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TABLE OF CONTENTS 

æon 7 

Améson 19 

Audiomax 26 

AVIE Records 5–6 

Brussels Philharmonic 25 

CAvi-music 22 

Challenge Classics 10–11 

CORO 4 

Delphian Records 9 

Delta 18 

Editions Hortus 29 

Etcetera 31–32 

Flora 28 

Fryderyk Chopin Institute 25 

Fuga Libera 6 

GIA Publications, Inc. 22 

Indésens 30 

La Bottega Discantica 28 

Melodiya 13–18 

Music & Media 19 

Opera d’Oro 3, 20–21 

Quartz 23 

Ricercar 9 

Smekkleysa 26–27 

SOMM Recordings 12 

Stone Records 8 

Syrius 31 

Tactus 24 

TransArt 10 

ZOHO Classix 12 

RAVE REVIEWS FOR REFERENCE 

“An elegantly played and most sensitively conducted Elgar, perhaps the best 

on record yet, and certainly, to these ears, the most moving.” — HP Soundings 

“Elgar’s very particular orchestration and dynamic markings have not been 

captured better on record.” — Audiophilia 

ELGAR: Enigma Variations 

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“One of the most stylish and spirited accounts of a Haydn quartet to come 

along in a while … the Danish String Quartet has secured a position as a 

significant ensemble. A new recording, which pairs Haydn’s Quartet in D and 

Brahms’s Quartet in A minor, makes clear why this fast-rising ensemble has 

been having such international success in recent seasons. All the benchmarks 

of superior quartet playing are here.” 

HAYDN & BRAHMS: String Quartets 

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‘I Do’ The Wedding Album benefited from the raging triumvirate of sharp 

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top 10 RECENT RELEASES 

1. Luciano Pavarotti The Intimate Pavarotti (OPD 6012) 

2. Jos van Immerseel Debussy: La Mer/Images (ZIG 313) 

3. Pieter Wispelwey Bach: 6 Suites for Cello Solo (EPR 12) 

4. Philippe Herreweghe Beethoven: Missa Solemnis Op. 123 (PHY 7) 

5. Belcea Quartet Beethoven: Complete String Quartets Vol. 1 (ZIG 315) 

6. Lara St. John Bach: The Violin Concertos (ANC 138) 

7. The Sixteen Palestrina: Volume 2 (CRO 16105) 

8. Kansas City Symphony Elgar: Enigma Variations (REF 129) 

9. Mark O’Connor America On Strings (OMC 18) 

10. Cold Blue Artists Cold Blue Two (CBM 36) 

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Opera d’Oro 

OPERA D’ORO CELEBRATES WAGNER’S BICENTENNIAL YEAR 

“Hear this Ring, and find out what this music, and 

Richard Wagner, are all about.” — New York Times 

Richard WAGNER 

Der Ring des Nibelungen 

Cat # OPD 1504 

Price Code: 5J (SRP $49.99) 

Number of Discs: 14 

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Hans Hotter, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Josef Greindl, Astrid Varnay, Wolfgang Windgassen, Ramon Varnay: vocal soloists 

Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Chorus 

Clemens Krauss: conductor 

WAGNER: Der Ring des Nibelungen (complete opera) 

A deluxe edition of one of the most beloved complete Opera d’Oro recordings! This new package contains newly translated complete 

English librettos for all four music dramas, along with a fifth book of essays. 

“I will proceed to proclaim the 1953 Bayreuth Festival Ring conducted by Clemens Krauss the best on records … Hotter in his 

prime as Wotan, Wolfgang Windgassen in his first Bayreuth Siegfried … and Astrid Varnay as a womanly, impassioned Brunnhilde. 

The rest of the cast, with minor exceptions, matches the competition point for point and easily surpasses all other Rings … The 

sound, remarkably solid and natural for a live recording of that era, favors the voices in a way that doesn’t slight the orchestra. But 

what lifts this Ring to preeminence is the conducting of Clemens Krauss … Tempos move forward purposefully, on the whole, 

but without slighting the music’s mystery and tragedy. And the intensely dramatic and ecstatic moments, those great outbursts to 

which Wagner rises with satisfying frequency, are delivered with blinding passion. Hear this Ring, and find out what this music, and 

Richard Wagner, are all about.” — John Rockwell, New York Times 

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CORO 

Claudio MONTEVERDI 

Selva morale e spirituale Vol. III 

Cat # CRO 16109 



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The Sixteen 

Harry Christophers: conductor 

MONTEVERDI: Laudate Dominum (Secondo) • Iste confessor (Secondo) • Magnificat (Secondo) • Credidi propter quod locutus sum • 

Pianto della Madonna “Iam moriar, mi fili” (Sopra il Lamento dell’Arianna) • Beatus vir (Secondo) • È questa vita un lampo • Confitebor 

tibi Domine (Secondo) • Memento Domine David • Laudate pueri (Secondo) • Salve Regina (Terzo) • Magnificat (Primo) 

The third and final volume in The Sixteen’s acclaimed Selva morale e spirituale series! Included on this final volume are the eight-part 

Magnificat (Primo), one of the most impressive of all Monteverdi’s settings; the old style Credidi and Memento featuring the full choir; 

and the exquisitely beautiful soprano solo, Pianto della Madonna “Iam moriar, mi fili,” performed by Grace Davidson. 

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Selva morale e spirituale Vol. I 

Cat # CRO 16087 



MONTEVERDI 

Selva morale e spirituale Vol. II 

Cat # CRO 16101 



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Avie Records 

Hans GÁL & Robert SCHUMANN 

Symphony No. 2 & Symphony No. 4 

Cat # AVR 2232 





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Orchestra of the Swan 

Kenneth Woods: conductor 

GÁL: Symphony No. 2 • SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120 

“Hats off to conductor Kenneth Woods and his Orchestra of the Swan, who have been making a case for Gál’s elegantly built 

orchestral pieces.” — NPR’s All Things Considered 

Kenneth Woods, Principal Guest Conductor of Stratford-upon-Avon-based Orchestra of the Swan, has made international headlines 

for his ongoing cycle of world premiere recordings of Hans Gál’s Symphonies. The set, paired with the symphonies of Robert 

Schumann, has been featured by National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and Performance Today, the New York Times, Washington 

Post, Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, and dozens of other newspaper and online reviews, introducing a new generation to 

Gál’s wide-ranging and extensive oeuvre. 

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Priority for coverage in all classical magazines and newspapers, and for airplay on all classical stations. 

