April 2017 Catalogue Issue 12 Prices valid until Friday 26 May 2017 unless stated otherwise 0115 982 7500 [email protected] Your Account Number: {MM:Account Number} {MM:Postcode} {MM:Address4} {MM:Address3} {MM:Address2} {MM:Address1} {MM:Name} 1 Welcome! Dear Customer, Welcome to another bumper catalogue! The ‘season’ for selling recorded music in the UK tends to be focused around autumn and winter, perhaps reflecting the times of year in which we are more likely to be tucked up inside, making the most of the listening opportunities. As we move into spring, things will start to quieten down, but we are pleased to say that April’s offering remains strong, and we will be doing our best to continue presenting you with irresistible selections throughout the summer! 2017 sees 30 years since the launch of pioneering record label, Naxos, one that has become a favourite of many. Founded in 1987 by Klaus Heymann, their commitment to releasing budget-priced recordings ever since has brought them huge success as well as frequent critical acclaim. They now boast a catalogue of over 9000 titles, predominantly featuring classical music, and have proved an excellent source of recordings to anyone wanting to build a classical collection. They have also built an international reputation as being one of the most important distributors of classical music to record stores around the world, not only supplying their own label, but also many other top quality independent labels such as Hyperion, Chandos, BIS and Opus Arte. From our point of view, they have always been a pleasure to deal with, hugely supportive of independent music sellers, and we would like to offer them our heartfelt congratulations on their achievements over the last 30 years. You will see various Naxos offers crop up throughout the year, including current reductions on their ‘Opera’ series (March catalogue) and a selection of 30 titles ‘rolled-back’ to just £4.95 each (found on p.42 of this catalogue). We are also pleased to be able to offer a very special price on their ‘30�� Anniversary Collection’ boxset, featuring 30 of their finest recordings from the last 30 years at less than £1 per CD. See p.3 and the enclosed leaflet for further details. New release highlights for April include Ravel from Les Siecles (below - we can’t recommend this highly enough!), Wagner from Sir Mark Elder, Vaughan Williams from Andrew Manze and Stravinsky from Knussen, Birtwistle et al, amongst many others. Headline special offers include the complete catalogues of BIS, Signum, Capriccio, Lyrita and Arthaus, plus we have an interesting selection of titles from smaller labels, Ramee, Phi and Vivat. A couple of reminders: don’t forget that we will be closed for the bank holidays around Easter (14-17 April); and please remember that the current offers from DG and Decca must end on Friday 21 April 2017, slightly earlier than the rest of the March catalogue. Best regards as always from, The Europadisc Team DISC OF THE MONTH Ravel - Daphnis & Chloé (complete ballet) £11.95 Les Siecles, Francois-Xavier Roth or pay just Harmonia Mundi HMM 905280 £8.95 Daphnis & Chloé is conceived as a ballet in one act and three parts, and tells the story of the love between the shepherd Daphnis and the shepherdess Chloé. A warlike tableau is if your order value framed by two pastoral ones: in the first, Daphnis and Chloé acknowledge their mutual exceeds £50* love following a dance contest that provokes the jealousy of each of them in turn. The * to qualify for the special price, interruption of a group of pirates, who abduct Chloé, puts an end to the rejoicing. The your order value must exceed a total of £50 excluding this second tableau depicts the pirate camp; the captive girl is commanded to dance for her recording and before any abductors. In the final tableau, Chloé is restored to Daphnis through a miracle of the applicable carriage charges. Offer available while stocks last. god Pan, whom the nymphs have called on for help. After miming the tale of Pan and Syrinx, the young lovers let their joy burst forth in a General Dance of dazzling orgiastic virtuosity. The orchestral forces are the largest Ravel ever employed and he adds a mixed chorus that sometimes hums and sometimes sings. As we have come to expect, François-Xavier Roth has gone through Ravel's much- amended score with a fine-tooth comb and subsequently showed himself capable, in a ‘historically informed’ performance, of reproducing with the musicians of Les Siècles all the transparency and stylistic precision one could wish for in Ravel’s masterpiece. "To celebrate the centenary of [the Ballets Russes in 2009], we wanted to reconstruct the Parisian orchestra that premiered these works in order to restore their original colours... As with each work that we’ve played so far, we noticed just how remarkably the instruments of Ravel’s time, those French-built