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2 DECEMBER 2015All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices

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Index

CDsAltissimo! Recordings ............................................................................................................... page 8

ArcoDiva ................................................................................................................................. page 8

Austrian Gramophone ............................................................................................................... page 8

BIS ........................................................................................................................................ page 3

Blue Heron ............................................................................................................................. page 4

BMMA .................................................................................................................................... page 8

Capriccio ................................................................................................................................ page 9

Carpe Diem ............................................................................................................................. page 5

CD Accord ............................................................................................................................... page 9

Champs Hill ............................................................................................................................ page 9

CPO ....................................................................................................................................page 5, 6

Dynamic ................................................................................................................................. page 9

Farao Classics .........................................................................................................................page 10

Grand Piano ...........................................................................................................................page 10

ICA Classics............................................................................................................................. page 6

Melodiya ................................................................................................................................ page 6

Oehms Classics ................................................................................................................. page 10, 11

Orchid Classics .......................................................................................................................page 11

Paladino Music .......................................................................................................................page 11

Philharmonia Baroque Productions ............................................................................................. page 7

Pook Music ............................................................................................................................. page 7

Rondeau Production ................................................................................................................page 12

Seattle Symphony Media ........................................................................................................... page 7

Solo Musica............................................................................................................................page 12

Somm .................................................................................................................................... page 7

Sono Luminus.........................................................................................................................page 12

Toccata Classics ......................................................................................................................page 12

DVDsArthaus Musik .................................................................................................................. page 13, 14

C Major Entertainment .............................................................................................................page 14

Dynamic ................................................................................................................................page 15

Euroarts ................................................................................................................................page 15

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Felix MENDELSSOHNA Midsummer Night’s DreamThe Fair Melusine, Concert Overture No. 4, Op. 32; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, incidental music to the play by Shakespeare, Op. 61; The Hebrides, Concert Overture No. 2, Op. 26

Camilla Tilling, Magdalena RisbergSwedish Chamber Orchestra, Swedish Radio Choir, Thomas Dausgaard

Following a series of acclaimed recordings of nineteenth-century music Thomas Dausgaard and his Swedish Chamber Orchestra turn to Felix Mendelssohn. The team’s latest offering unites three of the composer’s four celebrated concert overtures, written between 1826 and 1835. The earliest of the three – A Midsummer Night’s Dream – was composed by a seventeen year old Mendelssohn, and revised later to include additional incidental music for a stage production of the play. Written for soloists, women’s choir and orchestra, the complete Midsummer Night score is included here. The disc opens with the last of the four overtures to be composed, however: The Fair Melusine, which Mendelssohn wrote after having heard an opera based on the old French tale of the water spirit Mélusine and her sad fate. Water – and its depiction in music – also plays an important role in The Hebrides, the closing work on the present recording.

BIS2166£9.00 (Hybrid SACD)

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Allan PETTERSSONSymphony No. 13Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg

Allan Pettersson concerned himself almost exclusively with the symphonic genre for three decades leading to ‘the last symphonist’ moniker that he was attributed in Sweden. He completed his Symphony No. 13 in August 1976, as a commission by the Bergen Festival for its 25th anniversary the following year, however, the work was not performed in Sweden until Christian Lindberg and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra played it in concert in 2014. Like the majority of Pettersson’s symphonies it is in one movement, harbouring the great contrasts between an atonal and a traditional, tonal idiom that characterise the composer’s musical language. A noteworthy feature in the present work is the presence of many brief allusions to other composers – from Beethoven (with the theme to the Fifth Symphony) to D-S-C-H, the musical cryptogram of Shostakovich’s name.


High, Low or In BetweenKatarina Henryson, Svante Henryson

Katarina and Svante Henryson have carved out quite extraordinary careers: Katarina touring internationally as a member of the highly successful Swedish vocal ensemble The Real Group, and Svante appearing in the most varied collaborations with musicians as diverse as Elvis Costello, Anne Sofie von Otter, Chico Freeman and Martin Fröst. The repertoire on High, Low or In Between is as varied as it gets. Pop songs by Elton John and George Harrison rub shoulders with Prince’s funk hit Kiss, Bill Evans’s jazz classic Waltz for Debby and Tom Jobim’s bossa nova Chega de Saudade. These last two Katarina performs in the versions made immortal by the Swedish jazz singer Monica Zetterlund, while a third song to a Swedish text, Det växer från Edens tider, also displays its Swedish origins proudly through its folk-like idiom. A handful of tracks consist of original material by the performers themselves – Eyes of a Child they wrote together after the birth of their son – including three cello improvisations and Svante’s instrumental piece Green.


Chiel MEIJERINGRock that FluteConcerto movements for Eagle recorder and strings by Chiel Meijering

Dan Laurin1B1, Jan Bjøranger

Dutch composer Chiel Meijering began to write for the recorder as early as 1979 and developed a passion for the new model of ‘Eagle’ recorder, conceived in 2008. Recorder virtuoso Dan Laurin was struck by the very personal language in the compositions of Meijering whose music was divided by the composer into four categories – dreamy, nostalgic, rocking and metal. Soon thoughts of making a recording emerged, and took definite shape when the third, vital piece of the puzzle was found: the fresh, young string ensemble 1B1 from Stavanger in Norway, and its founder, the dynamic violinist Jan Bjøranger.


Aaron COPLANDBilly the Kid; Rodeo Billy the Kid and Rodeo (complete ballet scores); An Outdoor Overture; El Salón México

Colorado Symphony, Andrew Litton

Having taken up the post of music director with the Colorado Symphony in 2013, Andrew Litton has chosen a highly fitting programme for the orchestra’s first recording on BIS: the Wild West, its folk music, traditions and legends loom large in Aaron Copland’s ballet scores Billy the Kid and Rodeo. The slightly earlier El Salón México, inspired by a visit to a dancehall in Mexico, is equally evocative, using Mexican themes. The other work on this disc – An Outdoor Overture – is something of a rarity. The overture was part of an educational campaign with the slogan ‘American Music for American Youth’ and its snappy rhythms and colourful orchestration will have made it as successful in its original purpose as it is here, as a curtain raiser. The Colorado Symphony is obviously enjoying itself in this all-American programme, as is its conductor Andrew Litton, who joins the revelry as honky-tonk pianist in the ‘Celebration’ section of Billy the Kid and the ‘Ranch House Party’ in Rodeo, before bringing the disc to a rollicking end in that ballet’s closing section, ‘Hoe-Down’.


