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Marin Alsop

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Sergey PROKOFIEV (1891–1953)

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Scythian Suite • Autumn – Symphonic Sketch

Marin Alsop is an inspiring and powerful voice on the international music scene, a music director of vision and distinction who passionately believes that music has the power to change lives. Alsop took up the post of principal conductor of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra in 2012 and became music director in July 2013. She continues to steer the orchestra in its artistic and creative programming, recording ventures and in its education and outreach activities. Alsop led the orchestra on a European tour in 2012, with acclaimed performances at the BBC Proms in London and at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Born in New York City, Marin Alsop attended Yale University and received her master’s degree from The Juilliard School. Her conducting career was launched when, in 1989, she was a prizewinner at the Leopold Stokowski International Conducting Competition and in the same year was the first woman to be awarded the Koussevitzky Conducting Prize from the Tanglewood Music Center, where she was a pupil of Leonard Bernstein.

Symphony No. 3

São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop

This fourth volume in Marin Alsop’s acclaimed Prokofiev symphonic cycle features two of his most viscerally exciting works. Using material salvaged from his opera The Fiery Angel, the Third Symphony was hailed by Serge Koussevitzky at its 1929 première as ‘the best symphony since Tchaikovsky’s Sixth’. Originally commissioned as a ballet by Sergey Dyagilev but rejected as un-danceable, the Scythian Suite has become a popular orchestral showpiece, while Prokofiev retained a lifelong fondness for his dark-hued early symphonic sketch Autumn.

Key Features • Judging by the response to the previous volumes of this fruitful partnership with Marin Alsop and the excellent São Paulo Symphony Orchestra this new release will have no problems in becoming a market leader. The First and Second Symphonies disc (8.573353) was an Allmusic.com ‘Editor’s Choice’ for its “firstrate performance”, and the Fifth Symphony was described as “an outstanding achievement” by BBC Music Magazine, which also regarded the Fourth Symphony (8.573186) as “compelling”. The Bluray releases have also been widely acclaimed, with NBD0031 made Audiophile Audition ‘Best Disc of the Year’ in 2012, and prompting BBC Music Magazine to write, “this exceptional account of Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony is partnered by a revelatory performance of The Year 1941, while the recording bursts out of the speakers.”

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8.573353 l 747313335374 “Here, [Marin Alsop] has managed to raise my opinion of a symphony (No 2) that I tended to find as problematic as Prokofiev and the Parisians did. Iron and steel are in no short supply; what makes Alsop and the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra reach new heights is the warmth and detail that they bring to the music. There’s a beating heart underlying the motoric rhythms, and vulnerable flesh directly beneath the music’s cold, hard shell.” – International Record Review

“What is most compelling on this Blu-ray audio disc…is Alsop’s Prokofiev Second Symphony… [she] unleashes all the power and energy you could want, and her interpretations of the slower variations are brilliant…one has to declare her Prokofiev Second simply the best version on record. …the sound reproduction is excellent, perhaps the best in this series so far, and the São Paulo Symphony plays at world class level throughout. In sum, this is an indispensable disc for the Prokofiev enthusiast and a highly attractive recording for most listeners with an interest in early 20th century orchestral music. Highest recommendations!” – Classical Net

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“Alsop does a fine job characterizing the abundance of motoric material in the ballet, and she makes the lyrical moments in the symphony sound genuinely memorable. The orchestra plays very well throughout, and the sonics are naturally vivid… A fine disc.” – ClassicsToday.com

“Alsop is at her best in this repertory, and she leads a brilliant performance from the São Paulo Orchestra…audio is superb…rich, full and wide in dynamic range.” – ClassicalCDReview.com

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“The sound is glorious…this is a terrific recording that orchestra, conductor, engineers, and record label should be very proud of.” – American Record Guide

“There are a number of competitors to this new recording, but both Naxos’ exciting performance and firstrate surround sonics place it at the head of my current list.” – Audiophile Audition

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Antoni Wit

Krzysztof PENDERECKI (b. 1933)

Antoni Wit studied conducting with Henryk Czyz at the Academy of Music in Kraków, continuing his musical studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Immediately after completing his studies he was engaged as an assistant at the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra by Witold Rowicki. From 2002 to 2013 Antoni Wit was the managing and artistic director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir. He has made over 200 records, and in 2012 he received a GRAMMY® Award for Penderecki’s Fonogrammi, Horn Concerto and Partita (8.572482), and six other nominations for Penderecki’s St Luke Passion in 2004 (8.557149), A Polish Requiem in 2005 (8.557386–87), Seven Gates of Jerusalem in 2007 (8.557766), Utrenjain 2009 (8.572031) and Karol Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater in 2008 (8.570724) and Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4 in 2009 (8.570722). Antoni Wit is professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.

