February 2017 List
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February 2017 Catalogue Issue 10 Prices valid until Wednesday 29 March 2017 unless stated otherwise 0115 982 7500 Cover photo taken from Hyperion CDA68155 [email protected] ‘Suites for Solo Cello’ (Natalie Clein). 1 Welcome! Dear Customer, Pianists seem to be making a particularly strong showing this month, with brand new recordings being released from several ‘big names’. For DG, Maurizio Pollini performs the late works of Chopin and Rafal Blechacz offers us a recital of works by Bach, including the Italian Concerto and two of the keyboard partitas. Warner/Erato also have two for us: David Fray performs Chopin (including some overlap with Pollini, making for an interesting comparison) and Piotr Anderszewski has chosen Mozart and Schumann. Alongside Philip Glass from Vikingur Olafsson (DG), Rachmaninov from Vanessa Benelli Mosell (Decca), Schubert from Barry Douglas (Chandos) and Debussy/Hosokawa from Momo Kodama (ECM), it is a veritable feast for pianophiles! The London Haydn Quartet continue their Haydn cycle in style for Hyperion, now reaching the six quartets of opp.54 & 55. All instalments so far have been released as 2 CDs for the price of 1 and it is great to see this continue. This new set has been picked as our Disc of the Month for February so, if you spend £50 or more on other items, the 2 CDs can be yours for just £8.95 - see below for more information. 2017 sees not only the 150�� anniversary of Toscanini’s birth but also the 60�� anniversary of his death and the 80�� anniversary of the founding of the NBC Symphony Orchestra, so we are sure to see plenty of commemorative issues appearing throughout the year. Sony/RCA have kicked off proceedings with a 20 CD set featuring what they consider to be his ‘Essential Recordings’. The set provides a good overview, covering recordings from 1929-1952 in a wide range of repertoire, including three complete operas (Otello, Falstaff and La Boheme). See p.5 for more details. New special offers this month feature the complete catalogues of CPO, CRD (now being produced by Wyastone - a very welcome return to the catalogue), Fuga Libera and Lawo Classics (a debut at Europadisc!). Our Sony ‘Classical Masters’ boxset promotion in December proved to be very popular, so we have come up with 120 more boxsets from Sony for you, this time featuring both modern and archive issues at great prices. There are also selected titles from Chandos, archive issues from ICA Classics on CD and DVD plus high-quality DVDs and Blu-rays from C Major Entertainment. Finally, just to warn you that unfortunately we are going to have to increase our UK postage prices from 1 March 2017. We try to avoid doing this too frequently, but with Royal Mail costs increasing at a significant rate every year, it is an area we have to address from time to time. More information will be provided in the March issue. The Europadisc Team DISC OF THE MONTH Haydn - String Quartets opp.54 & 55 £11.95 The London Haydn Quartet or pay just Hyperion CDA 68160 (2CD) £8.95 The London Haydn Quartet reaches the six great quartets published in 1788 as Opp 54 if your order value & 55 in another unmissable two-for-the-price-of-one set. Is it possible to have too much exceeds £50* Haydn? The only sensible answer is ‘no’, especially when the music is performed with * to qualify for the special price, such intelligence and humanity as here. your order value must exceed a By the mid-1780s Haydn was leading something of a double life as Esterházy opera total of £50 excluding this recording and before any Kapellmeister and European celebrity. Publishers fell over each other to acquire his applicable carriage charges. latest symphonies and quartets, while prestigious commissions and invitations poured Offer available while stocks last. in not only from Paris and London (one newspaper even proposed that he should be rescued from ‘the domineering spirit of a petty Lord, and the clamorous temper of a scolding wife’ and ‘transplanted’ to England) but also from as far afield as Madrid and Naples. Thanks above all to Haydn himself, there was a near-insatiable demand for string quartets in the lucrative amateur domestic market. Following the international success of the Op 33 quartets, published in 1782, the Viennese firm of Artaria lost no time commissioning another set of six quartets. Haydn accepted, but only embarked on the new quartets, Op 50, in 1787, after composing six symphonies for Paris (Nos 82–87) and The Seven Last Words for distant Cádiz. By now he was on something of a quartet roll, producing the six works published as Opp 54 and 55 in 1788 and another set of six, Op 64, in 1790—the last music he composed before his first London sojourn. 