tel 0115 982 7500 fax 0115 982 7020 FEBRUARY 2013 LIST See inside for valid dates Dear Customer As has been well publicised, 2013 marks the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten, alongside the bi-centenaries of the births of Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi. All clearly made significant contributions to classical music history, so we are celebrating the anniversaries this month by offering great reductions on relevant issues from DG, Decca and EMI. There are several landmark recordings featured from the likes of Britten himself, Karajan, Solti, Muti, Abbado and more. See pp.12-14 for titles from DG and Decca, and p.18 for titles from EMI. New releases also feature the celebratory composers: titles worth pointing out are the limited edition Complete Verdi box set from DG that promises to be a popular collector’s item, two new Britten box sets from EMI, the recent recording of Die Walkure from Gergiev and the Mariinsky forces, plus a recital of Wagner from tenor Jonas Kaufmann. One of our new special offers this month features a label that has not been seen on our lists for some time: Symposium. Many of you are fans of historical issues and Symposium have a fascinating catalogue that largely covers recordings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This may prove too early even for keen historical collectors, but we have managed to secure some very special prices and hope that they might spark a bit of interest. Other new offers this month include selected box sets from Chandos, the Onyx, Somm, CRD and Heritage labels, and a fantastic range of DVDs from DG, Decca and EMI. Best regards as always from, The Europadisc Team DON’T FORGET - UK Carriage is FREE over £35! BLU-RAY NEW RELEASES Accentus Music BLU-RAY ACC 10217 Bruckner The Mature Symphonies – Symphony 4 (1878/80 version) (rec 2010) Staatskapelle Berlin;Barenboim £29.95 Arthaus BLU-RAY 108 060 Rossini Adelaide di Borgogna (rec 2011) Barcellona;Pratt;Mihai;Teatro Comunale Bologna;Jurowski £29.95 108 065 Pergolesi La Salustia (rec 2011) Prato;Malfi;Polverelli;Ouatu;AB Musici Italiani;Rovaris £29.95 108 044 Mozart La Finta Giardiniera (rec 2006) Schasching;Mei;Strehl;Rey;Zurich Opera;Harnoncourt £29.95 108 074 The Verdi Opera Selection Traviata (Gheorghiu/Maazel), S Boccanegra (Domingo/Barenboim), Aida (He/Mehta) £29.95 Berliner Philharmoniker BLU-RAY - not ‘new’, but not featured previously and now nominated for a BBC Music Magazine Award BPH 120012 Bach, JS St Matthew Passion - a ritualisation by Peter Sellars Padmore;Gerhaher;Tilling;Kozena;Quasthoff;BPO;Rattle £26.95 C Major Entertainment BLU-RAY 722 104 Verdi Macbeth (rec 2006) Nucci;Iori;Valayre;Iuliano;O e Coro Teartro region di Parma;Bartoletti £29.95 722 304 Verdi I Masnadieri (rec 2012) Prestia;Machado;Rucinski;Garcia;O e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo;Luisotti £29.95 721 504 Verdi Alzira (rec 2012) – Concert Performance Facini;Gazheli;von Bothmer;O Haydn di Bolzano e Trento;Kuhn £29.95 Deutsche Grammophon BLU-RAY 073 4852 Wagner Das Rheingold Terfel;Croft;Owens;Blythe;MET;Levine £19.95 073 4855 Wagner Die Walkure Voigt;Westbroek;Kaufmann;Terfel;Konig;MET;Levine £19.95 073 4854 Wagner Siegfried Morris;Voigt;Terfel;Siegel;MET;Luisi £19.95 073 4853 Wagner Gotterdammerung Voigt;Morris;Konig;Meier;Peterson;Harmer;MET;Luisi £19.95 Euroarts BLU-RAY 205 8904 The Berliner Philharmoniker in Singapore 2010 Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances, Mahler Symphony 1 BPO;Rattle £29.95 205 9354 Nobuyuki Tsujii at White Nights Tchaikovsky Piano Conc 1, Shostakovich Symphony 14 (rec 2012) Mariinsky Orch;Gergiev £29.95 Opera Australia BLU-RAY OPOZ 56033BD Puccini Turandot (rec 2012) Foster;La Spina;Kwon;Arthur;Opera Australia;Licata £29.95 Opus Arte BLU-RAY OABD 7115D Gluck Iphigenie en Aulide, Iphigenie en Tauride (rec 2011) Gens;von Otter;Mus du Louvre;Minkowski etc £29.95 1 email [email protected] tel 0115 982 7500 fax 0115 982 7020 FEBRUARY 2013 LIST Prices on this list are valid until 5pm Tuesday, 26 March 2013 (orders received) unless stated otherwise. All titles and prices offered are subject to availability during the offer period. Universal Classics Decca 478 2735 Elgar Cello Concerto; Carter Cello Concerto Alisa Weilerstein;Staatskapelle Berlin;Barenboim £11.50 Decca 478 5189 Kaufmann Wagner – scenes & arias, Wesendonck Lieder Jonas Kaufmann;ODO Berlin;Runnicles £11.50 DG 479 0571 Daniel Hope Spheres – works & arrs by Einaudi, Glass, Nyman, Part, Richter Daniel Hope (violin) £11.50 DG 479 0429 Simon Bolivar String Quartet Works by Ginastera, Shostakovich, Dvorak Simon Boliver String Quartet £11.50 DG 477 8107 Schubert Piano Sonatas 16 & 21 (new recordings) Maria Joao Pires £11.50 DG 476 5049 Beethoven Piano Sonatas – ‘Moonlight’, ‘Pathetique’, ‘Appassionata’ Yundi £11.50 Decca 478 2939 Rachmaninov Rarities (new recording) - Nocturnes, Morceaux de Salon, 4 Pieces etc Vladimir Ashkenazy £11.50 Decca 479 1168 Domingo The Art of Verdi 2CD Placido Domingo £11.50 DG 479 1042 Beethoven Masterworks 51CD LIMITED EDITION see website for complete listing Various DG artists £89.95 DG 478 4916 Verdi The Complete Works 75CD LIMITED EDITION see website for complete listing Various DG artists £139.95 DG 479 1133 Kempff The Concerto Recordings 14CD Wilhelm Kempff £41.95 DG 479 1248 Mozart Lucio Silla (re-release) 3CD Schreier;Auger;Mathis;Varady;Donath;Mozarteumorchester Salzburg;Hager £23.95 Decca 481 0100 Katherine Jenkins L’Amour Jenkins £6.95 Decca 481 0101 Russell Watson Amore – the Opera Album Watson £6.95 10 releases in the DG ‘First Choice’ re-issue series. All single CDs at £7.95 each. 479 1111 Bernstein On The Town von Stade;Hampson;Ramey;Laine;Garrison;LSO;Tilson Thomas 479 1112 Chopin Piano Concertos 1 & 2 Maria Joao Pires;RPO;Previn 479 1113 Dvorak Slavonic Dances Russian NO;Pletnev 479 1114 Flute Concertos from Sanssouci Patrick Gallois;Kammerorchester CPE Bach;Schreier 479 1116 French Opera Arias Kathleen Battle;OO Bastille;Chung 479 1110 Heinichen Concerti Grandi Musica Antiqua Koln;Goebel 479 1117 Mahler Das Lied von der Erde Fassbaender;Araiza;BPO;Giulini 479 1118 Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez, Fantasia; Villa-Lobos Guitar Concerto Goran Sollscher;Orpheus CO 479 1119 Schubert Orchestral Songs Anne Sofie von Otter;Thomas Quasthoff;COE;Abbado 479 1120 Wagner Orchestral Works The Philadelphia Orchestra;Thielemann Hyperion CDA 67896 Mussorgsky Pictures from an Exhibition; Prokofiev