Magnificat Kadisz

Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir Antoni Wit The two works on this recording are separated by 35 years, during which time Penderecki made a decisive break with the post-war European avant-garde. In the Magnificat, chilling instrumental clusters, spectral sounds and impassioned rhetoric unite with tonality and counterpoint to deliver a work of monumental emotional power. Written to mark the 65th anniversary of the end of the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Kadisz is among the most distinctive of Penderecki’s later choral works in the stark contrasts between drama and sombre reflection of its individual sections.

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Key Features • Our magnificent catalogue of new recordings by Krzysztof Penderecki conducted by Antoni Wit guarantees massive interest in every new release, his versions of the symphonies (box set 8.505231) considered “the standard by which all others will be judged” by ClassicsToday.com. We have had success programming Penderecki’s earlier avant-garde ‘classics’ with his more romantic later works, such as the Credo and Cantata (8.572032) given ‘top recommendation’ status by ClassicsToday.com. The central placement of the tremendous Magnificat makes it an essential part of Penderecki’s oeuvre, our potent new performance easily able to replace the only complete alternative on CD, the EMI analogue recording by Polish Radio from 1972.

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Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

Warsaw Philharmonic Choir

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Darrell Ang

Zhou LONG (b. 1953)

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The Rhyme of Taigu • The Enlightened

Zhou LONG (b. 1953) and Chen YI (b. 1953) Symphony ‘Humen 1839’ New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Darrell Ang

Widely regarded as one of China’s leading composers, Pulitzer Prizewinning Zhou Long writes music which is consistently compelling. The Rhyme of Taigu revives the spirit of Chinese court music from the Tang dynasty (618-907 AD), drawing on traditional percussion instruments. Symphony ‘Humen 1839’, co-composed with Chen Yi, vividly commemorates the public burning of over 1000 tonnes of opium, an event that was to lead to the First Opium War between Great Britain and China. Key Features • The unique selling point about this disc is that it contains the first recordings of a man considered China’s leading contemporary classical composer, Zhou Long. A Pulitzer Prize-winner, he has lived in America for many years, teaching and composing widely. His music has been performed by orchestras worldwide – The Immortal (not on this disc) was played by the BBC Symphony at the Royal Albert Hall in London and The Enlightened was commissioned and first performed by the Kansas City Symphony. Zhou employs Chinese idioms vividly, not least percussion, and blends them with Western harmonies to create a very personal sound world.

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Darrell Ang’s triumph at the 50th Besancon International Young Conductor’s Competition, where he took all three top awards—Grand Prize, Audience Prize and Orchestra Prize—launched his international career leading to the music directorship of the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne and numerous guest conducting engagements. In his native Singapore he became the youngest associate conductor of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and served as the music director of the Singapore National Youth Orchestra. Darrell Ang’s uncommon gift was discovered at the age of four when he began to play the violin and piano. His training as a conductor was in St Petersburg followed by study at Yale.

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New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

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Gioachino ROSSINI (1792–1868) La gazza ladra

Luisa Islam-Ali-Zade, Mezzo-soprano María José Moreno, Soprano Marianna Rewerski, Alto Kenneth Tarver • Stefan Cifolelli • Pablo Cameselle, Tenors Giulio Mastrototaro • Bruno Praticò • Lorenzo Regazzo Maurizio Lo Piccolo • Damian Whiteley, Basses Classica Chamber Choir, Brno • Pavel Koňárek, Chorus-master Virtuosi Brunensis Alberto Zedda La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) marked a culmination of the convergence of serious and comic elements in Rossini’s work. The result is an ideal hybrid: a tragic opera with a happy ending that rises to the status of true opera seria. With its outstanding dramatic and musical qualities it remains one of Rossini’s greatest and most successful operas, a constant presence in the repertoire since its triumphant 1817 première in Milan. This performance is conducted by Alberto Zedda, who made his conducting début in 1956, produced the fi rst critical edition of La gazza ladra, and is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s foremost authorities on the operas of Rossini. Key Features • Though La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) is famous for its overture, the whole opera is rather surprisingly not currently represented on many recordings. The unique selling point of our release is the vastly experienced conductor Alberto Zedda, who made his debut in 1956, and who has worked extensively in Berlin, New York and London. Vitally he produced the first critical editions of many Rossini operas, including this one.

Alberto Zedda

Alberto Zedda has produced critical editions of operas, oratorios and cantatas, with particular attention to Rossini and music of the first half of the nineteenth century. He has served as director of Italian repertory at The New York City Opera and has been a member of the Editorial Committee of the Rossini Foundation since its establishment. He is currently director of the Pesaro Rossini Opera Festival and Honorary President of the German Rossini Society. He is probably the most experienced expert on and conductor of Rossini of our time. At his early début with the New York Philharmonic he came across some unplayable passages in the published edition of the Overture to Il bariere di Siviglia, thus unearthing the carelessness of tradition. In the 1960s he revised the score from the autograph, thus marking the beginning of modern, philologically exact Rossini scholarship and the now legendary Rossini revival.

