April 2019 Catalogue Issue 36 Prices valid until Wednesday 29 May 2019 unless stated otherwise 0115 982 7500 [email protected] Your Account Number: {MM:Account Number} {MM:Postcode} {MM:Address5} {MM:Address4} {MM:Address3} {MM:Address2} {MM:Address1} {MM:Name} 1 Welcome! Dear Customer, As we started to consider our highlights from April’s new recordings, it quickly became apparent that there was quite a heavy leaning, albeit unintentional, towards piano music. Having said ‘unintentional’, maybe it’s not a coincidence that the boss also happens to be rather a fan of the keyboard… Boris Giltburg, who must be one of Naxos’s most lucrative soloists, presents us with the next disc in his cycle of works by Rachmaninov: this time it is the turn of the delightful and emotionally powerful Preludes. We have two from BIS: Nottingham-born pianist Clare Hammond explores the keyboard works of Josef Myslivecek (1737-1781), and Yevgeny Sudbin offers us his interpretations of late Beethoven. The Piano Concerto by Clara Schumann is the headline work on Volume 78 of Hyperion’s ‘Romantic Piano Concerto’ series, beautifully performed as always by Howard Shelley. Twin sisters Cristina and Michelle Naughton play some fascinating works for two pianos by American composers (Warner Classics), plus we have Schubert recitals from both Andras Schiff (fortepiano, ECM) and Khatia Buniatishvili (Sony). Plenty for pianophiles to get their teeth into! Opera comes a close second in the genre-stakes - we have three unusual, yet very interesting works to point out to you this month. Donizetti’s L’Ange di Nisida (later heavily reworked as La Favorite) is Opera Rara’s latest deluxe production; NIFC offer us a very simliar style of presentation in the Italian version of Moniuszko’s Halka (viewed by some as “Poland’s national opera”); and Bru Zane (formerly Ediciones Singulares) release Spontini’s lesser-known Olimpie in their usual lavish CD-Book format. There are many more we could point out to you, but space is becoming tight, so just a quick mention of two new Elgar recordings: Caractacus from the Huddersfield Choral Society/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion), and the Enigma Variations from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Vasily Petrenko both look to be worthy additions to the composer’s vast discography. New special offers this month include the complete and generous catalogues of Alpha, MDG and Somm; superb selections from both Warner Classics and Chandos; titles from small, yet high-quality labels Rubicon and Bru Zane; and DVDs/Blu-rays from Accentus, including great performances of Beethoven, Bruckner and Mahler from the likes of Barenboim, Chailly and Abbado. Best regards from, The Europadisc Team DISC OF THE MONTH Reason in Madness £11.95 Recital of songs by Brahms, Chausson, Debussy, Duparc, Koechlin, or pay just Poulenc, Saint-Saens, Schubert, Schumann, R Strauss and Wolf Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton £9.95 BIS BIS2353 if your order value Throughout history men have feared madwomen, burning them as witches, confining exceeds £50* them in asylums and subjecting them to psychoanalysis – yet, they have also been * to qualify for the special price, your order value must exceed a fascinated, unable to resist fantasizing about them. For their new disc, Carolyn Sampson total of £50 excluding this and Joseph Middleton have created a programme that explores the responses of a recording and before any applicable carriage charges. variety of composers to women whose stories have left them vulnerable and exposed. Offer available while stocks last. As a motto they have chosen an aphorism by Nietzsche: ‘There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness'. Brahms’s Ophelia Songs, composed for a stage production of Hamlet, appear next to those by Richard Strauss and Chausson, while Ophelia's death is described by both Schumann (in Herzeleid) and Saint-Saëns. Goethe’s mysterious and traumatized Mignon appears in settings by Hugo Wolf as well as Duparc, while his ill-used Gretchen grieves by her spinning-wheel in Schubert's matchless setting. Sadness and madness tip into witchery and unbridled eroticism with Pierre Louÿs's poems about Bilitis, set by Koechlin and Debussy. Sampson and Middleton end their recital as it began, with a suicide by drowning: in Poulenc’s monologue La Dame de Monte-Carlo, the elderly female protagonist has been unlucky at the gambling tables and decides to throw herself into the sea. 2 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES DG and Decca Lang Lang: Piano Book Miniatures by JS Bach, Badarczewska-Baranowska, Beethoven, Chopin, Clementi, Czerny, Debussy, Grieg, Huang Huwei, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Poulenc, Richter, Sakamoto, Schubert, Schumann and Tiersen £12.50 DG 479 7441 Lang Lang’s first new album in 3 years! A collection of