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Christmas in Medieval EnglandRecorded Live in Concert

Blue Heron, Scott Metcalfe

Christmas in Medieval England allows listeners to share the beauty, excitement, intensity, and variety found in a Blue Heron concert performance. It includes plainchant, carols, and other music for Advent and Christmas from fifteenth-century England. It is comprised entirely of tracks recorded live at First Church in Cambridge, Congregational in December 2013.

BHCD1006£9.00

Guillaume DU FAY (c.1397-1474)

Motets; Hymns; Chansons; Sanctus PapaleBlue Heron, Scott Metcalfe

Blue Heron’s debut CD offers an entrancing selection of music by the greatest composer of the 15th century, Guillaume Du Fay. The program includes three isorhythmic motets ( Apostolo glorioso, Rite majorem Jacobum canamus, and Ecclesie militantis), the glorious, large-scale Sanctus Papale in its first recording in three decades, two hymns with alternatim plainchant verses, and a generous sampling of secular songs. Works by Johannes Ockeghem and Hugo de Lantins are included.

BHCD1001£9.00

Robert JONES: Missa Spes nostra

Nicholas LUDFORD: Ave cujus conception

Robert HUNT: Stabat materMusic from the Peterhouse Partbooks, volume 4


Volume 4 of Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks contains the world premiere recording of the only surviving Mass of Robert Jones (fl.1520-1535), who was employed in the royal chapel during the reign of Henry VIII. This recording is part of a 5-CD project that began in 2010.

BHCD1005£9.00

Nicholas LUDFORD: Missa Inclina cor meum

John MASON: Ave fuit prima salus Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, volume 3


Every piece on volume 3 of music from the Peterhouse Partbooks is a world premiere recording, with major works of Nicholas Ludford (c.1490-1557), and John Mason (c.1480-1548). Ludford’s Mass setting is mysterious and enchanting. The offering from Mason is a votive antiphon addressed to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and it opens the disc in an unforgettable way.

BHCD1004£9.00

Nicholas LUDFORD: Missa Regnum mundi

Richard PYGOTT: Salve regina

Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, volume 2


Volume 2 of Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks contains world premiere recordings of major works by Nicholas Ludford (c.1490-1557), and Richard Pygott (c.1485-1549). Ludford’s radiant Missa Regnum mundi is presented in a musical context like that of its probable original occasion, a festal mass for St. Margaret, with plainchant items from the Proper according to the Use of Salisbury. The disc concludes with Pygott’s extraordinary Salve regina, one of the longest votive antiphons extant and a marvel of rhetorical expression.

BHCD1003£9.00

Hugh ASTON (c.1485-1558)

Three Marian AntiphonsMusic from the Peterhouse Partbooks, volume 1


Blue Heron’s second CD launched a 5-CD project with superb music by three English composers of the early 16th century: Hugh Aston, Robert Jones, and John Mason, virtually unknown to performers and scholars today. The set, known as the Peterhouse Partbooks, was copied in 1540 for Canterbury Cathedral and is the largest and most important source of English music surviving from the period just before the Reformation.

BHCD1002£9.00

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The Blue Heron label is dedicated solely to the release of recordings made by the professional vocal ensemble Blue Heron (Scott Metcalfe, dir.). Both the ensemble (founded in 1999) and the recording label exist to help increase public appreciation for, and understanding of vocal music of the European Renaissance.


Lars-Erik LARSSON (1908-1986)

Symphony No. 2, Op. 17; Variations for Orchestra, Op. 50; Barococo Suite for Orchestra, Op. 64

Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze

CPO present the second volume of orchestral works by Lars-Erik Larsson; one of today’s most popular contemporary- classical composers in Sweden and beyond. Varied examples of his composition feature on this release: his Symphony No. 2, where the composer has reduced the number of movements to three, the Orchestral Variations Op. 50 which document the free twelve-tone style of Larsson’s mature years, and the later Barococo Suite Op. 64, which displays an astonishingly youthful freshness.

Riccardo ZANDONAI (1883-1944)

Francesca da RiminiTito Ricordi, Christina Vasileva, Martin Mühle, Juan Orozco, Adriano Graziani, Kim-Lillian Strebel, Benedicte Tauran, Sally Wilson, Marija Jokovic, Freiburger Kammerchor, Opern und Extrachor des Theater Freiburg, Vokalensemble der Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg, Fabrice Bollon

It is a story made for the stage: Francesca da Rimini is a deceived woman-in-love who disregards her arranged marriage, decides that she has the perfect right to true love, and ends up murdered. The music publisher Ricordi recognized this plot’s potential as a music drama and commissioned the young Riccardo Zandonai to compose the music for it. The premiere in 1914 was a sensational success.

777672-2£9.00 (Hybrid SACD)

Friedrich GERNSHEIM (1839-1916)

Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 42; Phantasy Piece for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 33; Violin Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 86

Linus Roth, Hamburger Symphoniker, Johannes Zurl

Gernsheim’s music is immediately familiar to the ear, with influences from Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms and Bruch, but with a distinctive talent for beautiful, extended melodies. This recording is intended as the first step toward their rediscovery.

777960-2£18.00 (2 CDs)

Girolamo ABOS (1715-1760)

Christmas Music from MaltaBenedictus Dominus Deus Israel; Magnificat; Messa a due cori

Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens

Girolamo Abos is a Maltese composer whose works ‘have not been heard for centuries’ (Tabona). The works on this disc, Magnificat, Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel, and Messa a due cori will allow listeners to immerse themselves in Abos’ melodic, elegant and spirited works.

777861-2£9.00

Felix MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847)

String Symphonies Vol. 1Sinfonie I-VI

L’Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg

In the year prior to composing the works on this disc, the twelve year old Mendelssohn had written two operas, a five-part psalm, six symphonies, and some sonatas. These symphonies were performed by Mendelssohn and others during the matinées presented every two weeks at his parents’ home. This detail provided the inspiration for this authentic, captivating interpretation by the musicians of the L’Orfeo Baroque Orchestra under their conductor Michi Gaigg.