Virtuosi Brunensis

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OTHER RELEASES IN THE ROSSINI IN WILDBAD SERIES NEW RELEASE 8.660363-66 l 730099036276 Guillaume Tell – First recording of the complete opera Foster-Williams, Spyres, J. Howarth Poznań Camerata Bach Choir Virtuosi Brunensis, Fogliani

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"Veteran Rossini conductor and scholar Alberto Zedda brings formidable stylistic command coupled with a deft, affectionate touch to this live recording of L’Italiana in Algeri, rendering it among the best available." – Opera News

"The performance is exuberant, the cast sounds like they are having a great time with Ory, and the Naxos sound and balances are excellent." – Fanfare

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"Any Rossini lover should have a recording of this opera. This recording is good…" – Fanfare

"This recording is a must for all who enjoy Rossini’s operas... It will take a proud place on my shelves alongside the twenty odd of the composers operas that are already there." – MusicWeb International CLICK HERE for more info

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"...this should prove to be another rewarding series from Naxos." – Fanfare

"Naxos has a winner here; this issue is strongly recommended." – Fanfare

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"Naxos’s recording quality is excellent— particularly for a live recording—with both instruments and voices captured with clarity and detail." – Opera News

"Calling all Rossinians--who will also enjoy spotting bits and pieces of some of the composer's other operas sprinkled throughout." – ClassicsToday.com

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"There’s a felicitous intimacy about this recording, helped by Rossini’s ever-present melodic invention..." – Fine Music

"This is a likable, polished performance of Il turco in Italia, full of energy and good spirits...a welcome addition to my Rossini collection." – Fanfare

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"Alberto Zedda conducts a taut, lively performance with a cast experienced in bel canto that sings with conviction, tossing off the runs and trills with ease, roulades everywhere, and punctuating the proceedings with some brilliant high notes." – Fanfare

"This issue…presents a genuinely useful and enjoyable addition to the Semiramide discography. Not since Naxos’s studio versions of Barbiere…has the company produced a Rossini title so competitive with existing versions." – Opera News

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"Veteran Rossini conductor and scholar Alberto Zedda leads a buoyant performance, in which the warm, intimate acoustic flatters his excellent Czech players." – Opera News

"Zedda, a Rossini expert, keeps the music bubbling along. – American Record Guide

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Playing Time 57:30 Giancarlo Guerrero

Joan TOWER (b. 1938)

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Stroke • Violin Concerto* †

Chamber Dance†

Cho-Liang Lin, Violin* Nashville Symphony Orchestra Giancarlo Guerrero †

WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING

Joan Tower creates music which is bold, colorful and communicative, her list of commissions and awards providing ample evidence of her ability to engage performers and audiences alike. Emotional intensity characterizes Stroke, which vividly conveys a stroke victim’s dramatic turmoil while also offering a vision of hope. The Violin Concerto, selected for the final round of the Pulitzer Prize in Music, is both a virtuoso showcase and a lyrical vehicle for the soloist, its conversational cadenzas representing a poignant exchange between the living and the departed. The deceptively titled Chamber Dance alternates huge blocks of sound with intimate solos and duets in an ever-evolving riot of colors. Joan Tower’s Made in America (8.559328) won three GRAMMY® awards. Key Features • This release joins some earlier successes on the Naxos label, the most significant of which being the triple GRAMMY® award winning Made in America (8.559328), admired by ClassicsToday.com for its “first-rate engineering [which] mirrors the music’s excitement and immediacy. Enthusiastically recommended!” Another strong album contains her Chamber and Solo Music (8.559215) with contributions from the Tokyo String Quartet and pianist Ursula Oppens. Internationally acclaimed violin soloist Cho-Liang Lin has a distinguished discography as a recording artist, including the “bracing energy” (Gramophone) of our Vivaldi Four Seasons (8.557920 and Blu-ray NBD0016), and this program of orchestral works.

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Giancarlo Guerrero is music director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO) and concurrently holds the position of principal guest conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra Miami Residency. In 2012, he led the Nashville Symphony to a GRAMMY® win with their recording of American composer Joseph Schwantner’s Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra (Naxos 8.559678). His previous recording with the orchestra of Michael Daugherty’s Metropolis Symphony (Naxos 8.559635) won three 2011 GRAMMY® Awards, including Best Orchestral Performance. Guerrero holds degrees from Baylor and Northwestern universities.

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Nashville Symphony Orchestra

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Gian Francesco MALIPIERO (1882–1973) Sinfonia degli eroi† Dai sepolcri† • Ditirambo tragico† Armenia† • Grottesco

Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra Amaury du Closel †

WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING

Five vividly contrasting works, four of them in world première recordings, make up this latest issue in the Naxos series of orchestral music by the Italian composer Gian Francesco Malipiero. Visions of heroism and death form the cornerstone of the release, in the Ditirambo tragico (Tragic Dithyramb) composed during the First World War, and in Malipiero’s two earliest surviving pieces, Dai sepolcri (From ‘Tombs’) and the Sinfonia degli eroi (Symphony of Heroes). They are heard alongside the deceptively relaxed charm of Armenia, based on traditional Armenian melodies, and the varied, pungently Stravinskian moods of the aptly titled Grottesco (Grotesque).

