Summer, 2020 All Prices Good through 9/15/20 Music Classical see pages 3 - 17 LA Phil 100 DVD or Blu-ray Video The Los Angeles Philharmonic Centennial Birthday Gala from Walt Disney Concert Hall 2DVD# CME 753408 $29.98 BR# CME 753504 $42.98 World see pages 18 - 27 Fadhilee Itulya: Kwetu It’s Not a Place | It’s A Feeling 1CD# NXS 76125 $14.98 Jazz see pages 36 - 41 Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool The audio companion to the critically-acclaimed documentary. 1CD# COLB 19075994352 $14.98 Retro/Roots see pages 41 - 47 Partnered with: Patti Page The Complete US Hits 1948-63 1CD# AOAT ACTRCD9050 $14.98 Folk/Blues see pages 48 - 51 The Best of Madeleine Peyroux Keep Me In Your Heart VT / KY / TN For A While. see page 2 1CD# RDR 1166136154 $15.98 HBDirect Mixed-Genre Catalog As our customers are letting us know, many continue to limit how much they venture away from home. This situation fosters a need for home activities and entertainment, and we have been taking calls Summer 2020 from many of you anxious to receive a new catalog. So, we are pleased to present the new HBDirect Mixed Genre Catalog for Summer, 2020! Clement: Violin Concertos Nos. 1-2 / Reinhard Goebel The substantial classical music section in this month’s catalog offers a balance of best-sellers Conductor Reinhard Goebel is a world-renowned mediator of historical perfor- and new releases in a variety of categories including boxed sets (don’t overlook the splendid Brilliant mance practice and a never-ending source for repertoire treasures. This record- Classics boxes on page 7!), opera, choral, videos and light classics. We also have a much expanded ing inlcudes two violin concertos by Franz Joseph Clement (1780-1842), con- offering of world music as well as new age, selections from the Naxos Musical Journey Series on DVD sidered one of the greatest violin virtuosos of his time. The similarities between video, musicals and film scores, audiobooks, jazz, retro, classic rock, roots, folk music, blues and a steady Clement’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto op. 61 are by favorite in our summer catalogs, the Altissimo label and other band and patriotic fare. no means accidental. Rather, they reflect the way in which the two composers We hope you are inspired by this catalog, and if there are recordings you have long wanted to could refer directly to one another, tossing balls back and forth with a nod and obtain but have been unsuccessful in locating, please let us know and we’ll try to find them for you. a wink. Recorded by Mirijam Contzen with the WDR Symphony Orchestra, and conducted by Goebel. 1CD# SBMG 19075929632 $16.98 Highlights from this Catalog Georges Prêtre: The Last Concert, La Scala, February 22, 2016 As French conductor Georges Prêtre was nearing the end of his life, he took Brilliant Classics Quintessence Series - page 7 a long hiatus due to illness. Before leaving his beloved profession behind In true Brilliant Classics form, the discount label presents gems from their catalog with fifteen however, he would return to the Teatro alla Scala where he had held a mutu- 5-CD sets priced at only $16.98 per box! For example, Haydn’s ‘London Symphonies’, drawn ally respectful and amicable relationship of more than 50 years - for one final from what is arguably one of the finest Haydn symphony cycles on disc. concert on February 22, 2016. This release features that triumphant return and offers a program of works by Beethoven, erdi,V Offenbach and Ravel. A Bounty of World Music - pages 18 - 28 Deutsche Grammophon proudly presents this concert for the first time on CD - The World Music section of the HBDirect Mixed-Genre catalog remains one of its most popular a magnificent end to a magnificent career. 1CD# DGG B003159102 $19.98 features. For this issue, we have expanded it considerably offering you 11 pages of music from around the globe. Get to know the diverse music of your neighbors on our planet! Bach: 7 Toccatas BWV910-916 / Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord Naxos Audiobooks - pages 34 - 35 The term “toccata” stems from the early Baroque. The primary aim of Enjoy hours of exquisite story-telling or expand your knowledge of intriguing subjects when you the toccata in the hands of Bach’s forebears was to dazzle and astonish embark on a journey with a Naxos Audiobook! You’ll find 20 attractively discounted titles from listeners. The youthful Bach inherited and embellished this tradition in his which to choose that include topics ranging from fiction and history to science and more. own unique way. Composed while still in his twenties, they are young man’s music, designed both to impress and delight listeners. BWV910 is built to an Acrobat Jazz Selections - pages 38 - 39 especially grand design of two contrasting fugues, the second modelled on While eager to explore the annals of jazz and the artists who were among the early exponents a refined French chaconne which recalls some of the composer’s earliest of the genre, many music lovers might be hard-pressed to find a source for such exploration. masterpieces. 