instruments typical of the early twentieth century, do justice to this music and make it meaningful!" - F-X Roth 2 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES Naxos available at £7.95 each (except where stated) due 13/4 Ravel Shostakovich Novak Taneyev Antar (incidental music), Chamber Symphony in F, In the Tatra Mountains, Piano Trio in D Sheherazade Symphony for Strings Lady Godiva Overture etc Borodin Piano Trio in D Lyon NO, Slatkin Kiev Virtuosi, Yablonsky Buffalo PO, Falletta Delta Piano Trio 857 3448 857 3601 857 3683 857 3561 857 3503 Torroba Guitar Concertos vol.2 Romero;Coves;Extremadura SO;Coves 857 3454 Brahms String Quartet no.3, Clarinet Quintet Campbell;New Zealand String Quartet 857 3611 Scarlatti, D Complete Keyboard Sonatas vol.18 Monteiro 857 3707 Schubert Piano Variations Yontov 857 3733 Hosokawa The Raven Hellekant;United Instruments of Lucilin;Kawase 855 9825 Harrison, L Violin Concerto, Grand Duo, Double Music Fain;Boriskin;PostClassical Ensemble 857 3423 Hindemith Das Marienleben Harnisch;Schulze Naxos - The Anniversary Collection 30 CDs to celebrate 30 years! £24.95 850 3293 (30CD) see enclosed leaflet for further details In 2017, Naxos Records celebrates its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1987 by Klaus Heymann, the label now boasts a catalogue of over 9,000 albums spanning every genre of classical music. This limited edition anniversary boxed set comprises thirty CDs spanning the wide range of the label’s repertoire. Featuring releases from 1987 to 2016 and a host of stellar artists, every one of these discs has received critical acclaim and has contributed towards the huge success of Naxos: the world’s largest independent classical record label. Naxos Audiobooks NA 0261 St Augustine The Confessions of St Augustine 13CD Meadows £39.95 NA 0264 Trollope Can You Forgive Her? 28CD Shaw-Parker £74.95 NA 0285 Naipaul The Mimic Men 9CD Dastor £29.95 RCO Live Wagner After the enormous success of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's 2013 Lohengrin production of Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer (RCO Live 14004) a follow-up Struckmann, Vogt, was inevitable. With the eminent Wagnerian Mark Elder leading the RCO and Nylund, Nikitin, a cast of internationally acclaimed soloists the production of Lohengrin in December 2015 was a complete triumph. The beginning of another RCO RCO, Elder tradition…? £18.95 Includes full libretto in German, English and French. RCO 17002 (3 Hybrid SACDs) Fugue State Records A Giant Reborn On this new recording, Gerard Brooks plays English 18th-century organ The restored 1735 music on the organ of Christ Church, Spitalfields. Gerard selected music Richard Bridge by composers both more and less well-known – on the one hand works by Croft, Purcell, Boyce, Arne, Handel, Stanley, and on the other hand organ of Christ wonderful but slightly more obscure works by Prelleur, Greene, Barrett, Church, Spitalfields, Heron, Walond, Nares, Reading, James and Keeble. The inspiring London variety and depth of this music is perfectly brought out by Gerard’s playing – as always he is virtuosic but in a subtle way that suits the Brooks essentially English quality of this music – the voluntaries, concertos £24.95 and fugues on the CD may well imitate the grandeur of particularly FSRCD 010 (2CD) French models, but always in a refined and discreet way. 3 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES Warner Classics and Erato Mussorgsky Mozart Pictures at an E’bition Coronation Mass, Prokofiev Solemn Vespers Symphony no.1 Piau, Pokupic, Bruns, Orch de l’Opera Nat de Wolf, Accentus, Paris, Jordan Equilbey £10.95 £10.95 9029 587791 9029 587253 Brahms Beethoven String Sextets 1 & 2 Chamber Music for Capucon, Koncz, Winds Causse, Chilemme, Les Vents Francais, Capucon, Hagen Pahud £10.95 £10.95 9029 588837 9029 591956 9029 586450 Szymanowski Stabat Mater, Symphony no.3, Litany Warsaw PO and Choir;Kaspszyk £10.95 9029 587521 Golijov Azul Ma;The Knights;Jacobsen £10.95 1136 998912 Henric Magnificat de la Paix; Faure Requiem; Poulenc Litanies Le Maitrise de Reims £10.95 9029 583830 Gone Violin works by Brahms, Chausson, Elgar, Massenet etc Kym;Wordsworth;Davis etc £9.95 Louis Fremaux - The Complete CBSO Recordings £26.95 9029 588673 (12CD) This new ‘Icon’ box is devoted to the French conductor Louis Frémaux, who, from 1969 to 1978, preceded Simon Rattle as Principal Conductor of the CBSO. For the first time, it assembles all the recordings that Frémaux and the CBSO made for EMI. Over the course of the 1970s their discography played a substantial role in building the orchestra’s international reputation before the arrival of Rattle as its Principal Conductor in 1980. Indeed, such was the orchestra’s prowess in the French music favoured by Frémaux that, in 1978, Rattle described the CBSO as “the best French orchestra in the world”.