777978-2£9.00

Franz LISZTHarmonies poétiques et religieuses (1853)

Michael Korstick

The Harmonies poétiques et religieuses is Franz Liszt’s most important piano cycle. The title refers to a collection of poems by the French romanticist Alphonse de Lamartine. Liszt’s religious orientation and the overall theme of poetic literature in his work are reflected in his many years of artistic occupation. Michael Korstick presents a breath-taking and uncompromising interpretation.

777942-2£9.00

777951-2£9.00 (2 CDs)

Il viaggio d’AmoreArianna Savall, Hirundo Maris

The new album by Arianna Savall and her ensemble Hirundo Maris, following last years’ Hildegard von Bingen recording, is a musical journey of Amor, the love, through Europe and beyond, and through different ages and cultures. Assembled on this album are traditional songs, songs from renaissance sources as well as new compositions by Arianna Savall and, finally, the famous Gracias a la vida by Chilean singer and political activist Violeta Parra.

CD-16307£9.00


Isidora ŽEBELJAN (b. 1967)

Chamber MusicPolomka Quartet; Dance of the Wooden Sticks; New Songs of Lada; Sarabande for piano; A Yawl on the Danube; Song of a Traveller in the Night for Clarinet & String Quartet; Pep it up

Brodsky Quartet, Aneta Ilic, Stefan Dohr, Joan Enric Lluna, Isidora Žebeljan, Miroslav Karlovic, Boban Stosic, Premil Petrovic

Isidora Žebeljan currently ranks as one of Serbia’s most successful composers, gaining international recognition with her opera Zora D. composed for London’s Genesis Foundation. Despite the Numerous commissions that followed, Žebeljan has maintained her special relationship with the Brodsky Quartet, who have performed her entire ensemble oeuvre.

777994-2£6.90

Christopher TYE (c.1505-c.1572)

In Nomine: Works for Recorder ConsortBoreas Quartet Bremen, Han Tol

Accompanied by Han Tol, the Boreas Quartet now turn to a selection of works from the collection In Nomine by Christopher Tye, an English organist and Renaissance composer. In the press the musicians have been praised for their ‘vibrant, great expressive power, superb technique, perfect intonation, and incredible precision in ensemble playing’. Taverner’s In Nomine is also included on this recording.

777897-2£6.90

A Tribute to Rudolf BarshaiThis set contains many rare recordings which have never been released before, including Barshai as a solo viola player, performing chamber music, as director of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra as well as his various appointments and guest appearances with the Tokyo, WDR and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. The set also includes many performances featuring the greatest Russian artists including Rostropovich, Oistrakh, Gilels, Kogan and Shostakovich. ICAB 5136

£40.00 (20 CDs)

RICHTERThe 100th Anniversary Edition

Sviatoslav Richter

For the 100th anniversary of Sviatoslav Richter, Melodiya presents the biggest project in its history. Although the name of Sviatoslav Richter is inscribed in gold in the history of music, he was ‘more than a pianist’. An owner of composing, conducting, artistic, directing and acting gifts, a connoisseur of literature, arts and philosophy, he was an ‘artist of planetary scale’, as one critic put it. However, Richter remained indifferent to ovation and eulogies of the press, painfully experienced each of the ‘defects’ he noticed in his performance, and confessed before the journalist Bruno Monsaingeon: ‘I don’t like myself’. Melodiya, recently marking its 50th birthday, now releases a 50-CD set of Sviatoslav Richter’s concert recordings, featuring plenty of exclusive, previously unreleased recordings that will make the hearts of even the most erudite connoisseurs and collectors rejoice.

MELCD 1002270£250.00 (50 CDs)

Alexander SCRIABIN (1872-1915)

Ten Preludes, Op. 11

Ludmila Berlinskaya

Melodiya presents a programme of Alexander Scriabin, Julian Scriabin and Boris Pasternak, performed by Ludmila Berlinskaya, an Honoured Artist of Russia and prize-winner of prestigious international competitions. According to the pianist, this collection is built on the principle of evolution. It showcases the progress of Scriabin’s music – from the Preludes, Op. 11, to the poem Toward the Flame, Op. 72. The Two Preludes written under the influence of the music of Alexander Scriabin by the future poet, novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature - Boris Pasternak - are of particular interest.

MELCD 1002398£7.25

Emancipation of ConsonanceValery ARZUMANOV: Selected pieces from 27 Light Pieces for Piano, Op. 74; Leonid DESYATNIKOV: ‘Echoes of Theatre’; Vladimir RYABOV: Selected Russian songs arranged for piano, Opp. 73 and 74

Lukas Geniušas

Melodiya presents an album of piano music by contemporary Russian composers performed by Lukas Geniušas, a prize-winner of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition. The piano cycles of Leonid Desyatnikov, Valery Arzumanov and Vladimir Ryabov, were composed in the second half of the 1980s sharing in the aesthetics of the ‘new simplicity’. At the same time the music captures a complicated era of total reappraisal of values that was going on in those years in the life and arts of Russia.

MELCD 1002409£7.25


Joseph HAYDNSymphonies Nos. 57, 67 & 68

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan

The Los Angeles Times proclaimed: ‘Haydn and McGegan were made for each other’. Following on their 2011 Grammy-nominated recording Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 104, 88, and 101, Music Director Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra present three inventive symphonies from Haydn’s middle period: Nos. 57, 67 & 68.

PBP 08£9.00

Jocelyn POOKKing Charles III: A Future History PlayJocelyn Pook, Belinda Sykes, Anna-Helena McLean, Melanie Pappenheim, Voya Zivkovic, Richard Goulding, Harvey Brough

‘Jocelyn Pook’s musical composition is spine-tingling and gripping from the beginning of the play’ – Broadway World. ‘Jocelyn Pook’s stunning score reflects the entire production in combining the Shakespearean and the modern with an alchemy that creates theatrical gold’ – Official London Theatre.

