August 2017 Catalogue Issue 16 Prices valid until Wednesday 27 September 2017 unless stated otherwise 0115 982 7500 Photograph taken from the cover of Resonus Classics RES10193 (The Music of Peter Fribbins) [email protected] Your Account Number: {MM:Account Number} {MM:Postcode} {MM:Address4} {MM:Address3} {MM:Address2} {MM:Address1} {MM:Name} 1 Welcome! Dear Customer, The BBC Proms season is now well under way - by the time this is published, we will already have seen performances from Daniel Barenboim, Bernard Haitink, Nicola Benedetti, Andrew Davis and Stephen Hough (to name but a few), with much more to look forward to in the coming weeks. Europadisc’s treat this year will be a special trip to see Thomas Dausgaard conduct Mahler 10, notable for being the winning combination on our Disc of the Year for 2016! Do let us know what you have particularly enjoyed and don’t hesitate to ask about availability of recordings of any new repertoire/artists you might have stumbled across. Our Disc of the Month for August is a wonderful recording of recently discovered works by Telemann, especially appropriate in this anniversary year. The manuscript for the Fantasias for viola da gamba was found in 2015 and recorded last year by Robert Smith for Resonus Classics, the label who gave us David Watkins’s superb recording of Bach’s Cello Suites back in 2015. Comparisons will be inevitable, and not entirely without merit, as these are very worthwhile additions to the solo cello/viola da gamba repertoire. Beautifully played by Smith, we can’t recommend this release highly enough. Other highlights this month include the final instalment of lieder by Richard Strauss in Hyperion’s eight-volume series; a fascinating disc of previously unrecorded string quartets from the interwar period on Channel Classics; two new discs from Linn in the shape of Mozart Piano Concertos and ‘Edinburgh 1742’, featuring works by Barsanti and Handel (look out also for some particularly exciting releases from Linn coming up in September); and, for lovers of British song, a set of four releases from Divine Art covering 20th-century repertoire from around the UK. Many have enquired over the years about the availability of Stephen Kovacevich’s highly-acclaimed Beethoven Sonata cycle, so we are very pleased to say that 18 August will finally see a reissue of the complete set at a very special price. It is one of ten new titles in Warner/Erato’s ‘Budget Boxset’ series, all of which can be found on p.4. Don’t miss the two new Barenboim boxes as well, both released to mark his upcoming 75th birthday. DG have compiled the solo piano recordings he made for both them and Westminster, while a 46-disc box gathers all of the recordings he made for Sony. New special offers include the complete catalogues of Audite, Collegium, Odradek, Myto, Opera Rara and Bel Air DVD, plus we have selections from Chandos and Sony and a promotion on boxsets from conductor Michael Gielen to mark his recent 90th birthday. Best regards from, The Europadisc Team DISC OF THE MONTH Telemann - Fantasias for Viola da Gamba £11.50 Robert Smith or pay just Resonus RES 10195 £7.95 Amongst his many hundreds of compositions in many different styles and settings, if your order value Telemann wrote sets of fantasias for four solo instruments – harpsichord, flute, violin exceeds £50* and viola da gamba. The fantasias for flute and violin especially have remained popular * to qualify for the special price, to this day – the varied and short movements provide compact musical messages that your order value must exceed a delight and refresh performers and listeners alike. However, the fantasias for viola da total of £50 excluding this recording and before any gamba were lost until as recently as 2015 when they were rediscovered in the collection applicable carriage charges. of Ledenburg Manor held at the Lower Saxony State Archive in Osnabrück. The Offer available while stocks last. rediscovered manuscript was released to the public in 2016 allowing us to seek answers to important questions. Is it good music? Is it idiomatic for the instrument? And by opening up the manuscript and playing through, the questions began to be answered. There is something magical about learning a newly discovered score. It is a direct and pure link to the past, between the performer and Telemann. There are no conscious or unconscious memories to cloud our interpretation, no favourite recordings, no performance traditions. This clean slate is something that very seldom occurs and is worth cherishing. Lost to the world for centuries, the twelve Fantasias for viola da gamba represent a major addition to the solo repertoire of the instrument. In the year of the 250th anniversary of Telemann’s death, acclaimed Amsterdam-based gambist Robert Smith brings these long forgotten works back to life with this striking recording of the complete set of twelve fantasias in a vital addition to the Telemann discography. 