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Avie Records 

Frank Almond: violin 

William Wolfram: piano 

TARTINI: Devil’s Trill • SCHUMANN: Sonata in D minor • plus works by 

Julias Röntgen & Karol Lipinski 

“Intoxicating brilliance and immense panache.” — The Strad 

Frank Almond 

A Violin’s Life 

Cat # AVR 2279 





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A Violin’s Life traces the provenance and history of the “Lipinski” Strad, one of 

the most notable of the coveted string maker’s instruments, which are worth 

millions today. Crafted in 1715, the violin is named for Polish virtuoso Karol 

Lipinski, who played this instrument from c. 1818 until his death in 1861. 

Frank Almond, concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, has 

played on the “Lipinski” Strad since 2008. Envisioning a project that chronicled 

the extraordinary history of this violin and its associations, he has made a 

recording that includes Tartini’s most famous work, the “Devil’s Trill” Sonata, 

as well as a virtuoso solo piece by Karol Lipinski, one of Julius Röntgen’s 

unjustly neglected violin sonatas, and the stupendous Sonata in D minor of 

Robert Schumann, certainly performed during their lifetimes with Schumann 

at the piano and Lipinski playing this very instrument. William Wolfram is 

Frank’s estimable accompanist. 

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The Strad, Violinist.com. 

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Fuga Libera 

Yin-Yang Piano Duo 

Inge Spinette & Jan Michiels: pianos 

Track List: BACH/KURTÁG: Liebster Jesu wir sind hier, BWV 633 

(a) • Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 611 • Christe, du Lamm 

Gottes, BWV 619 (a) • BARTÓK: Suite for two pianos, Op. 4b, BB 122 

(1941)(transcription of Orchestral Suite No. 2, Op. 4, BB 40) • BACH/ 

KURTÁG: Két Kép (Two Images), Op. 10, BB 59 (1910) (transcription 

for two pianos by Zoltán Kocsis, 1978) • Dies sind die heil’gen zehn 

Gebot’, BWV 635 • Alle Menschen müssen sterben, BWV 643 • Aus tiefer 

Not schrei’ ich zu dir, BWV 687 • Das alte Jahr vergangen ist, BWV 614 • 

BARTÓK: Seven pieces for two pianos from Mikrokosmos, BB 120 

(1939–40) (transcriptions of Mikrokosmos, BB 105) • BACH/KURTÁG: 

Christe, du Lamm Gottes, BWV 619 (b) • Ach wie nichtig, ach wie 

flüchtig, BWV 644 • Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 633 (b) 

Yin-Yang Piano Duo 

Monument 

Cat # FGL 710 

Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) 


Digipak, Box Lot 25 

After La Valse à mille temps, Jan Michiels and Inge Spinette return with 

a new two-piano program for Fuga Libera. This recording pays tribute 

to Bach, Bartók, and Kurtág, and also to two legendary piano duos: 

Dittá and Béla Bartók, and Márta and György Kurtág. The recording 

highlights the strength of the union of two minds, which — like Dittá 

and Béla Bartók, Márta and György Kurtág, and Inge Spinette and Jan 

Michiels — can phrase music with a rare degree of intensity and acuity. 

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æon 

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN 

The Late String Quartets Op. 135 & Op. 132 

Cat # AEN 1223 




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Brentano String Quartet 

Mark Steinberg: violin 

Serena Canin: violin 

Misha Amory: viola 

Nina Maria Lee: cello 

BEETHOVEN: String Quartet Op. 135, No. 16 • String Quartet Op. 132, No. 15 

“The glittering clarity of the Brentano’s sound is intoxicating.” — The Strad 

“Brilliant, virtuosic, and still mellow … one of the great musical hopes of a field overcrowded with contenders.” — Los Angeles Times 

Founded in 1992, the New York-based Brentano String Quartet is particularly recognized for their interpretations combining perfect 

technique with peerless musicality. Their previous release — also devoted to Beethoven’s late quartets, and named Editor’s Choice by 

Gramophone — served as the soundtrack for Yaron Zilberman’s film A Late Quartet, which featured a galaxy of stars including Philip 

Seymour Hoffman and Christopher Walken. 


BEETHOVEN 

The Late String Quartets Op. 127 & Op. 131 

Cat # AEN 1110 



soundtrack 

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Stone Records 

Franz SCHUBERT 

Winterreise 

Cat # SNR 8022 



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Matthew Rose: bass 

Gary Matthewman: piano 

SCHUBERT: Winterreise 

“A robust bass voice and dignified presence.” — New York Times 

“Utterly compelling.” — Opera Now 

Stone Records is delighted to announce the release of Matthew Rose’s debut recital disc. Together with pianist Gary Matthewman, 

he performs Schubert’s masterpiece Winterreise. Rose, renowned for his performances at the world’s leading opera houses 

(The Metropolitan, La Scala, Covent Gardent), is becoming one of the most sought-after basses of his generation. He has teamed 

up with rising star Matthewman, and together they worked on Winterreise over the course of several years prior to making this 

recording. The result is one of the most dramatically thrilling and intelligently planned renditions of this great work! 

The recording was made at the Snape Maltings near Aldeburgh in the UK, a suitably remote and inspiring location for such a 

piece. Superbly captured by award-winning producer Sébastien Chonion, the disc is presented in a collectible CD-sized hardback 

booklet, with articles by Warwick Thompson and Susan Youens, full texts in German & English, and — as downloadable files on the 

CD itself — transposable sheet music for the entire work. 

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Ricercar 

Vox Luminis 

Lionel Meunier: conductor 

Les Trompettes des Plaisirs 

Jean-François Madeuf: conductor 

Lingua Franca 

Benoît Laurent: conductor 

Guy Penson: virginal 

Funeral music for Queen Mary and Elizabeth I, by Purcell, Paisible, 

Tollett, Morley, Weelkes, and Tomkins 

This recording assembles the music composed for the funeral of Queen 

Mary, and that used at the funeral of Elizabeth I in 1603. The program is 

completed by Purcell’s sublime a cappella anthems and a moving anthem by 

Weelkes on the death of Thomas Morley. After the success of the recording 

of Schütz’s Musicalische Exequien, voted Record of the Year by Gramophone 

magazine, this disc will be one of the major events of spring 2013! 

Vox Luminis 

English Royal Funeral Music 

Cat # RCE 332 




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SCHUTZ 

Musicalische Exequien 

Cat # RCE 311 



Gramophone 

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Delphian Records 

Gordon Ferries: guitars, lute, theorbo 

DE VISEE: Allemande ‘La Royalle’ • Suite in D minor • LE ROY: Pavane ‘Est 

il conclud’ • Gaillarde plus diminuée • Allemande • CORBETTA: Suite in 

D major • BRAYSSING: Fantasie des Grues • Fantasie No. 5 • BRAYSSING: 

Fantasie no. 6 • DE SERMISY, arr. Attaingnant: Une bergerote • HUREL: Suite 

in C major • CORBETTA: Allemande ‘La Royalle’ • Sarabande ‘La Stuarde’ • 

LULLY, arr. Hurel: Les Pellerins • CERTON, arr. Morlaye: Robin • SANDRIN, 

arr. Morlaye: Jay veu que j’estoys franc et maistre • LE HEURTEUR, arr. 

