November 2017 Catalogue Issue 18 Prices valid until Friday 15 December 2017 0115 982 7500 ‘Cadenabbia on Lake Como’ by Felix Mendelssohn (1837) [email protected] Your Account Number: {MM:Account Number} {MM:Postcode} {MM:Address4} {MM:Address3} {MM:Address2} {MM:Address1} {MM:Name} 1 Welcome! Dear Customer, Picking out our favourites from the new releases this month has been a challenge, to say the least. Not that we’re complaining - being surrounded by glorious new recordings week in, week out is one of the perks of the job! Warner Classics (with Erato) is a good place to start. All four of the highlights we have picked on p.4 are wonderful discs from some of today’s brightest talents. Violinist Vilde Frang, soprano Sabine Devieilhe, mezzo Natalie Stutzmann and choral conductor Laurence Equilbey all offer us fascinating recitals, each artist very much at home in the repertoire they have chosen. Chandos are another label that have a particularly strong selection of new titles for November - see p.6 for Elgar from Sir Andrew Davis, Bartok from Edward Gardner and Richard Rodney Bennett from John Wilson. It is also good to see them boxing together Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s recent traversal of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas. Alpha present us with the latest offering from Vox Luminis in the form of Handel and Bach, alongside the next instalment in the Haydn 2032 series (the previous volume having won a Gramophone Award this year). Decca’s priority for the month is a magnificent album of baroque works featuring both Cecilia Bartoli and Sol Gabetta (’Dolce Duello’); our pick from Sony is Teodor Currentzis’s interpretation of Tchaikovsky 6 with MusicAeterna; and Naxos entice us with the third instalment of their superb Ring Cycle from Hong Kong. And we mustn’t forget our Disc of the Month: a poignant recital of works for cello and piano composed around the time of the First World War, also featuring a selection of short works performed on a ‘trench cello’. Steven Isserlis is sensitively partnered by pianist Connie Shih - see below for more information on this. Decca and DG have brought out the big guns with their schedule of boxset releases for November. Karajan features on p.3 (everything he recorded for Decca and DG on 356 discs!) and six other sets can be found on the back cover, including collections devoted to Pavarotti, Abbado and Jochum. Our new special offers feature some favourite labels including Naxos, Chandos, Onyx, Brilliant Classics, Coro and Challenge Classics, plus selections from DG and Decca and yet more titles from Warner Classics/Erato. Please note that the DG/Decca and Warner/Erato special offer titles will all remain reduced into the new year, until 17 January 2018. Best regards from, The Europadisc Team DISC OF THE MONTH The Cello in Wartime £11.95 Works by Debussy, Bridge, Faure and Webern or pay just Steven Isserlis, Connie Shih £9.95 BIS BIS 2312 if your order value As the centenaries of various events of the First World War are being commemorated, we are reminded of the great battles and the large-scale suffering. To imagine what exceeds £50* day-to-day life may have been like in the trenches in Flanders is more difficult, however, * to qualify for the special price, your order value must exceed a 100 years later and with no living survivors of the war to bear witness. Poems and total of £50 excluding this paintings can give us some idea – but, as this disc from Steven Isserlis proves, so can music! recording and before any applicable carriage charges. The main, more conventional section of the programme is a selection of cello works Offer available while stocks last. composed around the time of the war, by composers from three of the countries involved in it: France, Britain and Austria. This is followed by something rather more unusual, however, as Isserlis exchanges his ‘Marquis de Corberon’ Stradivarius for an instrument that was once played and heard in the trenches of Ypres. Harold Triggs, the owner of this so-called ‘trench cello’, brought it with him to Flanders from England – other soldiers, on both sides of the conflict, constructed their own violins, cellos or flutes on site, from ammunition boxes, pipes and whatever else they could get hold of. These instruments thus become a highly moving testimony to every man’s need for beauty and solace and joy, even in the middle of a battlefield. With the delicate support of Connie Shih on the piano, Isserlis and his trench cello transport us, for a brief moment, to a trench near Ypres during a quiet spell between skirmishes, with soldiers resting, writing home, playing cards – and with the help of the music – dreaming of a life elsewhere. 