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allegro Classical News Contents The Sixteen performs Coronation Anthems Transfigured Beethoven by Petronel Malan Michael Rabin Collection Vol. 2

p. 9 p. 33 p. 37

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Urtext Digital Classics

Jessica Rivera

Romantic Music for Soprano, Clarinet and Piano Cat # URT 158 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Double Digipak; Box Lot 20 Not Available In Canada

Jessica Rivera: soprano Eleanor Weingartner: clarinet L. Mark Carver: piano SCHUBERT: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen • Ian KROUSE: Cantar de los Cantares • GOLIJOV: Eucaristia & Lua descolorida, from La Pasión según San Marcos • SPOHR: Sechs deutsche Lieder, Op. 103 • Antonio SALAZAR: Tres Canciones Mexicanas “Jessica Rivera pours out gleaming sound.” — Boston Globe “A gorgeous high soprano.” — Los Angeles Times Hailed by the New York Times as a “vocally luminous young soprano,” Jessica Rivera is quickly establishing herself as one of the most creatively inspired vocal artists of her generation. Fresh from her Metropolitan role in Doctor Atomic, Rivera’s stunning debut album secures her place in the upper echelon of vocal stars.

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CRITICS RAVE ABOUT THESE

Cat # HNS SACD 98507 Price Code: 2S (SRP $37.99)

“Helmuth Rilling, at least on British shores (where we fancy that we know exactly how this composer should be performed!) doesn’t have any great reputation for conducting Britten, but here turns in a War Requiem of immense impact. Just listen to the Dies irae and there you have it—the scale is not of strings and drums, but cannons and screams. The shock of war pounds the listener with every bar.” — Gramophone Editor’s Choice, November 2008

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“The award-winning Atrium Quartet find a fascinating range of moods in Shostakovich’s Fifth String Quartet, not least a sense of fun that threatens to spiral into something far more sinister. The musical emotions remain mixed right to the end, in a performance as thought provoking as it is involving … a disc to have.” — Gramophone Editor’s Choice, November 2008 Cat # ZIG 80702 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Not Available In Canada

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Cat # FGL 539 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99)

“[Fey’s] leadership of the Heidelberger Sinfoniker and collaboration with hänssler CLASSIC not only keeps listeners at the edge of their seats throughout each album, but leaves them craving the release of the next installment. The orchestra’s sound—produced by modern strings and winds with period brass and timpani—is utterly scintillating … Fey’s decision to use period instruments here is a brilliant one. Fey’s vision of Haydn is one of unabashed energy and vitality, and all of his musical decisions—from dynamics to tempo choice—are made with Haydn’s original intentions in mind … Listeners can hopefully look forward to volumes 10 and beyond in the very near future.”

— All Music Guide (HHHHH performance/HHHHH sound) “Musica Viva’s performances are dedicated, lively, spirited, and polished, and the recording quality is terrific. Fuga Libera’s Alexander Alyabiev: The Magic Drum Orchestral & Instrumental Music fills in an essential—and heretofore, missing—piece of the puzzle regarding nineteenth-century Russian orchestral music. Those who love Tchaikovsky’s ballet music will be floored

by Alyabiev’s anticipation of it nearly twenty years before Tchaikovsky was born.” — All Music Guide (HHHHH performance/HHHHH sound)

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“For the model of a record label that invariably produces discs—by which I mean packaging included—of exceptional quality, look no further than Zig-Zag Territoires. The sense of care extends from the nearly always-polished musical performances to beautifully designed and intelligently put-together booklets and cover art. This Tartini is a winner in all respects … Taking Tartini at his word, a dazzling display from the Swiss violinist.” — Gramophone Editor’s Choice, Awards Issue

ALLEGRO CLASSICAL TITLES! “This is a sensitive reading of Die schöne Müllerin demonstrating complete integration with the material, in addition to embracing a generally more mainstream kind of performance idiom than the earlier recording. Challenge Classics’ Die schöne Müllerin with Christoph Prégardien and Michael Gees is a recording worthy of taking pride of place on the shelf alongside such ‘classic’ versions as those by Richard Crooks, Aksel Schiøtz, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and is in considerably better recorded sound than any of them.” — All Music Guide (HHHHH performance/HHHHH sound)

Cat # CHR SACD 72292 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Not Available In Canada

Three weeks on the Classical BILLBOARD charts!

“Rachel Barton Pine really may be the most charismatic, the most virtuosic, and the most compelling American violinist of her generation.”

— All Music Guide “A greatly gifted young violinist.” — New York Times

Cat # CED 106 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Not Available In Canada

“So much of Bax’s music depends on sheer sonic allure to make its best impression, and if you want to hear his special magic operating at full force, then this disc is the place to start.” — ClassicsToday (10 performance/10 sound!)

Cat # LYR 233 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Not Available In Canada

“Domenico Scarlatti’s Stabat Mater has received several decent recordings—nearly all of which appear on programs with works by other composers—but the rest of this all-Scarlatti disc fills gaps in the catalog that are important more than just for musicological reasons … The Sixteen is in top form—just listen to the last minute or so of the Te Deum—and Scarlatti often surprises with an unusually clever fugal idea or flashy harmonic sequence (again, the ending of the Te Deum).” — ClassicsToday (10 performance/10 sound!)

Cat # CRO 16003 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Not Available In Canada

“As it is, Goldenweiser’s music is completely unknown, but certainly ripe for rediscovery. Powell makes an excellent case for it; his playing is clean and respectful, generously expressive in the more romantically styled pieces, yet lithe, tart, and succinct in the Contrapuntal Sketches.

Hopefully, this series will go far beyond the Vol. 1 indicated here; with the appetite whipped up with the highly engaging and illuminating statement made by Goldenweiser’s music, it makes one hungry for the full course.” — All Music Guide (HHHHH performance/HHHHH sound)

Cat # TOC 44 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Not Available In Canada

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Alpha

Release Date: February 10, 2009

Robert SCHUMANN Piano Works (2 CDs)

Eric Le Sage, Frank Braley: pianos/François Salque, Victor Julien-Laferrière: cellos/ Bruno Schneider: French horn SCHUMANN: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 • Kreisleriana, Op. 16 • Waldscenen, Op. 82 • Vier Fugen, Op. 72 • Andante et Variations, Op. 46 • 6 Impromptus, Op. 66, “Bilder aus Osten” • 6 Études en forme de canon, Op. 56 The sixth volume in a series of complete works offers a particularly fascinating and original selection of Schumann. Volume after volume, critics have continued to support Eric Le Sage’s work. Here, like-minded musicians accompany him, including the unbelievable Frank Braley.

Cat # APH 135 Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) Double Digipak; Box Lot 15 Not Available In Canada

Les Witches Nobody’s Jig

Les Witches/Odile Edouard: violin/Claire Michon: flutes/Pascale Boquet: lute, guitar/ Sylvie Moquet: viola da gamba/Freddy Eichelberger: harpsichord, cittern ANON: Selections from Mr. Playford’s English Dancing Master (1651 et seq.)

From 1651, the London printer John Playford started the publication of songbooks containing melodies to accompany the most popular choreographic display in the British Isles, the Contredance (country dance). He gave these books the generic title of The English Dancing Master. The diabolical jigs and melancholy songs evoke the universe of the Royal Court as well as that of the urban taverns. Package includes a complete Alpha catalog in color.

Cat # APH 909 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Digipak: Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

François COUPERIN

Pièces de clavecin Books I & II (2 CDs) Frédérick Haas: harpsichord COUPERIN: Selections from Pièces de clavecin Books I (Ordres 1 & 5) & II (Ordres 2, 6, 7 & 8) Couperin is an absolute master in grandeur without grandiloquence, tenderness avoiding soppiness, and lightness without affectation. Nervousness, vivacity, and vigor at their best are to be found in his work. His music is sparkling and proud, laden with harsh and powerful emotions. It is this rarely heard Couperin that Frédérick Haas brings to our ears through a selection of forceful pieces.

Cat # APH 136 Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) Double Digipak; Box Lot 15 Not Available In Canada

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Alpha

Henry PURCELL Dido & Aeneas

Cat # APH 140 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

Simone Kermes, Dimitris Tiliakos, Deborah York, Margarita Mezentseva, Sofia Fomina, Oleg Ryabets, Yana Mamonova, Elena Kondratova, Valeria Safonova, Alexandre Zverev: vocal soloists New Siberian Singers Vyacheslav Podyelsky: conductor MusicAeterna Teodor Currentzis: conductor PURCELL: Dido & Aeneas (complete opera) The myth of Dido has no doubt been one of the most prolific in epics, drama, and musical theatre. Teodor Currentzis, a young rising star on the international scene (including a wonderful success in 2008 at OpĂŠra Bastille), took hold of this musical monument to offer us a version where, for once, drama prevails.

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Fuga Libera

Release Date: February 10, 2009

Richard STRAUSS

Burleske/Ein Heldenleben Plamena Mangova: piano/Alexei Moshkov: violin/Ivo Hadermann: French horn/National Orchestra of Belgium/Walter Weller: conductor R. STRAUSS: Burleske for piano and orchestra • Ein Heldenleben Plamena Mangova performs a stunning and definitive interpretation of Richard Strauss’ Burleske for piano and orchestra in D Minor.

Cat # FGL 546 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

Ricercar La Caccia

The Walsingham Consort Books La Caccia/Patrick Denecker: flutes, conductor/Susan Hamilton: soprano Selections from The Walsingham Consort Books (22 pieces by Bachiler, E. Johnson, Allison, Harding, Holborne, Reade, Wilbye, Nicholson, Dowland & Anonymous) After exploring Morley’s First Book of Consort Lessons, La Caccia now turns to one of the principal manuscript sources of music for the ensemble that was so much appreciated in England at the beginning of the 17th century. Pieces and arrangements by Richard Allison and Daniel Bachiler form the greater proportion of the music found in the manuscript, and the musicians of La Caccia have also added a few vocal pieces to the program.

Cat # RCE 275 Price Code: R Digipak; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

Syntagma Amici

Fagotto, Basson, Dulcian, Curtal?

Syntagma Amici/Elsa Frank, Francis Mercet, Denis Raisin-Dadre: bassoons/Freddy Eichelberger: harpsichord, organ/Jérémie Papasergio: bassoon, conductor 20 pieces for bassoon by Praetorius, Banchieri, Selma y Salaverde, Verdelot, Mainerio, Bassano, Glamonte, Susato, Moderne, Parabosco, Du Caurroy, Böddecker, Selle, Ortiz & Bertoli

Cat # RCE 273 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

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Of all the instruments developed during the Renaissance, the bassoon undoubtedly possesses the most curious history. Associated with music in the open air, it was also praised for the sweetness of its sound. The musicians of Syntagma Amici explore its use as a family of instruments in polyphonic repertoire of the 16th century as well as in the first virtuoso pieces that were dedicated to it at the beginning of the 17th century.

