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December 2018 Catalogue Issue 32 Prices valid until Friday 25 January 2019 unless stated otherwise 0115 982 7500 Image taken from the cover of ‘100 Years of Nine Lessons and Carols’, the brand new issue from King’s College Cambridge (KGS0033) [email protected] Your Account Number: {MM:Account Number} {MM:Postcode} {MM:Address5} {MM:Address4} {MM:Address3} {MM:Address2} {MM:Address1} {MM:Name} Please note that Europadisc will close for Christmas at 3pm on Friday 21 December 2018 and reopen at 9am on1 Wednesday 2 January 2019 Welcome! Dear Customer, By the time you receive this, we will only have three trading weeks remaining until Christmas! October and November have already proved to be nicely busy for us, so we are eager to see what this final fling brings before our customary break between Christmas and New Year. Although it is a very busy time for us, December is never actually a particularly strong month for new releases, with many labels having already issued what they consider to be their top recordings for the year over the previous couple of months. There are still a few highlights to point out though: DG and Decca have a number of treats for us, including a rare performance of the ‘Messa per Rossini’ from Riccardo Chailly, and a brilliant new recital from young pianist, Yuja Wang; Erato offer us a recording of some lesser-known Handel - the Italian Cantatas - featuring superb singers Sabine Devieilhe and Lea Desandre (see ‘Disc of the Month’ below’); Sony have a duplet of Schumann discs - lieder from baritone Christian Gerhaher, and cello works from Sol Gabetta and friends; Harmonia Mundi continue their stunning series of Debussy recordings with three further releases from some of their top artists; plus Berlioz from Michael Tilson Thomas in San Francisco and Vaughan Williams from Andrew Manze in Liverpool are both sure to be worth a spin! You may also be interested in a very special price we have managed to secure on a deluxe boxset of Rachmaninov from Melodiya (featured on the back page). Unfortunately, we are only able to hold this price for a short time, but it is a wonderful gift option for any lover of his music. Alongside all of the special offers we already have running (see p.50 for a summary), we are adding a few more this month… budget single CDs from Brilliant Classics, the complete catalogues of Signum, Telarc and Linn, another listing from Australian Eloquence (as promised last month), and a further selection of great reductions from DG and Decca. Further information on our Christmas closing times, last posting dates and special offer end dates can all be found on p.50. Please allow us to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas - your custom continues to be sincerely appreciated and we look forward to seeing what 2019 brings! Best regards from, The Europadisc Team DISC OF THE MONTH Handel Italian Cantatas £10.95 Sabine Devieilhe, Lea Desandre, Le Concert d’Astree, Emmanuelle Haim or pay just Erato 9029 563362 (2CD) £8.95 Surprisingly, the cantatas that Handel wrote in the earlier years of his career remain if your order value relatively little known. The thrilling theatricality of three works composed in Italy – Armida abbandonata, La Lucrezia and Aminta e Fillide – is savoured to the full by exceeds £50* conductor Emmanuelle Haïm, soprano Sabine Devieilhe, mezzo-soprano Léa Desandre * to qualify for the special price, your order value must exceed a and the instrumentalists of Le Concert d’Astrée. total of £50 excluding this Handel's Italian cantatas date from his years in Rome (1706-09), and are among the first recording and before any applicable carriage charges. flowerings of his genius. Broadly speaking, they fall into three types: orchestrally Offer available while stocks last. accompanied works for two or more singers (effectively miniature operas), solo cantatas with orchestral accompaniment, and solo cantatas with just continuo. This album contains examples of all three, of which the pastoral romance Aminta e Fillide is the largest in both scoring and duration. It concerns the love of the shepherd Aminta for the nymph Fillide, and how he eventually wins her over with his constancy, affording the opportunity for some ravishing arias along the way. The solo cantata with orchestra Armida abbandonata visits the scene of the abandoned Armida from Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata, a story returned to by Handel in his 1711 opera Rinaldo. Most intimate in scale is La Lucrezia, a powerful succession of recitatives and arias depicting the desperate and vengeful Lucretia of Roman legend as she prepares for her suicide. All three of these early masterpieces demonstrate an instinctive flair for vocal music and strong emotional engagement, and it is little wonder that Handel self-borrowed from these scores when writing many of his now better-known later works. 