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Winter, 2020 All Prices Good through 5/31/20 Music Classical see pages 3 - 21 Beethoven: Symphonies Blomstedt/Staatskapelle Dresden 5 CDs BLC 96040 $16.98 Special Section pages 6 - 7 Jazz see pages 28 - 33 Harry Connick, Jr. A Celebration of Cole Porter page 31 Stage & Screen see pages 22 - 27 Cats Highlights from the Motion Picture Soundtrack page 25 Partnered with: Roots Folk Music Country Music see pages 40 - 43 Peter, Paul and Mary At Newport, 1963-65 [DVD Video] VT / KY / TN - see page 2 HBDirect Mixed-Genre Catalog HBDirect is pleased to present our fourth Mixed-Genre catalog - an alternative and compliment to our long standing Classics & Jazz Catalog. This Mixed-Genre catalog offers our music-loving customers Winter 2020 an enticing selection of classical and jazz recordings, as well as everything from the roots of Americana to world music, blues, film scores and military band selections as well as DVDs, Blu-rays and audio books. ‘Silence’ - Christoph Sietzen, marimba; Academy of Ancient Music A number of new and infrequently appearing genres and products are offered in this Winter 2020 Christoph Sietzen has been noted for his technical mastery as well as his power- catalog. On pages 22 and 23, look for a selection of Naxos audio books with titles ranging from the familiar ful stage presence. With an Opus Klassik “Young Artist of the Year” award under to the unknown. Following the introduction of Blues in the Autumn 2020 Mixed-Genre catalog we’ve his belt, he presents his new album from Sony Classical, Silence. He has chosen included another two pages of blues on pages 44 and 45. And, for our many customers who enjoyed works by Bach, Albinez, Piazolla, Glass, Francisco Tarrega, and Arvo Part. It is browsing Music Superstore’s Altissimo! catalog, look to pages 51 through 55 for selections of wind, band a personal selection, featuring songs that require the performer to experience and patriotic titles. silence. With Silence, the Luxembourgish-Austrian percussionist shows once We hope to inspire you, not only with selections you might normally gravitate to, but also to again his awesome technique and profound musicality, jointed by cellist Clemens explore! If there are recordings you have long wanted to obtain, please know that we are here to help. Hagen and the Academy of Ancient Music. CD# SBMG 19075993252 $16.98 see pages J.S. Bach: 6 Sonatas for recorder, harpsichord & viola da gamba / Michala Petri Explore Genres of Music! In honor of OUR Recordings’ 40th Release, Michala Petri could scarcely Classical Bach, Mozart, Beethoven / Classical Vocal, Opera & Choral ... 3 - 19 choose a more exciting program than a return visit to Bach’s Flute Sonatas, BWV 1030-1035. Michala’s famous 1992 recording with Keith Jarrett has long Opera & Concert Videos on DVD and Blu-ray since attained legendary status, and this new recording is likewise revelatory Classical Videos 20 - 21 and transcendent. Joining Michala on this journey is an early music dream Film Composers, Television ... team: harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, rightly regarded as one of the fiercest of the Broadway / Stage & Screen 24 - 27 younger generation of clavecinistes, playing his new Jukka Ollikka harpsichord, Chet Baker, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Nat King Cole, Diana Krall ... and Hille Perl, one of the world’s leading and most beloved viola da gambists Jazz 28 - 33 rounding out the continuo unit. International, Celtic, The Islands ... World Music 34 - 39 The Music of Tony Banks, Orchestrated & Arranged by Nick Ingman Tony Banks, the renowned founder member and keyboard maven of the rock Bluegrass, Ragtime, Soul, Country ... Roots, Folk & Blues 40 - 45 band Genesis, continues his acclaimed series of orchestral compositions with Five, performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. The suite opens Golden Oldies, Hit Parade ... Retro 46 - 49 with “Prelude to a Million Years,” originally commissioned for and performed at the Cheltenham Music Festival. Banks’ signature melodic gifts and feel for Songwriters / Easy Listening Cat Stevens, Perry Como ... 50 - 51 cinematic scale are all in evidence in Five, just as they were in his releases Six and Seven. Naxos is proud to present this recording which is described by Patriotic / Band Music for Winds, Military Bands, Americana ... 