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Release Date: February 10, 2009

G.F. HANDEL

Coronation Anthems Cat # CRO 16066 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

The Sixteen Harry Christophers: conductor HANDEL: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba • Coronation Anthem IV “My heart is inditing” • Organ Concerto in F, Op. 4, No. 4 • Coronation Anthem I “Zadok the priest” • Coronation Anthem III “The King shall rejoice” • Overture to Jephtha • Coronation Anthem II “Let thy hand be strengthened” • “Worthy is the lamb” & “Amen” from Messiah “The Sixteen are in fine form in a repertory that sees them at their most confident.” — Gramophone Harry Christophers and The Sixteen add a brand new recording of Handel’s Coronation Anthems to their stunning catalog of Handel discs, released for the 250th anniversary of Handel’s death. Handel’s celebrated anthems are among his best-loved works, written in 1727 for the Coronation of the new monarch, King George II. The Coronation Anthems have delighted audiences ever since and appear in all their glory on this recording, interspersed with a selection of Handel favorites. also available HANDEL Messiah Special Edition (2 CDs) Cat # CRO 16062 Price Code: 2N Not Available In Canada

HANDEL Samson (3 CDs) Cat # CRO 16008 Price Code: 3N Not Available In Canada

HANDEL Esther (2 CDs) Cat # CRO 16019 Price Code: 2N Not Available In Canada

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LML Music

Release Date: February 10, 2009

Diana Tash In Recital

Cat # LML 234 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

Diana Tash: mezzo-soprano Armen Guzelimian: piano MOZART: An Chloë • Als Luise die Briefe • Dans un bois • Vado, ma dove • ROSSINI: La Pastorella • The Willow Song • Canzonetta Spagnuola • MEYERBEER: Noble Seigneurs, salut! • POULENC: Air Romantique • C • Paganini • Fleurs • Les chemins de l’amour • RESPIGHI: Notte • Piccola mano bianco • O falce di luna • Pioggia • OBRADORS: Al Amor • Del Cabello más sutil • El Vito • NIN: Granadina • TURINA: Farucca: Triptico “A radiant Ariane.” — Los Angeles Times “Diana Tash skillfully negotiated the combination of angular melody and Sprechstimme.” — New York Times A recital featuring German lied, French chanson, Italian art song, Spanish song, and Americana—all on one disc!

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Paradizo

Marin MARAIS & M. de SAINTE-COLOMBE Pièces de viole [CD+DVD] Cat # PDZ 6 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Double Digipak; Box Lot 18 Not Available In Canada

Josh Cheatham, Julien Léonard: viola da gambas Skip Sempé: harpsichord MARAIS: Sel. from Pièces de viole, Books I, II & V • SAINTE-COLOMBE: Concert XLVIII • HOTTETERRE: Rondeau “Le Plaintif ” • TELEMANN: Paris Quartet (exc.)

In his first solo recording, Josh Cheatham demonstrates that a new generation of performers on the viola da gamba is ready to flourish.

Launching directly into virtuoso repertoire of Marais and Sainte-Colombe, Cheatham, Julien Léonard, and Skip Sempé possess a mastery and panache that allows them to convey the singular warmth of the viola da gamba sound with uncommon expressivity. Free bonus DVD included, with additional pieces by Marais, Hotteterre, and Telemann. Playable in all regions. Approx run time 20 min.

also available Capriccio Stravagante Consort Music & Airs for flute Cat # PDZ 1 Price Code: R Not Available In Canada

TELEMANN Overture for Recorded/Fantasias Cat # PDZ 2 Price Code: R Not Available In Canada

RAMEAU La Pantomine [CD+DVD] Cat # PDZ 5 Price Code: R Not Available In Canada

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GB Records

Release Date: February 10, 2009 Roger Heaton: clarinet, bass clarinet, bass drum, tam tam Dave Smith: tenor horn, marimba, tam tam, vibraphone Gavin Bryars: double bass, Korg M1, bowed vibes, tubular bells Albert Chansault: clarinet Joël Becot: baritone Michel Morin: bass TRAD: (Outside courtyard) Espace de la cour: Le defile • (Vestibule stairway next to 001) Cage du grand escalier • (Room 107) Salon d’Arlequin (Salon des Emigrés) • (Room 114) Galerie des peintures • (Room 116) Salle Haute – Tour des Ondes (Salle de la levitation) • (Room 021) Cuisine (Salle des anamorphoses) • VILLAGE BAND: (Room 001) Vestibule: “Le Calme” • BRYARS: (Room 101) Salle de bal (Salle de guerriers) • (Room 002/3) Salle des Faïences/ Salon Gris (Salon de la peinture ultime)

Gavin BRYARS A Listening Room

Cat # GVB 8 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

This “listening room” is an installation that takes the form of an acoustic map of the Chateau d’Oiron in France. Specific music was written in order to establish the architectural acoustic of each space and to animate the spaces in which the music was played. This was recorded ambisonically, and a listening room was established in the chateau where the listener can hear the natural acoustic of each source room. This room is, therefore, both a map of the space and a space in itself. Along with Gavin Bryars himself, this recording features two members of his ensemble as well as his sound designer and engineer. In addition, he uses members of the village band (La Fanfare d’Oiron), accepting the eccentricities of their performance and adding three players to the ensemble for two rooms. This is a unique recording of that installation, which has played in the chateau since 1993 and has been exhibited at the 2006 Alvar Aalto Architecture Symposium and in the Musée d’Angers in France.

Jennifer Thiessen, Jill Van Gee: violas Elisabeth Giroux: cello Njo Kong Kie: piano BRYARS/LANG: Amjad (complete ballet) Gavin Bryars has a long association with dance (including Biped, his music for Merce Cunningham). Amjad, his second work with Edouard Lock’s La La La Human Steps, takes those moments that one might call “iconic” in Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty. The ballet has toured the world since its 2007 premiere, and continues to be performed to great critical acclaim. The performers on this recording have been with the work since its inception. The sequence of pieces here is the order in which they appear in the ballet itself.

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Gavin BRYARS

BRYARS Biped Cat # GVB 2 Price Code: R

Amjad

Cat # GVB 10 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

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BRYARS Lockerbie Memorial Concert Cat # GVB 3 Price Code: R Not Available In Canada

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Winter & Winter

Vittorio Ghielmi: viola da gamba Il Suonar Parlante Fahmi Alqhai, Cristiano Contadin, Rodney Prada: viola da gambas PURCELL: Fantazias of Four Parts Il Suonar Parlante, directed by Vittorio Ghielmi, revives well-known repertoire in a new and exciting adaptation for four violas. When the Sonatas of III Parts were published in 1683, Henry Purcell presented an epoch-making cycle that was the first of its kind in England. Within one year of publishing, a second edition had to be printed. The exact history of the pieces’ origins, whose manuscript is preserved in the British Library, is unknown.

Henry PURCELL

Fantazias of Four Parts Cat # WTR 134 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Smartpak; Box Lot 20 Not Available In Canada

Theo Bleckmann: voice, effects Nate Wood: drums Kaveh Rastegar: bass, effects Adam Benjamin: Fender Rhodes, piano, effects Shane Endsley: trumpet, effects Ben Wendel: tenor sax, melodica, bassoon, effects IVES: Songs My Mother Taught Me • Feldeinsamkeit/In Summer Fields • At The River • The Cage • Weil’ Auf Mir/Eyes So Dark • Serenity • In The Mornin’ • The Housatonic At Stockbridge • The See’r • The New River • Like A Sick Eagle • Waltz Charles Ives goes jazz! In Summer 2007, singer Theo Bleckmann and postmodern creative music group Kneebody collaborated to create a new song cycle based on compositions by one of the very first American composers. Kent Nagano invited that project to the Munich Opera Festival to debut the live performance. This recording has been adapted, arranged, and completely re-conceptualized to involve elements of jazz, electronica, and more.

Charles IVES Twelve Songs

Cat # WTR 147 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Smartpak; Box Lot 20 Not Available In Canada

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Royal Philharmonic Masterworks

Release Date: February 10, 2009

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Mark Ermler: conductor BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68 “Pastoral” • Egmont Overture Composers usually know what they want, but they can make a meal of convincing other people about it. There is a distinctly modern ring to the story of Beethoven’s benefit concert of 1808, when he insisted on giving the Viennese public four hours of mostly new music. The performances were variable, to say the least: one of them broke down, having already had its first section improvised on the piano by the composer. With romantic hindsight we might long to have been there, because the concert included first performances of the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies and the Choral Fantasy, as well as the first public performances in Vienna of the Fourth Piano Concerto and parts of the Mass in C. Perhaps instead, we should use our hindsight to marvel that the music did not disappear into the obscurity that would absorb most pieces introduced in such conditions.

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6

Cat # RPM 28010 Price Code: K (SRP $5.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Douglas Bostock: conductor ˇ DVORÁK: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 & 72 (sel.)

Following the success of Brahms’Hungarian Dances, Dvoˇrák was persuaded by his publisher Simrock to compose a set of Slavonic Dances in a similar mold, to which the composer complied in 1878 with a set of Eight Pieces for Piano Duet, Opus 42. It seems clear that Dvoˇrák always intended these for orchestra, and he began to orchestrate them before the set was complete.

They were an immediate success in both piano and orchestral formats, and were followed in 1887 by a second set of eight, published as Opus 72. The sixteen dances are infused with the spirit of Slavonic folk music, although they are in every sense original works. Only one of the dances makes use of known folk material (Opus 72 No. 5), which even then is transformed into something wholly individual in the crucible of the composer’s creativity.

ˇ Antonín DVORÁK Slavonic Dances

Cat # RPM 28250 Price Code: K (SRP $5.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

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Royal Philharmonic Masterworks

Edvard GRIEG Piano Concerto

Cat # RPM 28140 Price Code: K (SRP $5.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

Ronan O’Hora: piano Royal Philharmonic Orchestra James Judd: conductor GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 • Lyric Pieces (sel.)