Morlaye: Regretz soucy et peine 

“A master of musical subtlety.” — International Record Review 

Gordon Ferries 

La Royalle: Music for Kings & Courtiers 

Cat # DPH 34111 





Gordon Ferries’ fifth solo disc for Delphian spans two centuries of music for 

kings and courtiers. Performing on four instruments matched to the periods 

in question, and captured in sumptuous recorded sound, Ferries takes in the 

chansons and elegant counterpoint of sixteenth-century France’s cultivated 

humanist courts and the exquisite melancholy and refined dance forms from 

the private chambers of Louis XIV’s Versailles, and investigates the place 

of guitar music at the heart of the decadence, sexual intrigue, and Baroque 

splendor of Charles II’s Restoration court. 

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TransArt 

Nemanja Radulović: violin 

Marielle Nordmann: harp 

CHOPIN: Nocturne in C sharp minor No. 20, Op. posth. • OBERTHÜR: 

Berceuse, Op. 299 • Le Sylphe (solo harp) • TCHAIKOVSKY: Polina’s Romance 

(from The Queen of Spades) • BARTÓK: Romanian Folk Dances: Stick 

Dance • Sash Dance • Stamping Dance • Hornpipe Dance • Polkas • BARRIOS 

MANGORÉ: La Catedral: Andante religioso (solo harp) • Preludio (Saudade) 

(solo harp) • Allegro solemne (solo harp) • Etude de Concert (solo harp) • 

RAVEL: Pièce en forme de Habanera • MASSENET: Meditation from Thaïs • 

SAINT SAËNS: Fantaisie for violin and harp in A major, Op. 124 • FAURÉ: 

Après un rêve, Op. 7, No. 1 

“Engaging and exactingly articulated.” — New York Times 

Nemanja Radulović & 

Marielle Nordmann 

Après un rêve… 

Cat # TAP 174 




“A musician who is actually worthy of the prizes he has taken … a thoughtful, 

intelligent, and fiery player … It’s playing like this that reminds one of the 

story that Paganini sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his virtuosity.” 

— Musicweb-International 

Young violinist Nemanja Radulović unites his fire and modernity with the 

supreme elegance of harpist Marielle Nordmann, as the unconventional pair 

offers a captivating program of sparkling delicacy and angelic music. 

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Challenge Classics 

Isabelle van Keulen: violin 

Ronald Brautigam: piano 

PROKOFIEV: Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 94 • Violin Sonata in 

F minor, Op. 80 • Cinq Mélodies, Op. 35A 

Isabelle van Keulen’s breakthrough came in 1984, when she won BBC 

Young Musician of the Year. The competition was broadcast all over 

Europe, and watched live on television by millions. Her versatility lies in 

the fact that she plays both the violin and the viola with the same energy, 

performing chamber music in all possible combinations and directing 

chamber orchestra performances. Her duo partner of 22 years is Ronald 

Brautigam, one of Holland’s most respected musicians, and their 

chemistry is immediately obvious! Brautigam has received numerous 

awards including the Dutch Music Prize and the 2010 MIDEM Classical 

Award for Best Concerto Recording. 

Sergei PROKOFIEV 

Complete works for violin & piano 

Cat # CHR 72580 

Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) 


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Challenge Classics 

Voces Intimae 

Riccardo Cecchetti: piano 

Luigi De Filippi: violin 

Sandro Meo: cello 

GOUVY: Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 18 • Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 19 • Piano 

Trio No. 4, Op. 22 

“A performance of inspired clarity and subtle expression, characterized 

by a transparent interpretation and flawless intonation.” — The Strad 

The second album from enchanting Italian trio Voces Intimae on 

Challenge Classics! The trio goes straight to the core of the music, 

resulting in extremely moving performances. They have appeared at 

Wigmore Hall and St. John’s Smith Square in London, Carnegie Hall 

in New York, the Musik Halle in Hamburg, the Vredenburg in Utrecht, 

Amici della Musica in Florence, and many more. The trio received very 

good reviews for their Warner album featuring the works of Hummel, 

and for their debut album on Challenge Classics featuring Schumann. 

Théodore GOUVY 

Piano Trios 

Cat # CHR 72571 




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Arno Piters: clarinet 

Marleen Asberg, Nienke van Rijn, Keiko Iwata: violins 

Edith van Moergastel, Judith Wijzenbeek: violas 

Benedikt Enzler: cello 

Rob Dirksen: double bass 

BRAHMS: Sonata for Clarinet and String Quintet in F minor, Op. 120/1 • 

Sonata for Clarinet and String Sextet in E flat major, Op. 120/2 • 

R. SCHUMANN: Fantasiestücke for Clarinet and String Quartet, Op. 73 

This new disc features three arrangements by Geert van Keulen of 

works by Schumann and Brahms, two of which were specially requested 

by clarinetist Arno Piters. The superb ensemble consists of members of 

the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. 

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Johannes BRAHMS & Robert SCHUMANN 

Strings Attached [Hybrid SACD] 

Cat # CHR SACD 72572 




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SOMM Recordings 

Clélia Iruzun: piano 

MOMPOU: Cançons i Danses I, II, III, IV, V, VI • Pessebres • Dansa • L’ermita • 

El pastor • Impresionaes Intimas • Plany I Lento cantabile espressivo • Plany II 

Larguetto • Plany III Gracioso • Plany IV Agitato • Pájaro triste Largo • La barca • 

Cuna • Secreto • Gitano • Variaciones sobre un tema de Chopin • Thème • 

Variation I Traunquillo • Variation II Gracioso • Variation III Lento (pour 

la main gauche) • Variation IV Espressivo • Variation V Tempo di Mazurka • 

Variation VI Recitativo-Lento • Variation VII Allegro leggiero • Variation VIII 

Andante dolce • Variation IX Valse • Variation X Évocation • Variation XI Lento 

dolce • Variation XII Galope • Epilogo Lento 

“Iruzun’s playing has flair, invigorating rhythmic élan, and a rich palette of colors.” 

— Classic FM 

Federico MOMPOU 

Selected Works Vol. 1 

Cat # SMM 121 





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Brazilian pianist Clélia Iruzun has delighted critics over the years with her 

performances and recordings of music by Villa Lobos, Granados, Ginastera, 

Mignone, and Marlo Nobres, among others. Now, SOMM Recordings is 

delighted to join her as she embarks on a series of recordings selected from 

Federico Mompou’s large piano œuvre. The recording includes the Variations 

on a Theme of Chopin, the theme being the Prelude No. 7 in A major, on 

which Mompou composes 13 sparkling and inventive Variations. These are not 

often recorded, and they make a wonderful addition to the catalog! 