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Key Features • The Sinfonia degli eroi (Symphony of Heroes) is the earliest of the seventeen pieces Malipiero called ‘Symphony’, and the only one that has never previously been recorded. The others are available as the five-disc series Naxos 8.570878 to Naxos 8.570882. The T.S.S.O. can also be heard in works by Malipiero’s contemporary Ildebrando Pizzetti [8.572013].

Amaury du Closel

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Ignatz WAGHALTER (1881–1949) New World Suite

World Première Recordings

Overture and Intermezzo from ‘Mandragola’ Mazaryk’s Peace March

New Russia State Symphony Orchestra Alexander Walker

Ignatz Waghalter rose from an impoverished childhood in Poland to become conductor at the newly founded Deutsches Opernhaus in Berlin in 1912. Here, the first performance of his youthful comic opera Mandragola, attended by luminaries such as Richard Strauss, Busoni, and Humperdinck, won him huge acclaim: the Overture and Intermezzo reveal his orchestral mastery. With the rise of Nazism Waghalter left Europe for America where he strongly identified with the Afro-American cause, and began work on the New World Suite, ten short movements of rich melodic imagination that illustrate his constant desire to write approachable and lively music. Volume 1 in this series [8.572809] was an ICMA (International Classical Music Awards) nominee.

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Key Features • Fanfare praised Volume 1 of this series as being ‘a recording that belongs in every collection’. Waghlater was a Polishborn composer who rose to fame in Berlin, where his life was later to be blighted by the rise of the Nazis. His music remains little-known and performed but is lyrical and very approachable. This disc charts Alexander Walker his course from Berlin to New York, where he went in 1937, and became identified with trying to establish an Afro-American orchestra. Companion Title

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John Georgiadis

Contemporaries of the Strauss Family, Vol. 1

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SCHRAMMEL • IVANOVICI • LANNER FAHRBACH JR • SCHMID • GUNG’L FETRÁS • ZIEHRER • HELLMESBERGER JR. LINCKE • MILLÖCKER • CZIBULKA Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice John Georgiadis

The music of the Strauss family is justifiably famous, but many other talented composers were producing popular music of comparable quality in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawn from a unique collection of original archive material compiled by The Johann Strauss Society of Great Britain, much of which has been reconstructed or orchestrated by John Georgiadis, this first volume of two presents world première recordings of works by many undeservedly forgotten central European light music composers.

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Key Features • Our vast, complete Johann Strauss II Edition and numerous titles dedicated to the Strauss family on the Marco Polo label stand as uniquely monumental and significant resources, keeping alive a musical era of joyous entertainment and the glamour of the ballroom. Compiled by The Johann Strauss Society of Great Britain to celebrate their 50th Anniversary, the sheer wealth of this album’s stylishness and novelty will prove irresistible to the many fans of this era. The many reconstructions and new orchestrations made by conductor John Georgiadis lend a pioneering feel to this release, which will be followed by an equally collectable second volume in July 2015.

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John Georgiadis started playing the violin at the age of six, which led to a career as a professional violinist culminating in his being appointed leader, first with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and then the London Symphony Orchestra at the age of 26. He held the latter position for fourteen years. He was a founder member of the London Virtuosi Chamber Ensemble and Orchestra and also played as first violin in the celebrated Gabrieli String Quartet. His interest in conducting began in the mid-1970s, and he studied orchestration for eight years under the legendary conductor and teacher Sergiu Celibidache. Throughout his conducting career he has made a speciality of Viennese music and has recorded Strauss family music in particular with top British orchestras, and also worldwide, including for Naxos. He is a longstanding honorary member of The Johann Strauss Society of Great Britain.

Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice

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Frottole

Popular Songs of Renaissance Italy Ring Around Quartet & Consort

Set to vernacular texts dealing mainly with the theme of love, frottole were short, improvisatory polyphonic songs with instrumental accompaniment that flourished in the Renaissance courts of Italy for some forty years between c. 1480 and 1520. Despite its apparent simplicity, this completely new genre of song inspired some of Europe’s greatest vocal and instrumental musicians. The recent invention of movable type added further to its popularity. This recording explores a representative selection, including work published by the historically pivotal figure of Ottaviano Petrucci.

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Key Features • This disc offers a representative selection of Frottola, improvisatory and chordal songs that set quite straightforward texts that generally dealt with the theme of love, and were written in the Italian vernacular (rather than Latin). While late fifteenth-century Italian art music was strongly influenced by the work of Franco-Flemish composers, the frottola established itself as a purely home-grown genre. There are both vocal and instrumental items in this disc, performed on historical instruments and recorded in Genova in Italy. The group Ring Around is a vocal ensemble with an instrumental consort and is a visually very exciting ensemble. They have performed widely in Italy and have performed at La Fenice in Venice, the city that was one of the great publishing hot houses of the Frottola. Companion Title

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Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD (1897–1957) The Adventures of Robin Hood Moscow Symphony Orchestra William Stromberg

On its first appearance on the Marco Polo label, this recording was acclaimed as ‘a model of what these things should be’ (Fanfare) and that no release on the label was ‘better or more important than this’ (ClassicsToday.com). It presents a definitive restoration of Korngold’s music for the 1938 Warner Bros.’ production of The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring the ultimate swashbuckler, Errol Flynn, and still one of the most-loved of all motion pictures. Throughout – and to an unprecedented degree – Korngold captures its lavish spectacle, romance, colour, pageantry and humour in his magnificent score. Also included is the Original Theatre Trailer Music, not previously available on CD.

