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TABLE OF CONTENTS Aliud Records AVIE Records Capriol Films Challenge Classics CuGate Classics Discovery Music & Vision Disquiet Media Evil Penguin Records GB Records Globe Records Itinerant Classics LAWO Classics MPR Records Phaedra Priory Records Querstand Resonus Classics Syrius Vlad Records Winter & Winter

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The 58th annual Grammy Awards® will be held February 15, 2016 on CBS TV

Best Classical Compendium Producer of the Year, Classical (Judith Sherman)

An original musical setting of the 1961 masterpiece by Langston Hughes, by fourtime Emmy®-winning composer Laura Karpman, delivered by Janai Brugger, Angela Brown, The Roots, Medusa, Nnenna Freelon and more, conducted by Grammy® nominee George Manahan.

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Best Choral Performance Quite simply one of the greatest works of sacred music ever written, without doubt the most varied and inspired before Handel and Bach began composing their oratorios and passions. Its variety alone makes it unique, from thrilling psalm settings to exotic settings of texts from the Song of Songs.

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Apollo’s Fire

Sephardic Journey: Wanderings of the Spanish Jews BUZZ ALERT

CD: AVR 2361 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Apollo’s Fire Jeannette Sorrell: director Tracks Include: Ir me kero, Madre, a Yerushalayim (I want to go to Jerusalem, mother...) • Cuando el Rey Nimrod (Avram Avinu) • Avinu Malkenu • Lecha Dodi • Ah el Novio no quere dinero (Ah, the bridegroom wants no money) • La Rosa enflorese (The Rose Blooms) • Adio querida (Farewell, My Beloved) • La Comida la manana (instrumental) • A la Una yo nasci (At One I was Born) • and more “Sephardic Journey certainly has the potential to be the ensemble’s biggest hit … Sorrell and company have a new favorite on their hands.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer “Sorrell has taken her programming to a new level in a showcase of Jewish music from Spain and Italy. With performers of such reliable quality and a director who choreographs the proceedings down to the tiniest detail, Apollo’s Fire always puts on a good show.”

— Classical Voice of North America Cast out of Jerusalem and Spain, the Spanish Jews absorbed the colorful musical accents of Italy, Turkey, and North Africa, including exotic percussion. Apollo’s Fire’s musical journey interweaves Sephardic folk song with the Monteverdi-like Hebrew choral work of Salamone Rossi – the Songs of Solomon. The daily rhythms of life — love, rejection, feasting, and celebration — culminate in the mystical prayers of Shabbat.

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AVIE Records The Brook Street Band HANDEL: Trio Sonata in G minor, HWV393 • Trio Sonata in E major, HWV394 • Trio Sonata in F major, HWV392 • Sinfonia in B-flat major, HWV339 • Trio Sonata in C major, HWV403 ‘Saul’ • Trio Sonata HWV50a in B-flat major, ‘Esther’ • Trio Sonata in C minor, HWV386a “Impeccable … the vitality is riveting.” — BBC Music (on AVR 2199) “These performances have a powerful stamp of authority … Handel himself would have found real cause for celebration.” — International Record Review (on AVR 2118) The Brook Street Band celebrates its 20th anniversary as a champion of the music of Handel with another imaginative album that completes the ensemble’s survey of Handel’s Trio Sonatas for violins and continuo. A bonus is an arrangement for two violins and basso continuo of the overture to Handel’s oratorio Esther.

G.F. HANDEL Trio Sonatas

CD: AVR 2357 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Jolle Greenleaf: soprano Molly Quinn: soprano Virginia Warnken Kelsey: mezzo-soprano MAZZOCCHI: Fortuna su’l volto • ROSSI: Fan battaglia • Disperate speranze • Piango, prego, e sospiro • CACCINI: Chi desia di saper • Dispiegata guancie amate • Nube gentil • STROZZI: Amor dormiglione • Amor non si fugge • Eraclito Amoroso (Udite amanti) • Le tre grazie a venere • L’Amante segreto • D’INDIA: Piangono al pianger mio • LUZZASCHI: T’amo mia vita • ANONYMOUS: Passacaglia della vita (O come t’inganni) from Canzonette spirituali, e morali (Milan 1677) • SHAW: New trio commissioned by TENET “Exuberant, subversive counterpoint … a rollicking, foot-tapping finale.”

