March 2017 Catalogue Issue 11 Prices valid until Wednesday 26 April 2017 unless stated otherwise 0115 982 7500 Cover photo taken from BIS BIS9048 ‘Sibelius: Kullervo’ (Minnesota Orchestra/Vanska), featuring ‘Kullervo
[email protected] Goes To War’ by Axel Gallén (tempera, 1901) 1 Welcome! Dear Customer, Welcome to our bumper March catalogue! Along with a good crop of new releases, we have a particularly large selection of titles on special offer this month, including hundreds of new reductions from DG and Decca. Before we go into more detail, we need to get the bad news out of the way. As mentioned last month, we have unfortunately reached a point where we need to slightly increase our UK postage charges. We try to avoid doing this too often (the last time was January 2014), but with Royal Mail costs increasing significantly each year, it is impossible to absorb this indefinitely. As most people seem to appreciate the simplicity of a flat-fee charge, we are sticking with this approach, but increasing the amount to £2 and increasing the free-postage minimum to £50. Different companies structure their postage charges in a variety of ways, but we believe we remain competitive and hope to be able to hold it at this level for a number of years to come. New releases we would like to highlight for you include the latest issue in the Sokolov-DG partnership, this time featuring concertos by Rachmaninov and Mozart; a two-disc set entitled ‘Hommage a Boulez’ from Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra; piano concertos by Beach, Chaminade