November 2018 Catalogue Issue 31 Prices valid until Tuesday 18 December 2018 unless stated otherwise “Wreaths of poppies by one of the fountains in Trafalgar Square” photographed by Andy Linden and used 0115 982 7500 on the cover of Chandos CHSA5215 ‘Elgar - The Music Makers and the Spirit of England’. [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, Welcome to our bumper November catalogue, crammed full of the usual superb new releases and special offers we tend to see around this time of year. We have had to squeeze quite a lot into our 60 page limit this time (at the expense of a few pictures), but we hope you enjoy delving deep into the catalogues of some wonderful record labels. Our personal new release highlights this month include the completion of Naxos’s Ring Cycle from Hong Kong with the release of Gotterdammerung (plus all four operas immediately available in a single boxset); a brand new all-Vivaldi album from Cecilia Bartoli, beautifully accompanied by the Ensemble Matheus (Decca); two discs of Elgar in the shape of The Music Makers/Spirit of England from the BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sir Andrew Davis (Chandos - see below) and The Wand of Youth Suites from the Halle/Sir Mark Elder (Halle) - both sure to be very fine recordings; Monteverdi’s ‘Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria’ from Sir John Eliot Gardiner in SDG’s usual lavish book-style presentation; enlightening Mahler from MusicAeterna under Teodor Currentzis on Sony; Beethoven and Chopin from this year’s Leeds International Piano Competition winner, Eric Lu (Warner Classics); and a further excellent instalment of Haydn Quartets from the London Haydn Quartet on Hyperion. And that just scratches the surface… We must also point out the new limited edition Bach 333 Complete Boxset from Decca/DG (see back page), available at a special price until Christmas. Containing 222 CDs, it’s certainly a mammoth set, but initial orders through our website have been coming thick and fast, so we would urge you not to hang around if interested! Other, slightly smaller-scale boxsets worthy of a mention include the ‘Rossini Edition’ from Warner Classics (marking the 150th anniversary of his death this November), Rene Jacobs’s recordings of Mozart’s Da Ponte Operas compiled into a single box, a re-package of Sir Colin Davis’s complete Berlioz recordings for LSO Live, and an anthology of Celibidache’s legendary years with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Naxos, Chandos, Pentatone, Australian Eloquence, Onyx and King’s College Cambridge all now have their complete catalogues reduced, plus we have DVDs and Blu-rays from Opus Arte, boxsets from Decca/DG, and three selections from the Warner/Erato catalogue: budget titles, a list of 100 full-price titles, and around 50 DVDs and Blu-rays. Best regards from, The Europadisc Team DISC OF THE MONTH Elgar The Music Makers, The Spirit of England £10.36 Dame Sarah Connnolly, Andrew Staples, BBC Symphony Chorus and or pay just Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis £8.95 Chandos CHSA 5215 if your order value Distinguished British music interpreter Sir Andrew Davis joins forces with the BBC exceeds £50* Symphony Orchestra once again, this time with acclaimed soloists Dame Sarah * to qualify for the special price, Connolly and Andrew Staples, in this thoughtful presentation of the last two your order value must exceed a total of £50 excluding this substantial choral works of Sir Edward Elgar. recording and before any applicable carriage charges. The maturity of Elgar as an orchestrator is obvious in both works on this disc, Offer available while stocks last. notably, in The Music Makers (1912), during passages in which he quotes from Sea Pictures and the Violin Concerto, and in representing the sound of aircraft in The Spirit of England (1917). Elgar uses self-quotation to reflect: The Music Makers is a canvas of self-reflection, written quickly following a period of illness. The orchestral introduction is introspective, melancholic and noble, before the words of Arthur O’Shaughnessy’s poem and much self-quotation within the music offer an insight into the sense of nostalgia and awareness of the loneliness of the creative artist felt by the composer. The Spirit of England reflects on the sadness and desolation of war felt by a nation, with the inclusion of quotations from The Dream of Gerontius in some of the more negative stanzas that Elgar found harder to set. Specified in the score for tenor or soprano, all three movements are sung here by a tenor in a recording first. 