the most popular short pieces for piano known, taught and played by players and piano lovers of all ages everywhere, including contemporary melodies such as Yann Tiersen’s ‘Amelie’ and Max Richter’s ‘Theme from the Leftovers’. All tracks are selected personally by Lang Lang and reflect his experience of teaching piano around the world through the Lang Lang Foundation. Also available: 479 7528 Deluxe edition with bonus disc - £15.95 479 8109 Super-deluxe edition with bonus disc and sheet music, including Lang Lang’s handwritten notes - £49.95 Suk The New York Asrael Symphony, Concert A Fairy Tale Mozart, Faure and Dvorak Czech Philharmonic, Kissin, Emerson String Belohlavek Quartet £12.95 £15.95 Decca 483 4781 (2CD) DG 483 6574 (2CD) due 12/4 Decca 774 4515 Einaudi Seven Days Walking: Day One Einaudi £12.50 Decca 483 4687 Berlioz Rediscovered Anthology of recordings from John Eliot Gardiner and the ORR 8CD + DVD £29.95 DG 483 6100 LA Phil 100 Years 32CD + 3DVD Mehta;Giulini;Salonen;Dudamel;Klemperer;van Beinum etc £89.95 Nathan Milstein Gil Shaham The Complete The Complete Deutsche Grammophon Deutsche Grammophon Recordings Recordings £19.95 £61.95 DG 483 6312 (5CD) DG 483 6334 (22CD) Carlo Maria Giulini Complete DG Recordings £84.95 DG 483 6224 (42CD) 42-CD original jacket collection presenting Carlo Maria Giulini’s complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, featuring reference recordings of masterworks by Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Verdi, Mozart, Schubert and much more. Also includes his legendary collaborations with soloists such as Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Vladimir Horowitz and Placido Domingo. 84pp booklet includes new liner notes by Richard Osborne. 3 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES Warner Classics and Erato American Postcard Rota Beethoven Bach, JS Wks for 2 pianos by Adams, Works for Harp Triple Conc, Choral Fantasy Violin Sonatas Copland, Nancarrow etc Lenaerts, Pahud, Accentus, Insula Orchestra, Capucon, Fray Naughton Sisters Brussels PO, Perruchon Equilbey £10.95 £10.95 £10.95 £10.95 9029 550578 due 12/4 9029 556229 9029 551471 due 12/4 9029 550573 due 12/4 Brahms/Ligeti Moderniste Goreccy Polish Love Story Violin Concertos Wks for winds by Milhaud, Music by Henryk and Songs by Bacewicz, Chopin, Hadelich, Norwegian Radio Jolivet, Magnard etc Mikolaj Gorecki Moniusko, Szymanowski etc Orchestra, Harth-Bedoya Les Vents Francais Sinfonia Varsovia Komasa (bar), Jezior £10.95 £18.95 £15.95 £15.95 9029 551045 due 12/4 9029 554870 due 12/4 9029 557057 9029 557062 9029 557058 Hidden Violin Violin works by Bacewicz, Lutoslawski, Wieniawski etc Wawrowski;Gallardo £15.95 9029 557055 Polish Music Experience Works by Kilar, Meyer, Opalka and Penderecki Sinf Cracovia;Dybal £15.95 9362 490097 Sondheim Company: A Musical Company (2018 London Cast Recording) Giedroyc;Bailey etc £10.95 9362 490095 Sondheim Follies (2018 National Theatre Cast Recording) Armstrong;Barstow; etc £10.95 New ‘Collector’s Edition’ Boxsets 9029 554255 Beethoven Complete String Quartets 9CD Alban Berg Quartets £18.50 9029 554251 Strauss, R Complete Orchestral Works 9CD Staatskapelle Dresden;Kempe £14.95 9029 549675 Grieg Piano, Orchestral and Vocal Works, Chamber Music 12CD £24.95 The Albert Roussel Edition £28.95 Erato 9029 548916 (11CD) Much of the richly diverse oeuvre of Albert Roussel (1869-1937) grew from his far-flung travels as a young navy officer. One of the major French composers of his time, he produced music that embraces the exotic colours of so-called Impressionism, the rigour of his training at Vincent d’Indy’s Schola Cantorum, and the questing spirit of Modernism. Containing a number of CD premieres, this wide-ranging edition features such performers as André Cluytens, Michel Plasson and José van Dam. In a recording from 1929, Roussel himself conducts excerpts from Le Festin de l'araignée (the set also includes recordings of him playing the piano and speaking), while his sometime pupil Jean Martinon conducts the entire ballet score in a recording from 1971. Conductor Charles Munch and mezzo-soprano Claire Croiza, who both appear in the edition, were also closely associated with the composer. A number of recordings in the edition are appearing on CD globally for the first time. The analogue recordings in the edition have been digitally remastered in 24bit/96kHz from the original tapes. Warner ‘100 Best’ Series all 6CD sets at just £12.95 each 9029 548472 Children’s Classics 9029 548469 Opera Classics 9029 548466 Verdi 9029 548471 Choruses 9029 548468 Relaxing Classics 9029 548465 Violin 9029 548470 Mozart 9029 548467 Tchaikovsky 9029 548463 Wagner 4 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES Naxos at £7.95 each (except where stated) due 12/4 Rachmaninov Berlioz Howells Donizetti 24 Preludes Romeo & Juliette, Beatrice & String Qt, Lady Audrey’s