— The New Yorker (on TENET’s performance of The Secret Lover at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) New York’s leading early music ensemble TENET presents The Secret Lover, a program that celebrates music by, for, and about women and pays tribute to the 17th-century Concerto delle donne, a trio of extraordinarily gifted professional female singers who were renowned for their performances in the courts of the late Italian Renaissance. Three of TENET’s own leading ladies — sopranos Jolle Greenleaf and Molly Quinn, and mezzo-soprano Virginia Warnken Kelsey — honor the spirit of these pioneering women with a recording featuring solos and trios that weave a story thread to create a musical portrayal of three women and their complex emotional lives. As a 21st-century tribute, TENET has commissioned a new work by Pulitzer Prizewinning composer Caroline Shaw, which they perform alongside music by Caccini, Rossi, Strozzi, and others.

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The Secret Lover CD: AVR 2326 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Challenge Classics

Ton Koopman

At the Zacharias Hildebrandt Organ (1726) BUZZ ALERT

CD: CHR 72264 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 O-Card Jewel, Box Lot 22

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Ton Koopman: organ BUXTEHUDE: Toccata F-Dur BuxWV 157 • PACHELBEL: Ciacona d-Moll • SWEELINCK: Fantasia d-Moll • Puer nobis nascitur • WALTHER: Concerto F-Dur nach Tomaso Albinoni • Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf • HOMILIUS: Mein Gott, das Herze bring ich dir • O grosser Gott, du reines Wesen • J.S. BACH: Praeludium und Fuge c-Moll BWV 549 • Vater Unser im Himmelreich BWV 682 • Canzona d-Moll BWV 588 • Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan BWV deest • Passacaglia c-Moll BWV 582 “One of the greatest performers of Bach’s music in all its forms.” — Musicweb-International A brand-new recording by Ton Koopman, on the wonderful restored Hildebrandt organ dated 1726. Some pipes of the organ date back to the 18th century, something that inspired Koopman to play not only Bach and his contemporaries, but also earlier composers such as Sweelinck and Pachelbel. Naturally attracted by historical instruments and fascinated by the philological performance style, the young Koopman concentrated his studies on Baroque music, with particular attention to J.S. Bach, and soon became a leading figure in the “authentic performance” movement. Among his most ambitious projects has been the recording of the complete Bach cantatas, a massive undertaking for which he was awarded the Echo Klassik Award, the BBC Award, the Hector Berlioz Prize, and was nominated for both a Grammy Award® and a Gramophone Award.

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Willem JETHS

Symphony No. 1 & Recorder Concerto CD: CHR 72693 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 O-Card Jewel, Box Lot 22

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Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Edo de Waart: conductor Karin Strobos: mezzo-soprano Erik Bosgraaf: recorder JETHS: Symphony No. 1 • Recorder Concerto “Fascinating … this music has a life of its own.” — Audiophile Audition World premiere recordings of major orchestral works by leading Dutch composer Willem Jeths! Two world-famous conductors — Edo de Waart and Markus Stenz — have been chief advocates of these new pieces. The recording also includes the great virtuoso Erik Bosgraaf playing Jeths’ Recorder Concerto, and features the lovely mezzo-soprano Karin Strobos.

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Winter & Winter

Hans ABRAHAMSEN Let me tell you

VINYL: WTR 917232 Price Code: 4J (SRP $39.99) Number of Discs: 1 Gatefold LP Jacket, Box Lot 15

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Barbara Hannigan: soprano Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Andris Nelsons: conductor ABRAHAMSEN (SIDE A): I. Part: Let me tell you how it was • O but memory is not one but many • There was a time, I remember • (SIDE B): II. Part: Let me tell you how it is • Now I do not mind • III. Part: I know you are there • I will go out now “Music of such crystalline beauty and fragile intensity is quite breathtaking.” — The Guardian HHHHH “A superb and versatile soprano.” — New York Times “A fearless champion of new music.” — NPR Now on 180-gram vinyl! Composed in 2012 and 2013, Let me tell you is a dramatic monologue written by Hans Abrahamsen, winner of the 2015 Grawemeyer Award for Music. This honor has led to an explosion of glowing press on the composer, including features by NPR, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Gramophone, and more. The work is sung by Barbara Hannigan, acclaimed worldwide as a soprano of vital expressive force.