Recent Interview in the December edition of International Piano Magazine. 

Radio Coverage on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. 

Review Copies sent to all media and magazine press. 

ZOHO Classix 

Carlos Barbosa-Lima: guitar 

Larry Del Casale: guitar 

Havana String Quartet 

LENNON/MCCARTNEY arr. Leo Brouwer: Beatlerianas for Guitar and 

String Quartet • BROUWER: Paisaje Cubano con Fiesta • Cantilena de los 

Bosques • Zapateo • String Quartet No. 5 • Micropiezas • Quintet for Guitar 

and String Quintet 

“This Grammy®-winning album should undoubtedly put Cuba on the 

classical music map more firmly, with excellent performances from 

the Havana String Quartet showcasing composer Leo Brouwer’s music.” 

— All Music Guide (for ZMR 201108) 

Leo BROUWER 

Beatlerianas 

Cat # ZMR 201304 





Beatlerianas features seven classic Lennon & McCartney songs, arranged 

by Cuban composer Leo Brouwer for guitar and string quartet. Following 

their 2010 Latin Grammy®-winning ZOHO release of Brouwer’s string 

quartets, the Havana String Quartet now pairs with Brazilian guitarist 

Carlos Barbosa-Lima in a “guitar and strings” recital that also includes the 

premiere recording of Brouwer’s String Quartet No. 5. 


BROUWER 

String Quartets & String Trio 

Cat # ZMR 201108 



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Melodiya 

Tatiana Nikolayeva: piano 

J.S. BACH: The Art of Fugue 

The Art of Fugue is a cycle of fugues and canons that can be rightfully 

considered the peak of J.S. Bach’s polyphonic mastery. Amazing thanks 

to its unsurpassed polyphonic technique, the work left a mass of 

mysteries and questions as to the author’s concept, its completeness, 

and the instruments on which it could be played. This album features 

the cycle as it was performed by Tatiana Nikolayeva, a recognized 

master of interpretation of Bach’s music. In 1950, then a young pianist, 

she became a winner of the International J.S. Bach Competition in 

Leipzig; Dmitri Shostakovich had composed a cycle of 24 preludes and 

fugues especially for her. Her performance of The Art of Fugue ranks 

among the best-known piano interpretations of this work. 

J.S. BACH 

The Art of Fugue 

Cat # MYD 1002006 




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Mieczysław Weinberg: piano 

Borodin Quartet 

Rostislav Dubinsky: violin 

Yaroslav Alexandrov: violin 

Dmitry Shebalin: viola 

Valentin Berlinsky: cello 

WEINBERG: Quintet for piano, two violins, viola and cello in F minor, 

Op. 18 • Quartet No. 8 or two violins, viola and cello in C minor, Op. 66 

Mieczysław WEINBERG 

Piano Quintet Op. 18 & String Quartet No. 8 

Cat # MYD 1001998 




The music of Mieczysław Weinberg is one of the most beautiful pages 

of unwritten music history of the 20 th century. Now, Melodiya presents 

the best examples of Weinberg’s chamber music. His piano quintet, 

composed during WWII, and eighth quartet (1959), a one-movement 

piece filled with inner contrasts, unintentionally call up associations 

with Shostakovich’s brightest chamber opuses composed during the 

same years. Weinberg’s compositions are performed by the original 

lineup of the Borodin Quartet, an outstanding chamber ensemble. 

In the quintet, the author — who graduated from the Warsaw 

Conservatory — plays the piano! 

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Melodiya 

The USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra 

Evgeny Svetlanov: conductor 

KALINNIKOV: Symphony No. 1 in G minor • Symphony No. 2 in A 

major • Intermezzo No. 1 in A major • Intermezzo No. 2 in G major • 

Serenade for string orchestra • Nymphs, symphonic poem • Bylina, 

overture • The Cedar and the Palm, symphonic picture • Suite • Tsar 

Boris, music to the tragedy by Alexey Tolstoy 

Melodiya presents a complete collection of symphonic heritage by 

Vasily Kalinnikov, an outstanding and rarely performed composer 

who combined various trends of 19 th -century Russian art. Kalinnikov, 

who had to fight poverty and incurable disease for most of his short 

life, created music that was amazing in its lyrical spirituality, melodic 

richness, and epic power. This album features the composer’s two 

best-known symphonies as well as his earlier compositions, 

one-movement program works and experiments for drama theatre 

(music to Alexei Tolstoy’s play Tsar Boris). 

Vasily KALINNIKOV 

Symphonic Works 

Cat # MYD 1001995 

Price Code: 2R (SRP $35.99) 


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USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra 

Evgeny Svetlanov: conductor 

BALAKIREV: Overture on the theme of a Spanish march for symphony 

orchestra • Overtures on the themes of three Russian songs • King Lear, 

music to the tragedy by William Shakespeare 

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837–1910) was an outstanding Russian 

musician, pianist, conductor, and composer. Some of the most 

remarkable events in Russian music culture of the second half of the 

19 th century are linked with his name. Balakirev’s compositions for 

symphony orchestra, in which the musical and aesthetic principles 

inherited from Mikhail Glinka and Alexander Dargomyzhsky found 

their development, take a central place in his creative work. This 

program brings together seven symphonic works in chronological 

order, all performed by the outstanding Evgeny Svetlanov and the 

USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra. 

Mily BALAKIREV 

Symphonic Works 

Cat # MYD 1001877 




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Melodiya 

Evgeny Kissin: piano 

Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra 

Dmitri Kitaenko: conductor 

CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 • Piano Concerto 

No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 • Mazurka in F minor, Op. 63 No. 2 • Mazurka 

in F minor, Op. 68, No. 4 • Waltz for piano in E minor, Op. Posth. 

In March 1984, a fragile 12-year-old boy went onstage at the Big Hall 

of the Moscow Conservatory to perform Chopin’s two concerts with 

the Moscow Philharmonic Society Orchestra, conducted by Dmitri 

Kitaenko. His name became instantly known both in the USSR and 

overseas. From the very first performance, one could not help but feel 

a rare combination of almost mutually exclusive qualities: freshness 

and fascination of youth and very mature, conscious proficiency. 

Today, almost 30 years later, the recording of his first concert at the 

conservatory keeps that wonderful youthful fascination. 