52 - 55 Stage and Cinema as ‘gorgeous, transporting music sounds exactly like a soar- ing soundtrack’. CD# NXS 8574141 $14.98 22 - 23 Naxos Audio Books Angela Gheorghiu: Plaisir d’amour with Alexandra Dariescu, piano This assembly of titles of course includes classics of fiction such Angela Gheorghiu returns to Decca to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her legend- as Fanny Hill by John Cleland, The Ambassadors by Henry ary La Traviata with Sir Georg Solti. This 23-track album features rare and classic James and Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence but also interest- songs never before recorded by Gheorghiu, and includes works spanning four cen- ing titles such as Great Speeches in History and The Story of turies in music. Winner of five Gramophone Awards, twice recipient of Female Artist Classical Music. The title featured at left is Joseph Conrad’s of the Year from the Classic Brits, in 2018 she received the ‘Victoire d’Honneur’ masterwork, Nostromo, a profoundly dark moral fable that explores volatile award in France. Accompanied by pianist Alexandra Dariescu, the recital opens politics and crippling greed surrounding the San Tomé silver mine. with two Romanian songs and includes such classics at Fauré’s “Après un rêve”, Tosti’s “Ideale”, Strauss’ “Morgen!” and the Chopin “Tristesse”. Are you getting the Classics & Jazz Catalog? CD# DEC B003145602 $19.98 Get on the mailing list for our catalogs Romances for Voice and Guitar arranged by Hector Berlioz In addition to this Mixed-Genre Catalog, HBDirect The first complete recording of Hector Berlioz’s arrangements of romances for regularly publishes a specialty Classical & Jazz voice and guitar is presented on this stunning album which marks the 150th an- catalog. If you are interested, let us know. You niversary of the composer’s death. Soprano Magali Simard-Galdes and tenor Anto- remain on the mailing list by placing orders. nio Figueroa are accompanied by David Jacques, who plays an 1829 Jean-Joseph Note that, very rarely, a price may be incorrect in a catalog and cannot be honored. Coffe guitar. Most of these songs are arrangements of popular tunes from comic operas which would have been widely known and recognized in Paris during Ber- Changes to sales tax obligations lioz’s time. The tunes are just as enjoyable a century and a half later! HBDirect is obliged by law to collect sales tax CD# ATMA 22800 $16.98 on merchandise and shipping from residents of VT (6%), KY (6%) and TN (9.725%). New! Leave your wallet in your pocket. J.S. Bach: Trumpet Concertos / Matthias Höfs, trumpet Introducing a new payment method on HBDirect. Unfortunately, the great master Johann Sebastian Bach did not leave us any com! If you’ve placed an order in the previous three trumpet concertos. Luckily for us, however, trumpeter Matthias Hofs has taken months by phone or on the web, you matters into his own hands by arranging six well-loved Bach concertos for his can select Card On File as your instrument. The result is this stunning 16-track album showcasing both Bach’s payment method. We’ll bill your last- masterful writing and Hofs’ technical brilliance. Together with the Deutsche used credit card and contact you if Kammerphilharmonie Bremen he has produced an album that furthers a long we have any questions. tradition. At same time, he ably demonstrates yet again what a seemingly familiar instrument is capable of. CD# BER 0301305 $18.98 Classical FavoriteS Luka Šulić: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons 2020 New Year’s Concert: Andris Nelsons Alma Deutscher: From My Book of Melodies Mendelssohn: Chamber Music With Clarinet Luka Šulić, the internationally renowned Sony presents the 2020 Vienna Alma Deutscher is a British prodigy, Even though the clarinet was relatively cellist who has made a name for himself Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concert producing beautiful compositions, and new at the time, Mendelssohn did not by defying boundaries and crossing which took place on January 1 under performing masterfully on the violin shy away from it. He wrote beautifully genres, returns to his classical roots the baton of Andris Nelsons in the and piano. She composed her first for the clarinet. Unfortunately, however, on this new release which showcases Antonio Vivaldi’s masterpiece The Four Musikverein in Vienna. Since 2010, piano sonata at age 6, which was he did not leave very many solo works. Seasons. He is joined by Archi Nelsons has been a musical partner followed by various concertos, smaller It’s for this reason Italian clarinetist dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia and of the Vienna Philharmonic, and the compositions, and a full-length opera, Dario Zingales has raided the conductor Luigi Piovano. Not only is New Year’s Concert represents his Cinderella, which was released by cupboard for transcriptions and turned this album notable for being Šulić’s solo first time conducting this prestigious Sony Classical in 2018. This release up seven Songs without Words, and debut, it is also one of the first times this international event. The concert, which was broadcast to over 90 features 11 compositions, one from each year of her life from has had new chamber versions made of clarinet-centered release has been recorded on cello. countries and as many as 40 million television viewers around age 4–14, all collected in her sketchbook, or “Book of Melodies.” movements in Symphonies. CD# SNYC 19075986352 $16.98 the globe, includes works by Josef Strauss, Johann Strauss, Jr., CD# SNYC 19075990192 $14.98 CD# BLC 96081 $10.98 Carl Michael Ziehrer, and Franz von Suppé, among others.