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES January 14–15 Cleveland, OH – Severance Hall January 17 New York, NY – Carnegie Hall February 5–6 Boston, MA – Boston Symphony Hall

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Capriol Films

Draw on Sweet Night DVD: CRL 9 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Amaray, Box Lot 20

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“A modern-day Renaissance music video, embellished with dynamic cinematography … successfully reinvigorates the epochal music into a spectacle accessible to the modern-day viewer.” — Unknown Magazine (UK) This follow-up to director Tony Britten’s 2013 film Peace and Conflict focuses on the great Elizabethan madrigalist John Wilbye. The composer spent his entire working life in the service of Sir Thomas and Lady Elizabeth Kytson at Hengrave Hall in Suffolk. Unusually, after Wilbye’s second book of madrigals was published in 1609, he appears not to have composed anything else; however, Lady Elizabeth kept him on until her death in 1628, showering him with gifts including the most prosperous sheep farm in the area.

So why, when Elizabeth died, did Wilbye throw all this up and spend the rest of his days with her divorcee daughter? Why did he dedicate his second book of madrigals to the beautiful and notorious Lady Arbella Stewart? A collaboration with the internationally renowned vocal group I Fagiolini, this sumptuous film is a feast for movie fans and music lovers alike!

DVD Specs: NTSC, Region 0, 16:9 (Widescreen), Color, English (Surround), Not Rated, Run Time: 84 min

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Resonus Classics

J.S. BACH

French Suites BWV 812–817 CD: RSN 10163 Price Code: 2T (SRP $29.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Slimline, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Julian Perkins: clavichord J.S. BACH: French Suites BWV 812–817 • FROBERGER: Partita No. 2 in D minor, FbWV 602 • TELEMANN: Suite in A major TWV 32:14 “Exuberantly stylish.” — Sunday Times “A leader in the new generation of keyboard virtuosi.” — Cambridge Early Music Rising-star period keyboardist Julian Perkins makes his solo Resonus Classics debut with a new recording of the French Suites by J.S. Bach. Seldom recorded on the clavichord, thought to be Bach’s keyboard instrument of choice, the Suites’ versatile, expressive, and lyrical qualities are expertly revealed by Perkins on this, the gentlest and most intimate of all keyboard instruments. Performing on two instruments by the maker Peter Bavington, the program is completed with two further suites: one earlier partita by Johann Jakob Froberger, and one more contemporary suite by Georg Philipp Telemann, previously attributed to Bach himself.

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Evil Penguin Records Flemish Radio Choir Brussels Philharmonic Hervé Niquet: conductor BRAHMS: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 On this recording, acclaimed conductor Hervé Niquet fuses his Flemish Radio Choir and Brussels Philharmonic in a concentrated and intense performance, bringing out the expressive essence of Brahms’ music which is at once grand and intimate.

Johannes BRAHMS Ein Deutsches Requiem CD: EPR 19 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30

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GB Records Christopher Hobbs: bells, triangle, toy piano Gavin Bryars: double bass, organ, wood block BRYARS: 1, 2, 1-2-3-4 • The Squirrel and the Ricketty Racketty Bridge • HOBBS: Aran • McCrimmon will never return “A fascinating early collection … Christopher Hobbs — who, at age 18, had become a member of the legendary improvising group AMM — was still in his mid-twenties when he composed the two striking pieces represented … [while] Gavin Bryars was composing works of an extreme and imaginative experimental bent, and the charmingly tilted, ‘1, 2, 1-2-3-4’ is a wonderful example.” — All Music Guide A new archival release of the remastered Ensemble Pieces, the second of four albums released on Brian Eno’s Obscure Records series in 1975. These recordings, which achieved cult status after their original release, have not been available for many years. This is the first time that this particular album has been available since the late 1970s!

Gavin BRYARS & Christopher HOBBS Ensemble Pieces

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Disquiet Media Janine Jansen: violin Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski: conductor Kari Kriikku: clarinet Amsterdam Sinfonietta VAN DER AA: Violin Concerto for solo violin and orchestra • Hysteresis for solo clarinet, ensemble and soundtrack “Bristling with life.” — Financial Times With an enviable international reputation, violinist Janine Jansen works regularly with the world’s most eminent orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, and the New York Philharmonic. She was the Featured Artist at the 2014 BBC Proms, culminating in an appearance at the internationally-renowned Last Night of the Proms. This new recording combines two of Michel van der Aa’s recent pieces: the Violin Concerto, with Janine Jansen and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra recorded live in November 2014, and Hysteresis, performed by the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and Kari Kriikku.

