November 2016 List
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November 2016 Catalogue Prices valid until Friday 16�� December 2016 unless stated otherwise 0115 982 7500 Cover photo taken from BIS BIS2094 ‘Mozart: [email protected] Piano Concertos 1-4 (Ronald Brautigam)’. 1 Welcome! Dear Customer, Murray Perahia’s eagerly awaited debut on Deutsche Grammophon is released this month: a welcome addition to his Bach discography, this time in the form of the French Suites. It’s hard to believe it is now seven years since his last Bach recording for Sony and nearly twenty years since he gave us the English Suites. We have waxed lyrical about Perahia here in the past, so won’t bore you too much this time, but urge you not to miss this new issue! (You also may be interested to know that Sony’s superb luxury 40�� anniversary boxset of his recordings is still available at £129.95 (67CD + 5DVD) and would make a wonderful gift for any piano lover). Two top-flight mezzos also have new recitals for us - Elina Garanca in big diva bel canto repertoire on a disc entitled ‘Revive’ (DG, p.3) and Joyce DiDonato in a slightly more personal project labelled ‘War and Peace’ (Erato, p.4). Featuring baroque arias by Handel, Purcell and others, DiDonato has big ambitions for her disc. Planned since the Paris terrorist attacks in 2015, her aim is ‘to steer conversation and discourse… to help all of us find peace in our lives in a dynamic way…’. Bold sentiments indeed, but perhaps using her status and profile to help raise awareness and encourage dialogue is something to be applauded and not dismissed too quickly. Other releases to highlight include The Dunedin Consort’s brand new recording of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (our Disc of the Month - see below), Sir Andrew Davis’s new ‘concert edition’ of Handel’s Messiah (apparently calling for ‘moments of drama, pathos and, even, sometimes whimsicality’ - Chandos, p.9), the next instalment in Naxos’s Ring Cycle (Die Walkure, p.5) and a wonderful new recording of Liszt’s Piano Sonata by Peter Uppard (Green Label, p.9). A longtime professor of piano at the Royal Academy of Music, Uppard’s career has largely been kept out of the limelight, but it is worth knowing that The Times described him as ‘a vintage claret worth watching’ after his debut recital at the Wigmore Hall, and that both Sir Charles Mackerras and Bryce Morrison were full of praise for this recording when it was first made. A quick mention of new special offers, this month including Chandos, Opus Arte DVD & Blu-ray, Grand Piano, Gimell and Channel Classics. Don’t forget everything we still have running from last month, including the complete catalogues of Hyperion and Arthaus DVD & Blu-ray, plus our big Autumn Boxset Sale (running until Christmas). Information on last posting dates and Christmas closing times etc will be published next month (due 3�� December). The Europadisc Team DISC OF THE MONTH Bach - Christmas Oratorio £16.95 The Dunedin Consort, John Butt or pay just Linn CKD 499 (2CD) £13.95 Following the huge success of 2015’s Magnificat & Christmas Cantata, the Dunedin if your order value Consort releases its eagerly awaited follow up, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Anticipation exceeds £50* has been high since the Magnificat was named ‘Editor’s Choice’ by Gramophone, * to qualify for the special price, topped the critics’ Christmas recommendation lists and received multiple five stars your order value must exceed a reviews (as well as being Europadisc’s ‘Disc of the Year’ for 2015). Butt applies his total of £50 excluding this recording and before any extensive knowledge of Bach’s performing practices to present the range of choral applicable carriage charges. scoring that Bach seems to have used, realising something of the implications of the Offer available while stocks last. composer’s performing conditions and decisions. “The performance itself is the strongest there’s been for years, perhaps even the best there’s been in the historically informed performance era. The combined Dunedin forces achieve the excitement of Gardiner without his over- driven, over-regimented sound; the honest earthiness of Harnoncourt without his often exasperating eccentricities of tone, shaping and tempi; the gentle introspection of Herreweghe without his tendency to smooth over the works more dazzling features. There’s certainly no shortage of thrills in the trumpet- dominated works, with full-throated singing aplenty and a resplendent tutti sound. In cantata 4, the horns bray magnificently when necessary, most memorably in the closing chorale chorus, while the magnificent bass aria in the first cantata (‘Grosser Herr, o starker König’), robustly sung by Matthew Brook, is a highpoint, with splendid yet dancelike support.” Mark Audus, Europadisc 2 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES DG and Decca Bach, JS Pergolesi The French Suites Adirano in Siria Perahia Fagioli, Basso, Mynenko, £16.50 Capella Cracovienses, DG 479 6565 (2CD) Adamus £22.95 Decca 483 0004 (3CD) Revive Mozart Arias by Verdi, Piano Concertos 17 & 25 Massenet, Mascagni, Uchida, Cleveland Cilea, Berlioz etc Orchestra Garanca, R Abbado £12.50 £11.50 Decca 483 0716 DG 479 5937 available at £11.50 until 25�� November 2016 Also available from DG and Decca Decca 483 0968 Winter Christmas Recording from Voces8 avaliable at £11.50 until 25/11 Voces8 £12.50 DG 481 4624 Malena New Sicilian & Neapolitan Songs avail at £11.50 until 25/11 Alagna;Avital;Radulovic £12.50 Decca 572 4215 Romanza 20th Anniversary Edition of the famous album from Andrea Bocelli Bocelli £11.50 DG 482 2971 Berliner Philharmoniker Christmas Album avail at £11.50 until 25/11 Abbado;Bychkov;Karajan etc £12.50 Decca 483 0972 Christmas with Pavarotti Traditional and modern favourites Domingo;Carreras;Clapton etc £11.50 Decca 483 0000 Mozart 225 The New Complete Edition 200CD avail at £298.95 until 25/11 Various £349.95 Decca 483 1050 Mozart The Singles - 66 Classic Tracks 3CD Bohm;Davis;Gardiner;Levine;Marriner etc £16.95 FOUR NEW BOX SETS Rostropovich Chopin Complete Recordings The Complete Edition on DG, Decca and (deluxe inc 100pp book) Philips Argerich, Trifonov, £74.95 Ashkenazy, Lisiecki etc DG 479 6789 (37CD) £74.95 DG 479 6555 (20CD + 1DVD) Shaping the Dvorak Century vol.1 Symphonies, Symphonic 1900-1949: An Poems, Requiem, Overview of the C20 Overtures etc Kertesz £84.95 DG 483 0458 (28CD) £43.95 available at £74.95 until Decca 483 0744 25/11 (9CD + 1 Blu-ray Audio) 3 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES Warner Classics and Erato In War and Peace Jubilo Arias by Handel, Leo, Trumpet works by Bach, Purcell, Jommelli etc Corelli, Torelli & Fasch DiDonato, Il Pomo Balsom d’Oro, Emelyanychev £10.95 £10.95 9029 592465 9029 592846 ltd edition deluxe version also available 9029 592511 £10.95 Oh Boy! Bach, CPE Arias (‘trouser roles’) Flute Concertos by Mozart, Chabrier, Pahud, Gluck, Gounod etc Kammerakademie Crebassa, Minkowski Potsdam, Pinnock £10.95 £10.95 9029 592762 2564 627679 Also available from Warner and Erato 2564 602687 Rihm Gedicht des Malers; Dusapin Aufgang; Mantovani Jeux d'eau Capucon;Jordan;Chung £10.95 9029 593810 Camille & Julie Berthollet Violin/viola/cello duos by Brahms, Jenkins, Schubert, Sarsate etc £12.95 9029 591322 Schumann/Schubert Transcriptions for Clarinet and Harp Lenaerts;Grammenos £10.95 2564 650656 Sequenza Solo violin works by Ysaye, Brustad, Bacewicz, Penderecki, Berio etc Wawrowski £10.95 9029 590472 Fantastic Cencic Compilation of recordings from countertenor Max Emanuel Cencic 3CD £11.95 9029 590910 The Sound of Martin Luther Works perf by The Hilliard Ensemble, Munrow, Harnoncourt etc 2CD £10.95 FOUR NEW BOX SETS Martha Argerich Elisabeth The Warner Classics Schwarzkopf Recordings (solo, The Complete 78rpm chamber, concerto) Recordings 1946-52 £49.95 £15.95 9029 594898 (20CD) 9029 595517 (5CD) Beethoven - The New Sound of Barenboim Maria Callas Piano Sonatas, Arias remastered in high- Chamber Music, definition sound from the Concertos, Syms etc original tapes £64.95 due 11/11 £16.95 9029 592258 (35CD) 9029 594471 (3CD) 4 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES Naxos at £6.38 each (except where stated) due 11/11 DON’T FORGET ALL TITLES FROM NAXOS ARE CURRENTLY REDUCED BY 25%! Wagner Vaughan Williams Gretry Whitbourn Die Walkure The Lark Ascending, Suite L’epreuve villageoise Carolae: Music for Goerne, DeYoung, of Six Short Pieces etc Junker, Fernandez-Ruea, Christmas Skelton, van Zweden Pike, New York CO, Dolie, Opera Lafayette, Westminster Williamson 866 0394-97 4CD - £19.46 di Vittorio Brown Voices, Jordan also available as a blu-ray audio 857 3530 866 0377 857 3715 NBD0051 £8.63 Also available from Naxos 857 2798 Brahms Piano Quartets 1 & 3 Nebolsin;Barakhovsky;Zemtsov;Schmidt 857 3719 Christmas With Septura Bach, Handel, Rachmaninov and Warlock Septura 857 8340 My First Christmas Album Carols and other Christmas music £5.21 Various 857 3644 Lajtha Symphony no.2, Variations op.44 £5.21 Pecs SO;Pasquet 857 3463 Debussy Four-Hand Piano Music vol.2 £5.21 Armengaud;Chauzu 857 9006 Smirnov Dowson Songs, Chaconne Bakari;Daurov;Valianatos 855 9816 Greco Geografias del silencio, In Passing, Swallow etc Czech National SO;Leaper 855 9796 Hermann Souvenirs de voyage; del Tredici Magyar Madness Leethies;Fine Arts Quartet 855 9805 Adolphe Piano Music - Chopin Dreams, Seven Thoughts Considered as Music etc Grante 857 2648 Rodrigo Chamber Music with Violin Leon;Luque;Vinokur 857 3514 Morel Guitar Music - Sonatina, Danze brasilera, Pampero, Giga criolla etc Kaya 857 3595 Japanese Guitar Music vol.3 Takemitsu, Hayashi, Togawa, Kitazume, Nihashi etc Fukuda 850 3289 Villa-Lobos Complete Guitar Manuscripts 3CD