William Stromberg

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Key Features • This is ex-Marco Polo 5.220501 which was first released over a decade ago and is now migrating to Naxos. It received huge critical acclaim, and is still a staple TV film, much loved. John Morgan’s restoration allows this magnificent music – rich in colour and pageantry and romance – to be enjoyed again. Note also that the Original Theatre Trailer Music, which was not on the Marco Polo CD and was only on the DVD [5.220501], is included.

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Florent SCHMITT (1870–1958) Sonate libre

Recordings

Habeyssé† • 4 Pièces† Chant du soir† • Sherzo vif†

MAY 2015

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Beata Halska, Violin Claudio Chaiquin, Piano †

WORLD PREMIÈRE DIGITAL RECORDING

Florent Schmitt was one of the most original French composers of his generation, and his chamber music shows him at his most personal. The Quatre Pièces, Op. 25 are evocatively lyrical while the Scherzo vif brims with intricate but fiery virtuosity. The Sonate libre, Op. 68 remains one of his most admired works, a bold diptych with lyric rhapsody at its core but one that also evokes the tragedies of the First World War. The late masterpiece Habeyssé, Op. 110 reveals the explosive power and subtle poetry of Schmitt’s imagination.

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Beata Halska

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Claudio Chaiquin

Key Features • Schmitt is popular for those interested in the FrancoBelgian schools of composition in the period between the end of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth-centuries. For so important a composer there is surprisingly little competition for these works. Hebeyssé is one of most important late statements, with no current competition listed on Arkivmusic, whilst the Sonate libre dates from 1919. A recent recording on Genuin couples it with works by Jan Ingenhoven and the Hungarian Laszlo Lajtha, fine works, but not as appropriate as our all-Schmitt focus.

Edward GERMAN (1862–1936) Works for Violin and Piano

Recordings

Souvenir • Song Without Words • Bolero Pastorale • Cradle Song† • Pavane • Album Leaf† Chanson d’Amour† • Berceuse • Intermezzo • Nocturne† Saltarelle • Molto Perpetuo • Bourrée • The Sprite’s Dance†

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Andrew Long, Violin • Ian Buckle, Piano †

WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING

Although orchestral music and operettas such as Tom Jones (Naxos 8.660270-71) were Edward German’s main focus as composer, he wrote a dozen or so works specifically for violin and piano, most of them during his time at the Royal Academy of Music, where he was recognised as a gifted violinist, and the years immediately following. Many of these pieces were written for his own use, including his earliest known compositions. From the beguiling charm of salon pieces such as the Chanson d’Amour to the haunting Souvenir, these works are exquisitely crafted miniatures, several of which have remained unheard for over a century. Playing Time: 63:22 © Fiona Johnson

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Key Features • Edward German is not a name which has not appeared frequently in the catalogues of late, but this programme of largely première recordings of his little-known music for violin forms part of a wave of renewed appreciation for British music in the Romantic tradition. We have championed German’s music considerably in the past via the Marco Polo label, our ‘Best of British Light Music’ series, Andrew Long Ian Buckle and more recently a première complete recording of the operetta Tom Jones (8.660270-71). This was a MusicWeb International ‘Recording of the Year’, and Gramophone wrote that “this Naxos release admirably makes the point that there was a great deal more to pre-World War I British musical theatre than just Gilbert & Sullivan.”

CHIAYU (b. 1975) Journeys

World Première Recordings

Urban Sketches • Journey to the West • Twelve Signs Huan • Sparkle • Zhi

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Members of the Curtis Institute of Music Members of the Philadelphia Orchestra • Ciompi Quartet Chiayu’s evocative music reflects her origins in Taiwan and responses to life in the West, an environment in which her career has been burgeoning with a remarkable number of commissions and awards. Zhi explores counterpoint and Taiwanese rhythmic patterns, the title meaning “to weave or to interlace”, while Huan conjures up sounds from nature. Employing virtuoso non-traditional techniques, the Twelve Signs of the Chinese zodiac portrays a complete cycle of character traits, while Journey to the West depicts an allegorical adventure towards enlightenment. The brilliance of Sparkle was inspired by fireworks and includes special brass-instrument effects, while Urban Sketches takes us on a walk through New York City, with electronic sounds interwoven seamlessly with those of the musicians.

