October 2016 Catalogue Prices valid until Friday 25�� November 2016 unless stated otherwise 0115 982 7500 Cover art by Marzia Figliolia, detail taken from Sono [email protected] Luminus DSL92206 ‘Bruno Bavota: Out of the Blue’ 1 Welcome! Dear Customer, With autumn being the time of year when record labels traditionally bring out the big guns, we’ve struggled to fit everything in this month! If information seems a little lacking in places, please don’t hesitate to give us a call and we will do our best to help you. Picking out our favourites was certainly a challenge. Our ‘Disc of the Month’ (below) is a real delight - sublime choral singing from The King’s Consort on a disc of works by eminent British composers, available at just £8.50 if you spend over £50. Other highlights include Liszt from Daniil Trifonov (Gramophone’s Artist of the Year 2016); Rossini arias from superb countertenor, Franco Fagioli; two new Mozart discs in the form of Piano Concertos from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (Chandos) and Violin Sonatas from Alina Ibragimova (Hyperion); a beautiful performance of Mendelssohn’s String Quartets 5 & 6 from the Escher Quartet (BIS); and we mustn’t forget the tenor of the moment, Jonas Kaufmann, who brings us a wonderful recital of Italian Songs (Sony). Pianists seem to be ruling the boxset re-issues this month, with collections of recordings from Pollini (DG), Perahia (Sony), Richter (Warner) and Gilels (Melodiya). Harnoncourt (Sony), Munch (Sony) and Kremer (DG) also feature in popular original-jacket-style anthologies. Congratulations go to pianist Igor Levit this month, winner of this year’s Gramophone Recording of the Year. His monumental project focusing on sets of variations by Bach, Beethoven and Rzewski was a very worthy winner (and one of our top 10 recordings of 2015!) and we are currently able to offer it at the very special price of £14.95 (3CDs). Also taking a prize at the recent Gramophone awards ceremony was Warner Classics, who were announced as Label of the Year. We now have over 800 of their titles reduced, including many formerly available on EMI and Virgin Classics and encompassing both recent releases and archive re-issues. You will find these listed in both our main catalogue and the supplementary autumn boxset catalogue. A quick mention of new special offers: we have discounts on Naxos, Hyperion, Northern Flowers (a debut for the Russian label) and DVDs/Blu-rays from Arthaus. There are also over 1000 boxsets now reduced until Christmas, many of which are featured in our separate boxset catalogue. The full listing can be found on our website! The Europadisc Team DISC OF THE MONTH A Voice from Heaven £9.95 The Choir of the King’s Consort, Robert King or pay just Vivat VIVAT 113 £8.50 ‘A Voice from Heaven’ is a beautifully themed collection of fourteen of the finest if your order value unaccompanied British choral masterpieces of the last 125 years performed by exceeds £50* award-winning Choir of The King’s Consort. * to qualify for the special price, The fascinating mix of familiar and unfamiliar includes five ‘paired’ settings: William your order value must exceed a Harris’s classic 1959 ‘Bring us, O Lord God’ partnered by James MacMillan’s 2010 total of £50 excluding this recording and before any setting of the same words; Herbert Howells’ devastatingly poignant ‘Take him, applicable carriage charges. earth, for cherishing’ (in memory of the slain President Kennedy) juxtaposed with Offer available while stocks last. John Tavener’s 2008 response to the same text; ‘Justorum animae’ (‘The souls of the righteous’) in versions by Lennox Berkeley, Charles Villiers Stanford and Herbert Murrill; heartfelt settings of ‘Drop, drop, slow tears’ by Kenneth Leighton and Thomas Hewitt Jones; and Stanford’s beautifully crafted ‘I heard a voice from Heaven’ coupled with Herbert Howell’s exquisite, mystical setting of the same words. The collection is completed with three impressive single works: Parry’s valedictory ‘Lord, let me know mine end’, William Harris’s masterwork ‘Faire is the Heaven’, and a stunningly powerful recording of John Tavener’s ‘Song for Athene’, which sprang to global fame when performed at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. The extensive presentation includes a 64pp booklet with authoritative liner note in three languages by conductor Robert King, together with full sung texts and session photographs. 