The piano concerto was completed in the summer of 1868, while Grieg was on holiday in Denmark. The 25-year-old composer was staying near Copenhagen, and had deliberately set time aside for composition work. By now he had become interested in the folk music of Norway, and his music was beginning to show more nationalist romanticism and fewer traces of the influence of Schumann.

Nonetheless, when he came to plan the concerto, it was Schumann’s A Minor Piano Concerto of 1841 that provided the structural basis for his own lyrical masterpiece, and this has led critics to deride the work as a weak imitation of the earlier concerto. However, generations of pianists and music lovers have decided otherwise.

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Royal Philharmonic Masterworks

Release Date: February 10, 2009

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Carl Davis: conductor Themes from 2001: A Space Odyssey • Doctor Zhivago • The Godfather, Part I • Brief Encounter • Romeo and Juliet • Love Story • Death in Venice • Rich and Famous • Gone with the Wind • Platoon • The Elephant Man • Lawrence of Arabia The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra kicks up its heels with these gripping renditions of orchestral works from the movies.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Cinema Classics

Cat # RPM 28270 Price Code: K (SRP $5.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra James Judd: conductor BRAHMS: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73 • Academic Festival Overture There is a story that the composer Robert Schumann, on being asked to explain a piece of music he had just performed, simply sat down and played it again.

The rich complexity and subtlety of Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 (1877) are such that mere words can only give the vaguest hint as to the magnificent, overpowering music it contains.

Johannes BRAHMS Symphony No. 2

Cat # RPM 28500 Price Code: K (SRP $5.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

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Royal Philharmonic Masterworks

Release Date: February 10, 2009

Aaron COPLAND Appalachian Spring Cat # RPM 28410 Price Code: K (SRP $5.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Phillip Ellis: conductor COPLAND: Appalachian Spring • Fanfare for the Common Man • Billy the Kid Suite • El Salón México • Rodeo: Hoe-Down On one of his successful visits to America, Czech composer Antonín Dvoˇrák published a fascinating article on the importance of folk music for contemporary composers. He felt that American composers were neglecting a valuable source of exciting and beautiful musical material, and urged them to examine the music of the black communities and the Native American Indians. Succeeding generations of indigenous American composers were quick to follow his example, and the exploration of folk traditions became an important element in their music. Copland’s brilliant work, performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, reflects this tradition.

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KAIROS

Release Date: February 10, 2009

Mauricio SOTELO Wall of Light

Trilok Gurtu: tabla, percussion/Juan Manuel Cañizares: flamenco guitar/Marcus Weiss: saxophone/Miquel Bernat: percussion/musikFabrik/Stefan Asbury, Brad Lubman, Mauricio Sotelo: conductors SOTELO: Wall of Light–Music for Sean Scully

Cat # KRO 12832 Price Code: T (SRP $16.99) Digipak; Box Lot 25

At the interface between contemporary music and flamenco, Sotelo has progressed to become one of the leading European artists of his generation. Possessed by curiosity about sounds—which haunted him even in his dreams—he absorbed sonic impressions from the world around him. There was no piano at home, but the guitar was omnipresent: pop music, Jimi Hendrix, experimental jazz, and above all flamenco and cante jondo, the tragic and highly emotional vocal music of the oppressed.

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Hector PARRA Wortschatten

ensemble recherche PARRA: Piano Trio No. 2 “Knotted Fields” • Impromptu for piano • Piano Trio No. 1 “Wortschatten” • L’Aube Assaillie for cello • Abîme–Antigone IV • String Trio

Cat # KRO 12822 Price Code: T (SRP $16.99) Digipak; Box Lot 25

Through his involvement with avant-garde physics, sculpture, and contemporary dance, as well as cooperation with instrumentalists who dedicate themselves with exceptional enthusiasm to the premiering of new musical works, Héctor Parra has spent the past few years developing an ever-sharper, more varied, and more polyphonic musical language.

His electronic processing and spatial use of instrumental sounds places listeners in a state of “high sonic energy” in which understanding of the space-time we find ourselves in at the moment of performance can be simultaneously questioned and enriched.

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José Maria SÁNCHEZ-VERDÚ Alqibla

Claudia Barainsky: soprano/Gabriel Suovanen: baritone/Joan-Enric Lluna: clarinet/ Banchetto Musicale Viole da Gamba/Junge Deutsche Philharmonie/Lothar Zagrosek: conductor/Suisse Romande Orchestra/Marek Janowski: conductor/National Orchestra of Spain/Miguel Harth-Bedoya: conductor SÁNCHEZ-VERDÚ: Alqibla • La rosa y el ruiseñor • Elogio del horizonte • Ahmar-aswad • Paisajes del placer y de la culpa

Cat # KRO 12782 Price Code: T (SRP $16.99) Digipak; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

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The five orchestral works on this CD communicate phenomenal colors and the intense sensuousness of mysterious formal progressions. Silence, shadows, and absence: it is above all the darker neighborhoods of the human soul that captivate Sánchez-Verdú’s interest. Exploring marginal realms that, in their beauty and refinement of tone, contain both the brilliant light of Spain’s south as well as utter darkness: this is the art of composer José M. Sánchez-Verdú.

Release Date: February 10, 2009

KAIROS

Georgette Dee: soprano Ensemble Modern, Soundforum Vienna: orchestra Flora & Olga Neuwirth: directors, actors Quaye Brothers: animation NEUWIRTH: The Long Rain • Canon of the Funny Faces • Durch Luft und Meer • Symphonie Diagonale • The Calligrapher • Miramondo Multiplo • Disenchanted Time • No More Secrets, No More Lies • Gefahr Bar The moving picture and all its artistic possibilities are dominant in Olga Neuwirth’s work.

Music for Films gives insight into Neuwirth’s projects from 1991 to now, exploring a broad variety of work from animated films to music project The Long Rain. Playable in all regions.

Approx run time 2 hrs, 53 min.

Olga NEUWIRTH

Music for Films (2 DVDs)

Cat # KRO 12772 Price Code: 2O (SRP $27.99) Softbox; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

Petra Hoffmann: soprano Johann Leutgeb: speaker Vokalensemble NOVA ensemble recherche Beat Furrer: conductor Zaha Hadid: stage design Reinhild Hoffmann: director, choreographer FURRER: Begehren (“Desire”) (complete opera) “Best world premiere of 2003.” — Opera World Beat Furrer’s opera Begehren was the opening stage production for Graz 2003, with stage design by famous London-based architect Zaha Hadid, and was very well received by national and international press. The opera takes the well-known Orpheus & Euridike theme and transfers it into a contemporary setting. Playable in all regions. Approx run time 1 hr, 46 min.

Beat FURRER Begehren

Cat # KRO 12792 Price Code: T (SRP $16.99) Softbox; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

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Zig-Zag Territoires

Release Date: February 10, 2009

Astor PIAZZOLLA Café 1930: Tangos

Ensemble Contraste/Arnaud Thorette: viola/Johan Farjot: piano/Geneviève Laurenceau: violin/Raphaël Merlin: cello/Johan Farjot: arrangements, piano, direction/ Magali Léger: soprano/Karine Deshayes: mezzo-soprano/Chœur de Paris-Sorbonne/ Denis Rouger: director/Raphaël Imbert: saxophone/André Ceccarelli: percussion PIAZZOLLA: Adios Nonino • Oblivion (2 versions) • Café 1930 • Contraste • La Misma Pena • Milonga del Angel • Inviemo Poteño • Tangata • Saint-Louis-en-l’Ile • IRADIER: La Paloma • GARDEL: El día que me quieras • RODRIGUEZ: La Cumparsita • SANDERS/ VEDANI: Adios Muchachos Cat # ZIG 90103 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

Tango is open to all influences: it was born on Buenos Aires sidewalks only to become a universal music in Paris, London, New York, and elsewhere. Here, Ensemble Contraste gives us original arrangements refined with colors and suave harmony.

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J.S. BACH

Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland Edna Stern: piano J.S. BACH: 12 Preludes & Fugues • 3 Chorales (tr. Busoni) Recently, Edna Stern presented an outstanding disc built on four interpretations of Bach’s Ciaccona with Amandine Beyer. This new record takes a similar path: the choice of three chorals transcribed by Busoni, and of 12 Preludes & Fugues, takes us for an exploration of Bach’s keyboard pieces beyond the specific environment of the piano.

Cat # ZIG 90104 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

Pierre Hamon Hypnos

Pierre Hamon: flutes/Vivabiancaluna Biffi: vieles/Michael Grébil: cistres/Carlo Rizzo: tambourines/John Wright: guimbarde Philippe SCHOELLER: Hypnos linea II & V • Pierre HAMON: Rituals I & II • Omaggio Kogui • MACHAUT: Dame je weil endurer • Douce Dame jolie • Mario LAVISTA: Ofrenda • TRAD: Dès le petit jour • Las Estrellas de los cielos • Al Leanezig Izabel • ANON: Bele doette • Comment qu’à moy montaine • Ghaetta Pierre Hamon presents medieval repertoire (Brittany, Guillaume Machaut), a Sefarad song, an Armenian melody, traditional Colombian themes, and contemporary pieces of Philippe Schoeller and Mario Lavista.

Cat # ZIG 90101 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

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Release Date: February 10, 2009

Nimbus Records

Martin Jones: piano CZERNY: Piano Sonatas Nos. 5, 6 8 & 9 • Nocturne in E-flat, Op. 647 “Taking in the entire piano output of a single composer in virtually one sitting has been an interesting experience, and under the eminently capable hands of Martin Jones the music is brought to life in a most colorful and immediate fashion. The recordings are set in the familiar resonance of the Wyastone Leys concert hall and are very good indeed.” — MusicWeb International [NIM 5818] First volume in a series of four that will be issued over the next 12 months.

A torchbearer at Beethoven’s funeral and the composer’s pupil, friend, and protégé, Carl Czerny is almost forgotten today except as the author of educational piano pieces and the author of a long-influential piano method.

But like his peers among Beethoven’s circle of friends—notably Ferdinand Ries and Ignaz Moscheles—Czerny carried on the torch of the late classical style into the age of Romanticism, and made a distinctive contribution through his own creative work. He was a gigantically prolific composer, and much of his huge output has remained unknown since his death. also available STRAVINSKY Music for Piano (2 CDs) Cat # NIM 5519 Price Code: 2E Not Available In Canada

Carl CZERNY

Piano Sonatas,Vol. 1 (2 CDs)

Cat # NIM 5832 Price Code: 2I (SRP $21.99) Double Slimline; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

Hansgeorg Schmeiser: flute Ingomar Rainer: harpsichord Othmar Müller: cello J.S. BACH: 6 Sonatas for flute & continuo, BWV 1030–1035 • Sonata in G minor, BWV 1020 • Partita in C minor, BWV 997 • Partita in A minor, BWV 1013 “A welcome addition to the Bach catalogue, and while being a very pleasant listen indeed, should also inject some added life into the flute fraternity.”

