September 2017 Catalogue Issue 17 Prices valid until Friday 27 October 2017 unless stated otherwise 0115 982 7500 [email protected] Your Account Number: {MM:Account Number} {MM:Postcode} {MM:Address4} {MM:Address3} {MM:Address2} {MM:Address1} {MM:Name} 1 Welcome! Dear Customer, September is one of our favourite months at Europadisc: more interesting releases start to creep in from record companies; we get confirmation of what the big plans are on the run up to the end of the year; and it remains, in a nice way, slightly quieter than average as customers continue to enjoy their summer holidays, giving us the chance to finalise our special plans for offers and new release highlights throughout the autumn. This catalogue provides a taste of the standards to expect over the next few months. DG and Decca present us with three excellent new piano recitals: Schubert Late Sonatas from Krystian Zimerman, five Beethoven Piano Sonatas from Evgeny Kissin (live recordings and Kissin’s first in 25 years for DG) and a Brahms selection from Nelson Friere. Sticking with the piano theme, we also have Rachmaninov from Boris Giltburg (our Disc of the Month, and a follow up to his previous excellent disc of the Etudes-Tableaux op.39 on Naxos) and two issues from Warner Classics featuring Martha Argerich: the last ever compilation of recordings from Lugano, plus a performance of Saint-Saens ‘Carnival of the Animals’, in which she is partnered by Antonio Pappano (coupled with the perennial Organ Symphony). We also have a superb Mendelssohn Violin Concerto from Isabelle Faust, a new interpretation of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers from the Dunedin Consort and two excellent releases from ECM in the shape of keyboard works by CPE Bach (performed by Alexei Lubimov) and vocal works by Josquin and Victoria (performed by tenor John Potter and friends). September sees the announcement of the 40th Gramophone Awards, an event that continues to be one of the most important in the classical music calendar. You will find the category winners detailed on the opposite page - a wonderful selection, all very deserving of the accolade in our opinion. Each one is available at a reduced price for the duration of this catalogue. Look out for the ultimate ‘Recording of the Year’ being announced at the ceremony on Wednesday 13 September. New special offers this month include the complete catalogues of Hyperion, Glossa, Channel Classics and Orfeo, selected recordings from Isabelle Faust (winner of this year’s Gramophone Award in the Concerto category), and all available DVDs from VAI Music. You will also find enclosed a booklet featuring some budget recordings released by Decca and DG in association with Classic FM. These have been available exculsively through a particular high street retailer for a little while, but we are now able to offer an initial 50 recordings (with more promised at a later date) at a discount over the next few weeks. Best regards from, The Europadisc Team DISC OF THE MONTH Rachmaninov £7.95 Piano Concerto no.2, Etudes-Tableaux op.33 or pay just Boris Giltburg, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Carlos Miguel Prieto £5.95 Naxos 8573629 “To play the opening of Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto is a singularly powerful if your order value experience. You wait for silence—the piano starts on its own, there’s no need to maintain exceeds £50* eye contact with anyone—and when the hall seems to have disappeared, you let the first * to qualify for the special price, chord sound, as quietly and distantly as possible, and be answered by a low F, like the your order value must exceed a total of £50 excluding this clapper of a giant bell beginning to ring. Seven more chords follow, each louder than the recording and before any previous one—there’s a growing sense of tension, even of dread at the implacable applicable carriage charges. Offer available while stocks last. approach of that sombre tolling. As the crescendo reaches its highest point, four heavy notes dissolve into rolling arpeggios, and the way is paved for the entrance of the main theme” (taken from the opening of Boris Giltburg’s own booklet notes). Following on from his hugely successful recording of Rachmaninov’s Etudes- Tableaux op.39, Giltburg now offers us the earlier set of miniatures, coupled with the ever-popular second piano concerto. BBC Music Magazine wrote of the first recording: ‘each note in a chord graded for colour and volume, giving a blended, multidimensional impression. If Rachmaninov envisaged landscapes, Giltburg turns them into sound-sculptures.’ It also won an American Record Guide’s Critic’s Choice award and was a Gramophone Recording of the Month. Giltburg has also joined forces with the Pavel Haas Quartet for a recording of Dvorak’s Piano Quintet op.81 (coming on Supraphon later this year) - factor in his Shostakovich Concertos recording from January and he is looking set to become our best-selling artist of 2017! 