2 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES DG and Decca Liszt Rossini Complete Concert Arias Studies (including the Fagioli, Armonia ‘Transcendentals’) Atenea, Petrou Trifonov £12.50 £14.95 DG 479 5681 DG 479 5529 (2CD) available at £11.50 until 28�� October 2016 The Tchaikovsky Vivaldi Project Recorder Concertos Symphony no.6, Horsch, Amsterdam Romeo and Juliet Vivaldi Players Czech PO, Bychkov £11.50 £11.50 Decca 483 0896 Decca 483 0656 Palestrina Danse Macabre Missa Papae Marcelli, Works by Dukas, Motets Dvorak, Saint-Saens etc Sistine Chapel Choir, Montreal SO, Nagano Palombella £11.50 £11.50 Decca 483 0396 DG 479 6131 Also available from DG and Decca DG 479 5933 Bach, JS Concertos and solo pieces (violin/viola) due 14/10 Radulovic;Double Sens;Les Trilles £11.50 DG 479 4631 Wonderland Alice Sara Ott plays Grieg (inc Piano Conc) available at £11.50 until 28/10 Salonen £12.50 Decca 478 9458 Dvorak Slavonic Dances opp.46 & 72 Czech PO;Belohlavek £11.50 Decca 479 6486 Jenkins, K Cantata Memoria: For the Children Terfel;Finch etc £11.50 TWO NEW BOX SETS Maurizio Pollini Gidon Kremer Complete Recordings Complete Concerto on DG Recordings on DG £129.95 £44.95 DG 479 6315 (55CD + 3DVD) DG 479 6316 (22CD) Celebrating his 75th birthday in 2017, this luxurious set Celebrating the 70th birthday (27th February 2017) of presents Pollini’s recordings on DG with their original Gidon Kremer, DG presents this original jackets box set covers, including the first ever release of Prokofiev’s Third which supplements his complete concerto recordings with Piano Conc with the NHK SO under Maxim Shostakovich. two extraordinary concept albums by Kremerata Baltica – Also included are 3 bonus DVDs: great concerto recordings 22 CDs of scintillating musical adventures through both Böhm and Abbado as well as Monsaingeon's acclaimed well-known and uncharted terrain, including the CD documentary, De main de maître (2015). 3 premiere recording of Schnittke’s Concerto for Three. Complete Naxos Catalogue Reduced Until Christmas, we are offering 25% discount on all titles from Naxos. As you may be aware, Naxos split their catalogue into two price points (classic and premium) earlier this year, meaning that it is now slightly more difficult to tell you exactly how this discount works out. Below are details of what 25% discount means to some of their common price points, but please feel free to confirm the cost of specific titles with us by phone or email if you do not have access to our website. If you normally pay by cheque, we are happy to accept them with a maximum amount written on (leaving the numerical section blank for us to complete). 1CD classic £6.95 £5.21 | 1CD premium £8.50 £6.38 2CD classic £11.95 £8.96 | 2CD premium £15.95 £11.96 3CD classic £14.25 £10.69 | 3CD premium £20.95 £15.71 NEW RELEASES ALL NOW AT £6.38 EACH (except where stated) due 14/10 Mahler Lalo Haydn L’Eventail de Jeanne Songs arr. Schoenberg Symphonie espagnole String Quartets opp.1/1, Ballet by Ravel, Ferroud, Platts, Reid, Williams, Manen 33/5 and 77/1 Ibert, Roussel etc Virginia Arts Festival Concierto espanol Goldmund Quartet Pays de la Loire NO, Chamber Players, Falletta Yang, Barcelona SO, Ang 857 3701 Axelrod 857 3536 857 3067 857 3354 857 3325 Straight from the Heart The Chansonnier Cordiforme Ensemble Leones;Lewon 850 9003 My First Classical Albums Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaik, Piano, Violin etc (Children's Classics) 9CD - £20.81 866 0361/62 Mayr Amore non soffre opposizioni 2CD - £11.96 East-West European Festival Orchestra;Hauk 866 0144/45 Granados Maria del Carmen 2CD - £11.96 Wexford Festival Op Chorus;Belarus NPO;Bragado-Darman 857 3525 Schulhoff Chamber Music - String Sextet, Violin Sonata no.2 etc Spectrum Concerts Berlin 857 3565 Weinberg Symphony no.17 'Memory', Suite for Orchestra Siberian State SO;Lande 855 9803 Fairouz Zabur Coakwell;Kelly;Indianapolis SO & Choir;Stark 855 9792 Danielpour Songs of Solitude, War Songs, Toward the Splendid City Hampson;Nashville SO;Guerrero 855 5533 Spohr Symphonies 3 & 6 £5.21 Slovak State PO;Walter 857 3539 Turina Piano Music vol.12 - Recuerdos de mi rincon, La Venta de los Gatos, Navidad etc Maso 857 3591 Guitar Works by Dubez, Legnani, Tansman, Tarrega, Turina, Brouwer and Villa-Lobos Doneyan 857 3669 Guitar Works by Bach, Rodrigo, Walton, Williams and Koshkin Mamedkuliev 857 3409 21st Century Spanish Guitar Vol.2 - Balada, Torres, Godoy, de Pablo, Soutullo, Casablancas etc Levin Naxos Audiobooks due 14/10 NA 0227 James The Portrait of a Lady 21CD Stevenson £44.96 NA 0256 Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel 31CD Homewood £56.21 NA 0257 Hartley The Go-Between 9CD Barrett £22.46 4 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES Sony and DHM Wagner Ghedini Handel For the Love of Brahms The Ring: An Orchestral Musica notturna, Mitologia: Arias from Piano Trio op.8, Adventure (arr de Vlieger) Appunti per un credo etc Semele, Hercules etc Double Concerto Baltic Sea PO, K Jarvi Toscana Orch, Rustioni Karg, Basso, Curtis Bell, Isserlis, Denk, ASMF £10.95 £10.95 £10.95 £10.95 88985 360682 88985 366412 88875 199812 88985 321762 Fire Music Dolce Vita New York Rhapsody Pretty Yende Works by Praetorius, Favourite Italian Songs Album from Lang