Michel VAN DER AA

Violin Concerto & Hysteresis CD: DQM 5 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30

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Discovery Music & Vision Diana Brekalo: piano London Piano Trio GUNNING: Piano Sonata • Piano Trio “A pianist to listen out for.” — Classical Source ​ “A tremendously appealing soloist.” — Seen & Heard Most of award-winning composer Christopher Gunning’s work has been for orchestra, but he has always wanted to write a work for solo piano. “So when Diana Brekalo came along, having impressed me with performances of contemporary music as well as Prokofiev and Rachmaninov, I leapt at the opportunity to write something which would explore her extraordinary technique and musicianship,” he says. Diana premiered this work in a concert at a church in Notting Hill Gate in March 2015, and it receives its premiere recording here. The album also includes a Piano Trio commissioned by the London Piano Trio in early 2014.

Christopher GUNNING Piano Sonata & Piano Trio

CD: DMV 117 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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LAWO Classics Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Opus 250

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Andrew Litton: conductor BERG: Concerto for viola and orchestra • ULVO: Shadows and Shields • SÖDERLIND: Horns in Landscapes • PAUS: Concerto for timpani and orchestra Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates its 250th anniversary with a new CD! For this splendid celebration, the musicians of the orchestra asked their favorite Norwegian composers to create new music for them. All the works took shape in a dialogue between the composers and the soloists.

CD: LAW 1089 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Johann Gottlob SCHNEIDER The Koenig Organ Halgeir Schiager: organ SCHNEIDER: Dank – Und Jubelpraeludium • Fantasia and Fugue, Op. 1 • Fantasia and Fugue, Op. 3 • Twelve Pieces for Organ, Op. 4 • Theme and Variations 1–18

CD: LAW 1090 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

Organist Halgeir Schiager’s first release on the LAWO Classics label is a tribute to German composer and organist Johann Gottlob Schneider (1789–1864). Today Schneider is virtually forgotten, but in his time he was compared to Paganini and given the sobriquet “king of organists.” He represents organ literature between Bach and Mendelssohn, traditionally regarded as a period of decline.

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Knut Erik Sundquist & Nils Anders Mortensen Tundra: music for double bass and piano

Knut Erik Sundquist: double bass/Nils Anders Mortensen: piano KOUSSEVITZKY: Andante • Valse Miniature • Chanson Triste • Humoresque • GLIERE: Preludium • Scherzo • Intermezzo • Tarantella • ALEXANDROV: Aria • Canzona Ditirambica • RACHMANINOV: Vocalise

CD: LAW 1092 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

Tundra, featuring exclusively Russian music, is Knut Erik Sundquist and Nils Mortensen’s second CD. Although average listeners may not be familiar with the names Serge Koussevitzky, Reinhold Glière, and Anatoly Alexandrov, they will be surprised at how romantic, virtuoso, and soulful the music is. Knut Erik Sundquist (b. 1961) is one of the leading double bassists of our time. He studied in Vienna, under Professor Ludwig Streicher, before assuming the position of assistant principal double bass with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Nils Anders Mortensen studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music, École Normale in Paris, and Hochschule für Musik in Hannover with Einar Steen-Nøkleberg. He has appeared as soloist with Norway’s leading orchestras.

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LAWO Classics J.S. BACH

Sonatas [Hybrid SACD] Kåre Nordstoga: organ J.S. BACH: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 538 • Trio Sonata No. 1 in E flat major, BWV 525 • Trio Sonata No. 2 in C minor, BWV 526 • Trio Sonata No. 3 in D minor, BWV 527 • Trio in D minor, BWV 583 • Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, BWV 564 • Organ Sonata No. 4 in E minor, BWV 528 • Organ Sonata No. 5 in C major, BWV 529 • Organ Sonata No. 6 in G major, BWV 530 • Canzona in D minor, BWV 588

CD: LAW SACD 1087 Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Slimline, Box Lot 25 d

Fourth recording in Kåre Nordstoga’s series of Bach’s organ works. Playing the organ requires the ability to maneuver independent lines in both the hands and the pedals, and this is perfected playing Bach’s sonatas.