— MusicWeb International [NIM 5817] Hansgeorg Schmeiser is a Professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He makes regular guest appearances with the Vienna Philharmonic, and for many years has also been a member of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra as well a giving master classes throughout the world.

Ingomar Rainer is a harpsichordist, organist, ensemble leader, and conductor who has given concerts worldwide. Othmar Müller, cellist with the Artis Quartet, has performed worldwide in the largest music venues and the most prominent music festivals. also available J.S. BACH Sonatas for 2 flutes and continuo Cat # NIM 5817 Price Code: P Not Available In Canada

J.S. BACH

Sonatas for flute and continuo (2 CDs) Cat # NIM 5829 Price Code: 2I (SRP $21.99) Double Slimline; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

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Hallé

Release Date: February 10, 2009

Hallé Orchestra English Landscapes

Lyn Fletcher: violin/Hallé Orchestra & Choir/Sir Mark Elder: conductor VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending • Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 • BAX: Tintagel • ELGAR: As Torrents in Summer • IRELAND: The Hills • FINZI: The Fall of the Leaf–Elegy for Orchestra, Op. 20 • DELIUS: Summer Night on the River • On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring “Hallé leader Lyn Fletcher gives a technically flawless account of the solo part in The Lark Ascending.” — Gramophone Cat # HLE 7512 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

A collection of stunning music in which the composers have taken inspiration from their surrounding landscape, and from nature. Vaughan Williams’ hauntingly beautiful The Lark Ascending is one of his most enduringly popular works, with its title taken from a poem

by George Meredith. This serene romance may seem simple, but it is also of considerable originality, capturing the idyllic mood of pre-1914 England.

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Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies 5 & 10 (2 CDs)

Hallé Orchestra/Stanislav Skrowaczewski: conductor SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 • Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93 “There are many beautiful moments; the Hallé is a wonderful orchestra.” — MusicWeb International Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 is among the most frequently performed of 20th-century symphonies. He composed Symphony No. 5 after receiving much criticism in the press (on the instructions of Stalin). Many have described this piece as, “a Soviet artist’s reply to just criticism.”

Cat # HLE 7511 Price Code: 2P (SRP $31.99) Double Slimline; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

Edward ELGAR A Self Portrait

Jane Irwin: mezzo-soprano/Hallé Orchestra/Sir Mark Elder: conductor ELGAR: Overture Froissart, Op. 19 • Dream Children, Op. 69 • The Music Makers, Op. 69 • J.S. BACH (orch. Elgar): Fantasia & Fugue in C minor, BWV 537/Op. 86 “Beyond the delightful Froissart overture and two-movement Dream Children, the real treat is the arrangement of Bach, which does indeed show ‘how gorgeous [in Elgar’s words] Bach would have made it sound if he had our means.’” — The Guardian Mark Elder and Hallé continue their journey through Elgar’s work with this delightful CD. Froissart was Elgar’s first large-scale composition for full orchestra.

Cat # HLE 7509 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

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Release Date: February 10, 2009

Hallé

Anja Kampe: soprano Hallé Orchestra Sir Mark Elder: conductor WAGNER: Parsifal–Prelude to Act I & Good Friday Music from Act III • Der fliegende Holländer–Overture • Die Meistersinger–Preludes to Acts I & III • Tristan und Isolde–Prelude & Liebestod “Admirers of Hallé or Mark Elder or Wagner, shouldn’t hesitate. This is an excellent disc in splendid sound, with fine liner notes, sung texts included, and a very good soprano as an extra bonus.” — MusicWeb International This disc includes the essential orchestral works from Wagner operas. Soprano Anja Kampe, who specializes in Wagner roles, has come to international prominence in recent years with leading roles planned in all the major opera houses. She is an artist with a proven pedigree and an immense career ahead.

Richard WAGNER

Orchestral Highlights from the Operas Cat # HLE 7517 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

Hallé Orchestra Sir Mark Elder: conductor DEBUSSY: La Mer • 12 Piano Preludes (orch. Colin Matthews) “The pianissimo opening has an evocative sense of mystery. Elder’s control of phrase and shaping of line has the most subtle rubato and infinitely varied dynamic, always seeming spontaneous. The tension is high but there are moments of languor—the sunshine on the water glowing on the horns is magical, and the closing of the first section moves from sensuous feeling to grandeur.” — Gramophone Debussy completed the orchestration of La Mer in two years. This disc contains Colin Matthews’ imaginative orchestration of twelve of Debussy’s Piano Preludes.

Claude DEBUSSY

also available Colin Matthews Alphabicycle Order Cat # HLE 7515 Price Code: P Not Available In Canada

La Mer

Cat # HLE 7513 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

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Landor Records

Release Date: February 10, 2009 Chamber Domaine Thomas Kemp: violin, conductor GÓRECKI: Requiem für eine Polka for piano & 13 instruments, Op. 66 • Valentine Piece for solo flute & little bell, Op. 70 • Two Sacred Songs, Op. 30 • Toccata for Two Pianos, Op. 2 • Variations for violin & piano, Op. 4 • Four Preludes for piano, Op. 1 • Three Songs, Op. 3 • Concerto for 5 instruments & String Quartet, Op. 11 “The most innovative ensemble in Britain today.” — BBC Radio 3

Henryk GÓRECKI Life Journey

Cat # LND 287 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

This recording by leading British chamber ensemble Chamber Domaine celebrates the 75th birthday of one of the world’s most popular living composers. Górecki’s worldwide fame is largely due to the commercial success of his best known work, the 3rd Symphony, A Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.

A recording in 1992 by Dawn Upshaw and the London Sinfonietta sold in excess of a million copies worldwide, making it one of the most successful classical music recordings of all time and catapulting its veteran composer into the media spotlight. There is a wealth of beautiful music by Górecki that has rarely been heard. Chamber Domaine’s approach on this recording, which contains no less than seven world premieres, is to present an overview of his varied output from intimate pieces composed during his studies in the 1950s to large-scale ensemble works published after his commercial breakthrough in the 1990s. Chamber Domaine is at the cutting edge of music making in the 21st century. Its excellence and dynamism have received widespread acclaim in the United Kingdom and abroad.

INCLUDES WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS

Cold Blue Music Christopher Roberts, Mark Morton, James Bergman: double basses ROBERTS: Hornbills • Around the Hearth • Kon Burunemo • Flying • Mesto Front Cover Sticker: “A magnificent piece! There’s nothing like it … a truly original voice.”

— Bertram Turetzky “Roberts has arrived at a new American music by traversing the heart of Papua New Guinea … and the result is something unique.” — Michael J. Schumacher

Christopher ROBERTS Trios for Deep Voices Cat # CBM 30 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

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Beautiful and evocative new music for a trio of double basses—performed by three Juilliard-trained virtuosi. Trios for Deep Voices is a powerful, virtuosic five-movement work inspired by the composer’s life in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, where he lived among local tribes, studying their music and culture. Each movement directly reflects or describes Papuan sounds and atmospheres as translated through the double bass. Only recently returned to the States after years of living in China, composer Roberts is a most unusual “world” musician. Upon receiving his doctorate from Juilliard, he set off to the jungles of Papua New Guinea to study “music’s natural prosody.” Later, as a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan, he studied the qin, an ancient zither-like instrument. Cold Blue will release a recording of his solo qin pieces in Fall 2009.

Release Date: February 10, 2009

Reference Recordings

Baroque Nouveau Charles Sherman: harpsichord Stephen Schultz: baroque flute Anthony Martin: violin Josh Lee: viola da gamba RAMEAU: Pièces de clavecins en concerts–Concerts I–V Superb performances by soloists from the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, in RR’s legendary sonics. Features infectious, melodic music by a giant of the French Baroque and vital, authentic performances by four outstanding original-instrument specialists. Charles Sherman is recognized as one of the leading harpsichord soloists and continuo players in the country, called a “fluent virtuoso” by the Los Angeles Times. also available VIVALDI Vivaldi For Diverse Instruments Cat # REF 77 Price Code: R Not Available In Canada

Tafelmusik/Helicon Ensemble Baroque Favorites (2 CDs) Cat # REF 2101 Price Code: 2G Not Available In Canada

Jean-Philippe RAMEAU

Pièces de clavecins en concerts Cat # REF 118 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Jewel Case with O-Card; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

Summit Records Dorian Wind Quintet John Perras, Karl Kraber, Elizabeth Mann, Gretchen Pusch: flutes David Perkett, Charles Kuskin, Gerard Reuter: oboes Arthur Bloom, William Lewis, Jerry Kirkbride: clarinets Jane Taylor, Ethan Bauch, John Hunt: bassoons William Brown, Barry Benjamin, David Jolley, Nancy Billmann, Karl Kramer: French horns IBERT: Trois pièces brèves • VILLA-LOBOS: Quintette en forme a Chôros • REICHA: Quintet in E minor, Op. 88, No. 1 (exc.) • Quintet in E-flat, Op. 88, No. 2 (exc.) • Quintet in D, Op. 99, No. 4 (exc.) • STRAVINSKY: Pastorale • J.S. BACH (arr. Brant): Goldberg Variations (exc.) • J.S. BACH (arr. Rechtman): Fugue in G minor, S.578 • Fughetta on “Dies sind die heil’gen zehn Gebot,” S.679 • Chorale Prelude “Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland,” S.659 • Prelude & Fugue in D minor, S.539 • FOERSTER: Wind Quintet in D, Op. 95 (exc.) • PERLE: Wind Quintet No. 4 (exc.) • BEETHOVEN (arr. Rechtman): Quintet in E-flat, Op. 4 (exc.) • MILHAUD: La Cheminée du Roi René “One of chamber music’s most sparkling and eloquent ensembles.” — TIME The Dorian Wind Quintet is recognized worldwide by professional musicians and audiences alike for its uniquely polished and passionate performances.

This “retrospectacular” includes representative recordings from the beginning, emphasizing important groupings of players and repertoire associated with the Dorian over the years. Features a new recording of “Anniversary Variations on a Theme of Reicha” with variations by Richard Rodney Bennett, George Perle, Billy Childs, Bruce Adolphe, and Lee Hoiby.