1CD# BLC 96059 $11.98 We are pleased to bring to the attention of these listeners the excellent Acrobat Jazz label. Acrobat Retro Selections - pages 44 - 45 Complete Herbert von Karajan Decca Recordings 33-CD Set From B.B. King, Hank Williams and Johnny Cash to Eartha Kitt, Arthur Lyman and Bob Wills, the Decca brings together, for the first time in one concise edition, the complete retro music selections of Acrobat provide a near endless opportunity to both revisit music of your recordings of Herbert von Karajan for the label. Included are ten complete yesteryears and to expand your knowledge of America’s musical nostalgia. operas, such as the Decca recordings of Tosca and Carmen. Also included are works with Leontyne Price, Luciano Pavarotti, Mario del Monaco, Rounder 50th Anniversary - page 50 Renata Tebaldi, Guisseppe di Stefano, Carlo Bergonzi and more. The Rounder Records is one of the world’s most historic Americana and bluegrass record labels. 33 CD boxed set features original jackets and spined wallets, with an Now celebrating 50 years since its founding, HBDirect is pleased to draw your attention to this extensive new essay by Karajan biographer Richard Osbourne. (This title seminal emblem of the American musical landscape, with a tribute on page 50 of this catalog. will be released on 6/28/2020) 33CD# DEC 2894834903 $139.98 Do You Get the Classics & Jazz Catalog? Get on the mailing list for our catalogs! In addition to this Mixed-Genre Catalog, HBDirect Friedrich Gulda Plays Piano Concertos 3-CD Set regularly publishes a specialty Classical & Jazz The second installment in SWR Classic’s series dedicated to pianist Friedrich catalog. If you are interested, let us know. You Gulda, this 3-disc set features concertos that the musician recorded between remain on the mailing list by placing orders. 1959 and 1962, and includes works by Mozart, Richard Strauss, Beethoven Note that, very rarely, a price may be incorrect and Haydn. He’s joined by some renowned ensembles for these recordings, in a catalog and cannot be honored. including the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart and Sudwestfunk-Orchester Baden-Baden with conductors Joseph Keilberth, Hans Muller-Kray and Hans Changes to sales tax obligations Rosbaud. 3CD# SWRM 19088 $34.98 HBDirect is obliged by law to collect sales tax on merchandise and shipping from residents of VT (6%), KY (6%) and TN (9.725%). Beethoven: String Quartets / Tetzlaff Quartett 2-CD Set Leave your wallet in your pocket! This new album of Beethoven’s late String Quartets by the prestigious Introducing a new payment method on HBDirect.com! Tetzlaff Quartett offers a fitting tribute to Beethoven’s 250th anniversary If you’ve placed an order in the previous three months year. These monumental works which are given fresh interpretations by the by phone or on the web, you can select quartet are some of the greatest achievements in the history of Western Card On File as your payment method. art music written by a composer who had already lost contact with the We’ll bill your last-used credit card and world. Beethoven had just completed his 9th Symphony when he was contact you if we have any questions. commissioned to write the String Quartets. What resulted was a string of totally unique masterpieces highly individual in their language and unusual in their form. 2CD# OND 1347 $16.98 Classical Favorites Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 SACD Strauss: Symphony No. 12 The Long 17th Century 2-CD Set Beethoven Reimagined Anton Bruckner finished his Richard Strauss wrote both his The Long 17th Century is the newest This album presents three works that Symphony No. 6 in 1881 after two Symphony in F minor Op. 12 and project from pianist Daniel-Ben reshape Beethoven’s awe-inspiring years of work. The composer didn’t his Concert Overture in C minor Pienaar. The title refers to the time music for the 21st century. Works see a full performance of the work during the summer of 1883. While period from the late 1500s to the include a brand-new ‘symphony’ in during his lifetime- only a partial the Symphony is the cornerstone early 1700s, an era remembered for the style of Beethoven based on the performance featuring the middle of this recording, the Concert its forward-thinking invention across Seventh Violin Sonata, an orchestral movements was staged. Even today Overture cannot be overlooked as a all areas of life.