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Trond KVERNO

Credo: A Composer Portrait [Hybrid SACD] Bergen Cathedral Choir/Kjetil Almenning: conductor/Arnfinn Tobiassen: organ KVERNO: Intrada over en norsk langeleiklåt • Canticum Zachariae • Toccata over Herre Gud, ditt dyre navn og ære • Stabat Mater Dolorosa • Agnus Dei • Salve Regina • Triptychon II • Tre Folketonefantasier • Symbolum Nicaenum

CD: LAW SACD 1091 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

This CD features Trond Kverno’s most important choral and organ works, composed from the early 1970s up to 2004, all collected on one recording. Bergen Cathedral Choir, with conductor Kjetil Almenning, collaborated with organist Arnfinn Tobiassen on this recording in commemoration of Kverno’s 70th birthday.

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Oslo Chamber Academy

The First Beauty [Hybrid SACD] Oslo Chamber Academy These works for wind octet — by Klein, Kvandal, and Yun — are regarded as cornerstones of the recent literature. Oslo Chamber Academy is a new ensemble featuring some of Scandinavia’s leading wind soloists. Oslo Philharmonic’s solo oboist, David Friedemann Strunck, is the founder and artistic director of the ensemble.

KLEIN: Divertimento • KVANDAL: Night Music, Op. 57 • YUN: Wind Octet with double bass ad libitum • Magnar Am: the first beauty CD: LAW SACD 1093 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Allegro Classical Welcomes iTinerant Gioacchino ROSSINI Espana alla Rossini

Anna Tonna: soprano/Emilio González Sanz: piano/Miguel Borallo: tenor/Cristina Gómez Tornamira: castanets/Aurelio Viribay: piano/Cuarteto Vocal Cavatina ROSSINI: A Granada • Amori Scendete • Nizza, Je Puis Sans Peine • Canzonetta Spagnuola • La Passeggiata (Anacreontica) • Aragonese • Sorzico • Tirana alla Spagnola (Rossinizzata) • Soirées Musicales: L’Invito • Les Amants de Séville (Tirana pour Deux Voix) • La Viuda del Náufrago • Soirées Musicales: La Promessa • Stabat Mater: Fac ut Portem • Bolero (1850) • O Giorno Sereno (premiere) CD: ITN 21 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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This project is unique in that it presents, for the first time, the songs of Rossini recorded on a Broadwood & Sons historical piano. It also contains the world premiere recording of the vocal quartet “O Giorno Sereno” that Rossini composed to honor his protector, the Spanish banker Alejandro Aguado.

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J.S. BACH & Dinu LIPATTI

Alberto Portugheis Plays Lipatti & Bach Alberto Portugheis: piano/Stefano Greco: piano/Joven Orquesta Leonesa/Georgina Sánchez: conductor

CD: ITN 22 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30

J.S. BACH: Concerto for Two Pianos in C Major, BWV 1061 • Chaconne from Partita No. 2 for Violin in D minor, BWV 1004, Transcription for Piano • LIPATTI: Nocturne • Sinfonía Concertante, Op. 5

Featuring two internationally well-known pianists, the Argentine Alberto Portugheis and the Italian Stefano Greco, this album presents two compositions of one of the greatest pianists in first part of the 20th century. In spite of his talent, the music of Dinu Lipatti (1917–1950) is not well recorded. This album offers the opportunity to hear this under-appreciated music, played by one of its biggest admirers.

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Juan TRIGOS TRIGOS

Dieter Hennings: guitar/Gonzalo Salazar: guitar/Leopoldo Saracino: guitar/and more TRIGOS: Clarinet Concerto • Concerto for Four Guitars I– VII • Danza Concertante

An overview of 20 years of the work of Mexican composer and conductor Juan Trigos (b. 1965).

Trigos is a very prolific composer, creator of the concept “Abstract Folklore,” a process in which he abstracts and assimilates various literary and vernacular musical traditions into a modern compositional rhetoric.

