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All Prices Good PAID Mixed-Genre through 8/31/21 Permit # 79 PRSRT STD PRSRT U.S. Postage Aberdeen, SD Late Spring 2021 Del Canto Gitano: Music of Ancient Andalusia World Music beginning on page 26 1/800/222/6872 HBDirect.com Seaboard Lane, Suite B-100 113 Franklin, TN 37067 www.hbdirect.com Hymns of Kassianí New Classical Releases see page 3 Robert Finley: Turn Out the Stars: Sharecropper’s Son Music of Bill Evans Blues Music Jazz New Releases see page 46 beginning on page 38 Love Music. HBDirect Mixed-Genre Catalog Late Spring 2021 HBDirect is pleased to present our Late Spring Mixed-Genre catalog – bringing you the widest selection of classical, Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas Op. 120 NEW jazz, folk, blues, band music, musicals, oldies, videos, and for this issue, an expanded collection of the best in world Julian Bliss and James Baillieu present Johannes Brahms’ Clarinet Sonatas, music! Call to place your order at 800 222 6872, mail it to us, or search for your selection on HBDirect.com. Op. 120 and an arrangement of his 4 Ernste Gesänge, Op.121 arranged by Bliss. These late works were inspired by the great clarinetist Richard Muhlfeld, For our customers who order regularly from HBDirect’s Classics & Jazz catalog, there’s much to choose from in this principal clarinet of the Meiningen Court Orchestra, without whom we would catalog as well – including brand new classical releases, a wide array of Ondine sale titles, and two pages devoted to not have had this clarinet repertoire. Julian Bliss is one of the world’s finest the works of Shakespeare. Be sure to browse our world music feature, with everything from ARC Music’s ‘Discover clarinetists, excelling as a concerto soloist, chamber musician, jazz artist, masterclass leader and tireless musical explorer. Series’ to the fascinating ‘Folk Music of China’ series from Naxos World. If you feel like watching those classic 1CD# SIG 671 $17.99 television shows of yesteryear, view our list of TV Classics video titles on page 51. Also, on page 55 you’ll find a complete selection of John Philip Sousa’s “Music for Wind Band” titles from the expanding Naxos series. NEW Hymns of Kassianí / Lingas, Cappella Romana Discover the world’s earliest music by a female composer: 9th-century nun, We thank you for your business and remind you to keep all our catalogs handy. Prices are good through August 31st poet, and hymnographer Kassianí (Kassía). The same men and women 2021, but most recordings in this catalog should remain available long after that date. of Cappella Romana who brought you the “Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia” bestseller, now sing the earliest music we have by a female composer, including long-suppressed hymns recorded here for the first time. They close with two medieval versions of her beloved hymn for Orthodox Holy Week. Cappella Romana is the world’s leading ensemble in the field of medieval Byzantine Explore Genres of Music! chant, and this is the first of a planned series to record all of Kassianí’s surviving works. 1SACD# CPLR 422 $19.99 Classical New Releases, Opera, Choral, Box Sets, Brass & Wind, DVD & Blu-ray 3-20 Bach: Goldberg Variations NEW Stage & Screen Shakespeare, Broadway, Film Classics, Current Soundtracks 21-25 A whole life, from birth to death, or the whole world, from the rising of the sun to its setting: nothing less than this is Bach’s Goldberg Variations for World Music Top-Selling Favorites, Africa, India & South Asia, Celtic, Relaxation 26-37 saxophonist Peter Vigh. With the “Aria” at the beginning and at the end, a circle closes, and all sorts of things happen in between. Vigh orchestrated Jazz New Releases, Jazz & Pop Vocals, Mack Avenue selections, Norah Jones 38-43 the monumental cycle for his Berlage Saxophone Quartet and has now recorded it on this Super Audio album. 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Select FreeFreight to If you do not explicitly re- 1CD# REF 743 $16.99 have your order shipped quest FreeFreight for your for Free!* Delivery time order, our regular shipping NEW is slower (typically 10- rates will apply. Delivery Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 14 days) than with our time for this option runs The Munich concert year of 2005 began at the end of January with two regular shipping method. about 3-10 days and your highlights: the two performances of Bruckner’s Third Symphony with Mariss Your order is consolidat- order may come from mul- Jansons conducting the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks in the ed in our warehouse and tiple locations. Shipping Philharmonie im Gasteig. This live recording makes it possible to experience one shipped via USPS Media rates are on the of the landmarks of the Late Romantic symphonic repertoire, conducted by an Mail. 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The Chopin Mahan Esfahani, Håkan Hardenberger, subject matter. restoration engineer Lani Spahr. program is coupled here with Beethoven’s 32 Variations in Pekka Kuusisto and Tabea Zimmermann. 1SACD# BIS 2412 $19.99 2CD# SOMM 5011 $29.99 C minor and the Diabelli Variations. 3SACD# BIS 2199 $59.99 2CD# SWRM 19097 $24.99 Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 8 2-CD Beethoven • Wagner • Verdi / Lise Davidsen The Royal Chapel of Madrid – The Devil’s Caprice – Guitar Favourites Sacred Music after the Great Fire of 1734 This release features Andris Nelsons Few young singers merit the and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig’s superlatives bestowed on them Acclaimed concert artist Mabel Millán The Royal Chapel of Madrid plays performance of Bruckner’s Symphonies as “powerhouse” (The Guardian ) brings her stunning technique and an integral part in the history of the Nos. 2 and 8, coupled with Wagner’s Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen. remarkable musical expressiveness Spanish monarchy. 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