June 2016 Catalogue Prices valid until Wednesday 27�� July 2016 unless stated otherwise 0115 982 7500 [email protected] 1 Welcome! Dear Customer, Still going strong at the age of 92, conductor Stanislaw Skrowaczewski has long been making his mark as an extremely insightful and convincing interpreter of core classical and romantic repertoire, perhaps especially with his recordings and performances of Bruckner. Many will already know his brilliant cycle of the Symphonies recorded for Oehms (complete label now on offer) and may also remember a wonderful live recording of Symphony no.3 he made with the LPO, released on their own label just over a year ago. June now sees a follow-up to this: a recording of Symphony no.5, recorded in concert in October 2015. We felt it was a very worthy contender for our new ‘Disc of the Month’ slot so is available at a very special price with any order over £50. See below for full details. With the weather being its usual unreliable self, at least we can tell that summer has arrived by the slight slowing- down of top classical recordings being released. Having said that, there are still a few titles to point out deserving special attention: Shostakovich and Nelsons have proved to be a winning combination in the past, so it is great to see DG now issuing his readings of Symphonies 5, 8 & 9; Harnoncourt’s final Beethoven recording was a big seller earlier this year and we now have another chance to hear him, this time in the Missa Solemnis, recorded at Salzburg in 2015; Albion (from the Vaughan Williams Society) offer us a fascinating selection of old Vaughan Williams and Holst recordings, remastered from 78s; Jordi Savall explores the world of Catlonian philospher, Ramon Llull (1232-1315), beautifully presented by Alia Vox; pianist Sarah Beth Briggs gives us the world premiere recording of Hans Gal’s Piano Concerto on Avie (highly recommended); and Opera Rara venture into the works of Leoncavallo with a revival of his 1900 work, Zaza (rev 1919). The Opera Rara label also features as one of our new special offers, alongside others including the ‘Originals’ series from DG/Decca, a selection of best-selling titles from Erato, the complete catalogues of Oehms, Accent, Christophorus and Archipel (great value archive recordings) plus selections from Chandos, Hyperion and Brilliant Classics. Plenty to get your teeth into this summer! Best regards from, The Europadisc Team DISC OF THE MONTH Bruckner - Symphony no.5 £9.25 London Philharmonic Orchestra, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski or pay just LPO LPO 0090 £6.95 This live concert recording features renowned Bruckner expert Stanisław if your order value Skrowaczewski, who commands a rare position within the international musical exceeds £50* scene, being both a renowned conductor and a highly-regarded composer. It is an * to qualify for the special price, interpretation of humility from the nonagenarian, a performance in which the your order value must exceed a total of £50 excluding this listener can hear the remarkable connection between conductor and the London recording and before any Philharmonic Orchestra; the orchestra has performed Bruckner’s symphonies under applicable carriage charges. his baton many times. Offer available while stocks last. Anton Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony is one of the grandest of his so-called ‘cathedrals in sound’. From the first movement’s monumental tone, via the beautiful yet enigmatic Adagio and the dance-haunted Scherzo, Bruckner’s ‘fantastic’ Fifth ends with a triumphant orchestral finale, among the finest ever written. Skrowaczewski’s interpretation of Bruckner’s Symphony No.3 with the LPO is also available on the LPO’s record label (LPO0084). Released in 2015, the recording received excellent reviews, with BBC Radio 3 commenting that ‘it sounds throughout as if the LPO is completely in sympathy with the conductor’s carefully controlled approach ... It feels right, end to end.’ This recording was taken from a live concert performance at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on Saturday 31 October 2015. 2 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES DG and Decca Shostakovich Brahms Under Stalin’s Shadow Lieder and Symphonies 5, 8 & 9 Liebeslieder Waltzes Boston SO, Kozena, Polenzani, Andris Nelsons Quasthoff, Levine etc £14.95 £11.50 DG 479 5201 (2 CD) DG 479 6044 Cantar Shostakovich Arrangements for Piano Trios 1 & 2, trumpet of Handel, Viola Sonata Cimarosa, Tartini etc Ashkenazy, Visontov, Flores Lidstrom, Meinich £12.50 £11.50 DG 479 1068 DG 478 9382 Also available from DG and Decca Classic FM CFMD 47 Music for a Royal Occasion A 90th Birthday Celebration for Her Majesty Various £12.50 DG 479 5964 Pires Complete Chamber Music Recordings for DG 12CD Pires etc £39.95 DG 479 6268 Symphonic Queen The Greatest Hits due 10/6 RPO;Freeman £11.50 Decca 483 