PM002£9.00

Henri DUTILLEUXMétaboles; L’arbre des songes; Symphony No. 2; Le Double

Augustin Hadelich, Seattle Symphony, Ludovic Morlot

Following the Seattle Symphony’s Grammy-nominated Dutilleux disc is the second instalment in the Symphony’s venture to record a complete survey of the orchestral music of the great French composer. This time Ludovic Morlot and his musicians turn their attention to Dutilleux’s most well-known and exciting orchestral work – Métaboles. Augustin Hadelich joins for an extraordinarily poetic performance of the violin concerto, L’arbre des songes, and the disc is completed by a riveting live performance of the Symphony No. 2, all in the spectacular acoustics of Seattle’s Benaroya Hall.

SSM1007£9.00

Edvard GRIEGSlåtter, Op. 72 ('Norwegian Peasant Dances'); Stimmungen, Op. 73 ('Moods')

John McCabe

Following Somm’s recent re-issue of Nielsen’s Piano Music (SOMMCD 0146-2) with John McCabe we are very pleased to add another example of his wonderful art as a pianist. The old, and partly damaged tapes recorded on RCA Gold Seal in 1978, have been lovingly restored by our expert engineers and the resultant sound is absolutely remarkable!

SOMMCD 0154£7.29

Claude DEBUSSY: Fantasie for Piano & Orchestra

Gabriel FAURÉ: Ballade Op. 19

Maurice RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G major

Valerie Tryon, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jac van Steen

With this new release, Somm continues its series with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the remarkable pianist Valerie Tryon. This new release brings together three French works for piano and orchestra.

SOMMCD 258£9.00

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The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra aims to produce music that inspires passion for period-instrument performance, connect audiences to history, preserve tradition, and celebrate creative genius. Using authentic instruments and stylistic performance practices of the baroque to early-romantic periods, the orchestra engages audiences through performance, tours, education, community outreach, and recordings of the highest standard.


Cavalcade of Martial SongsDavid Lloyd, The Band of the Welsh Guards, Major Andrew Harris MVO, Major ‘Tommy’ Chandler MVO

This album celebrates the centenary of one of the world’s greatest military bands, the Band of the Welsh Guards, and pays tribute to the musicians who served with the band during its first 25 years. Many of the tracks date from 1916, so you are hearing the same men that would embark to France and Belgium a few months later to take their turn in playing to lift the spirits of the Guards Division close to the front line. The album ends with the band’s renowned tenor, David Lloyd, singing with the band in a selection of Welsh National Songs.

BMMAWG1501£9.00

Ronald STEVENSON, Sergei RACHMANINOV, Yvar MIKHASHOFFMarylebone

Jason Bae

‘When I was ten years old, I knew in my heart that I was determined to become a concert pianist’, says Korean-born New Zealander Jason Bae. He has successfully accomplished this goal and, with his album Marylebone, presents his debut recording.

AG0003£9.00

From the Keyboard‘The President’s Own’ United States Marine Band, Colonel Michael J. Colburn

Altissimo! Recordings presents a programme of keyboard and piano works transcribed for wind band. This new recording from ‘The President’s Own’ United States Marine Band begins with the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor, by Bach, arguably the most famous organ composition ever written. The band continues with Sibling Revelry, a set of piano etudes by David Rakowski, transcribed by the composer himself, Lento Assai, from Rachmaninoff’s iconic Symphonic Dances, and Debussy’s The Engulfed Cathedral. The album concludes with Modest Mussorgsky’s pinnacle work, Pictures at an Exhibition, originally transcribed by Maurice Ravel for orchestra, adopted for the triumphant sounds of the Marine Band.

ALT04022£9.00

Percy GRAINGERThe Music Lover’s Grainger‘The President’s Own’ United States Marine Band, Colonel Michael J. Colburn, Choral Arts Society of Washington, Norman Scribner

Performed and recorded live in observation of the 50th anniversary of Percy Grainger’s death, The Music Lover’s Grainger presents world première recordings. This includes: The Lost Lady Found transcribed for band and chorus, based on Grainger’s original setting for chorus and orchestra, the original, unpublished band version of Spoon River, reconstructed from the recently discovered manuscript parts, and an alternate, otherworldly harmonization of the Londonderry Air, scored for band, chorus, and organ.

ALT04042£9.00

Bedřich SMETANAMá vlast

Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra, Marek Štilec

Bedřich Smetana’s Má vlast is one of the most powerful and culturally symbolic works to come from the Czech Republic, drawing on its history and the role of the people. This new live recording from ArcoDiva presents a modern interpretation that aims to come closer to the original score.

UP0180£7.29

BMMA (British Military Music Archive) was established in 2015 for the purpose of creating an internationally acknowledged recorded music catalogue of digitized and re-mastered recordings of historic military music. BMMA has assembled a significant collection of historic recordings of military music, some dating back to the early years of the twentieth century, when military bands in the United Kingdom first recorded their music; this covers a variety of genres including marches, operetta and musical comedy, classical and light music. BMMA has catalogued, digitized and re-mastered the recordings and offers them to Film and Television music libraries and also releases the recordings worldwide. BMMA works in partnership with Naxos of America and Metropolis, based in London, one of the leading international mastering studios.


Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828)

Selected SongsThilo Dahlmann, Charles Spencer

Bass baritone Thilo Dahlmann won the first prize at the North Rhine-Westphalia State Competition and was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera House. He has been a guest performer at the German Opera of the Rhine in Düsseldorf, Wuppertal Bühnen, Koblenz Theatre and St. Gallen Theatre, and has sung important bass baritone roles in Germany and abroad under conductors such as Helmuth Rilling, Franz-Welser-Moest, Philippe Jordan, Helmut Müller-Brühl, Masaaki Suzuki and Ralf Otto.

C3001£7.29

SCHUMANN, SCHUBERT, LISZT, LOEWE, WOLF, ZEMLINSKYGerman BalladsKay Stiefermann, Alexander Schmalcz

Kay Stiefermann completed his studies with distinction under chamber singer Kurt Moll at the Academy of Music in Cologne. Since his first commitment in the ensemble of the Hamburg State Opera from 1997 to 2001, he has sung many great roles of the baritone repertoire. In recent years, he has increasingly performed roles from the German repertoire, such as Amfortas (Parsifal), Kurwenal (Tristan and Isolde), the Dutchman (The Flying Dutchman), Simone (Eine Florentinische Tragödie), Gyges (King Candaules), Mandryka (Arabella) and Don Pizarro (Fidelio).

