FOR WEEK ENDING JUNE 9, 1990

©Copyright 1990, Billboard Publications, Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written of orchestral health in the U.S. permission of the publisher. KEEPING PROMO BITS: MCA Classics has asked promo recipi- TOP ALBUMS ents to hoist a toast to guitarïst Andrés Segovia and CLASSICAL oboist Bert Lucarelli with wine carrying labels that du- Y- plicate cover art on their new CDs. Vintage pressings all < Compiled from a national sample of retail store sales reports. SCORE o ... In another offbeat marketing ploy, Deutsche Gram - COLIN DAVIS was set to begin a new recording of Symphony. * * No. 1 * * BMG in Mu- When Rudolf Firkusny played the Martinu Piano HOROWITZ /LAST RECORDING SONY CLASSICAL SK -45818 3 weeks at No. 1 Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" for Classics, 1 1 5 VLADIMIR HOROWITZ nich, West Germany, on May 28. The project, with the Ba- Concerto No. 2 with the Czech Philharmonic in Prague ir. 44 BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY NO. 9 DG 429 -861 varian Radio Orchestra, stars Alan Titus in the title role. May 28 it was his first concert in his native country 2 2 11 LEONARD BERNSTEIN Other upcoming recording sessions at BMG will be devot- years. "My absence was a political gesture, as is my re- HANDEL: ARIAS ANGEL CDC -49179 ed to a set of Handel sonatas with recorder virtuoso Mi- 3 5 5 KATHLEEN BATTLE chala Petri. Keith Jarrett will be at the harpsichord. BEETHOVEN: 9 SYMPHONIES RCA 60324 -RG BMG, meanwhile, has advanced the release date of BMG's recording slate includes 4 3 7 ARTURO TOSCANINI Alicia De Larrocha's first recording for the label to HOROWITZ AT HOME DG 427 -772 Sir Colin Davis, Petri projects 5 4 39 July 3 to take promotional advantage of the pianist's ap- VLADIMIR HOROWITZ pearance at the telecast opening of Lincoln Center's BARTOK: 6 STRING QUARTETS DG 423657 6 7 11 "Mostly Mozart" series. The recording, appropriately, turn," he says. EMERSON STRING QUARTET offers four Mozart piano sonatas. Catherine Moore, director of classical marketing for 7 6 9 DEBUSSY: 12 ETUDES PHILIPS 422 -412 A &M Records, will be leaving her post at the end of MITSUKO UCHIDA PASSING NOTES: Distribution of the Pearl line of his- June. After completing work on her doctoral thesis CHOPIN: PIANO CONCERTOS 1 & 2 SONY CLASSICAL SK 44922 8 8 5 MURRAY PERAHIA torical recordings moves over to Koch International, she'll be returning to Montreal, her home city. from Qualiton, in June. The more than 100 CD titles will Harold Lawrence, who produced many of the Mercu- VIVALDI: CELLO CONCERTOS RCA 60155 -RC 9 11 13 OFRA HARNOY be priced to sell for several dollars less at retail than in ry recordings, some dating back to the mid -'50s, now be- label ing readied for reissue on CD by Philips, will author a EARLY ROMANTIC OVERTURES ANGEL CDC -49889 the past, promises Koch manager Jeff Joneikis. 10 9 7 LONDON CLASSICAL PLAYERS (NORRINGTON) Another new label addition for the importer /distributor set of generic liner notes recallilng those heady days. In in HOROWITZ IN MOSCOW DG 419 -499 is Camerata, the Japanese classical catalog. Its product recent years, Lawrence has been active the produc- 11 10 171 VLADIMIR HOROWITZ pool comprises about 125 CDs, says Joneikis, and will be tion of educational videos. SCHUBERT: SYMPHONY NO. 9 ANGEL CDC -49949 "selectively" imported. The winner of WNCN New York's second stand-up - 12 12 7 LONDON CLASSICAL PLAYERS (NORRINGTON) The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will be awarded comic competition gets a free trip to Denmark, home of THE MOVIES GO TO THE OPERA ANGEL CDM -69596 by ASCAP for "adventurous pro- top classical banana Victor Borge. 13 13 103 first -place honors VARIOUS ARTISTS gramming of contemporary music," at the 45th National Kultur Video, which has just celebrated its 10th year PISTON: SYMPHONIES 2 & 6 DELOS DE-3074 now 14 16 5 Conference of the American Symphony Orchestra in business, has built a catalog that numbers almost SEATTLE SYMPHONY (SCHWARZ) League, which meets in Washington, D.C., June 13-16. 200 arts titles. The firm, headed by Dennis Hedlund, STRAUSS: EINE ALPENSIFONIE TELARC CD-80211 15 24 3 Runners -up in the major orchestra category are the San has recently signed an agreement with Pioneer Laser - VIENNA PHILHARMONIC (PREVIN) Francisco Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, disk to release a dozen of its cultural programs on disk. MOZART, TELEMANN, J.C. BACH, REICHA SONY CLASSICAL SK -44568 16 21 3 and the Seattle Symphony. In all, 25 orchestras will Hedlund fondly recalls the first two releases that RAMPAL, STERN, ROSTROPOVICH, SPAETER share in the ASCAP awards. Some 2,000 persons are ex- launched the company in 1980. performance compila- MUSIC FOR ORGAN, BRASS & PERCUSSION TELARC CD 80218 17 15 7 and MICHAEL MURRAY/EMPIRE BRASS pected to attend the confab, which will address the state tions featuring Jascha Heifetz Artur Rubinstein.

MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 6 DG 427 -697 18 14 13 VIENNA PHILHARMONIC (BERNSTEIN)

VERDI & PUCCINI: ARIAS SONY CLASSICAL MK 37298 19 20 111 KIRI TE KANAWA

TUTTO PAVAROTTI LONDON 425681 20 18 39 LUCIANO PAVAROTTI

CHOPIN: PRELUDES DG 429 -227 21 NEW II. IVO POGORELICH

NEW YEAR'S CONCERT 1990 SONY CLASSICAL SK 45808 22 19 3 VIENNA PHILHARMONIC (MEHTA)

THE SUNDAY BRUNCH ALBUM SONY CLASSICAL MFK -45547 23 25 41 VARIOUS ARTISTS

FIELD: 15 NOCTURNES TELARC CD -80199 24 17 7 JOHN O'CONOR er "All the News That Fits His Prints" % Vol. 1, No. 20

SERENADE RCA 60033 -RC 25 22 16 JAMES GALWAY

TOP CROSSOVER ALBUMS TM THE ROMANTIC GUITAR ** No.1 ** HENRY V SOUNDTRACK ANGEL CDC -49919 11 weeks at No. 1 1 1 17 CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY (RATTLE)

MUSIC OF THE NIGHT SONY CLASSICAL SK -45567 2 12 3 BOSTON POPS (WILLIAMS)

THE ENCHANTED FOREST RCA 7893 -RC 3 2 9 JAMES GALWAY

TRUMPET SPECTACULAR TELARC CD -80223 a romanticism cf 4 3 7 occasionally DOC SEVERINSEN /CINCINNATI POPS (KUNZEL) recording tran- Hispanic music FANTASTIC JOURNEY TELARC CD-80231 is always present 5 4 15 scends the me- CINCINNATI POPS (KUNZEL) dium, capturing in the three 1712 OVERTURE TELARC CD -80210 concertos. 6 7 47 the listener's P.D.Q. BACH imagination with Kazuhito Yamm- 5 9 MCLAUGHLIN: THE MEDITERRANEAN CBS MK 45578 7 evocative music in is par- - JOHN MCLAUGHLIN shita ably charismatic per- nered by the Londcn THE THREEPENNY OPERA LONDON 430 -075 8 6 15 WEILL: KOLLO, LEMPER, MILVA (MAUCERI) formances by artists Philharmonic of extraordinary tal- conducted by Leonad ANYTHING GOES ANGEL CDC -49848 9 8 27 CRISWELL, GROENENDAAL, VON STADE (MCGLINN) ent. Such a recording is Slatkin, and is joined in two POPS A LA RUSSE PHILIPS 426 -247 the latest from guitar the concerto for 10 9 5 BOSTON POPS (WILLIAMS) sensation Kazuhito guitars by his sister, ARIAS AND BARCAROLLES KOCH 7000 Yamashita, performing the Naokc Yamashita. 11 10 7 BERNSTEIN: KAYE, SHARP, BARRET, BLIER concertos of Castelnuovo- As accessible as the popular SHOW BOAT HIGHLIGHTS ANGEL CDC 49847 Tedesco. 12 11 31 Rodrigo concerto, Castelnuovo-Tedesco's guitar cos- VON STADE, HADLEY, STRATAS (MCGLINN) Although the music is very much in the tradition of certos will be popular even w :h the casual classical JAMES GALWAY'S GREATEST HITS RCA 7778 -RC 13 13 97 it In -store play End prominent cisplay JAMES GALWAY Spanish romantic guitar music of Rodrigo and Falla, music collector. is surprising to discover that composer Castelnuovo- of the compact disc and cassett+ with the distinctly ro- 14 NEW FLICKA: ANOTHER SIDE OF... SONY CLASSICAL MK 44609 will FREDERICA VON STADE Tedesco was actually born and educated in Florence, mantic cover illustration guarantee this recording vivacious rhythms and sunny be the latest success story from BCA Victor Red Seal_ SHOW BOAT ANGEL A2.49108 Italy. Nevertheless, the 15 RE -ENTRY VON STADE, HADLEY, STRATAS (MCGLINN) TMK(S) ® Registered Marca(s) Registrada(s) RCA Corporation, except BMG Classics logo and Red Seal and Gold Seal ® BM3Music; 60355 -2 -11C SMG Eurodisc logo ® BMG Ariola Munich GmbH: Deutsche Harmonie Mundi logo ® Deutsche Harmonic Mundi ® 1990. BMG Vusic Recording Industry Assn. Of America (RIAA) certification for sales of 500,000 units. RIAA certification for sales of 1 million units.

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