2 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES DG and Decca Overtures, Chopin Preludes and Late Works opp.59-64 Intermezzi Pollini Filarmonica della £12.50 Scala, Chailly DG 9479 6127 £11.50 available at £11.50 until 24/2 Decca 483 1148 Aida Garifullina Bach, JS Debut album from the Italian Concerto, Russian soprano - Partitas 1 & 3, Gounod, Delibes, 4 Duets etc Tchaikovsky etc Blechacz £11.50 £11.50 Decca 478 8305 DG 479 5534 due 10/2 DG 9479 6918 Glass Piano Works available at £11.50 until 24/2 Olafsson £12.50 DG 479 7158 Max Richter Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works available at £11.50 until 24/2 Richter etc £12.50 Decca 481 4711 New Era Works for clarinet and orchestra by Stamitz, Danzi and Mozart Ottensamer £11.50 Decca 481 4393 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto no.2, Corelli Variations due 24/2 Mosell;LPO;Karabits £11.50 DG 479 6979 Rachmaninov Piano Trios due 24/2 Kremer;Dirvanauskaite;Kremer £11.50 Karajan Fournier Bumbry The Sacred & The Edition The Art of… Choral Recordings £68.95 £34.95 £54.95 DG 479 6909 (25CD) DG 482 7626 (8CD) DG 479 7060 (29CD) available at £61.95 inc bonus DVD due 24/2 until 24/2 29 CD limited edition featuring the complete Pierre Fournier’s elegant and aristocratic Marking the 80th birthday of Grace Bumbry, sacred and choral recordings that Herbert playing, his superb control of the bow and his this boxset celebrates her magnificent career von Karajan made throughout his illustrious supple, consistently beautiful tone impressed across opera, oratorio, lieder and soul in a recording career on Deutsche Grammophon. a whole generation of cellists and music handsome collection of 8 CDs plus a DVD of her Contains original jacket art (front and back) lovers all over the world. Sixty-five years since legendary Carmen. An original jackets plus 88+4 page booklet with new liner notes he first recorded for Decca, this a celebration collection, this set also features a 48pp booklet by leading Karajan biographer Richard of the wealth of recordings he made for DG, with new artist photos and a new interview Osborne. Decca and Philips. article with Grace Bumbry by Björn Woll. Beaux Arts Trio Beaux Arts Trio Beaux Arts Trio Beethoven Haydn Mozart £28.95 £28.95 £19.95 Decca 483 1552 (10CD) Decca 483 1563 (9CD) Decca 483 1573 (6CD) due 24/2 due 24/2 due 24/2 Founded over 60 years ago by Menahem Pressler, Daniel Guilet and Bernard Greenhouse, the Beaux Arts Trio performed and recorded exclusively for Philips Classics until 1995. Through the years, the Trio has maintained its freshness and preserved its distinctive musical heritage while the membership has changed. The Beaux Arts Trio is considered by many as having set the standard for performance of piano trio literature for all future generations. These three boxes offer a more accessible way to enjoy their complete cycles of Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn piano trios, previously collected together in Decca’s 60CD Complete Philips Recordings. 3 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES Hyperion at £11.95 each Haydn Taneyev/Rimsky-Korsakov Finzi/Bax/Ireland Suites for Solo Cello String Quartets opp.54 & 55 Piano Trios Choral Works by Bloch, Ligeti and The London Haydn Quartet Leonore Piano Trio Westminster Abbey Choir, Dallapiccola CDA 68160 (2CD) CDA 68159 O’Donnell Clein See ‘Disc of the Month’ deal on p.2 CDA 68167 CDA 68155 Onyx Halle Mozart For The Fallen Violin Concertos 1-5, Rondos Works by Elgar and Bax Ehnes, Mozart Anniversary Halle, Elder Orchestra CDHLL 7544 ONYX 4164 (2CD) £11.50 £11.95 James Ehnes is recognised the world over as one of the great violinists The latest release in Hallé’s award winning series of recordings of of our time – famed for his brilliant technique and musical intelligence works by Elgar couples his last great choral work with a fascinating as both soloist and chamber musician. These recordings of the Mozart collection of works which similarly remember the departed. Includes Violin Concertos made over ten years ago for CBC and long out of the The Spirit of England, A Voice in the Wilderness, incidental music from catalogue sound as fresh as the day they were made. Grania and Diarmid plus Bax's In Memoriam. Chandos at £11.95 each Vaughan Williams Holst The Planets Mozart Schubert Job, Symphony no.9 Strauss, R Also sprach… Flute Quartets Solo Piano Works vol.2 - Bergen PO, A Davis National Youth Orchestra, Friend, Brodsky Quartet Impromptus D899, Sonata D959 CHSA 5180 (Hybrid SACD) Gardner CHAN 10932 Douglas CHSA 5179 (Hybrid SACD) CHAN 10933 BIS at £11.95 each BIS 2205 Bach, CPE Solo Keyboard Music vol.32 Spanyi (tangent piano) BIS 2209 Ligeti Piano Conc, Cello Conc, Chamber Conc etc Hybrid SACD Ahonen;Poltera;BIT20 Ensemble BIS 2222 Consolation Forgotten Treasures of the Ukranian Soul Hybrid SACD Pasichnhyk;Koranyi;Qave etc BIS 2235 Telemann, Corelli & Bach Concertos etc Hybrid SACD Hoor Barock;Paradiso;Laurin BIS 2272 Liszt 15 Songs Hybrid