Dorian Wind Quintet Retrospectacular (2 CDs) Cat # SMT 513 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Double Slimline; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

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Berlin Classics

Release Date: February 10, 2009

Cat # BER 33171 Price Code: 4D (SRP $27.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 20

Cat # BER 33221 Price Code: 4D (SRP $27.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 20

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Ludwig van BEETHOVEN

Gustav MAHLER

Choral Fantasy (LP)

Symphony No. 1 (LP)

Cat # BER 33241 Price Code: 4D (SRP $27.99) LP Jacket: Box Lot 20

Cat # BER 33251 Price Code: 4D (SRP $27.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 20

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Richard WAGNER

Der fliegende Holländer (highlights) (LP)

Gustav MAHLER

Das Lied von der Erde (LP)

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W.A. MOZART

Famous Opera Arias (LP)

Cat # BER 33261 Price Code: 4D (SRP $27.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 20

Cat # BER 33271 Price Code: 4D (SRP $27.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 20

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J.S. BACH

Mass in B minor (LP)

Release Date: February 10, 2009

Berlin Classics

Nuria Rial: soprano Bell’Arte Salzburg Annegret Siedel: director 16 selections of music for Marian festivals from the 17th century by Bernardi, Mazak, Mayr, Caldara, Grandi, Biber, Merula, Poglietti, Crotti, Cavali, Esterházy, Caresana, Lassus, Grunde, Leuttner, and from the Codex Cajoni An album of music for Marian festivals, which focuses on the adoration of Mary and her invocation as an intercessor, comprises a selection of music from South German, Habsburg, and Italian residences in the 17th century. With the exception of one work (Biber), this CD exclusively presents world premiere recordings. The captivatingly brilliant and delicate voice of the young and exceptionally talented Spanish soprano Nuria Rial, combined with the warm sound of the renowned Bell’Arte Salzburg early music ensemble conducted by Annegret Siedel, make this recording a wonderful and profound homage to the Mother of God.

Nuria Rial & Bell’Arte Salzburg Ave Maria

Cat # BER 16412 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

INCLUDES WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS

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Christof Keymer: piano MOSZKOWSKI: 15 transcriptions of familiar works by Brahms, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Bizet, Wagner, Offenbach, Handel & Czerny • Musical Parodies (Published as “Anton Notenquetscher am Klavier”) Piano transcriptions offer the opportunity to portray the color spectrum and aural diversity of an entire orchestra on the piano. One brilliant example of such works is offered by the piano transcriptions of Moritz Moszkowski.

Celebrated in his own lifetime as a composer and virtuoso, after his death Moszkowski slipped slowly into oblivion—undeservedly, since his transcriptions bring together all the facets of a virtuoso arranger. He made transcriptions of piano works and orchestral music, as well as of operas. In his recording of Moszkowski’s entire transcription output, Christof Keymer impressively presents the compositional refinement of diverse adaptations, which easily bear comparison to those of the great Franz Liszt. Includes the bonus of Moszkowski’s musical parodies, in which he humorously imitates the compositional styles of Chopin, Brahms, and Bach.

Moritz MOSZKOWSKI

Complete Piano Transcriptions (2 CDs) Cat # BER 16402 Price Code: 2Q (SRP $31.99) Double Slimline; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

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Berlin Classics

Release Date: February 10, 2009

Cat # BER 184492 Price Code: 2Q (SRP $31.99) Box Set; Box Lot 8

Cat # BER 184502 Price Code: 4D (SRP $27.99) Box Set; Box Lot 8

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Hanns EISLER

Various Artists

Walter Olbertz: piano/Siegfried Stöckigt: piano

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Leipzig/Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin/Staatskapelle Dresden/Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin/Berlin Symphony Orchestra/Herbert Blomstedt, Paul Dessau, Hans-Peter Frank, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Herbert Kegel, Kurt Masur, Siegfried Matthus, Václav Neumann, Max Pommer, Kurt Sanderling: conductors

Instrumental Music (6 CDs)

East German Symphonies (5 CDs)

EISLER: Piano Sonatas • Klavierstücke, Op. 3 & 8 • Zweite Sonate für Klavier, Op. 6 • Klavierstücke für Kinder, Op. 31 & 32 • Sonatine (Gradus ad Parnassum), Op. 44 • Ouverture für zwei Klaviere (“No More Peace”) • Fuge in G minor • Fugue in B • Ouvertüre für zwei Klaviere (“Die Mutter”) • Scherzo for String Trio • Divertimento for Wind Quintet, Op. 4 • Duo for Violin & Cello, Op. 7 • Prelude & Fugue for String Trio on B-A-C-H, Op. 46 • Fonata for flute, oboe & harp, Op. 49 • Violin Sonata (“Reisesonate”) • String Quartet (1938) • Nonets Nos. 1 & 2 • Movement for Nonet (Op. Post.) • Suite for Septet No. 1 • Five Pieces for Orchestra • and more

Hanns EISLER: Fünf Orchesterstücke • Kammersinfonie • Paul DESSAU: “In memoriam Bertolt Brecht” • Orchestermusik No. 2 • Ernst Hermann MEYER: Streichersinfonie • Leo SPIES: Sinfonie No. 2 • Johannes Paul THILMAN: Sinfonie No. 4 • and more

Cat # BER 184522 Price Code: 8D (SRP $55.99) Box Set: Box Lot 6

Cat # BER 184532 Price Code: 8D (SRP $55.99) Box Set; Box Lot 6

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Not Available In Canada

Dresden Philharmonic

Staatskapelle Dresden

Annerose Schmidt, Nelson Freire: pianos/Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra/Heinz Bongartz, Horst Förster, Kurt Masur, Günther Herbig, Herbert Kegel, Jörg-Peter Weigle, Michael Plasson: conductors

Hermann Prey, Walter Berry: baritones/Hilde Güden: soprano/ Anneliese Rothenberger: soprano/Peter Schreier: tenor/Oskar Michallik: clarinet/Christian Funke: violin/Staatskapelle Dresden & Chorus/Otmar Suitner, Herbert Blomstedt, Jeffrey Tate, Kurt Sanderling, Hiroshi Waksugi, Hans Vonk, Siegfried Kurz, Rudolf Neuhaus: conductors

Legendary Masterwork Recordings (8 CDs)

DVOˇRÁK: Symphony No. 7 • BRAHMS: Serenade No. 2 • KHACHATURIAN: Piano Concerto • MOZART: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 21 • HAYDN: Symphonies Nos. 93, 94 “Surprise” & 95 • BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique • MAHLER: Symphony No. 1 • RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Capriccio espagnol • MUSSORGSKY: A Night on the Bare Mountain • TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture • LISZT: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 • and more

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Legendary Masterwork Recordings (8 CDs)

MOZART: The Marriage of Figaro (hlts) • Die Zauberflöte (exc.) • Così fan tutte (exc.) • BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5 • Symphony No. 6 “Pastorale” • WAGNER: Der fliegende Holländer Overture • Tannhäuser Overture • TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto • Symphony No. 5 • R. STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier (hlts) • and more

Release Date: February 10, 2009

Meridian Records

Israel Woodwind Quintet Uri Shoham: flute Eliahu Thorner: oboe Richard Lesser: clarinet Meir Rimon: French horn Mordechai Rechtman: bassoon BEETHOVEN (arr. Rechtman): Quintet in E-flat, Op. 4 • 3 Works for a Mechanical Organ • Quintet in E-flat, Op. 71 “Mordechai Rechtman is the ideal advocate of his own musicological efforts, always stylish and graceful.” — MusicWeb International Meridian Records is proud to announce the release of the final volume of “masterpiece arrangements” by the acclaimed Israel Woodwind Quintet. The last release in the series is a culmination of well-known pieces by Ludwig Van Beethoven. Pre-20th-century repertoire for woodwind quintet is rare and often not of the highest quality, so excellent arrangements of masterpieces from earlier centuries by scholar-musicians of the highest caliber are crucial.

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN

also available W.A. MOZART Masterpieces Arranged for Woodwind Quintet Cat # MER 84548 Price Code: R

Masterpieces Arranged for Woodwind Quintet,Vol. 3

Cat # MER 84549 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

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Not Available In Canada

Louis Demetrius Alvanis: piano FEBLAND: Preludes Nos. 1–6 • Transitions • Ripostes • 3 Bagatelles • Sonata No. 2 “Luminous” • 3 Jazz Etudes • Midwinter Morning Melody • Song of Summer • 12 Jazz Piano Pieces “His fingers are capable of doing almost anything required of them, whatever the speed.” — The Daily Telegraph.

“Virtuoso wizardry.” — The Times Following his highly acclaimed Brahms Hungarian Dances CD, Meridian Records is thrilled to release the next musical chapter in pianist Louis Demetrius Alvanis’ recording career, a disc of world premiere solo piano pieces by enigmatic English composer, artist, and poet Jonathan FeBland.

The album can almost be split into two halves: the first, including examples of FeBland’s light classical or educational style, is aimed to be playable by intermediate to advanced level students, as well as being entertaining for both performers and audiences alike. The second leans heavily toward the jazz side of things, encapsulating moments of personal reminiscence. also available

Jonathan FEBLAND

Piano Colours

BRAHMS Hungarian Dances for Piano Cat # MER 84435 Price Code: R Not Available In Canada

Cat # MER 84538 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS

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hänssler CLASSIC

Release Date: February 10, 2009 Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra Thomas Fey: conductor MENDELSSOHN: String Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 9 Third volume of the complete Mendelssohn Symphonies. In addition to their work on recording the complete Haydn symphonies, the Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra under the direction of conductor Thomas Fey chose to survey of all the orchestral and string symphonies of Felix Mendelssohn. This important series will be finished in time for the Mendelssohn Year in 2009. As with their critically acclaimed recordings of Haydn, Beethoven, and Salieri, Fey and his musicians impress with an inspired and energetic interpretation.

also available MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Vol. 1 Cat # HNS 98275 Price Code: S

Felix MENDELSSOHN

Symphonies,Vol. 3: String Symphonies Cat # HNS 98536 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

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MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Vol. 2 Cat # HNS 98281 Price Code: S Not Available In Canada

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Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra Thomas Fey: conductor HAYDN: Symphony No. 57 in D • Symphony No. 59 in A “Fire” • Symphony No. 65 in A The complete cycle of Haydn symphonies with the Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Fey progresses! The three works selected for this program date from the late 1760s and early 1770s, and reveal once again how ingenious and humorous a composer Haydn was. The performances demonstrate the orchestra’s intuitive understanding of this composer, and follow his intentions with enthusiasm.

also available HAYDN Symphonies Vol. 10 Cat # HNS 98522 Price Code: S

Joseph HAYDN Symphonies,Vol. 11 Cat # HNS 98526 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

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HAYDN Symphonies Vol. 9 Cat # HNS 98517 Price Code: S Not Available In Canada

Release Date: February 10, 2009

hänssler CLASSIC

Gerhard Oppitz: piano BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1–32 (complete) The critically acclaimed recording by Gerhard Oppitz of the 32 complete Beethoven Sonatas (previously only available separately) is now available as a box set! A valuable addition for any collector looking for an exciting new set of Beethoven’s sonatas.