C3002£9.00

CHOPIN, PADEREWSKI, SZYMANOWSKI, WIENIAWSKIPiano Recital

Michał Szymanowski

Michał Karol Szymanowski, one of the most promising Polish pianists of the young generation, was born in 1988 in Bydgoszcz. He graduated with honours from the F. Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, where he studied piano with Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń. At present he continues his piano education as a doctoral student at his alma mater.

ACD219£9.00

Felix MENDELSSOHN, Fanny MENDELSSOHNComplete Songs Vol.2

Malcolm Martineau, Mary Bevan, Sophie Bevan, Paula Murrihy, Kitty Whately, Robin Tritschler, Jonathan McGovern, Benjamin Appl

Champs Hill Records is delighted to release the second volume in this series of Mendelssohn vocal releases curated by Malcolm Martineau. Here, he has gathered together a wealth of imaginative young vocal talent in Sophie Bevan, Robin Tritschler, Jonathan McGovern, Mary Bevan and Benjamin Appl to explore a variety of themes, including: Spring Songs, Love Songs, Mendelssohn & Goethe, Mendelssohn & Lord Byron, Night Songs and three songs by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel.

CHRCD091£7.29

NICOLÒ PAGANINI (1782-1840)

Paganini RediscoveredPlayed on Paganini’s violin

Luca Fanfoni, Daniele Fanfoni, Luca Ballerini, Luca Simoncini, Fabrizio Giudice

Following the recent rediscovery of a manuscript entitled ‘Preghiera del Mosè di Paganini: Parte del Pianoforte’ at Parma’s Palatina Library, the Sonata a Preghiera M.S. 23’s introductory section has now been restored. Research at the Library by Luca Fanfoni and Dr. Danilo Prefumo also unearthed other rarities that are included on this CD: the three Ritornelli, early works for two violins and cello, the six virtuoso Preludes for violin, and the demanding Rondò for violin and cello M.S. 63. The CD ends with the original of the Grande Concerto in E minor M.S. 75.

CDS7672£9.00

Eugène YSAŸE: Sonata for Two Violins

Sergei PROKOFIEV: Sonata for Two Violins, Op. 56

Andrea MANZOLI: Petite Suite pour Tonio Cavilla for two violins

PimaDuo

The sound of a violin duo is very special: two instruments with the same timbre but with distinct, sometimes contrasting roles. Performing as PimaDuo, siblings Matteo and Maddalena Pippa bring to life a programme of rarely performed and original repertoire for this combination. The recording opens with the intense and elaborate Sonata for Two Violins by Ysaÿe in its unabridged version, followed by Prokofiev’s compelling Sonata Op. 56, and concludes with the world première recording of the Petite Suite pour Tonio Cavilla by Andrea Manzol.

CDS7738£9.00


Johann Baptist CRAMER (1771-1858)

Air Anglo-Calédonien Varié; Piano Sonata Op. 25, No. 2; La Gigue - Piano Sonata Op. 38, No. 3; Piano Sonata Op. 27, No. 1

Matteo Napoli

Matteo Napoli is an honours graduate of the Giordano Conservatory (Foggia). Early in his career he captured worldwide attention winning many competitions, including First Prize in the International Liszt Competition at Lucca in 1986. He has performed in Europe, as well as in New York, Mexico City, São Paolo, Japan, Australia, China and Malaysia.

GP656£9.00

Adolf Von HENSELT (1814-1889)

Piano WorksSergio Gallo

A Steinway artist, Sergio Gallo specializes in the repertoire of the Romantic period, especially Liszt and his contemporaries, including Schumann, Henselt, Brahms, and Chopin. Gallo has made several acclaimed recordings, and a recent release with Naxos of Liszt’s transcriptions of opera by Meyerbeer.

GP661£9.00

Maria SZYMANOWSKA (1789-1831)

Complete Dances for Solo PianoAlexander Kostritsa, Natsumi Shibagaki

Alexander Kostritsa received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music. He is a prize-winner of international piano competitions, including the Premio Rovere d’Oro (Italy, 2007, 1st prize), the Slavic Music Festival (Ukraine, 2007, laureate), and the Paul Badura-Skoda (Spain, 2010, finalist).

GP685£9.00

Joachim RAFF (1822-1882)

Piano WorksTra Nguyen

Joachim Raff was regarded by his contemporaries as one of the foremost symphonists of his age, but in his extensive oeuvre of 329 compositions over half of them are for the piano. This selection of 21 works offers a cross section of the best of this large catalogue, chosen by acclaimed Raff interpreter Tra Nguyen. The British-Vietnamese pianist’s imaginative programming balances core repertoire and lesser-known music, winning critical praise. Her recordings of Joachim Raff’s piano music have earned wide critical acclaim, including Album of the Week awards by The Independent.

GP728X£24.00 (6 CDs)

Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750)

Complete Works for Violin

Benjamin SchmidCis Collegium Mozarteum Salzburg, Jürgen Geise, Clara Dent, Helge Rosenkranz, Anthony Spiri, Sebastian Hess

OC013£10.00 (5 CDs)

Sergei RACHMANINOV (1873-1943)

Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44; Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne, Dmitrij Kitajenko

With the recording of the Symphony No. 3 and the Symphonic Dances, OehmsClassics and the Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne proudly present this composer’s last two works. Rachmaninoff’s Third was given its premiere in 1936 in Philadelphia under Leopold Stokowski. It was a moderate success.

OC442£7.00

Eugen D’ALBERT: Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in C major, Op. 20;

Max BRUCH: Kol Nidrei, Adagio for Violoncello and Orchestra, Op. 47; Canzone for Violoncello and Orchestra, Op. 55;

Ernst von DOHNÁNYI: Konzertstück in D major for Violoncello and Orchestra, Op. 12

David PiaMünchner Rundfunkorchester, Ulf Schirmer

In the hands of David Pia, D’Albert’s highly virtuosic concerto of 1899 stands out for its instrumental elegance, enchanting melodies and subtle harmony. This disc from Farao Classics also includes Dohnányi’s Concert Piece of 1904 and Bruch’s Canzone, whilst Kol Nidrei, an elegiac piece based on Hebrew melodies, is among Bruch’s most famous works.