2 GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNERS Below are details of the 12 category winnners in the 2017 Gramophone Awards, now celebrating their 40th anniversary! The ultimate Recording of the Year will be revealed at the ceremony on 13 September, available to watch online at medici.tv. BAROQUE INSTRUMENTAL BAROQUE VOCAL CHAMBER The Italian Job Bach, JS Bacewicz Works by Caldara, Cantatas BWV54, 82 Complete String Corelli, Albinoni, and 170, Sinfonias Quartets Tartini, Vivaldi and from Cantatas Torelli BWV52 and 174 Adrian Chandler, La Serenissima Iestyn Davies, Arcangelo, Silesian Quartet £9.95 Avie AV 2371 Jonathan Cohen £10.50 Chandos CHAN 10904 (2CD) £9.71 Hyperion CDA 68111 CHORAL CONCERTO CONTEMPORARY Mozart Mozart Benjamin, G Mass in C minor Complete Violin Palimpsests K427, Exsultate, Concertos Ligeti Lontano; Murail jubilate K165 Le desenchantement du monde Carolyn Sampson, Olivia Vermeulen, Isabelle Faust, Il Giardino Armonico, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Bavarian Radio Bach Collegium Japan, Masaki Suzuki Giovanni Antonini Symphony Orchestra, George Benjamin £9.95 BIS BIS 2171 (Hybrid SACD) £10.95 H.Mundi HMC 902230/31 (2CD) £10.95 Neos NEOS 11422 see p.42 for titles reduced from Isabelle Faust EARLY MUSIC INSTRUMENTAL OPERA Dowland Bach, JS Berg Lachrimae or Seven The French Suites Wozzeck Teares (Zurich Opera) Phantasm, Elizabeth Kenny Murray Perahia Christian Gerhaher, Gun-Brit Barkmin, £9.95 Linn CKD 527 £12.95 DG 479 6565 (2CD) Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi £19.96 Accentus ACC 20363 (DVD) also available on blu-ray ACC 10363 £23.96 ORCHESTRAL RECITAL SOLO VOCAL Haydn In War & Peace Brahms Haydn 2032 vol.4: Il Arias by Handel, Vier ernste Gesange distratto - Purcell, Jommelli, op.121, Lieder & Symphonies 12, 60 Monteverdi and Leo Gesange op.32 and 70 Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini Joyce DiDonato, Il Pomo d’Oro Matthias Goerne, Christoph Eschenbach £9.95 Alpha ALPHA 674 £10.95 Erato 9029 592846 £9.71 Harmonia Mundi HMC 902174 3 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES DG and Decca Tchaikovsky Schubert Tchaikovsky Project v.2: Piano Sonatas Manfred Symphony D959 and D960 Czech PO, Bychkov Zimerman £12.50 £11.50 Decca 483 2320 DG 479 7588 available at £11.50 until 27/9 Romanza Brahms Duets by Verdi, Puccini, Piano Sonata no.3, Kalman, Lehar, Dvorak, Klavierstucke op.119 etc Offenbach etc Friere Netrebko, Eyvazov £12.50 £14.95 Decca 483 2154 DG 479 7679 (2CD) available at £11.50 until 27/9 Also available DG 479 7581 Beethoven Piano Sonatas 3, 14, 23, 26 & 32, 32 Vars in C minor 2CD - £14.95 until 27/9 Kissin £15.95 Decca 483 2742 Pavarotti The People’s Tenor 2CD £12.95 Decca 481 5791 New Worlds Music and readings from Bill Murray, Jan Vogler and friends £11.50 DG 479 8174 Piano Masters Compilation feat Trifonov, Kissin, Haas, Gieseking, Barenboim etc £9.25 Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra The Complete Recordings £199.95 Decca 483 1375 (108 CD) Decca celebrates one of the world’s most prolific conductor-orchestra partnerships with a deluxe 108-CD box set marking both the 20th Anniversary of the passing of Sir Georg Solti and the 125th Anniversary of the founding of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. From their very first recording at Medinah Temple in March 1970 of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony to their last at Orchestra Hall, Chicago in March 1997 of Shostakovich’s Symphony No.15, this boxset chronologically presents their complete recorded legacy together. “[Chicago was] the happiest time of my professional life.” Sir Georg Solti Features luxury 180-page hardback book in English and German, with dipped edges; an original-jacket collection, with silver-foiled design and newly commissioned artwork on outer packaging reflected on the book cover and inner trays; foreword by Lady Solti; retrospectives by Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano), Humphrey Burton (broadcaster and author), Frank Villella (CSO Archivist) and Martha Gilmer (VP of Artistic Planning for CSO during Solti’s tenure); excerpt from “Chicago” from Solti’s Memoirs “Solti on Solti”; many previously unpublished photographs from the recording sessions, orchestra archives plus facsimiles of Solti’s original scores; works indexed by composers for ease of reference. Ltd Edn. Vladimir Ashkenazy: A Personal Selection Solo and Chamber Recordings £109.95 Decca 483 2182 (56CD) Signed to Decca in 1963, Vladimir Ashkenazy is to this day the longest-serving artist on the label. Over more than five decades, he has yielded one of the largest and most diverse discographies of any classical artist. In this 56-CD set, he has personally selected a wide representation of solo, chamber and vocal recital releases spanning his long