2 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES DG and Decca Messa per Rossini Yuja Wang Requiem by Verdi and 12 The Berlin Recital: works other composers in by Rachmaninov, Scriabin, memory of Rossini Ligeti and Prokofiev La Scala Choir/Orch, Chailly £12.50 £15.95 DG 483 6280 DG 483 4084 (2CD) Mozart Abbado Piano Concerto no.20, Rediscovered Piano Sonatas 3 & 12 Schubert Symphonies Jin-Cho, Chamber Orchestra 5 & 8 (r.1971) of Europe, Nezet-Seguin VPO, Abbado £12.50 £12.50 DG 483 5522 DG 483 5620 Also available DG 483 6274 Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker 2CD Los Angeles PO;Dudamel £12.50 DG 479 7454 Baika A Journey Through the Orient – album from violinsts Nemanka Radulovic £12.50 Decca 264 0791 Andre Rieu Romantic Moments vol.2 inc bonus DVD due 7/12 £12.50 Decca 481 7274 Katherine Jenkins Guiding Light – Songs of Inspiration, Hope and Strength £12.50 DG 483 5809 Rolando Villazon Feliz Navidad (Christmas album) Slovak National SO;Wilson £12.50 DG 483 6001 100 Christmas Masterworks Bartoli, Terfel, Wunderlich, Gardiner, Abbado, Willcocks etc 5CD £13.95 Riccardo Chailly The Symphony Edition £99.95 Decca 483 4266 (55CD) 55-CD original jacket, original couplings collection celebrating Maestro Riccardo Chailly’s 40 years on Decca; includes complete cycles of Beethoven, Brahms (x2), Schumann (x2), Bruckner and Mahler. Riccardo Chailly was born into a musical family in Milan. He studied at the conservatories in Milan and Perugia and received specialized training in conducting from Franco Ferrara at his Siena summer courses. At the age of 20, Chailly became assistant conductor to Claudio Abbado at Milan’s La Scala. He made his opera debut there in 1978 and was soon in great demand at the world’s leading opera houses and concert halls. His recorded repertoire ranges from the music of Bach and the great classical symphonic and operatic works to contemporary compositions. Chailly’s ‘symphonic’ career can be broadly described in three chapters: his first major post was with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (now the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin) from 1982 to 1988. Then in 1988, he moved to the great Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam (the ensemble gained its ‘Royal’ prefix during his tenure there) where he stayed until 2004. In 2005, he moved on to the venerable Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig, an ensemble to which he’d been introduced nearly 20 years earlier by no less a figure than Herbert von Karajan who maybe discerned in his young Italian colleague a fascination with tradition and the challenge of re-energising it in a modern age. In 2016, in a move that had a real inevitability about it, he announced his departure from Leipzig to return to his spiritual home and take musical charge of La Scala, Milan. An exclusive Decca artist for over three decades, Chailly has held a fascination with how you keep a tradition alive yet invigorate it and evolve. His recordings reflect the traditions of the great orchestras he has led while embracing the necessity to inhabit the presence, bringing a freshness and vigour to familiar works without concession to established performance styles; to listen anew. 3 CHRISTMAS A selection of recent issues alongside some of our favourite recommendations many more available to browse online! Cat No Title Details Artists Price AV 2345 Carols from Queen’s Popular seasonal favourites from the Choir of Queen’s College, Oxford £12.50 SIGCD 512 Chilcott In Winter’s Arms – seasonal music by Bob Chilcott Choralis;Kuhrmann £9.71 CD 80687 Christmas Break A Relaxing Classical Mix Chertock;Kondonassis;Russell;Boston SO etc £6.95 233744 Christmas in the Vatican Palestrina, Bach, Corelli, Morales etc Coro della Cappella Sistina £11.50 SIGCD 497 Christmas Presence The King’s Singers live from King’s College Chapel, Cambridge £9.71 9029 576809 Christmas with the King’s Singers Carols and traditional favourites Te Kanawa;Hickox etc £7.95 CD 80226 Christmas with the Pops Traditional favourites from the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra Kunzel £6.95 CD 80538 Christmastime is Here Popular Christmas songs from Cincinnati Pops Kunzel etc £11.95 600 342 Classical Christmas Time! Karajan, Fischer-Dieskau, Britten, Sutherland, Boult etc 10CD £15.95 88985 481482 Domingo and Friends Celebrate Christmas in Vienna Carreras;Bennett;Ross;Warwick etc £12.50 ES 2064 Es ist ein Ros entsprungen Christmas Choral Music NDR Choir;Ahmann £12.50 AV 2122 I Saw Three Ships Christmas Music from Gloucester Cathedral – traditional and contemporary £12.50 9029 577021 In dulci jubilo Christmas with London Brass – carols and traditional favourites £7.95 622 0661 In dulci jubilo Christmas works by Buxtehude and friends Hybrid SACD Theatre of Voices;Hillier £12.95 MDG 3091932 L’inverno