B108089£7.29


Johann Sebastian BACHGoldberg VariationsErich Traxler

Austrian harpsichordist Erich Traxler presents his version of Bach’s immortal Goldberg Variations, exploring the rhetoric qualities of this masterwork in particular.

Franz SCHUBERTPiano Trio No. 2, ‘Arpeggione Sonata’Elizabeth Hopkins, Boris Kucharsky, Thomas Carroll

With this recording, the celebrated Kucharsky/Hopkins duo finish their Schubert cycle, this time joined by British cellist Thomas Carroll. The monumental second Piano Trio and the ‘Arpeggione’ Sonata (recorded on Yehudi Menuhin’s very own Testore viola) show two very different sides of Schubert as a chamber music composer: a work of orchestral scale and one of the most intimate duo pieces of the entire music history.

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César CUI, Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY, Anton ARENSKY, Modest MUSSORGSKY, Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOVRussian SouvenirsDuo Praxedis

The harp and piano arrangements on this disc are all world premiere recordings. Mussorgsky‘s Scheherazade particularly benefits from the colour of the harp, taking the listener to the world of Sindbad and the princess.

PMR0069£9.00

BACH, LISZT, MOZART, NOVA, PUCCINI, SCHUMANN, SHOSTAKOVICH, MUSSORGSKYPiano Solo con sordinoPiano Duo with Martha Argerich

Jura Margulis, Martha Argerich

Alongside solo recordings of various composers on the modern concert grand piano sordino pedal, Jura Margulis now presents a life-long dream with this: a piano duo with Martha Argerich, live from Lugano in 2014, performing his own transcription for two pianos of Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain.

Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750)

Dialogue Cantatas for Soprano and BassJohanna Winkel, Thomas E. BauerChorus Musicus Cologne, Das Neue Orchester, Christoph Spering

After rave reviews of the solo cantatas in the press, Thomas E. Bauer, Johanna Winkel and Christoph Spering show us on this new production how magnificently the cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach can be interpreted.

OC453£7.00

Frédéric CHOPIN (1810-1849)

Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2Joseph-Maurice Weder, Berliner Camerata

Joseph-Maurice Weder, winner of the Swiss Ambassador’s Award 2013 in London, has recorded the piano concertos of Frédéric Chopin, in the down-sized guise of the piano sextet, with the Berliner Camerata. During the 19th century, the practice of transcribing orchestral works for smaller ensembles was widespread; in the age prior to recordings, this was an indispensable way of helping compositions achieve their breakthrough with the public.

OC1815£7.00

Johann MATTHESON (1681-1764)

Die wohlklingende Fingersprache (‘The Harmonious Language of the Fingers’)Andrea Benecke

On her first CD for OehmsClassics, Andrea Benecke occupies herself with a composer who was justifiably called a universal genius during his own time: Johann Mattheson. Mattheson composed no fewer than six operas, 33 oratorios, orchestral works and chamber music. For this recording, Andrea Benecke consciously chose a modern concert grand piano, for this instrument brings out the singing quality of Mattheson’s style.

OC1831£7.00

Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY, Bedřich SMETANAPiano Trios

Trio con Brio Copenhagen

The award-winning Trio con Brio Copenhagen releases an album of Tchaikovsky and Smetana Piano Trios, works which are widely acknowledged as milestones in the chamber music repertoire.

OC1837£7.00

ORC100051£9.00


SCHOENBERG, MAUERSBERGER, SCHÜTZ, HASSLER, GJEILO, MAHLERDe Angelis

Collegium Vocale Hannover, Florian Lohmann

Florian Lohmann and the Collegium Vocale Hannover’s decision to omit any kind of instrumental accompaniment to these ten musical gems from five centuries, allows one merely to listen and contemplate. The speechless mourning over cities destroyed during war can be heard as well as the worship of an enchanted world, in pieces spanning five centuries.

ROP6101£7.29

A Light is ComingEnsemble Octavians

From moving verses highlighting the Christmas festival, to bible texts set to music, to rather secular contemplations – the entire spectrum of Christmas vocal music is represented here. Atmospheric tones sound in the adaptation of the Praetorius arrangement of ‘Es ist ein Ros entsprungen’ by Jan Sandström, or the motet ‘Tu solus qui facis mirabilia’ by Josquin Desprez, and festive chords with Andreas Hammerschmidt’s famous ‘Machet die Tore weit’.

ROP6109£7.29

Johann ROSENMÜLLER (1617–1684)

Marienvesper: Vespro Della Beata Maria Vergine

Knabenchor Hannover, Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble, Barockorchester L’Arco, Jörg Breiding

Johann Rosenmüller grew up in Germany, but experienced the greatest part of his career as a composer in Italy, where he wrote the Vesper for the Blessed Virgin Mary. Cast with a large, impressive line-up Rosenmüller’s Vesper is directed by Jörg Breiding, with the Hanover Boys’ Choir, the Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble, and the Barockorchester L’Arco as well as renowned soloists.

ROP701920£13.87 (2 CDs)

Josef SUK, Antonín DVOŘÁK, Leos JANÁCEKLived and DreamedEnsemble Raro

The three great Czech composers Antonín Dvořák, Leos Janáček, and Josef Suk share an enthusiastic interest in old national traditions, among them the great treasure trove of fairy tales and the wealth of folk melodies and rhythms, evinced in the programme presented here: Lived and Dreamed.

SM222£9.00

Charles WESLEY (1707-1788)

Lift Up Your Voice: Hymns of Charles Wesley

J. Reilley Lewis, The Choral Arts Society of Washington Chamber Singers, Scott Tucker

Charles Wesley is among the most highly respected hymn writers of the Christian church, having written in excess of 6,000 hymns. His hymn writing was central to the reform movement within the eighteenth-century Church of England, a movement to which he and his brother, John, gave primary leadership.

DSL-92196£9.00

Leonid SABANEYEV (1881-1968)

Piano Music, Volume OneSonata, Op. 15, ‘In Memory of Skryabin’; Preludes and other miniatures

Jonathan Powell

For most of the past century the Russian composer Leonid Sabanayev was known principally as a writer, not least for his publications on his close friend Alexander Skryabin, who inspired much of his work. This is the first recording of his monumental and phenomenally difficult Piano Sonata, ‘In Memory of Skryabin’, cast in a single movement half an hour in length. It is prefaced by a number of characteristic miniatures.