2 Naxos All Music Titles Now Reduced Until 25 January 2019, we are offering 25% discount on all music recordings from Naxos. As you will no doubt be aware, Naxos split their catalogue into two price points (premium and classic) about two years ago, meaning that it is now slightly more difficult to tell you exactly how this discount works out for every title. 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. Please be aware that most titles are now at the premium level. 1CD premium £8.50 £6.38 | 1CD classic £6.95 £5.21 2CD set premium £15.95 £11.96 | 2CD set classic £11.95 £8.96 3CD set premium £20.95 £15.71 | 3CD set classic £14.25 £10.69 Unfortunately, the Audiobooks series cannot be included in the offer on this occasion. NEW RELEASES ALL NOW AT £6.38 EACH (except where stated) due 9/11 Wagner Wagner Gorecki Rihm Gotterdammerung Der Ring des Nibelungen String Quartets 1 & 3, Works for Violin and Orch Barkmin, Brenna, Hong (complete cycle) Genesis I: Elementi vol.1: Lichtzwang, Dritte Kong PO, van Zweden Hong Kong PO, van Zweden Tippett Quartet Musik etc 866 0428-31 4CD - £19.46 850 1403 14CD - £33.71 857 3919 Yang, Deutsche also available as a high-definition Staatsphil, Mueller Blu-ray Audio NBD 0075 A £13.88 857 3812 855 1398 A German Christmas C17 Music for the Time of Advent & Christmas Margaretha Consort;Broekroelofs 857 3588 Wiren String Quartets 2-5 Wiren Quartet 857 4003 Castelnuovo-Tedesco Violin Conc no.3, String Trio, Sonata for Violin & Cello Alogna;Stassi;Trainini etc 866 0444-46 Rossini Maometto II 3CD - £15.71 Balbo;Palazzi;Sungu;Virtuosi Brunensis;Fogliani 857 3964 Rossini Peches de vieillesse vol.11: Chamber Music & Rarities v.4 Giordano;Scalabrini;Marangoni etc 857 3796 Satie Piano Works – Uspud, Le Fils des etoiles £5.21 Hao 857 9040 Jimenez Works for Solo Piano, Works for Piano and Cello £5.21 Villafane;de Marinis 857 3868 The Versailles Revolution Works by Lully, Muffat and Marais Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra;Kuijken 857 3977 Domeniconi Concerto Mediterraneo, Chaconne, Trilogy, Toccata in blue etc Amadeus Guitar Duo 857 9037 Greek Wind Quintets Antoniou, Baltas, Constantinidis, Koumendakis etc Aeolos Woodwind Quintet New Naxos Audiobooks NA 0328 Casanova The Story of My Life vol.3 33CD Wickham £82.95 NA 0329 Dickens Ghost Stories 14CD Timson £44.95 NA 0330 Defoe Journal of the Plague Year 9CD Cullum £29.95 3 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES DG and Decca Vivaldi Lauridsen Arias Light Eternal Bartoli, Ensemble Matheus, (choral music) Spinosi Chamber Choir of Europe, £11.50 Matt Decca 483 4475 £12.50 DG 483 5058 Bach, JS Bach, JS Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin Sonatas 1 & 2, solo violin Partita no.1 Carmignola Hahn £15.95 £12.50 DG 483 5050 (2CD) Decca 483 3954 Also available DG 483 5809 Feliz Navidad Christmas album from Rolando Villazon £12.50 Decca 677 3087 Si New album from Andrea Bocelli (deluxe edition also available - 677 3088: £13.95) £12.50 Decca 679 3159 Hymn New album from Sarah Brightman £12.50 Decca 538 5520 David Garrett Unlimited – Greatest Hits (deluxe 2CD ed also available - 583 5521: £15.95) £12.50 DG 483 5529 Recomposed by Peter Gregson The Bach Cello Suites 2CD £15.95 DG 483 5924 Peaceful Bach Original compositions and arrangements 2CD £12.95 Handel Contrabandista Serse Arias by Garcia, Rossini Fagioli, Genaux, Kalna, and Zingarelli Aspromonte, Il Pomo d’Oro, Camarena, Les Musiciens du Emalyanychev Prince, Capuano £28.95 £13.95 DG 483 5784 (3CD) Decca 483 3958 New Blu-ray Audio Remasterings DG 483 5498 Carlos Kleiber Complete Recordings on DG 12CD + Blu-ray Audio £56.95 DG 483 5645 Beethoven The String Quartets 7CD + Blu-ray Audio Amadeus Quartet £34.95 DG 453 5656 Mahler 10 Symphonies 10CD + Blu-ray Audio Bavarian RSO;Kubelik £48.95 DG 483 5601 Verdi Macbeth 2CD + Blu-ray Audio Cappuccilli;Verrett;Ghiaurov;Domingo;Abbado £25.95 DG 483 5605 Verdi Rigoletto 2CD + Blu-ray Audio Cappuccilli;Cotrubas;Domingo;Obraztsova;Giulini £25.95 DG 483 5597 Mozart Die Zauberflote 2CD + Blu-ray Audio Wunderlich;F-Dieskau;Peters;Hotter;Bohm £25.95 DG 073 5557 Beethoven Symphonies 1-9 (1970s) 2 Blu-ray Audios ONLY BPO;Karajan £34.95 Dreams and Songs Reflections New album form Bryn Piano works by Prokofiev, Terfel featuring duets Rachmaninov, Scriabin, with Alfie Boe, Katherine Medtner etc Jenkins and many more Tarasevich-Nikolaev £12.50 £12.50 DG 483 5514 Decca 483 3922 4 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES DG and Decca (continued) 120 Years of Deutsche Grammophon The Anniversary Edition £299.95 483 5268 (121 CD + Blu-ray Audio) The story of Deutsche Grammophon goes back as far as the birth of recording itself. Founded in June 1898 in Hanover, its directors were Emile Berliner – inventor of both the disc and the player – and his brother Joseph.