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN

Complete Piano Sonatas (9 CDs) Cat # HNS 98200 Price Code: 9S (SRP $170.99) Box Set; Box Lot 3 Not Available In Canada

Die Meistersinger

Romantic Music for Male Choir Die Meistersinger 24 choral songs by Friedrich Silcher, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Weber, Johannes Gelbke, Conradin Kreutzer, Dmitrij Bornjanskij, and Kurt Lissman The male choir reached its height of popularity during the 19th century. Nearly every village had groups of amateurs that would regularly get together to rehearse and perform. Naturally, there was a highly lucrative market for composers to write music for these ensembles. Much of this music was utilitarian, and has been rightfully forgotten. The pieces on this CD, however, should receive a permanent place in the repertoire. This recording also features the hänssler CLASSIC debut of the justifiably named Meistersingers: masterful singers who perform this repertoire with sensational perfection and interpret it with sincerity and feeling.

Cat # HNS 98572 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

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Release Date: February 10, 2009 Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart RSO Stuttgart Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra & Chorus Helmuth Rilling: conductor HAYDN: Mass in B-flat “Harmoniemesse” • Mass in B-flat “Heiligmesse” (Missa Sancti Bernardi von Offid) In time for the Haydn Year in 2009, Helmuth Rilling has now completed his recordings of the six late Haydn Masses. Each performance draws together different singers and orchestras Rilling has worked with for many years, equally dividing the musical responsibilities between the Oregon Bach Festival and the Bach Collegium Stuttgart. The result is a truly international and modern edition of some of the greatest choral works of the Classical period. also available HAYDN Masses Cat # HNS 98279 Price Code: S

Joseph HAYDN

Harmony Mass & Holy Mass Cat # HNS 98538 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

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HAYDN Theresa Mass Cat # HNS 98509 Price Code: S Not Available In Canada

Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden & Freiburg Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Moscow State Radio & TV Symphony Orchestra SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra Kaiserslautern Oregon Bach Festival Women’s Chorus & Orchestra Helmuth Rilling, Michael Gielen, Sylvain Cambreling, Sir Neville Marriner, Klaus-Peter Hahn, Jirí Stárek, Kurt Sanderling: conductors MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture • SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9 (exc.) • BERLIOZ: Roman Carnival Overture • SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 1 “Spring” (exc.) • GRIEG: Peer Gynt Suite No. 2 • SMETANA: The Moldau • WAGNER: Lohengrin: Prelude to Act I • ˇ BRAHMS: Symphony No. 3 (exc.) • DVORÁK: Humoresque No. 7 • Slavonic Dance No. 2 • TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers • BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 7 (exc.) • MAHLER: Symphony No. 2 (exc.) • Symphony No. 5 (exc.)

Various Artists

Romantic Orchestral Masterpieces (2 CDs) Cat # HNS 98540 Price Code: 2Q (SRP $31.99) Double Slimline; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

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The masterpieces of European Baroque, Classical, and Romantic choral and orchestral music are the foundation of the hänssler CLASSIC catalog. The new Masterpieces series will focus on the repertoire of a particular historical period, and in each case will include a two-CD set featuring critically acclaimed interpretations from artists such as Michael Gielen, Neville Marriner, Helmuth Rilling, and more.

Release Date: February 10, 2009

hänssler CLASSIC

Petronel Malan: piano HELLER: 33 Variations on a Theme by Beethoven, Op. 130 • SGAMBATI: Menuet for solo piano • KALKBRENNER: Fantasia for the Piano Forte on Beethoven’s Celebrated Waltz, Op. 118 • SEISS: German Dances • RAFF: Romance No. 1 for solo piano • TAUSIG: Transcriptions of movements from Beethoven’s String Quartets Op. 59, Nos. 1–3 & Op. 130 • FRIEDMAN: Ecossaises The Transfigured series has been the focus of South African pianist Petronel Malan and provides a singular perspective on music history. The theme of each volume has been to focus on how composers of later generations have re-envisioned the works of a master—in this case, Beethoven. also available J.S. BACH Transfigured Bach Cat # HNS 98424 Price Code: S

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN

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Transfigured Beethoven

W.A. MOZART Transfigured Mozart Cat # HNS 98231 Price Code: S Not Available In Canada

Cat # HNS 98286 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

Includes World Premiere Recordings

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Jascha Nemtsov: piano SHOSTAKOVICH: Aphorismen, Op. 13 • WEINBERG: Hefte für Kinder (Notebook for Children) • Sarah NEMTSOV: Zwanzig Skizzen (20 Sketches) The works on this program are all sets of miniatures, suggestive either directly or through inference of the experiences of children. However, these pieces are worlds apart from pieces for children written by Robert Schumann or Tchaikovsky; they are rarely joyful. Jascha Nemtsov succeeds here with a great and intelligent coupling, which regards approaches phenomenon of childhood from a dramatic and somewhat dark side.

also available Jascha Nemtsov Russian Piano Trios Cat # HNS 98491 Price Code: S Not Available In Canada

Jascha Nemtsov Zimro: A Broken Concert Tour Cat # HNS 93209 Price Code: S Not Available In Canada

Jascha Nemtsov

Aphorisms

Cat # HNS 93233 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

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hänssler CLASSIC

Release Date: February 10, 2009 SWR Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden & Freiburg Yuri Ahronovitch, Ernest Bour, Hiroshi Wakasugi: conductors TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake Ballet (exc.) • TCHAIKOVSKY (arr. Stravinsky): Three Pieces from The Sleeping Beauty • STRAVINSKY: Le Chant du Rossignol Fourth volume of a series that intends to publish all the ballet music composed or arranged for performance by Sergej Diaghilev. This unique series features music from one of the most exciting creative periods of 20th century Europe and first-rate orchestras and conductors including Ernest Bour, Sylvain Cambreling, Michael Gielen, and others.

also available Sylvain Cambreling Les Ballets Russes,Vol. 3 Cat # HNS 93223 Price Code: S

Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY & Igor STRAVINSKY Les Ballets Russes,Vol. 4 Cat # HNS 93234 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

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Michael Gielen Les Ballets Russes,Vol. 2 Cat # HNS 93197 Price Code: S

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SWR Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart Marcus Creed: conductor VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Mass in G minor • Silence and Music • McMILLAN: Mairi • O bone Jesu One of the best choirs in the world releases, for the first time, a disc of English music for a cappella chorus! Colorful English choral music performed on the highest artistic level includes the beloved Vaughan Willliams Mass in G minor, one of the most beautiful works written in the 20th century. The SWR Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart is one of the best choirs of the world, whose recent recordings of music by Bruckner and Ives have been widely praised throughout the world.

also available BRUCKNER Mass and Other Choral Works Cat # HNS 93199 Price Code: S

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS & James McMILLAN Silence and Music

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Cat # HNS 93250 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

IVES Psalms: Complete Recording Cat # HNS 93224 Price Code: S

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Release Date: February 10, 2009

Challenge Classics

Dieterich BUXTEHUDE

Complete Works,Vol. 9 (Organ Works,Vol. 4) Ton Koopman: organ Praeludium in C, BuxWV 138 • Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott, BuxWV 199 • Canzonetta in G, BuxWV 172 • Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich, BuxWV 202 • Wir danken dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BuxWV 224 • Praeludium in G, BuxWV 147 • Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BuxWV 196 • Canzonetta in G, BuxWV 171 • Vater unser im Himmelreich, BuxWV 219 • Magnificat Primi Toni, BuxWV 203 • Praeludium in F, BuxWV 144 • Nun lob mein Seel’ den Herren, BuxWV 212 • Kommt her zu mir, spricht Gottes Sohn, BuxWV 201 • Canzonetta in C, BuxWV 167 • Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, BuxWV 186 • Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BuxWV 198 • Gott der Vater wohn uns bei, BuxWV 190 • Nimm von uns, Herr, BuxWV 207 • Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BuxWV 189 After the sublime rendering of the works that were composed before 1683 in meantone temperament and the progressive, bold, theatrical, and very personal style of Buxtehude’s later organ works in the previous volumes, Koopman here demonstrates the different improvisatory styles that were common practice under 17th century German organists.

Cat # CHR 72248 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Slipcase Jewel; Box Lot 16 Not Available In Canada

Artur MALAWSKI & Krzysztof MEYER Polish Piano Trios

Altenberg Trio Wien/Claus-Christian Schuster: piano/Amiram Ganz: violin/Alexander Gebert: cello MALAWSKI: Piano Trio in C-sharp minor • MEYER: Piano Trio, Op. 50 The Altenberg Trio is today’s most important piano trio, and their new disc features music from two remarkable 20th century Polish composers. A missing link in contemporary chamber music from behind the former Iron Curtain, this is certainly a welcome addition to the piano trio repertoire.

Cat # CHR 72310 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

George ONSLOW Violin Sonatas, Op. 16

Moderntimes_1800/Ilia Korol: violin/Norbert Zeilberger: fortepiano ONSLOW: Violin Sonatas, Op. 16, No. 1–3 Once again the choice of period instruments for neglected early romantic chamber music reveals its subtle quality that too often gets lost in performance on modern instruments.

Cat # CHR 72196 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

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Stradivarius

Release Date: February 10, 2009

Giacomo MANZONI Self-Portrait

Echo Ensemble/Emilio Pomarico: conductor MANZONI: Dieci Versi di Emily Dickinson • Scene Sinfoniche per il Doktor Faustus • Preludio, Grave, Finale • Percorso GG • Musica Notturna • Omaggio a Josquin This prestigious series from Stradivarius/Ricordi Oggi continues with a disc that highlights one of the most important composers of the sixties and seventies.

