January 2017 Catalogue Prices valid until Friday 24�� February 2017 unless stated otherwise 0115 982 7500 Cover photo taken from Chandos CHAN0816
[email protected] ’Concertos of Josef Guretzky’. 1 Welcome! Dear Customer, Happy New Year! We hope you have all managed to enjoy the festive season. At Europadisc, we have always held the tradition of closing for a full week in between Christmas and New Year, allowing us to have a decent break to spend time with our families. We should now be ready and raring to go for another year! Please remember that Monday 2 January is a bank holiday, so we will be re-opening at 9am on Tuesday 3 January. 2016 felt like a good year for new releases, with several orchestral releases being particularly strong. In 2015, for the first time, we picked out our top 10 recordings for that year and published the results online. All were picked from the weekly review we produce (sent out via email) and this year we have decided to do the same thing, but also publish the results in our catalogue. You will therefore find our Top 10 Recordings of 2016 on the opposite page, with our ‘Disc of the Year’ award going to Thomas Dausgaard and the Seattle Symphony’s stunning performance of Mahler’s Symphony no.10. All ten discs are currently available at reduced prices, but please note that these will expire on 27 January. Moving on to what is new for 2017 - special highlights in January include some particuarly strong releases from Naxos, namely Shostakovich from Boris Giltburg (Disc of the Month, see below), Bernstein from Marin Alsop, Berg’s ‘Wozzeck’ from Hans Graf and Ravel from Leonard Slatkin.