2 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES Deutsche Grammophon Daniel Barenboim - The Solo Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon and Westminster £89.95 479 7371 (39CD) due 11/8 Anticipating Daniel Barenboim’s 75th birthday (November 2017), Deutsche Grammophon celebrates his remarkable artistry as a pianist with this 39-CD anniversary edition of his complete solo recordings on Deutsche Grammophon and Westminster. This set presents a solo career spanning 60 years and allows us to observe his artistic development through very early recordings as a talented 13 year old to the present day. Barenboim, one of the outstanding musical figures of our time, began piano lessons at the age of five and gave his first official concert in Buenos Aires when he was seven. In 1954, at the age of twelve, he took part in Igor Markevitch’s conducting classes and over the following two years studied harmony and composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Following his debut in Vienna and Rome in 1952, Barenboim soon became known as one of the most versatile pianists of his generation. Major debuts followed in Paris (1955), London (1956) and New York, where he performed with Leopold Stokowski (1957). His recording career began in 1954; his close association with Deutsche Grammophon beginning in 1972. Barenboim’s vast discography on DG and Decca features the artist as both conductor and as pianist. It is in the latter role, as soloist, which he is celebrated in this 39-CD box marking his 75th birthday. Includes the Westminster Recordings of Beethoven and Mozart, the Warsaw Chopin Recital, “On my new Piano” (2016), and Rare First Recordings on Philips (1955, Bonus CD). Also available 481 5527 Cliburn Gold 2017 Performance from Yekwon Sunwoo inc Ravel, Haydn, Rachmaninov etc due 18/8 £11.50 Ondine An impressive cast of artists have joined together in this Ondine recording dedicated to the late works by iconic American Elliott Carter composer Elliott Carter (1908–2012). The album includes five Late Works premiere recordings, including Carter’s final work Epigrams (2012) for piano trio, featuring Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Isabelle Aimard, Currie, Faust, Queyras, Faust and Jean-Guihen Queyras. The album also features Birmingham Contemporary percussionist Colin Currie together with the Birmingham Music Group, BBC Symphony Contemporary Music Group and the BBC Symphony Orchestra Orchestra, Knussen conducted by Oliver Knussen. Includes Dialogues, Dialogues II, Epigrams, Instances, Interventions, Soundings and Two £12.95 Controversies and a Conversation. ODE 12962 Linn Edinburgh 1742 Mozart Works by Barsanti & Handel Piano Concertos 25 & 26 Ensemble Marsyas, Whelan Piemontesi, Scottish Chamber CKD 567 Orchestra, Manze £11.95 CKD 544 £11.95 A diverse programme of concerti, wind music and Scottish songs by Described as a ‘stellar Mozartian’, Francesco Piemontesi has found a composers Francesco Barsanti and George Frideric Handel, centred perfect partner in the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor around the music composed for The Edinburgh Musical Society. Andrew Manze shares Piemontesi’s approach to creating an Includes Handel’s Concerto for French Horns, Barsanti’s Concerti authentic performance, making this somewhat of a Mozart dream grossi Op.3, (comprising timpani and natural horns), Barsanti’s four team. This recording couples consecutive yet contrasting works from ‘Old Scots Tunes’ (notable as one of the first examples of Scottish Mozart’s Vienna period: K503 represents the longest and most traditional music to be faithfully transcribed), Handel’s aria ‘Sta substantial of his concert masterpieces and K537 provides the soloist nell’Ircana’ from Alcina, and the March for Wind Band, HWV 346. 3with an audience-pleasing cadenza. PRIORITY NEW RELEASES Warner Classics and Erato 10 New Budget Boxsets due 18/8 9029 584981 Bach, JS Keyboard Works 13CD Walcha £26.95 9029 582460 Beethoven Symphonies 1-9 6CD Staatskapelle Berlin;Barenboim £12.95 9029 586922 Beethoven The Complete Piano Sonatas, Bagatelles 9CD Kovacevich £18.95 9029 586921 Brahms Piano Concertos, Solo Piano Works, Chamber Music 10CD Angelich and friends £19.95 9029 586920 Chopin Piano Works 10CD Francois £19.95 9029 586919 Debussy Complete Piano Works 5CD Gieseking £9.95 9029 586918 Haydn 29 String Quartets 7CD Pro Arte Quartet £13.95 9029 586917 Mahler The Complete Symphonies 12CD CBSO;BPO;Rattle £24.95 9029 586915 Sibelius Symphonies 1-7, Kullervo, Tapiola, Finlandia etc 5CD Helsinki PO;Berglund £9.95 9029 582507 Renaissance and Baroque Music England, France, Flanders, Germany 7CD The Hilliard Ensemble £13.95 Also available 9029