Playing Time: 76:17 © Les Todd

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Key Features • The name Chiayu will be unfamiliar to many, but she is a rising star of contemporary music having already received numerous awards and honors. She is currently in post as an assistant professor of composition at UW-Eau Claire. Journey to the West was winner of the 2013 IAWM Search for New Music and was featured in the fall 2013 issue of the IAWM journal. The combination of Chinese musical elements, western techniques and a vivacious response to a variety of narrative themes and experiences is proving irresistible to her ever-increasing audience. Writing on a performance of Zhi the London Telegraph reviewer concluded, “I reckon she's the one to watch."

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Franz LISZT (1811–1886) Complete Piano Music, Vol. 39

Transcriptions of Works by Johann Sebastian Bach Suzanne Husson, Piano

Key Features • This is volume 39 of the complete solo piano music of Liszt. Between 1842 and 1850 he arranged the Six Preludes and Fugues BWV543548 originally written for organ. He made minimal amendments but the fugues made exceptionally virtuosic demands on the performer. In the case of the Fantasie and Fugue in G minor, BWV542 Suzanne Husson he employed considerably more elaboration. Bach had previously worked in Weimar so it could be said that Liszt was paying homage to his eminent predecessor. Liszt was also active in the reclamation and performance of Bach’s music. This volume is played by Suzanne Husson, who recorded the music of Manuel Martínez-Sobral on Marco Polo [8.225014 and 8.225188] of whom the American Record Guide wrote; her ‘transparent, polished pianism is perfect. An ideal interpreter.’ Companion Titles

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Johann Sebastian BACH (1685–1750) Works for Harpsichord Aapo Häkkinen, Harpsichord

J. S. Bach was one of the most renowned keyboardists of his day, and he left a rich legacy of music for harpsichord originally intended for instruction and ‘spiritual refreshment’. This recording of mostly lesser-known works includes several early examples which afford fascinating insights into the young composer’s experimentation with counterpoint, harmony and form. They are all compelling, emotionally powerful works in their own right, with virtuoso content and an expressive range that easily matches that of Bach’s more famous keyboard pieces.

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Key Features • This is Aapo Häkkinen’s solo debut for Naxos though he has appeared in several of our highly successful chamber music recordings, including “impressive accounts” (Penguin Classical Guide) of the J.S. Bach Viola da Gamba sonatas (8.570210), as well as conducting the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra “stylishly and with plenty of expressive force” (ClassicsToday.com on vol. 2 of the symphonies of F.X. Richter, 8.570597). Häkkinen highlights intricate and virtuoso masterpieces by Bach which are more commonly hidden within ambitious and expensive box sets, providing a service which will be widely appreciated. Companion Titles

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Naxos Audiobooks The Aeneid

By Virgil Unabridged Read by David Collins

9 781843 798866

The masterpiece of Rome’s greatest poet, Virgil’s Aeneid has inspired generations of readers and holds a central place in Western literature. The epic tells the story of a group of refugees from the ruined city of Troy, whose attempts to reach a promised land in the West are continually frustrated by the hostile goddess Juno. Finally reaching Italy, their leader Aeneas is forced to fight a bitter war against the natives to establish the foundations from which Rome is destined to rise. This magnificent poem, in the modern translation by Cecil Day Lewis, is superbly read by David Collins. Companion Titles

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Playing Time: 12.5 hours

Les Misérables

By Victor Hugo Unabridged Read by Bill Homewood

9 781843 798965

Les Misérables is set in Paris after the French Revolution. In the sewers and backstreets we encounter ‘the wolf-like tread of crime’, and assassination for a few sous is all in a day’s work. We weep with the unlucky and heart-broken Fantine, and we exult with the heroic revolutionaries of the barricades; but above all we thrill to the steadfast courage and nobility of soul of ex-convict Jean Valjean, always in danger from the relentless pursuit of the diabolical Inspector Javert. Companion Titles

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Playing Time: 65 hours

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume III: 1667−1669

By Samuel Pepys Unabridged Read by Leighton Pugh, with David Timson

9 781843 798439

The Diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the most entertaining documents in English history. Written between 1660 and 1669, as Pepys was establishing himself as a key administrator in the Navy Office, it is an intimate portrait of life in 17th-century England, covering his professional and personal activities, including, famously, his love of music, theatre, food, wine and his peccadilloes. This Naxos AudioBooks production is the world-premiere recording of the diary in its entirety. It has been divided into three volumes. Volume III presents the last three years of Pepys’s diary. By now he was in his midthirties and confident in his ability to deal with differing political factions within the Navy Office; his affection for his wife Elizabeth grows ever stronger despite wandering eyes, and he finds he is worth £6,000 and more − a considerable sum for the son of a tailor, who started with nothing. His concerns with his eyes grow, and it is with some regret that he stops writing his diary at the end of May 1669. NA0176 29 CD set

Playing Time: 36 hours

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PROKOFIEV, S.: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 / Dreams

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PROKOFIEV, S.: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 / Dreams (Blu-ray audio)

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Marin Alsop & the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra's Prokofiev Cycle 8.570435