Frédéric CHOPIN 

Piano Concertos 1 & 2 

Cat # MYD 1001994 




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Bolshoi Theatre soloists, choir, and orchestra 

I. Agafonnikov, A. Rybnov: choirmasters 

Fuat Mansurov: conductor 

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Tsar’s Bride (an opera in four acts) 

In 1849, translator, poet, and playwright Lev Mey (1822–1862) wrote 

a drama called The Tsar’s Bride, based on one of the passages from the 

era of Ivan the Terrible’s reign. In 1868, Mily Balakirev drew Nikolai 

Rimsky-Korsakov’s attention to Mey’s work. However, the composer 

did not set to creating an opera based on the plot of The Tsar’s Bride 

until some 30 years later. Almost without changing Mey’s plot, 

Rimsky-Korsakov enhanced the dramatic qualities of The Tsar’s Bride 

with his musical means. The opera was premiered in Autumn 1899 at a 

Moscow theatre of the industrialist and patron Savva Mamontov, with 

Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov as conductor. 

Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV 

The Tsar’s Bride 

Cat # MYD 1001876 




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Melodiya 

Natalia Shakhovskaya: cello 

USSR State Symphony Orchestra 

Aram Khachaturian: conductor 

KHACHATURIAN: Symphony No. 1 in E minor • Concerto-Rhapsody 

for cello 

Aram Khachaturian’s music is a sort of chronicle of his time and his 

motherland; it is an enthusiastic tale of the life of his country, built 

right before the artist’s eyes. Symphony No. 1 (1934), dedicated to the 

15 th anniversary of Soviet Armenia, was the composer’s diploma thesis. 

The Concerto-Rhapsody for cello was written in a burst of inspiration 

in a free developing form similar to Chausson’s Poème and Ravel’s 

Gitana for violin. The composer found quite a rigid structure that 

connected the principle of rhapsodic development of music based on a 

free flight of fantasy with important elements of sonata style that add a 

clear logic of symphonic thinking to the whole. 

Aram KHACHATURIAN 

Khachaturian Conducts Khachaturian 3: 

Concerto-Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra & Symphony No. 1 

Cat # MYD 1001839 




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Great Symphony Orchestra of the All-Union Radio and Television 

Gennady Rozhdestvensky: conductor 

STRAVINSKY: Le baiser de la fée 

Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale The Ice Maiden was taken as a basis 

for the libretto of Le baiser de la fée, a ballet that was ordered by Ida 

Rubinstein for her seasons. However, Stravinsky admitted that only some 

motifs were left from the Danish writer’s fairytale: the mother and her 

child lost in a blizzard, and the Fairy who marked the child with her 

magic kiss and then took him away to her miraculous world of eternal 

life. Using some themes from pieces by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky dedicated 

his score to the great Russian composer. This CD presents a recording 

from 1966, made by the Great Symphony Orchestra of All-Union Radio 

and Television with conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky. 

Igor STRAVINSKY 

Le baiser de la fée 

Cat # MYD 1001833 




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Melodiya 

Grigory Ginsburg: piano 

LISZT: From the cycle “Years of Pilgrimage”: Italy, Venice, Naples: 

No. 1 Gondoliera • No. 3 Tarantella • Switzerland: No. 2 At Lake 

Wallenstadt • No. 4 Beside a Spring • No. 9 The Bells of Geneva • No. 6 

Obermann’s Valley • RUBINSTEIN: Etude No. 2 in F major, Op. 23 • 

Piano Concerto No. 4 in D minor, Op. 70 

Melodiya presents an album featuring Grigory Ginsburg, a wonderful 

virtuoso pianist and one of the glorious representatives of the 

Russian piano school of the 20 th century. Ginsburg’s name is now 

overshadowed by some of his better-known peers such as Emil Gilels, 

Sviatoslav Richter, Yakov Flier, and Stanislav Neuhaus. However, in 

his time in the 1930s–’50s, his concert performances entranced 

audiences and critics alike. 

Grigory Ginsburg 

Plays Anton Rubinstein and Franz Liszt 

Cat # MYD 1002067 




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USSR State Academic Choir 

Moscow Chamber Choir 

Vladimir Minin: conductor 

SHCHEDRIN: The Sealed Angel 

Melodiya presents one of the most significant choral works by modern 

composer Rodion Shchedrin, composed after Nikolai Leskov’s story 

The Sealed Angel. Shchedrin repeatedly worked in the choral genre; 

he was often attracted to religious plotlines and liturgical texts. And 

still, the choral music to The Sealed Angel has a special, personal 

imprint that reflects how the composer perceived Leskov, and Russian 

spirituality. “If the so-called Russian soul really exists, there’s no 

one who can answer this sacramental question better than Leskov,” 

Shchedrin wrote. 

Rodion SHCHEDRIN 

The Sealed Angel 

Cat # MYD 1002070 




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Melodiya 

Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY & Franz SCHUBERT 

From conducting legacy of A. Melik-Pashaev 

Cat # MYD 1002072 




USSR Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra 

Alexander Melik-Pashayev: conductor 

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 “Pathétique” • 

SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D 759 “Unfinished” 

Melodiya presents recordings of the outstanding Soviet conductor 

Alexander Melik-Pashayev, whose performing career at the USSR 

Bolshoi Theatre lasted more than 30 years and made up a whole era 

in the life of the famous company. His numerous recordings of opera 

sets, including those awarded with prestigious foreign prizes such as 

Borodin’s Prince Igor, Prokofiev’s War and Peace, and Mussorgsky’s 

Boris Godunov, are very well known. He is less known as a symphony 

conductor, but Melik-Pashayev’s concerts with the Bolshoi orchestra 

were some of the brightest ones in Moscow’s eventful musical life. His 

repertoire included not only fragments from operas, but also symphonic 

and oratorio compositions by Beethoven, Verdi, Schubert, Brahms, 

Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich, and Shebalin. 

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Delta Classics 

Rundfunkchor Berlin 

Nicolas Fink: chorus master 

Berliner Mädchenchor 

Sabine Wüsthoff: chorus master 

Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin 

Ingo Metzmacher: conductor 

HUMPERDINCK: Königskinder 

Engelbert Humperdinck, born in 1854, composed a total of 14 operas 

and musical comedies. Six of them are fairytale operas, of which one 

remained popular throughout the years: Hänsel und Gretel. The shadow of 

this major success hides his other works, which deserve an equal share of 

appreciation for their quality; for example, Königskinder. The trio of the 

main protagonists is the same: an evil witch and two young people who are 

introduced to the seriousness of life through several severe tests. However, 

while Hänsel und Gretel features a happy ending, Königskinder ends in 

tragedy; the grief is elaborately reflected in Humperdinck‘s composition. 

Engelbert HUMPERDINCK 

Königskinder: An opera in three acts 

Cat # DLT 90044 




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Améson 

Georges APERGHIS 

Á portée de voix: Vocal Works 

Valérie Philippin: soprano/Ensemble Kiosk 

APERGHIS: Calme plat(s) • Dialogue amoureux • Simulacre II • Rire Physiologique • Monomanie(s) • 

Fidélité • Pub I et II 

Cat # AMN 1019 

Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) 



Valerie Philippin, an accomplished artist with a wide-ranging, eclectic virtuoso repertoire, gives 

us a radiant and personal version of a number of solo vocal works by Georges Aperghis, some of 

which were dedicated to her. The package contains a bonus DVD, produced by Thierry Tibolla, 

which includes performance clips and an interview with Valerie Philippin by musicologist Corinne 

Schneider. DVD is PAL, not NTSC, but will play on most computers. 