2 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES DG and Decca Dolce Duello Bach, JS Baroque works for voice The Art of Fugue and cello by Handel, Accademia Bizantina, Vivaldi, Porpora etc Dantone Bartoli, Gabetta £11.50 due 10/11 £12.95 due 10/11 Decca 483 2329 Decca 483 2473 (hardcover CD) Bruckner Schubert Symphony no.2 ‘Trout’ Quintet, Strauss, R Der Burger als Notturno, transcriptions Edelmann Trifonov, Mutter etc VPO, Muti £11.50 £15.95 DG 479 7570 DG 479 8180 (2CD) available at £14.95 until 28/11 Also available DG 482 8826 Rene Kollo From Mary Lou to Meistersinger 2CD due 10/11 Kollo £13.95 Decca 481 6326 Oja Gjeilo Winter Songs due 17/11 Gjeilo;Choir of Royal Holloway;12 Ensemble;Gough £11.50 DG 479 8308 Debussy Images, Children’s Corner, Suite bergamasque, L’isle joyeuse due 17/11 Cho £11.50 DG 481 6381 Paganini Violin Conc 1; Wolf-Ferrari Vln Conc available at £11.50 until 28/11 Dego;CBSO;Rustioni £12.50 DG 479 7144 Tesori d’Italia Works with oboe by Vivaldi, Sammartini, Ristori & Elmi Mayer;I Musici di Roma £11.50 Decca 483 2500 Waltz Gold 100 Great Tracks 6CD £21.95 Decca 483 2499 Waltz Gold 50 Great Tracks 3CD £18.50 Karajan The Complete Recordings on DG and Decca £769.95 479 8160 (330CD + 24DVD + 2 Blu-ray Audios) Only 100 copies due to be released in the UK! Everything Karajan ever recorded for Deutsche Grammophon and Decca in a strictly limited, numbered edition. The set is contained in a leather fibre outer case with gold hot-foil imprint and features a bookshelf-like inner box presenting all sleeves easily accessible from two sides. A 140pp hardcover book includes a new extended essay on the phenomenon Karajan by biographer Richard Osborne as well as all the essays, interviews, reminiscences by colleagues and producers from the four previously released big box sets, a timeline and numerous pictures including facsimiles of protocols from some of his most famous recordings. The box includes The Early Recordings on 8 CDs (6 CDs of “The First Recordings” from the 1930s and 1940s + 2 CDs radio recordings previously released on Koch-Schwann from the 1940s); The Complete 1960s Recordings (82 CDs); The Complete 1970s Recordings (82 CDs); The Complete 1980s Recordings (78 CDs); The Complete Opera Recordings on DG & Decca (70 CDs); Decca Orchestral Recordings on 9 CDs + The Christmas Album; The Complete DG/Unitel DVDs (24 DVDs); 2 Blu-ray Audios with the 1963 Beethoven cycle and Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen in 24 bit/96kHz. Aled Jones One Voice: Believe £11.50 Classic FM CFMD 55 One of the UK’s most popular singers and presenters, Aled Jones returns this autumn to complete what has been an extraordinary journey, with the final instalment in his One Voice album trilogy, One Voice: Believe. A collection of spiritual classics, One Voice: Believe sees Aled duet with his younger self – man and boy – and features a few special surprises. Highlights include stunning renditions of Pie Jesu (Lloyd Webber), Ave Maria (Schubert), Did You Not Hear My Lady (Handel), and Morning Has Broken (traditional). The album also features the life-affirming Believe, a composition written by Aled himself. PLEASE SEE THE BACK COVER FOR MORE NEW BOXSETS AVAILABLE FROM DG AND DECCA 3 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES Warner Classics and Erato Homage Mirages Works and transcriptions Songs and arias by for violin/piano by Ries, Debussy, Delage, Wieniawski, Kreisler etc Thomas, Massenet etc Frang, Gallardo Devieilhe, Les Siecles, Roth £10.95 due 17/11 £10.95 due 10/11 Warner 9029 580532 Erato 9029 576772 Quella fiamma Schubert Arie antiche - Durante, Nacht und Traume Caldata, Bononcini, (lieder with orchestra) Handel, Porpora etc de Barbeyrac, Lehmkuhl, Stutzmann, Orfeo 55 Accentus, Equilbey £10.95 £10.95 Erato 9029 76529 Erato 9029 576943 Also available 9029 577396 Debussy Sonatas and Trio Capucon;Chamayou;Chausse;Pahud;Langlamet;Moreau £10.95 9029 574915 Camille et Julie #3 Third album from the young French string duo Bertholet;Bertholet £12.95 9029 588827 Marin Chapoutot Clarinet recital from the winner of French talent show, Les Prodiges due 10/11 £12.95 9029 576680 Three Wings Plainsong, reimagined due 10/11 Winchester College Quiristers £10.95 9029 576322 Wieniawski Violin Concerto no.2; Shostakovich Violin Concerto no.1 Kim;Warsaw PO;Kaspszyk £10.95 9029 580844 Wieniawski Violin Conc no.2; Bruch Scottish Fantasy due 10/11 Wawrowski;Stuttgart PO;Raiskin £10.95 9029 580643 Poulenc Piano Melodies Tacchino £10.95 9029 577086 Agnus Dei Collection of meditative sacred music from the Choir of New College, Oxford 2CD £13.95 Hyperion at £11.95 each Coke Vaughan Williams Chopin Faure Piano Concertos 3-5 A London Symphony, Sound Preludes, Piano Sonata Requiem and other (R’mantic Piano Concs v.73) sleep, Orpheus with his lute no.2, Scherzo no.2 sacred music Callaghan, Brabbins Watts, BBC SO, Brabbins Tiberghien Yale Schola Cantorum, Hill CDA 68173 CDA 68190 CDA 68194 CDA 68209 Alpha due 17/11 Handel Dixit Dominus Haydn 2032 vol.5 Bach, JS Magnificat L’Homme de Genie - Vox Luminis, Meunier Symphonies 19, 80 & 81 £12.95 Kammerorchester Basel, ALPHA 370 Antonini £12.95 ALPHA 676 4 Complete Naxos Catalogue Reduced Until Christmas, we are offering 25% discount on all titles from Naxos.