Cat # STV 57009 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

Gabriel ERKOREKA Orchestral Works

Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid/José Ramon Encinar: conductor ERKOREKA: Afrika, for marimba & orchestra • Kantak, for piccolo & chamber ensemble • Jukal, for guitar & chamber ensemble • Akorda, for accordion & orchestra A new installment in a series devoted to orchestral contemporary music from Spain features music from one of the leading new composers in Spain.

Cat # STV 33811 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Jewel Case: Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

Emanuele Arciuli

Gates To Everywhere Emanuele Arciuli: piano COREA: Children’s Songs • HERSCH: Nocturn for the Left Hand Alone • BLEY: Romantic Notions “A pianist who leaves an indelible impression.” — New York Times Emanuele Arciuli is an Italian pianist who specializes in American music and tours the US annually. Beyond his releases for Stradivarius, he was also chosen by George Crumb to release a CD on Bridge Records.

Cat # STV 57908 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Digipak, Box Lot 37 Not Available In Canada

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Release Date: February 10, 2009

DOREMI

Michael Rabin: violin/various orchestras & conductors BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 • PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63 • BRUCH: Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 26 • WIENIAWSKI: Violin Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 14 • MOHAUPT: Violin Concerto CRESTON: Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 78 • Short pieces from NBC Radio Bell Telephone Hour (1950–55) and Berlin Radio broadcasts (1962–69) American violinist Michael Rabin was outstanding from a very young age.

His prodigious technique, combined with a unique sound (big, voluptuous, and energetic) made him into a cult figure during his lifetime, and after his untimely death in 1972. All items on this set are from live performances and most of them are on CD for the first time.

Michael Rabin

Collection,Vol. 2 (3 CDs)

Cat # DHR 7951 Price Code: 3R (SRP $53.99) Box Set; Box Lot 10 Not Available In Canada

David Oistrakh: violin Vladimir Yampolsky: piano TARTINI: Sonata in G minor, Op. 1, No. 10 “Didone abbandonata” • FRANCK: Sonata in A • SCHUMANN (arr. Kreisler): Fantasia in C, Op. 131 • RAVEL: Tzigane David Oistrakh was one of the greatest, most respected, and most admired violinists of the 20th century. This CD is Vol. 13 in DOREMI’s David Oistrakh collection, commemorating the 100-year anniversary of his birth. Contains Schumann’s Fantasy for Violin Op. 131, a work that has not previously been in Oistrakh’s discography.

David Oistrakh Collection,Vol. 13

Cat # DHR 7950 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

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CAvi-music

Release Date: February 10, 2009 Bernhard Berchtold: tenor Hermine Haselböck: mezzo-soprano Markus Vorzellner: piano MAHLER: Das Lied von der Erde (original version for tenor, mezzo-soprano, and piano) “A clear and straight voice with a lovely timbre.” — Opernglas Original version (1908) for tenor, mezzo-soprano, and piano recorded at its location of origin in Toblach (August 2008). Possibly the only issue of this version on the market!

Gustav MAHLER

Das Lied von der Erde (Original Version)

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Cat # AVI 8553125 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (3 CDs) Cat # AVI 8553029 Price Code: 3N

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Antje Weithaas: violin Silke Avenhaus: piano MENDELSSOHN: Violin Sonata No. 1 in F • Violin Sonata No. 2 in F minor, Op. 4 • Violin Sonata No. 3 in F (first recording of original score/autograph) • Violin Sonata in D—fragment (premiere)

“This great violin player has got a great flexibility in her tone and a vast palette of expressions which she is able to employ them with authority.” — RBB, Berlin Radio Front Cover Sticker: Mendelssohn 200 years. World premiere recording.

World premiere of a stunning fragment of a violin sonata by one of the most underrated composers. Features the Violin Sonata No. 3 for the first time in its original score/autograph. also available

Felix MENDELSSOHN

SCHUBERT Violin Works Cat # AVI 8553005 Price Code: Q

Violin Sonatas

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Cat # AVI 8553138 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

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BRAHMS Violin Sonatas Cat # AVI 8553059 Price Code: Q Not Available In Canada

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CAvi-music

Release Date: February 10, 2009 Dennis Russell Davies, Markus Becker, Elena Bashkirova, Andreas Staier, Maki Namekawa, Siegfried Mauser: pianos Michael Barenboim, Gottfried Schneider: violins Thomas Bauer: baritone Sebastian Hess: cello SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No. 15 in C, D840 “Reliquie” • Piano Sonata No. 18 in G, D894 • Fantasy in C, D760 “Wanderer” • Impromptu No. 1 in C minor, D899 • Sonatina in A minor, D385 • Divertissement for piano 4 hands, D818 • 3 Military Marches for piano 4 hands, D733 • FELDMAN: Palais de Mari, for solo piano • JONELEIT: “Aloft” for solo piano • MUELLER-WIELAND: Pianot Trio No. 3 • PINTSCHER: “Un despertar” for voice & piano Live recordings from one of the world’s largest piano festivals, with world-class pianists performing. Bonus disc features three world premiere recordings commissioned by the 2008 Ruhr Piano Festival.

Ruhr Piano Festival

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Franz Schubert & New Piano Music (3 CDs)

W.A. MOZART Variations & New Piano Music Cat # AVI 8553067 Price Code: 3N Not Available In Canada

Cat # AVI 8553150 Price Code: 3N (SRP $38.99) Box Set; Box Lot 14

INCLUDES WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS

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Asasello Quartet Rostislav Kojevnikov, Barbara Kuster: violins Justyna Sliwa: viola Andreas Mueller: cello Fanny MENDELSSOHN-HENSEL: String Quartet in E-flat • Felix MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet in A minor, Op. 13 • String Quartet in E-flat, Op. 12 Front Cover Sticker: Mendelssohn 200 years.

2009 marks the year of Mendelssohn’s 200th birthday. Here, a young international quartet starts its career with young Mendelssohn pieces.

Felix & Fanny MENDELSSOHN

String Quartets

Cat # AVI 8553140 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

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Tactus

Release Date: February 10, 2009

Cat # TCT 600008 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

Cat # TCT 672248 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

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Letizia Romiti

Antonio VIVALDI

Letizia Romiti: organ

Paolo Grazia, Roberto Valeriani: oboes/Ensemble Respighi

FERRINI: Ballo di Mantova per A • Padre NARCISO DA MILANO: Allegro & Pastorale • HANDEL: Concerto from Judas Maccabaeus • CORELLI: Pastorale from Concerto, Op. 6, No. 8 • PACOTTO: Sonata Terza • VEGNI: Theme & Variations on Mozart’s Romance “L’amor marinaro” • ANON: Toccata • Elevazione • Andante voce umana • Andante Rondò • Sonata for the Consecration Day of the New Cathedral of Bosa

VIVALDI: 7 concertos for oboe or 2 oboes, strings & continuo

Organo di Grondona

Oboe Concertos

Col legno

Cat # CNO 60014 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

Cat # CNO 20281 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

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W.A. MOZART

Luciano BERIO

Jasminka Stanˇcul: piano/Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento/Gustav Kuhn: conductor

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo/Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra/ Martyn Brabbins, Bertrand de Billy, Stefan Asbury: conductors

MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-flat, K271 “Jeunehomme” • Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat, K595

BERIO: Chemins I (after Sequenza II) for harp & orchestra • Chemins Iib for orchestra • Concerto for 2 Pianos & Orchestra • Formazioni for orchestra

Piano Concertos 9 & 27

Two concerts for piano and orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Concerto No. 9, also named “Jeunehomme,” was composed at the age of 21, and Concerto No. 27 was composed in the year of his early death.

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Orchestral Works

These recordings document the Luciano Berio concerts at Vienna Modern 2007.

Col legno

Release Date: February 10, 2009 Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento Gustav Kuhn: conductor BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 • Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73 • Symphony No. 3 in F, Op. 90 • Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 Brahms First Sympony is called “Beethoven’s Tenth”—and after playing all Beethoven Symphonies, the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento under conductor Gustav Kuhn is following now Beethoven’s traces in the symphony work of Brahms.

Johannes BRAHMS

The 4 Symphonies (3 CDs) Cat # CNO 60015 Price Code: 3L (SRP $35.99) Triple Digipak; Box Lot 10 Not Available In Canada

Pierre-Laurent Aimard: piano Soundforum Vienna RSO Vienna Vienna Symphony Orchestra Wolfgang Mitterer, Claudio Abbado: conductors BERIO: Requies • HAUBENSTOCK-RAMATI: Nocturnes III • NONO: Canti per 13 • LIGETI: Volumina • ROMITELLI: Seascape • POPPE: Obst • LANG: DW 6c • STROPPA: Traiettoria • SCELSI: Pranam • KURTÁG: Játétok & Bach Transcriptions (exc.) • BILLONE: Bocca. Kosmoi • NEUWIRTH: locus… doublure… solus (exc.)

The biggest Austrian festival for contemporary music presents highlights of compositions from the 20th and 21st centuries, some of them premieres, interpreted by Claudio Abbado, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Wolfgang Mitterer, Soundforum Vienna, RSO Vienna, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and many more.

Various Artists

Vienna Modern Composers Gallery Cat # CNO 20282 Price Code: 2L (SRP $23.99) Digipak; Box Lot 18 INCLUDES WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS

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Clarion

Release Date: February 10, 2009

Santa Fe Desert Chorale Passion

Santa Fe Desert Chorale/Linda Mack: conductor MATHIAS: Laetentur Coeli • O Nata Lux • BRITTEN: Chorale • SAMUELSON: Ave Maris Stella • BERGER: Ye Shall Go Out with Joy • GAWTHROP: Mary Speaks • DESENCLOS: Salve Regina • LAURIDSEN: Soneto de la Noche • WHITACRE: A Boy and a Girl • LIGETI: Reggel • GOLIJOV: Demos Fracias al Señor • BERNSTEIN: French Choruses from The Lark • Overture to Candide (arr. Manno) • TRAD: La Rosa • Puncha, Puncha • Kpanlongo • Beautiful River • My Soul’s Been Anchored in the Lord

Cat # CLO 923 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

“This largely 20th-century program runs the gamut of passion for God, country, love, and life itself … superb abundance of technique on the part of the ensemble. Recommended.”

— Fanfare Front Cover Sticker: Contains a stunning vocal arrangement of Bernstein’s Overture to Candide! Focused on music of the 20th and 21st centuries, this disc encompasses a wide variety of harmonic rhythmic and stylistic elements by a virtuoso choir.