TOCC 0308£9.00

Michael CSÁNYI-WILLSBudapest, 1944; Six A. E. Housman Songs; Elegy for Our Time

Ilona Domnich, Jacques Imbrailo, Nicky Spence, Chris McKay, Londamis Ensemble, Mark Eager

These orchestral songs by the English composer Michael Csányi-Wills (b. 1975) best known for his film music – all deal with the subject of loss. In Budapest, 1944 Csányi-Wills uses documentation from his own family history to shadow the fate of Hungary’s Jews under the Nazis. Mortality is an omnipresent theme in A. E. Housman’s Shropshire Lad poems, and Elegy for Our Time sets an anguished lament by Jessica d’Este, sparked by the death of her granddaughter in a car crash. Csányi-Wills responds to the stimulus of these dark texts with music that is hauntingly lyrical and elegiac.

TOCC 0329£9.00

Guy ROPARTZPiano MusicDans l’ombre de la montagne; Un Prélude Dominical et six pièces à danser pour chaque jour de la semaine; Choral varié; La chanson de Marguerite; First-Love

Stephanie McCallum

This recording contains two large-scale suites, the first is an evocation of the French mountains, the other the piano version of a frothy ballet written for Serge Lifar. They are completed by the Franckian Choral varié and two lighter pieces from early in Ropartz’s career.

TOCC 0326£9.00

Mieczysław WEINBERGOrchestral Music, Volume TwoSix Ballet Scenes, Op. 113; Symphony No. 22, Op. 154

Siberian Symphony Orchestra, Dmitry Vasilyev

This recording pairs a mature orchestral work, the Six Ballet Scenes, Op. 113 (1973), to which Weinberg gave the subtitle 'Choreographic Symphony', with the last symphony he composed, No. 22, leaving it in a piano score which has been orchestrated by Kirill Umansky. Both works receive their first recordings here.

TOCC 0313£9.00


Jean SIBELIUSSeven Symphonies

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu

In the month of Jean Sibelius’ 150th birthday, this DVD edition offers the live recordings of the composer’s seven symphonies by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in the new Helsinki Music Centre under the direction of Hannu Lintu. Each symphony is preceded by a documentary and an introduction, giving a new and modern perspective to the legendary Finnish composer and his symphonies. Bonus features include a short film series Sort Of Sibelius! narrated by Kaija Saariaho, and a detailed book about Sibelius’ life and work.

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Kirov Classics: The Kirov Ballet St. Petersburg Includes a CD with the Kirov Classics Soundtrack

Chopiniana; Petrushka; Barber’s Adagio; Le Corsaire; The Fairy Doll; Markitenka; Paquita

Altynai Asylmuratova, Konstantin Zaklinsky, Sergei Vikharev, Yelena Yevteeva, Eldar Aliev, Lyubov Kunakova, Farukh Ruzimatov, Larissa Lezhnina, Yelena Pankova Yulia Makhalina, Igor ZelenskyOrchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Victor A. Fedotov

This first-ever studio recording of the world-famous Kirov Ballet, made by the award-winning director Thomas Grimm at the Danmarks Radio Århus Dance Studio, showcases classic and contemporary highlights from their repertoire.

101798£17.01 (DVD)

101799£20.41 (Blu-ray)

Jardi TancatWith a documentary by Jellie Dekker

Nederlands Dans Theater, Nacho Duato

Nacho Duato is a dancer and choreographer of international stature. Jardi Tancat, or ‘The Closed Garden’, is based on the lyrics of centuries-old Catalan folk songs, set to music and sung by the Spanish singer Maria del Mar Bonnet. A ballet full of strength, poetry and beauty, the work is danced by three couples who continue to sow, plant, reap and thresh in proud defiance of their barren surroundings, refusing to accept defeat.

109135£10.40 (DVD)

109136£10.40 (Blu-ray)

Johann STRAUSSDame Joan Sutherland’s Farewell Gala: Die FledermausOperetta in three acts. Sung in English.

Dame Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, The Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Richard Bonynge

This special performance of Die Fledermaus was Dame Joan Sutherland’s farewell gala from the Royal Opera House after singing on the London stage for almost 40 years. In this gala, she sings in Act II with her two special colleagues and friends Luciano Pavarotti and Marilyn Horne.

109161£13.61 (DVD)

109162£10.40 (Blu-ray)

MOZART, CHOPIN, SCHUMANN, POULENC, BEETHOVEN, SCHUBERTMaria João Pires: Portrait of a pianistA Film by Werner Zeindler

Maria João Pires

The Portuguese pianist’s return to the concert platform in the mid-1980s, after a break due to ill health, was a triumph. This programme shows her pursuing her professional career with renewed vigour and talking with great frankness and intensity about her life and work. 109164

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101796£44.00 (5 DVDs)

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Ivo POGORELICHA Film by Dan Featherstone

In this documentary from 1983, Pogorelich is seen in the intimacy of his home – a baronial seat in Scotland with two lochs – learning and rehearsing Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit. He talks about his life and career, and his wife and teacher Aliza Kezeradze gives insight into her life with the provocative genius. The film includes footage of the controversial competition in Warsaw, which first brought him international attention.

109165£10.40 (DVD)

Hector BERLIOZSymphonie FantastiqueRecorded at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, 1989

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink

In this live recording from the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Bernard Haitink conducts his Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in a performance of Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique. The detailed literary programme portrays a lover pursuing his beloved through bouts of opium-smoking, his hallucinations ever more curious, until she becomes a malign witch on Walpurgis Night, dancing on the grave of his love.

