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1/800/222-6872 page 52 page 38 page 11 Spring 2020 Love Music. HBDirect Classics & Jazz HBDirect is pleased to present our Spring 2020 Clas- Spring 2020 sics & Jazz Catalog! As always, we offer an extensive selection of new Catalog Index J.S. Bach: Complete Cantatas / Ton Koopman [67 CDs] classical releases on both CD and video, as well as six 4 Classical - Recommendations Newly available, a reissued edition of the Complete Bach pages of recommendations and four of bestselling videos. 10 Classical - Best Selling Videos Cantatas, performed by Baroque music specialist Ton Browse new releases by time period and look to special Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, sections in this issue of new Harpsichord, Guitar & Lute, 14 Classical - New Releases with 67 CDs in carton sleeves. Ton Koopman is not only one Piano, Organ, Chamber Music, Choral, Strings, Broadway 46 Classical - DVD & Blu-ray of the great fathers of the Baroque-Renaissance revival in and Film Scores. This catalog includes six pages of jazz the 1970s, but a true pioneer of our time. After completing and another two pages of Blues, a genre that has recently 48 Blues - Classic Blues the Bach Cantatas survey, was he awarded the Bach Prize been added to the Classics & Jazz catalogs. Look out in 50 Jazz - Enlightenment Box Sets 2014 by the Royal Academy of Music. The prize is awarded to outstanding the coming weeks for a new Mixed-Genre catalog and visit 52 Jazz - Classics from Acrobat individuals in the performance and scholarship of Bach’s music. 67CD# CHL 72826 $389.99 HBDirect.com to see the full extent of what you can order. We hope you find the music here intriguing, and as 54 Jazz - New Releases Leonard Bernstein: Young People’s Concerts, Vol. 3 [7 DVDs or 4 BRs] always, we thank you for your business! “There had never been a communicator about music with anywhere Go To Jazz! near Bernstein’s brilliance, humor, energy, reach and importance” (New York Times). 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Not Now, miniatures here are more successful.” – The Daily Telegraph United States in 1948 and 1950. “A treasure, to be sure… this performance for me gives a far Bernard is an all-time classic story by 1CD# DEC B003149102 $18.99 David McKee, set to music by Bernard clearer sense of why Walter felt he had found the ideal singer for the piece than his later Vienna Hughes (b. 1974) with melodic charm and Escales: French Orchestral Works / John Wilson; recording… Walter for his part owns the pacing and phrasing of the work – as well he might – a subversive sense of fun. Companion Sinfonia of London and marries space and timelessness to an impassioned urgency.” – Gramophone pieces are Isabel’s Noisy Tummy as well This new recording explores the unique 1CD# SOMM 5007 $18.99 as Hughes’s The Knight Who Took All Day. sound world of French orchestral music Farinelli / Farinelli; Cecilia Bartoli; Giovanni Antonini; Il Giardino Armonico “The children’s stories set to music by Bernard Hughes have oodles of the late nineteenth and early twentieth of character. Alexander Armstrong’s narration is charming in those centuries. “Wilson’s second disc with his Renowned for portraying the music of the baroque like no one else, Cecilia Bartoli presents her stories…” – BBC Music hand-picked Sinfonia of London emulates new recording of arias famously performed by legendary castrato, Farinelli. “[Bartoli] darts from 1CD# ORPO 100115 $16.99 the recorded collections of Sir Thomas note to note with admirable precision in Porpora’s ‘Nell’attendere il mio bene’, with octave leaps Beecham and is executed with similar and drops into the chest register. 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