747313043576

SCHWARZ-SCHILLING, R.: Orchestral Works, Vol 1 - Sinfonia diatonica / Symphony in C Major / Introduction and Fugue

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PROKOFIEV, S.: Symphony No. 4 / The Prodigal Son

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TYBERG, M.: Symphony No. 2 / Piano Sonata No. 2

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PROKOFIEV, S.: Symphony No. 4 / The Prodigal Son (Blu-ray audio)

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TYBERG, M.: Symphony No. 3 / Piano Trio

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PROKOFIEV, S.: The Year 1941 / Symphony No. 5

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WAGHALTER, I.: Violin Concerto / Rhapsody / Violin Sonata

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PROKOFIEV, S.: Symphony No. 5 / The Year 1941 (Blu-ray audio) 8.553840

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AGRICOLA, A.: Fortuna desperata - Secular Music of the 15th Century

Early Music Series

Antoni Wit & the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra 8.573061

747313306176

BRAHMS, J.: Ein Deutsches Requiem

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747313298372

Animoso mio desire - 16th-Century Italian Keyboard Favourites

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BRAHMS, J.: Ein Deutsches Requiem (Blu-ray audio)

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Codex Faenza: Instrumental Music of the Early 15th Century

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DVOŘÁK, A.: Requiem

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730099469425

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GÓRECKI, H.: Antoni Wit conducts Henryk Górecki (3-cd box set)

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747313061075

Contemporary Chinese Classics Series SHENG, Bright: The Blazing Mirage / The Song and Dance of Tears / Colors of Crimson

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747313060870

TAN, Dun: Symphony Poem of 3 Notes / Orchestral Theatre / Concerto for Orchestra (after Marco Polo)

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YE, Xiaogang: The Macau Bride Suite / 4 Poems of Lingnan

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ZHOU, Long: Su / Pianogongs / Taiping Drum / Wild Gradd / Taigu Rhyme / CHEN, Yi: Monologue / Chinese Ancient Dances

Early Venetian Lute Music Film Music Classics Series

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ARNOLD, M.: The Roots of Heaven / David Copperfield

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KHACHATURIAN, A.: Othello Suite / The Battle of Stalingrad Suite

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KORNGOLD, E.W.: The Sea Hawk / Deception

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PERRY, W.: Music for Great Films of the Silent Era, Vol. 2 20th-century French Classics

Gioachino Rossini, composer

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DUKAS, P.: Symphony in C Major / The Sorcerer's Apprentice / La péri

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French Flute Quintets - TOURNIER, M. / SCHMITT, F. / PIERNE, G. / FRANÇAIX, J. / ROUSSEL, A. French Piano Trios, Vol. 1

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ROSSINI, G.: Ciro in Babilonia

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730099593427

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ROSSINI, G.: Guillaume Tell [Opera] (complete version)

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ROSSINI, G.: Il Turco in Italia

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ROSSINI, G.: La Donna del lago

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GERMAN, E.: Nell Gwyn / Gipsy Suite / Henry VIII

ROSSINI, G.: Le Comte Ory

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GERMAN, E.: Piano Works

ROSSINI, G.: Le Siege de Corinthe

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GERMAN, E.: Richard III / Theme and Six Diversions / The Seasons

8.660270-71

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GERMAN, E.: Tom Jones [operetta]

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HOVHANESS, A.: Symphony No. 48 / Prelude and Quadruple Fugue / Soprano Saxophone Concerto

8.660207-08 8.660329-30

730099620727 730099032971

8.660087-88

730099608725

ROSSINI, G.: L'Equivoco stravagante

8.660233-34

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ROSSINI, G.: L'Inganno felice

SCHMITT, F.: Piano Music - La Tragedie de Salome / Ombres / Mirages Edward German, composer

American Classics Series

8.660284-85

730099028479

ROSSINI, G.: L'Italiana in Algeri

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8.660314-15

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ROSSINI, G.: L'Occasione fa il ladro

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KERNIS, A.J.: Three Flavors / Two Movements (with Bells) / Superstar Etude No. 3

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ROSSINI, G.: Maometto Secondo

8.660220-21

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ROSSINI, G.: Mose in Egitto

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PAINE, J.K.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 - Symphony No. 2 / Oedipus Tyrannis: Prelude / Poseidon and Amphitrite

8.660275-76

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ROSSINI, G.: Otello

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ROCHBERG, G.: Complete Flute Music, Vol. 1

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ROSSINI, G.: Semiramide

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ROSSINI, G.: Torvaldo e Dorliska

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LISZT, F.: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 35 - Russian Transcriptions

Joan Tower, composer

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LISZT, F.: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 36 - Wagner Transcriptions

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TOWER, J.: Chamber and Solo Music

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747313280872

LISZT, F.: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 37 - Sonetti di Petrarca / Venezia e Napoli / Recueillement

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TOWER, J.: Made in America / Tambor / Concerto for Orchestra

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LISZT, F.: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 38 Transcriptions and Arrangements of Handel, Gounod, Spohr and Raff