109166£10.40 (DVD)

109167£10.40 (Blu-ray)

Ludwig van BEETHOVENPiano Sonatas Vol. 1 Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2/1; Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 14/2; Sonata No. 13 in E flat major, ‘Sonata quasi una fantasia’, Op. 27/1; Sonata No. 17 in D minor, ‘The Tempest’, Op. 31/2; Sonata No. 18 in E flat major, Op. 31/3; Sonata No. 5 in C minor, Op. 10/1; Sonata No. 12 in A flat major, Op. 26; Sonata No. 22 in F major, Op. 54; Sonata No. 4 in E flat major, Op. 7; Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, ‘Moonlight’, Op. 27/2

Rudolf Buchbinder

Beethoven’s opus of 32 piano sonatas, known as ‘the New Testament of piano music’, is a landmark in piano literature. Spanning Beethoven’s entire life, the sonatas reflect his whole development as a human being and a musician, moving from one century into the next, from one epoch in music in to another. Now, for the first time in its history the complete cycle was performed at the Salzburg Festival. For this challenge the Festival asked no less than the world-renowned and influential Beethoven expert and pianist Rudolf Buchbinder.

734108£20.41 (2 DVDs)

734204£20.41 (Blu-ray)

Carl Maria von WEBERDer Freischütz Staged by Axel Köhler; Recorded at the Semperoper, Dresden in 2015

Adrian Eröd, Albert Dohmen, Sara Jakubiak, Christina Landshamer, Georg Zeppenfeld, Michael König, Andreas Bauer, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden, Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann

Axel Köhler’s production of Der Freischütz at the Dresden State Opera was described by Die Presse as ‘a minor miracle in Dresden’. In the words of the Salzburger Nachrichten, Köhler ‘scored a bullseye’ with his sombre and satanic interpretation of Weber’s romantic opera about love, temptation, souls sold to the Devil, obsession and faith. According to the Financial Times, Christian Thielemann and the Dresden Staatskapelle conjured up a sense of ‘mortal terror from the orchestra pit. […] Thielemann is in command of every detail. That makes for utterly gripping listening. […] Michael König’s sullen Max has a gloriously free upper register and heroic weight; Sara Jakubiak makes a sweet-toned, melancholic Agathe’.

733108£23.42 (2 DVDs)

733204£20.41 (Blu-ray)

Johann Sebastian BACHChristmas Oratorio A Ballet by John Neumeier; Recorded at the Hamburg State Opera in 2014

Julien Prégardien, Melissa Petit, Katja Pieweck, Manuel Günther, Wilhelm Schwinghammer, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Allessandri de Marchi

‘Rejoice, exult’ – John Neumeier turns Bach’s Christmas Oratorio into an experience that confronts us all with the most basic questions of hope, faith, doubt and self-sacrifice: ‘My choreography is not a religious undertaking. We perform to Bach’s music, for a few hours, unifying individuals of many different cultural and religious backgrounds. For me, the basic human values expressed through the choreography are always the most important thing. Therefore, in my ballet, Mary is known simply as ‘the Mother’ and Joseph as ‘her Husband’’. Head of Hamburg Ballet, American-born John Neumeier´s celebrated ballet of Bach´s complete Christmas Oratorio is now available on DVD and Blu-ray for the first time.

732708£20.41 (2 DVDs)

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Teatro alla Scala The Golden Years Vol. 3Enzo Biagi was one of Italy’s most famous and respected journalists. His love of the prestigious Milanese venue inspired the programmes he made during the period 1981-82, which we are now presenting on DVD. Documenting the La Scala productions from those years, Biagi attended rehearsals and interviewed the conductors, singers and directors of the time. That documentary series, originally produced on 16 mm film, has now been restored and made available to a wider public by Dynamic. This final DVD of the series is dedicated to La Scala’s 1981 tour of Japan. Biagi talks with Claudio Abbado about the role of the conductor, his colleagues, and the rivalry with Riccardo Muti. There is behind-the-scenes footage of Verdi’s Otello, with Placido Domingo in the title role, and an in-depth discussion with Domingo covering: his debut at La Scala, his difficult beginnings and his future projects. Also featured is an interview with baritone Piero Cappuccilli, a conversation with Mirella Freni: her debut, her success, her colleagues and her sources of inspiration, and footage of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, with Piero Cappuccilli, Mirella Freni, and Nicolai Ghiaurov.

37730£15.65 (DVD)

Giacomo PUCCINI (1858-1924)

TurandotStaged by Giuliano Montaldo; Recorded in December, 2012 at the Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa

Daniela Dess, Massimo La Guardia, Ramaz Chikviladze, Mario Malagnini, Roberta Canzian, Francesco Verna, Enrico Salsi, Manuel Pierattelli, Fabrizio Beggi, Pasquale Graziano, Annarita Cecchini, Simona Pasino, Orchestra, Chorus and Children’s Choir of the Teatro Carlo Felice, Donato Renzetti

Turandot is Giacomo Puccini’s tenth and last opera. He spent almost four years writing it from 1921-1924; in fact, just days before his death on 29th November 1924, Puccini was still working on it. The opera was left incomplete and an ending was written, on Arturo Toscanini’s suggestion, by the composer Franco Alfano (1876-1954). From a musical point of view, Turandot is the most modern and innovative of Puccini’s operas, encapsulating the hallmarks of Puccini’s style. His extraordinary orchestration skills are applied here with unprecedented care. The use of large instrumental forces translates into new tone-colour effects which, together with this production’s stunning sets and sumptuous costumes, confirms Turandot as one of Puccini’s most powerful and original operas.

33764£15.65 (DVD)

55764£20.41 (Blu-ray)

Johannes BRAHMSA Flight through the Orchestra

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Tugan Sokhiev

This version of Brahms’ Second Symphony has been filmed in one long, continuous shot in each movement with the camera capturing the perspective of each musician and instrument.

2061178£12.25 (DVD)

WEBER, WAGNER, STRAUSS, SCHUMANN, BRUCKNER, SMETANA, DVOŘÁK, BEETHOVENIn Rehearsal & Performance

Georg Solti, Carlos Kleiber, Erich Leinsdorf, Sergiu Celibidache, Václav Neumann, Ferenc Fricsay, Carlo Maria Giulini, Karl Böhm

Experience the greatest conductors of the past century in this extensive collection of carefully selected rehearsals and performances. More than 13 hours of standard DVD quality with non-compromised audio on one Blu-ray Disc.

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Songs of FreedomMeasha Brueggergosman

Join Canadian opera singer Measha Brueggergosman on a personal journey and historical quest as she performs an intensely powerful selection of spirituals: music that emerged from Africa out of the slave trade to America.

2061148£12.25 (DVD)

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