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Jill Kemp 

English Recorder Works 

Music & Media 

Jill Kemp: recorders/Aleksander Szram: piano/Brodowski Quartet 

BERKELEY: Sonatina • ARNOLD: Sonatina, Op. 41 • Solitaire • Fantasy for Recorder & String Quartet • 

JACOB: Suite for Recorder & String Quartet • BOWEN: Sonata, Op. 121 • RUBBRA: Meditazioni sopra 

‘Coeurs Désolés’ Op. 67 

Cat # MME 103 





A great introduction to 20 th century English recorder pieces performed by young player Jill Kemp, a 

highly talented pupil of the world’s leading recorder player, Michala Petri. 

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Martin Eastwell 

Lady Maggie’s Lilt: Music from the Lute Book of Lady Margaret Wemyss 1629–1648 

Martin Eastwell: lute 

Cat # MME 104 





ANONYMOUS: The days dawes in the morning • Sinkpays • Port Robart • I left my tru love • Corant • 

Sarabande • I wish I wer there • General Lesly’s Goodnight • Ladie lie ner me • Tom of Bedlam • The 

Spanish Pavin • Ane Curant • I never knew I loved thee • Buckingham’s Gast • The Corbie and the 

Pigot • Holi and Faire • Ruthven’s Lilt • Newburn • Shooting Dance • Broom of Cardenowes • Fare and 

Loucky • Goodnight • The Flowers of the Forest • GAULTIER: Almond Goutier • Curent Goutier • 

Gautirs Current • Sarabande du Guteir • Almond Gautier • Almond (“Old Gaultier’s Nightingale”) • 

DE LESPINE: Current Lysabelle • DE MERVILLE: Mervell’s Sarabande • MESANGEAU: Almond 

Goutier • Almond dafo • DUFAULT: Curent dafo • DE CHANCY: Curent dafo 

A fascinating insight into the world of music for the lute in the first half of the 17 th century, with 

emphasis on French compositions. 

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Opera d’Oro 

Luciano Pavarotti: tenor 

Music from Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti, Bellini, Mozart, and Massenet 

The career of Luciano Pavarotti spanned 45 years, one of the longest careers 

of any operatic singer. His debut took place in Italy in Puccini’s La bohème in 

April 1961, and this remained one of his signature roles throughout his life. 

Later that same year, he made his first appearance in Verdi’s La traviata. The 

next year, in Palermo, he first sang the Duke in another Verdi masterpiece, 

Rigoletto. The single performance, however, that propelled Pavarotti into world 

fame was at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1972, when he sang the 

role of Tonio in Donizetti’s The Daughter of the Regiment (La fille du régiment). 

The nine brilliant high Cs that he effortlessly emitted in the single aria “Ah, 

mes amis” brought down the house, and earned him the nickname he would 

carry ever after: “King of the High Cs.” 

Luciano Pavarotti 

A Life in Music 


Price Code: C (SRP $5.99) 




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Music from Verdi, Bellini, Donizetti, Giordano, Tosta, Sibella, Puccini, 

and Massenet 

In modern times, “superstar” status for an opera singer is unusual. Not so in 

the 19 th century, when opera singers were commonly accorded the adulation 

reserved for rock stars today. Luciano Pavarotti’s numerous appearances on 

television, both in operas and commercials, as well as his sharing the stage 

with major pop singers, the huge arena performances of “the three tenors” 

(along with Plácido Domingo and José Carreras), and performances at other 

mass venues made him a true “superstar” equal to, or even greater than, 

many of pop music’s biggest stars. This disc surveys the breadth and depth 

of Pavarotti’s recordings of opera and song over the decades. 


The Superstar 






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Opera d’Oro 


Music from DeCurtis, Tosta, De Crescenzo, Bixio, Buzzi Peccia, Lazzaro, 

and Donizetti 

The Neapolitan song is a specific genre of classical vocal music with a 

distinctive style that, once heard, is never forgotten. It originated officially at 

a music festival in Naples, Italy, in 1835 but reached its international heyday 

in the early 20 th century when the great tenor Enrico Caruso, himself a native 

of Naples, sang Neapolitan songs as encores to many of his opera recitals. 

Since then almost every famous tenor has continued the Caruso tradition, 

and in modern times almost everyone has left an album of Neapolitan songs 

along with their operatic recordings. Naturally, Pavarotti did also, and these 

short songs with their direct emotional impact, usually full of sweet nostalgia 

and a touch of melancholy, graced virtually every vocal recital he ever gave. 


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Music from Puccini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Tosti, and Massenet 

A survey of hundreds of popular and classical song titles throughout the 

centuries shows that love is by far the leading theme of vocal music. Yet only 

one track on this album is technically a love song: Tosti’s “L’ultima canzone.” 

The rest are arias, the operatic equivalent of the love song. Luciano Pavarotti 

made his professional debut in Puccini’s La bohème, and this remained 

probably his most famous signature role for the rest of his long career. Rodolfo 

sings tenderly to Mimì “O soave fanciulla” (“O gentle girl, o sweet face bathed 

in soft moonlight, in you I see the dream I have dreamed forever”). Can 

you get more romantic? Some of opera’s great lovers are here, including the 

Duke from Verdi’s Rigoletto, who starts out as a callous seducer and ends up a 

gibbering jellyfish, madly in love with the lady he kidnapped for sport. 


Love Songs 






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CAvi-music 

Cat # AVI 8553273 



Box Set, Box Lot 14 


Cat # AVI 8553422 





INCLUDES WORLD PREMIERE 

Ruhr Piano Festival 

France, America & New Music (2012) 

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Lucy Jarnach 

Im Freien: Ravel, Jarnach, Bartók 

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Juan Pérez Florestán, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Cheng Zhang, 

Bertrand Chamayou, Ya-Fei Chuang, Robert Levin, Tamara 

Stefanovich, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Fabian Mueller: pianos 

RAVEL: Jeux d’eau • Miroirs • La Valse • Sonatina in F sharp minor • 

DEBUSSY: Suite bergamasque • GERSHWIN: Three Preludes • 

American Song Book • An American in Paris • The Man I Love • I 

Got Rhythm • WILD: Seven Virtuoso Etudes after George Gershwin • 

CAGE: Music for Piano II • Sonata No. II • GLASS: Modern Love 

Waltz • HOELLER: Double Play 

Lucy Jarnach: piano 

RAVEL: Gaspard de la Nuit • JARNACH: Three Piano Pieces, 

Op. 17 (premiere) • BARTÓK: Im Freien 

Next to Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit and Bartók’s Im Freien, 

the music of German composer Philipp Jarnach fits nicely, as 

performed by his granddaughter Lucy Jarnach. 