CD: ITN 23 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Allegro Classical Welcomes iTinerant La Bellemont Plaisir Sacre La Bellemont COUPERIN: Venite Exultemus Domino • Regina Coeli Laetare • Domine Salvum Fac Regem • Ad Te Levavi Oculos Meus • Motet de San Augustin • NIVERS: Prélude pour le l’Orgue • and more

CD: ITN EA 934 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25

François Couperin is the best-known member of a dynasty of musicians who — along with Lully and Rameau — transformed the music of the court he served to make it the most envied in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Couperin composed a large part of his sacred music while working as the king’s organist from 1693 to 1715, the year Louis XIV died. His petits motets stand out from the period, a departure from the Versailles grand motet extensively used by Lully.

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Francesco CORSELLI Dulze acento

Alicia Amo: soprano/Alexis Aguado: violin/Mercedes Ruiz: cello/Carlos García-Bernalt: harpsichord, organ/Juan Carlos de Múlder: archlute, baroque guitar/Andoni Mercero: violin, conductor CORSELLI: Dulze Acento, Voz Canora • Sonata for Violin and Bass in D Major, 1776 • Si aquel Monarca de Israel • Al Molino Venid, Finos Mortales • Sonata for Violin and Bass in D Minor, 1768 • O qué suerte, mi Dios

CD: ITN EA 306 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25

A selection of Francesco Corselli’s Sonatas and Arias for the Spanish Court of the 18th century.

The vocal line, by definition the most noteworthy feature of the pieces, combines passages revealing the composer’s talent for cantabile writing with episodes testing the singer’s skill using a refined, yet vigorous virtuoso technique.

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Duo MoEBius

La melodía encantada Mónica Campillo: clarinet/Emilio González Sanz: piano CACCINI: Amarilli, Mia Bella • J.S. BACH: Aria de la Suite en Re Mayor, BWV 1068 • FAURÉ: Après un Rêve • SCHUBERT: Ständchen • SAINT-SÄENS: El Carnaval de los Animales: El Cisne • and more

This new CD is aimed at all audiences, but especially at babies and expectant mothers. Duo MoEBius brings a wide swath of famous melodies, played on clarinet and piano. These powerful melodies will enchant not only children, but also their parents.

CD: ITN KID 3429 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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MPR Records The Band of the Honourable Artillery Company

Mit Blut und Eisen: German Military Music from Waterloo 1815 to Wipers 1915 The Band of the Honourable Artillery Company Tracks include a selection of German military music 1815–1915, with music composed by Beethoven, Müller, Schubert, Meyerbeer, Leonhardt, and many more A fascinating selection of military music played by German bands during the momentous 100 years between 1815 and 1915, this new CD includes a specially-commissioned History of German Military Music 1815–1915 and detailed program notes by military music historian Tony Dean.

CD: LNH MPR 41112 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Priory Records Simon Hogan

Great European Organs 97: Organ of Southwell Minster Simon Hogan: organ MARSHALL: Prelude and Chaconne • FRANCIS: Lament • ASHFIELD: Sonata for Organ • COX: Four Ikons of the Archangels • THIMAN: Three Pieces for Organ • BUSIAKIEWICZ: Epitaph: After Donald Crowhurst • WILLS: Introduction and Allegro

CD: PRI 1147 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

As the GEO series nears its closure at 100 releases, Priory is delighted to include this superb organ in the Minster at Southwell in Nottinghamshire. The series has been a pioneer of little-known or unrecorded repertoire, and this release is no exception, with probably all of the music new to the catalogues. Simon Hogan is a brilliant young organist (assistant at the Minster), and he shows off the instrument in fine style.

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Aliud Records Bassano Quartet

Eagles and Seven Tears Bassano Quartet/Daniël Brüggen: recorder HAYDN: Flute Quartet in D, Op. 5, No. 1 • PURCELL: Fantasia 11 • DOWLAND: Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares (1604) • TAVERNER: In Nomine • LUPO: Pavan • MOELKER: Koraal 1, Westerbork 1943 • PÄRT: Da pacem Domine • and more

CD: AUC 87 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

After their successful debut CD Torres del Alma, with quartets from the Spanish Renaissance, the Bassano Quartet came up with the idea to create a second CD featuring new music and arrangements for the Eagle recorder and a unique performance of the “Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares” of John Dowland with guest musician Daniël Brüggen. With this recording, the group aims to explore the extremes of the recorder quartet sound!