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BACH, J.S.: Viola da Gamba Sonatas, BWV 1027-1029 / Trios

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COUPERIN, F.: Suites for Viola da gamba / Pieces de Clavecin: 27th Ordre RICHTER, F.X.: Sonatas for Flute, Harpsichord and Cello, Vol. 1 - Sonate da camera: Nos. 1-3

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Franz Liszt, composer

Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor & the Nashville Symphony Orchestra 8.559707

636943970720

DANIELPOUR, R.: Darkness in the Ancient Valley / Lacrimae Beati / A Woman's Life

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DAUGHERTY, M.: Metropolis Symphony / Deus ex Machina

Aapo Häkkinen, harpsichord

Strauss Family Contemporaries 8.225021

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HELLMESBERGER: Waltzes and Quadrilles from Vienna

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KOMZAK I, K. / KOMZAK II, K.: Waltzes, Marches and Polkas, Vol. 2

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ZIEHRER, C.M.: Selected Dances and Marches, Vol. 3 NAX42812

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HOMER: The Iliad (Unabridged)

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MALIPIERO, G.F.: Fantasie di orgni giorno / Passa caglie / Concerti

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HOMER: The Odyssey (Unabridged)

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MALIPIERO, G.F.: Impressioni dal vero / Pause del silenzio

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MALIPIERO, G.F.: Symphonies, Vol. 3 - Nos. 5, 6, 8 and 11

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MALIPIERO, G.F.: Symphonies, Vol. 4 - No. 7 / Sinfonia in un tempo / Sinfonia per Antigenida

RICHTER, F.X.: Sonatas for Flute, Harpsichord and Cello, Vol. 2 - Sonate da camera: Nos. 4-6

Audiobooks - Classical Fiction

Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer

VIRGIL: The Aeneid (Abridged) Audiobooks - Victor Hugo, author

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9781843797913

HUGO, V.: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Unabridged)

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HUGO, V.: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Abridged)

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HUGO, V.: Les Misérables (Abridged) Audiobooks - Samuel Pepys, author

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9789626342886

PEPYS, S.: Selections from the Diary of Samuel Pepys (Abridged)

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9781843798392

PEPYS, S.: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume I: 1660-1663 (Unabridged)

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PEPYS, S.: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume II: 1664-1666 (Unabridged)

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Contemporaries of the Strauss Family, Vol. 1 - SCHRAMMEL / IVANOVICI / LANNER / SCHMID / GUNG'L / LINCKE (Czech Chamber PO Pardubice, John Georgiadis)

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747313269778

PENDERECKI, K.: Magnificat / Kadisz (Warsaw PO and Choir, Antoni Wit)

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PROKOFIEV, S.: Symphony No. 3 / Scythian Suite / Autumn - Symphonic Sketch (São Paulo SO, Marin Alsop)

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PROKOFIEV, S.: Symphony No. 3 / Scythian Suite / Autumn - Symphonic Sketch (São Paulo SO, Marin Alsop) (Blu-ray Audio)

8.660369-71

730099036979

ROSSINI, G.: La gazza ladra ( Classica Chamber Choir Brno, Virtuosi Brunensis, Alberto Zedda)

8.559775

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TOWER, J.: Stroke / Violin Concerto / Chamber Dance (Cho-Liang Lin, Nashville SO, Giancarlo Guerrero)

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ZHOU, Long: The Rhyme of Taigu / The Englightened / ZHOU, Long & CHEN, Yi: Symphony 'Humen 1839' (New Zealand SO, Darrell Ang) More Exciting New Releases

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BACH, J.S.: Works for Harpsichord (Aapo Häkkinen)

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CHIAYU: Journeys / Urban Sketches / Journey to the West / Twelve Signs / Huan / Sparkle / Zhi (Member of the Curtis Institute of Music, Members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Ciompi Quartet)

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Frottole - Popular Songs of Renaissance Italy (Ring Around Quartet & Consort)

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GERMAN, E.: Souvenir / Pastorale / Song Without Words / Bolero (Andrew Long, Ian Buckle)

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KORNGOLD, E.W.: The Adventures of Robin Hood (Moscow SO, William Stromberg)

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LISZT, F.: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 39 - Transcriptions of Works by J.S. Bach (Suzanne Husson)

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747313276677

MALIPIERO, G.F.: Sinfonia degli eroi / Dai sepolcri / Ditirabo tragio / Armenia / Grottesco (Tessaloniki State SO, Amaury du Closel)

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747313316977

SCHMITT, F.: Habeyssé / 4 Pièces / Chant du soir / Scherzo vif (Beata Halska, Claudio Chaiquin)

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WAGHALTER, I.: New World Suite / Overture and Intermezzo from 'Mandragola' / Mazaryk's Peace March (New Russia State SO, Alexander Walker) Naxos Audiobooks New Releases

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HUGO, V.: Les Misérables (Unabridged)

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PEPYS, S.: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume III: 1667-1669 (Unabridged)

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VIRGIL: The Aeneid (Unabridged)

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