Another great edition from the Ruhr Piano Festival, this time 

focusing on the music of France and America as well as new music. 

GIA Publications 

Cat # GIA 894 




Cat # GIA 895 




North Texas Wind Symphony 

Audibles 

North Texas Wind Symphony/Eugene Migliaro Corporon: conductor 

DIETZ: Sasei Fanfare • WHITE: Miniature Set •BRYANT: 

Concerto for Piano • TURNER: Rumpelstilzchen • MARTINEZ 

GALLEGO: La Concepcion 1910 • PANN: Hold This Boy and 

Listen • FREER: Rio’s Convergence 

Audibles is the eleventh recording in GIA’s wonderful WindWorks 

series, which represents the relationship between the North Texas 

Wind Symphony and GIA Publications. 

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North Texas Wind Symphony 

Voicings 

North Texas Wind Symphony/Eugene Migliaro Corporon: conductor 

ZARE: Lift Off! • LINDROTH: Passage • TICHELI: Songs of 

Love and Life • TULL: Toccata • GANDOLFI: Flourishes and 

Meditations • DZUBAY: Snake Alley 

Voicings is the twelfth recording in GIA’s wonderful WindWorks 

series, which represents the relationship between the North Texas 

Wind Symphony and GIA Publications. 

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Quartz Records 

Osvaldo GOLIJOV 

Dreams & Prayers 

Paul Roe: clarinet, bass clarinet/Con Tempo 

GOLIJOV: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind (1994) • O’LEARY: Soundshapes II (2007) • 

ROTH: Clarinet Quintet for klezmer clarinet/bass clarinet and string quartet (2010) 

A new recording from Paul Roe and Con Tempo. 

Cat # QTZ 2097 




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Franz Joseph HAYDN 

Piano Sonatas 

Alexander Kobrin: piano 

HAYDN: Sonata in D • Sonata in E minor • Sonata in B minor • Sonata in E Flat • Andante 

with Variations 

A new recording of the Haydn sonatas by Russian pianist Alex Kobrin. 





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Fernando Marin 

sCORDAtura 

Fernando Marin: lyra-viol, baroque cello, viella 

FERRABOSCA: Lessons for Lyra-viol: Lesson 17, 19, 8, 9 • DA FIRENZE: Sento D’Amor (Ballata) • 

Codex: Mente Pura • GABRIELLI: Ricera 6 & 7 • J.S. BACH: Suite No. 5 

sCORDAtura is an Italian concept that implies the tuning of strings in different combinations, 

through which the instrument receives a special sound, rich in color and resonant in certain tones. 





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Tactus 

Giuseppe Maria CAMBINI 

Chamber Works 

Sans Souci Ensemble/Marcello Defiant: violin/Giuseppe Nalin: oboe/Serena Mancuso: cello/Marco 

Vincenzi: harpsichord 

CAMBINI: Cinque quartetti for harpsichord, violin, oboe and cello • Trio No. 5, Op. 45 in D major 

for violin, oboe and cello 

Cat # TCT 740303 

Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) 




It is quite likely that Giuseppe Cambini influenced the Parisian milieu with his typically Italian 

originality. He is regarded as a pre-Romantic composer not only because he anticipated the era of 

Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, and Chopin, but above all because of his pensive search for expression. 

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Luigi DE GRASSI 

Six Organ Sonatas 

Manuel Tomadin: organ 

DE GRASSI: Sonata I in C major • Sonata II in C major • Sonata III in C major • Sonata IV in E-flat 

major • Sonata V in A minor/A major • Sonata VI in C major (incomplete) 

Cat # TCT 760401 





The vast group of works by Luigi De Grassi comprises masses, psalms, motets, chants, and more — 

either accompanied by the organ or a cappella — for all kinds of vocal ensembles. A great number of 

compositions for solo organ also testify to his work as organist. The Sonatas recorded on this CD are 

some of the most interesting and ambitious creations for organ by this master composer from Grado. 

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Giulio RICORDI 

Piano Works 

Roberto Piana: piano 

RICORDI: Romance Poudrée • Il racconto della nonna • Fantaisie Hongroise • Aquarelles • Le rêve de 

l’Odalisque • Almanacco Musicale 

Everybody knows Giulio Ricordi was the greatest editor and publisher of the most important Italian 

operas, but very few know he also was a great musician and composer! 

Cat # TCT 841801 





WORLD PREMIERE 

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Fryderyk Chopin Society 

Malcolm Frager: piano 

R. SCHUMANN: Études symphoniques, Op. 13 • Sonata in G minor, Op. 22 

The first album in the new series Music of Chopin’s Time contains Robert 

Schumann’s Symphonic etudes, Op. 13 and the Sonata in G minor, Op. 22 

in the interpretation of one of the greatest American pianists. The recording 

was made on a historical piano from Vienna from 1845. 

Robert SCHUMANN 

Études Symphoniques & Sonata, Op. 22 

Cat # FCS 100 




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Brussels Philharmonic Recordings 

Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra 

Michel Tabachnik: conductor 

STRAVINSKY: Le sacre du printemps • Le chant du rossignol 

The story of Brussels Philharmonic is a remarkable one. As the former 

orchestra of the Belgian Radio, and later the Flemish, this orchestra managed 

not only to survive independently, but also to build a successful national 

and international career in the heart of Europe. With their label Brussels 

Philharmonic Recordings, the orchestra presents itself in all its facets. 

Igor STRAVINSKY 

Le sacre du printemps 

Cat # BRX 4 




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Audiomax 

Trio Alba 

MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trios, Op. 49 & 66 

Chamber music instead of Carnegie Hall! It must have been a great creative urge 

indeed that compelled Felix Mendelssohn to compose his second piano trio while 

turning down a conducting invitation to New York — and the result explains just 

what was at stake here. Beginning with a sweeping symphonic dimension in the 

first movement, the mighty work builds up to a finale in which quite significant 

questions are posed, and on this sparkling debut CD the Alba Trio offers 

refreshingly sophisticated answers to them. 

PLAYABLE IN ALL CD PLAYERS. 

For optimal sound, use compatible surround sound system. 