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Globe Records J.S. BACH

BRISK Plays Bach BRISK Recorder Quartet J.S. BACH: Concerto in C major, BWV 595 • Chorale Prelude ‘Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland’, BWV 659 • Chorale Prelude ‘An Wasserfluessen Babylon’, BWV 653 • Chorale ‘Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend’, BWV 332 • Chorale Prelude ‘Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend’, BWV 709 • Concerto in C minor, BWV 981 (after Marcello) • Fugue on a Theme by Corelli, BWV 579 • Allegro from Concerto in C minor (originally G minor), BWV 985 (after Telemann) • and more CD: GLE 5262 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

This CD introduces recorder virtuoso Susanna Borsch, the newest BRISK member after the departure of Saskia Coolen. The enormous collection of recorders employed in this recording makes for a kaleidoscopic sound palette; with every track the listener is surprised by new sounds.

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Querstand G. F. HANDEL Concerti

Baroque Orchestra Kreuzkirche, Dresden/Holger Gehring: conductor, organ HANDEL: Overture of the oratorio “Deborah” HWV 51 • Organ Concerto, Op. 4, No. 5 in F major HWV 293 • Organ Concerto, Op. 4, No. 2 in B flat major HWV 290 • Organ Concerto, Op. 7, No. 5 in G minor HWV 310 • Organ Concerto, Op. 7, No. 3 in B flat major HWV 308 (“Hallelujah Concerto”)

CD: QUE 1522 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

This new recording includes four Handel organ concertos, among them the famous Concerto Op. 7, No. 3 in B flat major, the so-called “Hallelujah Concerto” (with a theme excerpt from “Messiah”). The works were played in Dresden’s Kreuzkirche (Church of the Holy Cross) at the Horizontal Organ, making the situation comparable to Handel’s new Horizontal Organ at the Royal Theatre, Covent Garden (1739).

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Max REGER

Works for Choir a Cappella Isura Madrigal Chor/Johannes Buxbaum: conductor REGER: Vier Kirchengesänge WoO VI/20 • Acht geistliche Gesänge, Op. 138 • Aus: Drei Motetten, Op. 110

CD: QUE 1528 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Max Reger’s death in 2016, this new CD contains famous examples of his works for choir a cappella. Conducted by Johannes Buxbaum, former Cathedral Organist and Choir Director at Marienmünster Cathedral in Dießen am Ammersee, the CD was produced in cooperation with the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Phaedra

Syrius

CD: PHA 92091 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

CD: SYR 141470 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

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Ria Bollen

Francesco MANCINI

Ria Bollen: contralto

Jacques Vandeville: oboe/Jean-Michel Louchart: organ

Tracks include a selection of pieces by Vivaldi, J.S. Bach, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and more

F. MANCINI: Sette Sonate a Napoli

Homage to Ria Bollen

Sette Sonate a Napoli

The purpose of this CD, with its wonderful historic recordings, is to keep alive the memory of the golden voice of Belgian contralto Ria Bollen (b. 1942). The CD gathers a large selection of live recordings, made both at home and abroad, that takes into account both the quality and diversity of her recorded performances.

CuGate Classics

Francesco Mancini’s output includes 29 operas, oratorios, more than 200 secular cantatas, and instrumental music, often written for flute, cello, and continuo. Here, the sonatas are interpreted by oboe and organ; they are part of a series of 12 sonatas originally dedicated to the English Consul of Naples, John Fleetwood.

Vlad Records

CD: CUG SACD 12 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

CD: VLD 10 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30

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Béla BARTÓK & Astor PIAZZOLLA

Divertimento & Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas [Hybrid SACD]

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W.A. MOZART Shapeshifter K.581

Terra Nova/Vlad Weverbergh: clarinet/Anthony Romaniuk: piano Konzerthaus Chamber Orchestra Berlin/Sayako Kusaka: concertmaster MOZART: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581 BARTÓK: Divertimento for String Orchestra, Sz. 113 • Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56 • PIAZZOLLA: Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas Konzerthaus Chamber Orchestra Berlin was founded in 2009 by members of the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, which has played under the direction of Kurt Sanderling, Claus Peter Flor, and more. PLAYABLE IN ALL CD PLAYERS. For optimal sound, use compatible surround sound system.

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This is the only recording available that includes two different versions of Mozart’s famous Clarinet Quintet K.581. Terra Nova wants to draw the music lover’s attention to these forgotten arrangements, by putting the original work together with the historical arrangement in a single concert program.