FOR WEEK ENDING JULY 22, 1989

©Copyright 1989, Billboard Publications, Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system, or Billboard. transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, Cteeeti photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written will a progran permission of the publisher. Dennis Russell Davies direct Beethoven including the incidental music to "Egmont" and "Ruin KEEPING Of Athens." In another upcoming St. Luke's productior. TOP aLeums... Bruce Hubbard, who played Joe in Angel's recen CLASSICAL "Show Boat" charting album, will star in a set of Broad I- way á Compiled from a national sample of retail store sales reports. SCORE material. Y o oI Costa Pilavachi leaves his post as artistic administra w Q Z tor of the Boston Symphony in September to become VI vi o by Is Horowitz for Philips Records, based in Baarn, The Nett 3 TITLE ARTIST of A &R 1- cv 3 LABEL & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL erlands ... At Boosey & Hawkes, David Huntley ha * * No.1 * * CROSSOVER PROMO: Telarc's Erich Kunzel promo- been promoted to VP of the Serious Music Division. H, VERDI & PUCCINI: ARIAS CBS MK-37298 17 weeks at No. One tion, launched in the Sam Goody stores in June and stir- had been promotion manager. 1 1 65 KIRI TE KANAWA ring action in selected Camelot outlets this month, The Handel & Haydn Society's recording program fo THE MOVIES GO TO THE OPERA ANGEL CDM_69596 moves to the Tower Records chain in August. Feature L'Oiseau -Lyre continues with Handel's "Acis & Gala 2 2 57 VARIOUS ARTISTS of the campaign is distribution of a sampler that plugs BERLIOZ: SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE ANGEL CDC-49541 items in the Kunzel catalog expected also in- 3 3 15 -as -but LONDON CLASSICAL PLAYERS (NORRINGTON) cludes selections by other artists. Gil Hetherwick, Te- Bernstein's next recording MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 1 DG 427 -303 4 4 11 lare VP of marketing and sales, hopes the sampler may CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA (BERNSTEIN) induce some Kunzel fans to cross over into more tradi- session will be in September REICH: DIFFERENT TRAINS NONESUCH 79176 5 5 15 tional classics. KRONOS QUARTET Telarc, meanwhile, has named Adrian Mills East tea," as revised by Mozart, scheduled for taping nex BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY NO. 3 ANGEL CDC -49101 6 6 15 Coast regional marketing manager as part of a move to May. The pact with the London Records affiliate fo] LONDON CLASSICAL PLAYERS (NORRINGTON) beef up field representation, even more important now lowed the appointment of Christopher Hogwood as al PAVAROTTI AT CARNEGIE HALL LONDON 421 -526 7 8 37 will conduc LUCIANO PAVAROTTI as the company takes on its first distributed label. Heth- tistic director of H &H. Hogwood, of course, erwick says he's on the lookout for a West Coast manag- the Handel. BARBER /BRITTEN: CELLO CONCERTO ces MK -44900 8 7 19 YO -YO MA er, as well. The release this fall of piano quintets by Schuman] and Dvorak with Artur Schnabel and the Pro Art, LIVE IN TOKYO 1988 DG 427 -686 9 24 3 KATHLEEN BATTLE, PLACIDO DOMINGO PASSING NOTES: Leonard Bernstein's next record- Quartet will be the last in a series of CD reissues by At

THE "RING" WITHOUT WORDS TELARC CD-80154 ings for Deutsche Grammophon will be held in early abesque featuring the legendary pianist. It brings th, 10 10 55 WAGNER: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC (MAAZEL) September when he and the Vienna Philharmonic, with number of CDs in the historic series to 13, all license]

VERDI: REQUIEM TELARC CD- 80152 Krystian Zimerman as soloist, launch a Beethoven Pi- from EMI. 11 9 59 DUNN, CURRY, HADLEY, PLISHKA (SHAW) ano Concerto cycle. Live recordings, of course. And in PART: PASSIO ECM 837 -109 October the maestro will be recording an all- Copland EXPANSION CONTINUES at Koch Import Service 12 11 33 HILLIARD ENSEMBLE concert with the New York Philharmonic, followed with the addition of more labels for domestic distribu KNOXVILLE: SUMMER OF 1915 NONESUCH 79187 by No. 4 tion new facilities Koch In 13 NEW Po shortly the Tchaikovsky Symphony with the and abroad. Parent company DAWN UPSHAW same orchestra, says Bernstein's executive producer, ternational has just opened an office in the U.K., whicl MUSIC OF SAMUEL BARBER ANGEL CDC -49463 14 14 13 Alison Ames. like other Koch European distribution and marketing SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY (SLATKIN) Angel Records continues to add to its catalog of points will be serviced out of a central warehouse i] BARBER: SYMPHONY NO. 2 STRADAVARI SCD -8012 15 13 13 Christmas albums with the recording this past June of Austria. In the States, Koch has added Urania, Fre NEW ZEALAND SYMPHONY (SCHENCK) the New York Choral Artists in traditional holiday mate- quenz, Movimento Musica, and Bay Cities to its growing MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 2 MCA MCAD2 -11011 16 12 33 rial. Joseph Flummerfelt conducted. And come Octo- list of distributed labels. Latter offers works by suc] LONDON SYMPHONY (KAPLAN) ber, the label will be cutting its first project under a new composers as Robert Ward, Roy Harris, Virgil Thom STRESS BUSTERS RCA 60011 R 17 17 5 VARIOUS ARTISTS agreement with the St. Luke's Chamber Orchestra. son, and David Diamond. 18 NEW NEW YEAR'S CONCERT 1989 CBS M82 -45564 VIENNA PHILHARMONIC (KLEIBER)

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