Santa Fe Desert Chorale

A Celebration of Hispanic Music Santa Fe Desert Chorale/Linda Mack: conductor RAMIREZ: Misa Criolla • FRANCO: Two Aztec Songs to the Virgin • MORALES: Sancta Maria, succurre miseris • LÓPEZ CAPILLAS: Alleluia! Dic nobis Maria • GUERRERO: Sanctus & Hosanna • VICTORIA: In Annuntiatione Benissimae Mariae • SALAZAR/SUMAYA: Egregie Doctor • SUMAYA: Sol-fa de Pedro • VIVANCO: In manus tuas • ANON: Sá qui turo zente pleta

Cat # CLO 924 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

A study of the evolution of musical style in Hispanic churches in the New World reveals a remarkable melding of a number of cultures. Spanish colonists carried the musical traditions of the European Renaissance to the native people of the Americas, and through time and circumstance, these traditions merged in the American Southwest to create a musical genre with a rich historical grounding. Features Ariel Ramírez’s Misa Criolla—the original 1964 recording sold three million copies!

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Santa Fe Desert Chorale

Live from Loretto Chapel (2 CDs) Santa Fe Desert Chorale/Linda Mack, Matthew Tresler: conductors READ: Windham • SIEBERT (arr.): Holy Manna • JEFFERS (arr.): Love • Humility • GILBERT (arr.): We Will Walk with Mother and Morn • BILLINGS: Chester • David’s Lamentation • O Praise the Lord of Heaven • PARKER/SHAW (arr.): Ride On, King Jesus • The Morning Trumpet • Sometimes I Feel • My God Is a Rock • PARKER (arr.) Come and Taste • Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal • HALLORAN (arr.): Witness • FURMAN: Hehlehlooyuh • CLAUSEN (arr.) Deep River • HOGAN (arr.): Walk Together • Elijiah Rock • MORLEY: Miraculous Love’s Wounding • CLEMENTS: Flower of Beauty • HARRIS: O Mistress Mine • FARMER: Fair Phyllis • BRAHMS: Dein Herzlein mid • Da unten im Tale • HOLST (arr.): I Love My Love Cat # CLO 930 Price Code: 2O (SRP $27.99) Double Slimline; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

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A brilliant two-CD set with selections recorded at the historic Loretto Chapel during the 2006 Santa Fe Summer Festival. Using two small ensembles, under the baton of artistic director Linda Mack, the chorale offers songs of faith, joy, and praise. The second disc is led by assistant Matthew Tresler and offers a sublime view of the trials and tribulations of love, from Brahms to Lennon and McCartney.

Release Date: February 10, 2009

Gothic Records

Edward ELGAR

Choral Music 1857–1934 Cat # GOT 49262 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge Richard Marlow: director ELGAR: Give unto the Lord, Op. 74 • Ave Verum, Op. 2 No. 1 • Ave Maria, Op. 2, No. 2 • Ave maria stella, Op. 2, No. 3 • Light out of darkness, Op. 29 • Intende voci orationis meae, Op. 64 • Good Morrow • Te Deum, Op. 34, No. 1 • Benedictus, Op. 34, No. 2 • I Sing the Birth • Doubt not, Op. 29 • Fear not • Light of the world, Op. 29 • They are at rest • Great is the Lord (Psalm 48), Op. 67 “One of the world’s greatest choirs.” — ClassicsToday “The Choir of Trinity College is mixed; it uses female sopranos and altos. This gives the upper lines a warm, flexible sound … The choir respond well to [Richard Marlow’s] direction and give some fine, shapely performances.” — MusicWeb International Cambridge’s Trinity College Choir is a world-famous mixed choir with over 40 CD recordings. Their first recording on Gothic, featuring Edward Elgar’s choral music, includes some of the finest examples of English Romantic music, performed to perfection as only an English choir can! This is one of Richard Marlow’s last recordings as Director of Music at Trinity. His innovative career at Trinity spans almost 40 years, where he has also been active as an editor, scholar, and journalist. He has been a visiting professor at universities in Tokyo, Texas, New England, and New Zealand.

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Arte Nova Classics

Release Date: February 10, 2009 Radek Baborak: French horn Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Johannes Moesus: conductor ROSETTI: Concertos (4) for horn & orchestra in E & E-flat Even though the more than 400 pieces that Rosetti wrote are characterized by imaginative instrumentation, original melody, and structural coherence—and although his slower movements already show the emotional world of the Romantic period—his music was practically forgotten after 1800. However, the guild of horn players has never quite forgotten about Rosetti’s concerts for horn. Fourteen out of seventeen concerts for horn still exist, and of seven concerts for two horns, six remain.

Antonio ROSETTI Horn Concertos

Cat # ANO 927640 Price Code: C (SRP $5.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

Hartmut Rohde: viola Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra Vilnius Georg Mais: conductor J.C. BACH: Viola Concerto in C minor • HOFFMEISTER: Viola Concerto in D • TELEMANN: Viola Concerto in G • HINDEMITH: Trauermusik During recent years the solo concert repertory for viola has been extended by several works. One example is the Viola Concerto in C, the reconstruction of a harpsichord concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach. Other compositions, such as those by Ignace Joseph Pleyel or Antonio Rosetti, have been published for the first time. They are all welcome additions to this classical genre, one of whose most ingenious works is surely Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major. Two further classical works are the Concertos in D major by Carl Stamitz (Op. 1) and Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754–1812). The latter was known and respected in his time not only as a composer, but also as a publisher. Both works are the most common audition pieces for viola players to this day.

Hartmut Rohde Viola Concertos

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Release Date: February 10, 2009

Arte Nova Classics

Frédéric CHOPIN

Sonatas/Waltzes/Nocturne Cat # ANO 636760 Price Code: C (SRP $5.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

Ricardo Castro: piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 35 in B flat minor • Sonata No. 3 Op. 58 in B minor • Waltz Op. 64/1 in D flat major • Waltz Op. 64/2 in C sharp minor • Waltz Op. 64/3 in A flat major • Nocturne Op. 9/2 in E flat major Ricardo Castro is the first South American pianist to win the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition. His concerts lead him to Vienna, Hamburg, Toronto, Zurich, Munich, London, Stockholm, Madrid, and Paris, and he performs with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in Japan and in England with Sir Simon Rattle, the English Chamber Orchestra, the BBC London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. He started to play the piano at the age of three and studied with Esther Cardoso in Brazil before entering Maria Tipo’s class at the Geneva Conservatory. Recently, he has been working with Dominique Merlet in Paris.

also available CHOPIN The Complete Nocturnes (2 CDs) Cat # ANO 304941 Price Code: 2C Not Available In Canada

CHOPIN Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (2 CDs) Cat # ANO 592170 Price Code: 2C Not Available In Canada

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Nuova Era

Release Date: February 10, 2009

Antonio VIVALDI

Concerti da Camera (2 CDs) Ensemble Il Giardino Armonico VIVALDI: Concertos & Sonatas for flute, oboe, bassoon, violin, etc., RV 86, 98, 101, 103, 105 & 107 • CORELLI: Follia for flute & b.c. • Flute Sonatas Op. 5, Nos. 4 & 5 • BARSANTI: Flute Sonata in C, Op. 1 • GEMINIANI: Flute Sonata in E minor • VERACINI: Flute Sonata No. 6 in B minor

Cat # NUO 232471 Price Code: 2L (SRP $23.99) Digipak w/Slipcase; Box Lot 17

Vivaldi wrote many of these concertos for girls brought up and educated in the Venetian Hospitals, institutes whose task it was to recover and look after orphans and abandoned children. The French humanist and historian Charles de Brosses wrote about the instrumental and vocal abilities of the girls in his Lettres Historiques et Critiques sur I’Italie: “Brought up at the expense of the State, these girls are taught and instructed simply so that they may distinguish themselves in music. Thus they sing like angels and play the violin, the flute, the organ, the oboe, the cello, the bassoon; in short there is not an instrument, however great it may be, that can daunt them.”

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G.F. HANDEL Rinaldo (2 CDs)

Marilyn Horne, Cecilia Gasdia, Ernesto Palacio, Christine Weidinger, Natale de Carolis, Cristiano Carlo Colombara: vocal soloists/Teatro la Fenice Orchestra, Venice/ John Fisher: conductor HANDEL: Rinaldo (complete opera)

Cat # NUO 232468 Price Code: 2L (SRP $23.99) Digipak w/Slipcase; Box Lot 17

Rinaldo, first performed on February 27, 1711 in London, belongs to the short but rich series of operas on magical subjects that the composer produced between 1710 and 1735. Both the musical and dramatic material of the opera are handled in eighteenth century fashion, especially evident in the arias (which are successful in melodic as well as in psychological terms) and in the “recitative secco” which is perfectly cantabile, though often much reduced since the opera’s English audience would have found the Italian text incomprehensible.

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Claudio MONTEVERDI

Il ritorno di Ulisse in Patria (3 CDs) Leroy Villanueva, Gloria Banditelli, Mark Tucker, Ivan Kiurkciev, Harry van der Kamp: vocal soloists/Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca/Alan Curtis: conductor MONTEVERDI: Il ritorno di Ulisse in Patria (complete opera) Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria, drama in music by Claudio Moneteverdi on a text by Giacomo Badoaro, was first performed in 1641 at the San Cassiano Theatre in Venice.

The work was immediately a great success and was given a further performance soon after in Bologna, with the same performers. The performance won the same success as the premiere. Strangely enough, after the great success of these two performances little more was heard of the opera. This recording makes this rare treat available to modern listeners.

Cat # NUO 231774 Price Code: 3L (SRP $35.99) Triple Digipak w/Slipcase; Box Lot 13 Not Available In Canada

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Opera d’Oro

Gaetano DONIZETTI Linda di Chamounix Cat # OPD 1489 Price Code: 2K SRP $11.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

Margherita Carosio, Gianni Raimondi, Giuseppe Taddei: vocal soloists La Scala, Milan, Orchestra & Chorus Alfredo Simonetto: conductor DONIZETTI: Linda di Chamounix (complete opera) Donizetti had written about sixty operas already when he produced Linda di Chamounix, the last and best of his works in the semiseria style. It contains many captivating tunes, but is far more than a string of vocal pearls: its structure is unusually sophisticated, permitting much flexibility in dramatic pacing; and Donizetti establishes a distinct tone-coloring for each character, even using leitmotifs, which were supposedly invented years later by Wagner. The story isn’t a very exciting one, but as Donizetti authority William Ashbrook has written, “The merits of Linda obviously far outweigh its shortcomings, most of which can be blamed upon the libretto. From the first-rate overture to the buoyant duet-finale, there is hardly a page lacking in some distinction.”

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