Visions Fugitives, Sarcasms Steven Osborne £12.50 CDA 67897 Bach, JS Flute Sonatas Andrea Oliva;Angela Hewitt £12.50 CDA 67973 Brundibar Music by composers in Theresienstadt – Krasa, Ullmann, Klein, Haas The Nash Ensemble £12.50 CDA 67954 Canciones Espanolas Granados, Guridi, Turina, Toldre, Montsalvatge Sylvia Schwartz (sop);Malcolm Martineau £12.50 Hyperion Helios re-issues CDH 55400 Tallis Missa Salve intemerata, and Antiphons Winchester Cathedral Choir;Hill £5.95 CDH 55457 Chausson/d’Indy String Quartets Chilingirian Quartet £5.95 CDH 55406 For His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts English music from Henry VIII to Charles II – Locke, Coprario, Bassano, East £5.95 Chandos CHSA 5117 Raff Symphony 2, Four Shakespeare Preludes Hybrid SACD O Suisse Romande;Jarvi £12.95 CHSA 5118 Berlioz Overtures Hybrid SACD Bergen PO;A Davis £12.95 CHAN 10754 Chausson Concert for Violin, Piano & String Quartet, String Quartet in C minor Pike;Poster;Doric String Quartet £12.50 CHAN 10751 Wesley Ascribe unto the Lord – Sacred Choral Works Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge;Nethsingha £12.50 CHAN 10753 Turina Danzas Fantasticas, Sinf sevillana, Ritmos, Poema etc Mouriz (mezzo);BBC Philharmonic;Mena £12.50 CHAN 10755 Schumann Fantasiestucke, Kreisleriana; Brahms Theme & Vars for Sextet 1 (arr piano) Imogen Cooper £12.50 Harmonia Mundi HMC 902141 Schubert Erlkonig (Goerne Schubert Edition, vol 7) Matthias Goerne (bar);Andreas Haefliger £11.95 HMU 907591/92 Bach English Suites, BWV 806-811 2CD Richard Egarr (harpsichord) £18.95 HMC 902123 Gesualdo Sacrae Cantiones, Liber Secundus, a6 e a7, 1603 (reconstr James Wood) VocalConsort Berlin;Wood £11.95 HMC 902143 Pour passer la Melancholie Froberger, Couperin, Fischer, Muffat, D’Anglebert etc Andres Staier (harpsichord) £11.95 HML 5908535/36 Watteau: The Music Lesson Music by Charpentier, Lully, Rebel, Monteclair, Locatelli, Corelli etc 2CD Various £18.95 BIS BIS 2047 Brahms Piano Sonata 3, Handel Variations Hybrid SACD Jonathan Plowright £12.50 BIS 1756 Brahms Symphony 1, Liebeslieder-Walzer, Hungarian Dances Hybrid SACD Swedish CO;Dausgaard £12.50 BIS 2013 The Magic Bird Swedish folk music for the nyckelharpa Hybrid SACD Emilia Amper £12.50 BIS 2017 THEN Renaissance Airs and Dances - de la Torre, Gesualdo, Dowland etc Hybrid SACD Stockholm Chamber Brass £12.50 2 Priority New Releases continued... Naxos all at £6.95 each (except where stated) 857 2662 Mendelssohn Violin Concertos, Violin Sonata in F minor Tiamwa Yang;Sinfonia Finlandia Jyvaskyla;Gallois 857 2873 Weinberg Symphony 8 ‘Polish Flowers’ Warsaw Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra;Wit 855 9737 Ellington Black, Brown & Beige – Suite, Three Black Kings – Ballet, The River – Suite etc Buffalo PO;Falletta 857 3052 Goehr Marching to Carcassonne, When Adam Fell, Pastorals Peter Serkin;BBC SO;London Sinfonietta;Knussen 857 2363 Maxwell Davies Piccolo Concerto, Trumpet Concerto, Maxwell’s Reel, 5 Klee Pictures McWilham;Wallace;RPO;M Davies 857 2994 Bottesini Messa da Requiem Matheu;Joyful Company of Singers;LPO;Martin 855 9731 Between the Bliss & Me Songs to poems of Emily Dickinson – Copland, Farwell, Bacon etc Faulkner (sop);Fischer;Hoiby 857 2491 Valentina Lisitsa