0236 Satie Complete Solo Piano Music 6CD Thibaudet;Roge;Collard;Juillet £19.95 FOUR NEW BOX SETS Martha Argerich Archiv Produktion Complete Chopin 1947-2013: an Recordings on DG overview of their 66 with Maisky, Abbado, year history Rostropovich etc £89.95 £19.95 DG 479 1045 (55 CD) DG 479 6068 (5 CD) Zubin Mehta Emerson String Symphonies and Quartet Symphonic Poems by Complete Recordings Beethoven, Bruckner, on DG Schubert, Mahler etc £84.95 £39.95 DG 479 5982 (52 CD) Decca 482 1836 (23 CD) due 17/6 3 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES Sony Beethoven Beethoven Symphonies 4 & 7 Missa Solemnis Deutsche A Schoenberg Choir, Kammerphilharmonie Concentus Musicus Bremen, P Jarvi Wien, Harnoncourt £10.95 £10.95 88985 328562 88985 313592 Also available from Sony 88875 178262 All You Need is Bach Cameron Carpenter performs on his International Touring Organ £10.95 88985 305402 Satie Piano Works Scheps £10.95 88875 143462 Hora Cero Tangos from Piazzolla, Salgan etc 12 Cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker £10.95 88985 320352 Argerich The Complete Sony Classical Recordings - Prokofiev, Franck, Schumann etc 5CD £24.95 Chandos see pp.26-29 for special offers on the Chaconne and 2-4-1 series Cello Concertos Les Voyages by Hasse, CPE Bach de l’Amour and Hertel Works by Boismortier, Rudin, Musica Viva Rebel and Corrette Ensemble Meridiana £10.50 £10.50 CHAN 0813 CHAN 0812 Also available from Chandos CHAN 10901 The Lyrical Clarinet Vol.2 - Schumann, Chausson, Field, Ravel, Debussy etc Collins;McHale £11.95 CHAN 10902 Chopin Ballades 1 & 4, Berceuse, Fantasy in Fmin, Barcarolle, selected Nocturnes Cooper £11.95 CHAN 241-55 125 Years of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Wagner, Strauss, Nielsen, Debussy etc 2CD £11.95 Albion Media CONTENTS 8. Sine nomine ('For All the Saints') Ralph Vaughan Williams St George's Chapel Choir, Windsor/Rev. E.H. Fellowes 1. The Vagabond (Songs of Travel) 9. Wassail Song Robert Irwin (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano) Colne Orpheus Glee Union/Luther Greenwood 2. The Roadside Fire (Songs of Travel) Gustav Holst Stuart Robertson (tenor), Gerald Moore (piano) 10. Lovely Kind, and Kindly Loving 3. Bright is the Ring of Words (Songs of Travel) Peter Dawson (baritone) Robert Irwin (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano) 11. This have I done for my true love 4. Silent Noon BBC Chorus/Leslie Woodgate Peter Dawson (baritone) 12. Turn Back, O Man 5. Linden Lea Choir of Temple Church, London/George Thalben-Ball Heirs and Rebels Edgar Coyle (baritone) with string quartet 13. First Suite for Military Band in E flat Music by Vaughan 6. English Folksong Suite Band of HM Grenadier Guards/Lt. George Miller - March: 'Seventeen come Sunday' 14. A Moorside Suite for Brass Band Williams and Holst, - Intermezzo: 'My Bonny Boy' Black Dyke Mills Band remastered from 78s - March: 'Folk Songs from Somerset' 15. Marching Song £12.95 Band of HM Life Guards/Lieut. H. Eldridge Hastings Municipal Orchestra/Julius Harrison 7. Sea Songs 16. Wassail Song ALBCD 027 New Concert Orchestra/Rae Jenkins BBC Chorus/Leslie Woodgate 4 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES Naxos at £6.95 each (except where stated) Mozart Granados Rossini Auber Violin Concertos 3-5 Dante, La nit del mort, Il viaggio a Reims Overtures Volume 1 Kraggerud, Norwegian Intermezzo (Goyescas) Giordano, Pizzolato, Orchestre de Cannes, Chamber Orchestra Barcelona SO, Gonzalez Mehedlishvili, Fogliani Dorner 857 3513 857 3264 3CD - £14.25 857 3553 866 0382-84 Also available from Naxos 857 3515-16 Dominguez The Legend of Joaquin Mureita (ballet) 2CD - £11.95 Santiago PO;Dominguez 857 3461 Portuguese Music for Cello and Orchestra Braga Santos, Costa, Freitas Branco, Lopes-Graca Borrathinho 857 3497 Haydn, M Symphonies vol.1 - P15, 16, 19 & 21 Czech Chamber PO Pardubice;Gallois 855 5500 Spohr Symphonies 1 & 5 Slovak State PO;Walter 857 3579 Schubert Three Sonatas for Violin and Piano Chung;Lee 857 3485 Liszt Complete Piano Music vol.43 - Transcriptions of Symphonic Poems Monteiro 857 2664 Clementi Piano Sonatas vol.4 - opp.1/3, 8/2, 50/2, 50/3 Alexander-Max (fortepiano) 855 9787 Bowles Complete Piano Works vol.2 Invencia Piano Duo 857 2831 Erkin Symphony no.2, Violin Concerto, Kocekce Buswell;Istanbul State SO;Kuchar 857 3577 Laureate Series Guitar works by Gorelova, Brouwer, Rodrigo, Gerhard, Assad etc Kukhta Naxos - Audiobooks NA 0236 Baden-Powells Scouting for Boys 2CD Dennis £9.95 NA 0238 James The Aspern Papers 4CD Sims £14.95 NA 0228 Stevenson Kidnapped 7CD Rintoul £24.95 Hyperion at £11.95 each Harmonia Mundi Franck English Romantic Madrigals Bach, JS Lawes Piano Quintet Parry, Elgar, Pearsall, Stanford, The French Suites Complete Music for Solo Lyra Viol Debussy Goodhart, Leslie & Stainer Egarr (harpsichord) Boothby String Quartet The Choir of Royal Holloway, HMU 907583/84