon series by Musica Florea, a renowned Baroque orchestra who stood at the beginning of the modern discovery of this exceptional composer.

WIDESCREEN 154 2 CD SET Label Code 475 Price Code Y W.A. MOZART; IL FLAUTO MAGICO ARTISTS:Wiener Philarmoniker and Chor der Wiener Staatsoper; Gedda, Lipp, Frick, Kunz, Sciutti, Kuen, Hallstein, Waechter; Herbert von Karajan, conductor Herbert von Karajan recorded in studio Die Zauberfloete twice: in 1950, published by Columbia (78 rpm) and a second in 1980 for Deutsche Grammophon. Unanimously, critics agree in recognizing the '50 version of the best outcome, even if it comes from an edition without the recitatives spoken and technically limited. This beautiful edition of 1962, taken with stereo technique by the Austrian ORF, adds a key to the discography page of the great conductor, caught here in his better years, far from the minimalism and the phonic turgidity of the last years. The team of singers is dominated by the presence of the foremost artists of the sixties in Vienna: Gedda, Kunz, Lipp, Frick, Waechter, each of which had deepened Mozart characters in dozens of shows. A real discovery in the history of Mozart’s Operas recordings.

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WIDESCREEN 175 2 CD SET Label Code 475 Price Code Y RICHTER IN AMERICA BEETHOVEN: PIANO SONATAS, OP. 2 No. 3, Op. 14 No. 1, Op. 54, Op. 57 Appassionata; BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2 1960 ARTISTS: CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA; ERICH LEINSDORF; S RICHTER, Piano These recordings are offered for the first time in the same edition. Until now it was not possible, because for half a century have belonged to two antagonistic labels, RCA and CBS, that in 1960, during Richter's debut in America, they both recorded the great Soviet artist during his performances in Usa, including Chicago and New York. These recording are really historical, dedicated to two composers, Beethoven and Brahms, quite far from the culture, that of Russia, that Richter represented. Everyone can, after so many years, check the unchanged value of Richter’s interpretative lesson, no less than his perennial timeliness. WIDESCREEN 198 2 CD SET Label Code 475 Price Code Y VERDI; IL TROVATORE ARTISTS: TUCKER - PRICE - WARREN – ELIAS; ORCHESTRA E CORO DEL TEATRO DELL'OPERA DI ROMA; A BASILE Very rare and hard to find for many years, this magnificent edition of Il Trovatore, recorded by RCA in 1959 in Rome, remains among the most memorable in the history of the disc! Leontyne Price recorded it again in the '70s with Mehta and Karajan, but she will not reach the same power and freshness of our Roman version. Richard Tucker plays the role of Manrico only in this version, and certainly his Trovatore made and still makes history. Leonard Warren, who had recorded Il Trovatore with Bjoerling in 1952, remains one of the biggest Conte di Luna of the twentieth century; while Rosalind Elias belongs, with Simionato and Cossotto, to those interpreters that offer a modern, young and passionate image of Azucena. Last but not least, Arturo Basile, who reads Verdi with concrete and accuracy of the Italian tradition.

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BONGIO. DVD 20022 Label Code 233 Price Code 6 GIOACHINO ROSSINI AURELIANO IN PALMIRA ARTISTS: Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia; Bogdan Mihai, Franco Fagioli, Maria Aleida Recorded live at the Palazzo Ducale, Martina Franca – Festival della Valle d’Itria 2011 1 DVD 9, NTSC, italian/english subtitles, 170 MINUTES

Centaur DVD 2230 Label Code 495 Price Code G FROM RAGTIME TO REEL TIME Richard Glazier in Concert ARTISTS: Richard Glazier From Ragtime to Reel Time - Richard Glazier in Concert was filmed live in front of a studio audience in San Francisco, CA. The concert features Glazier telling fascinating backstage stories, and playing glorious arrangements of songs by a host of Golden Era composers including Gershwin, Arlen, Rodgers and Kern. Film legend Mickey Rooney is along as Glazier's special guest, and the two sing a duet in what was once the old MGM pre-recording stage. If you like great music, Old Hollywood, inside stories and a charming host, From Ragtime to Reel Time is for you!

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VIDEOLAND OPERA 019 Label Code 254 Price Code K JOHANN STRAUSS: DIE FLEDERMAUS ARTISTS: Reinprecht, Fally, Lippert, Serafin Festival Orchester Morbish; Chor und Ballett der Seefestspiele Morbisch; Statisterie der Seefestspiele Morbisch Recorded:2012, English Subtitles, NTSC Region Code: 0 Running Time: 180 minutes

SOHO COLLECTION 029 3 CD SET Label Code 497 Price Code X A LIFE IN SONG ARTIST: Edith Piaf

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Nomination for the Recital category VIVALDI OPERA ARIAS Roberta Invernizzi, La Risonanza/Fabio Bonizzoni Glossa 922901 Label Code 119 Price Code F Nomination for the Baroque Vocal category ZELENKA Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta. Lamentatio Ieremiae Prophetae Collegium Vocale 1704; Collegium 1704 / Václav Luks Accent 24259 Label Code 086 Price Code F Nomination for the Contemporary category NØRGÅRD VIOLIN CONCERTOS. SPACES OF TIME Peter Herresthal, Ida Mo BIS 1872 Label Code 001 Price Code P

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SUPRAPHON MD 4065 2 CD Set Label Code 333 Price Code D VACLAV TALICH; LIVE 1939 SMETANA: MY COUNTRY; DVORAK: SLAVIC DANCES ARTISTS: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Radiojournal Orchestra, Václav Talich, conductor. Please go to http://www.kingssingers.com/2012/calendar.php to see the dates and locations for the 2012 the King’s Singers tour SIGNUM U.K. 297 ( 2 CDs for the Price of 1) Label Code 303 Price Code D THE BEST OF THE KING'S SINGERS ARTISTS: The King’s Singers As part of Signum's 15th anniversary year we are delighted to release this celebratory collection of The Best of 'The King's Singers' – a 2-CD collection drawn from their now extensive catalogue on Signum. The first CD includes titles from Christmas (the groups debut album with Signum, released in 2004), along with music from Landscape and Time, Treason and Discord, Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responsories, Sacred Bridges, Siglio d’Oro, Romance du soir, From the heart, High Flight and the 2012 release Royal Rhymes and Rounds. The second CD presents songs from four albums: Six, From the heart, our most recent light album Swimming over London and the Grammy Award winning Simple Gifts. OCTOBER TOUR DATES 10/10/2012 8:15PM Arnhem (NL) Musis Sacrum Concert Hall, Arnhem 10/11/2012 8:00PM Antwerp (Belgium) de Singel 10/12/2012 8:15PM Groningen (NL) De Oosterpoort 10/13/2012 8:15PM The Hague (NL) Nieuwe Kerk 10/14/2012 8:00PM Brussels (Belgium) Théâtre Saint-Michel 10/18/2012 7:30PM London (UK) Christ Church, Spitalfields, London 10/28/2012 3:00PM Morrow, GA (USA) Spivey Hall, Clayton State University 10/29/2012 7:00PM Taylors, SC (USA) The Academy of Arts, LOGOS Theatre 10/30/2012 7:00PM Taylors, SC (USA) The Academy of Arts, LOGOS Theatre 10/31/2012 7:30PM Selinsgrove, PA (USA) Susquehanna University, Weber Chapel

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