Felix MENDELSSOHN 

Piano Trios, Opp. 49 & 66 [Hybrid SACD] 

Cat # AMX SACD 9031793 

Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) 



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Smekkleysa 

Þórunn Ósk Marinósdóttir: viola 

Steinunn Birna Ragnarsdóttir: piano 

HALLGRÍMSSON: Notes from a Diary, Op. 33 • BRITTEN: Lachrymae 

On his work Notes from a Diary, Hafliði Hallgrímsson says: “During a visit 

to Amsterdam some years ago, I found myself standing by a dark window 

covered in grey dense material in a house, No. 263 in Prinsengracht, where 

Ann Frank and her family hid from the Nazis for two years during the 

Second World War. Standing by the window in this environment and what 

it represented was strangely muted. Suddenly a large bell was struck in the 

Westertoren Church nearby and the deep resonance emanating from that 

bell shook me profoundly for a split second. So this was the sound that Ann 

found reassuring; I was for a few moments painfully aware of the terrible fate. 

When I started to work on a composition for viola and piano, the experience 

in the Ann Frank Museum became more and more the magnet that shaped 

the musical character of the work.” 

Hafliði HALLGRÍMSSON & 

Benjamin BRITTEN 

Notes from a Diary & Lachrymae 

Cat # SMK 61 





For this disc, Hafliði Hallgrímsson asked the performers to perform Britten’s 

Lachrymae to accompany his own Notes from a Diary — an appropriate 

choice, as this year we celebrate Britten’s 100 th birthday! 

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Smekkleysa 

Cat # SMK 23 





Cat # SMK 46 



Slipcase Jewel, Box Lot 25 


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Bára GRÍMSDÓTTIR 

Virgo gloriosa 

Jón LEIFS 

Elegies 

Hljómeyki Choir/Bernharður Wilkinson: conductor 

GRÍMSDÓTTIR: Virgo Gloriosa 

Virgo Gloriosa is the first large-scale work Bára Grímsdóttir has 

composed for the choir Hljómeyki. Using Latin text, the poem 

tells of how the Virgin Mary appeared to the poet in a magnificent 

dream. The work also contains a number of ancient melodic lines, 

some quite well known. 

Þórunn Guðmundsdóttir: mezzo-soprano/Rut Ingólfsdóttir: violin/ 

Reykjavik Chamber Orchestra/Bernard Wilkinson: conductor 

LEIFS: Scherzo concreto, Op. 58 • Quintet, Op. 50 • Variazioni 

pastorale, Op. 8 • Elegies, Op. 35 

Chamber music was never the main focus of Jón Leif’s 

compositional activity. The ideal venue for his often rough and 

primitive music was the large concert hall. And his “instrument” 

was the symphony orchestra, enlarged by a unique assembly of 

rare percussion instruments. 

Cat # SMK 64 



Slipcase Jewel, Box Lot 25 


Cat # SMK 65 





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Thorkell SIGURBJÖRNSSON 

Choir Music 

The Ethos Quartet 

Icelandic String Quartets 

Hamrahlíð Choir/Thorgerður Ingólfsdóttir: conductor 

The Ethos Quartet 

SIGURBJÖRNSSON: Choir Music 

Since the founding of the Hamrahlíðar College Choir in 1967, 

it has served as a kind of a musical greenhouse for the creation 

of new Icelandic choral music. Thorgerður Ingólfsdóttir has 

cultivated a remarkable “musical garden” premiering over 70 

new works with her young students over the course of 40 years. 

Of many Icelandic composers who have been associated with the 

choir, Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson is the most prolific. 

PÁLSSON: Theme with Variations and Fugue • NORDAL: 

From Dream to Dream • TÓMASSON: A Long Shadow • 

MAGNUSSON: Quartet No. 2 

This album by the Ethos Quartet is dedicated to celebrating 

Icelandic string quartets. The disc features four works, including 

one of the first Icelandic compositions written for string quartet: 

String Quartet No. 1 by Helgi Pálsson. 

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Flora 

Giovanna Pessi & Eduardo Egüez 

Liquide perle: Music for harp and theorbo 

Giovanna Pessi: harp/Eduardo Egüez: theorbo, guitar 

A compilation of toccatas, dances, improvisations, and variations on popular tunes composed by 

Frescobaldi and Anonymous composers, written for the harp and theorbo 

Cat # FLO 1106 




The pieces presented here were chosen from the collection of a Roman manuscript from the first 

half of the 17 th century known as the “Chigi manuscript.” By nature multiple and sometimes 

sketched, these pieces reflect an art of improvisation as a natural practice for musicians of that time. 

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Marin MARAIS 

Charivary: Music from the Third Book of Viol Pieces 

Philippe Pierlot, Rainer Zipperling: bass viol/Maude Gratton: harpsichord/Eduardo Egüez: 

theorbo, guitar 

MARAIS: Suite in D • Suite in C • Suite in A 

Cat # FLO 1507 




Marin Marais’ Third Book of Viol Pieces is an important milestone in his production: the suites 

are perfectly well ordered and the art of the violist is at its peak. This first volume devoted to the 

“Third Book” contains three suites based on the classical dance forms, completed by a few character 

pieces such as “La Musette,” “La Guitare,” and the famous “Charivary.” 

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La Bottega Discantica 

Pietro NARDINI 

Six Sonatas for two German flutes and a bass 

Il Bell’Accordo Ensemble 

NARDINI: Six Sonatas for two German flutes and a bass 

Cat # BDI 156 




The works for flute by Pietro Nardini (1722–1793) are currently the focus of a renewed interest by all 

experts in this field. The most recent acquisitions have, in fact, allowed a correct appraisal of a body of 

instrumental work of interest and charm, which can thus compete with the better known and more 

often performed violin repertoire by Giuseppe Tartini’s most famous pupil. 

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Editions Hortus 

Ensemble Sagittarius 

Michael Laplénie: conductor 

SCHEIN: Opella Nova • Fontana d’Israel 

A man of the Renaissance and a Humanist, J.H. Schein is one of the most 

talented champions of early German Baroque sacred music, in which the 

influence of Italian aesthetics are quite obvious. 

Johann Hermann SCHEIN 

Opella Nova – Fontana d’Israel 

Cat # HOR 75 




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Ensemble Sagittarius 

Michel Laplénie: conductor 

Orchestre Baroque Les Passions 

LEVENS: Te Deum • Deus Noster Refugium 

At the beginning of the reign of King Louis XV, the French provincial music 

scene gained more prominence thanks to its bustling theatres, “Académies,” 

and regional choir schools. Compositions by provincial music masters, such 

as Charles Levens’ Grands Motets, were included in the repertoire of the 

“Concerts parisiens” and the Royal Chapel at Versailles. 

Charles LEVENS 

Te Deum 

Cat # HOR 960 




WORLD PREMIERE 

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Indésens 

French Army’s Choir 

Aurore Tillac: conductor 

VERDI: Ernani & Rigoletto (ext.) • FRANCK: Rebecca (ext.) • DONIZETTI: 

La Fille du Régiment (ext.) • ROBERT: Quand Madelon • BOULANGER: 

Pour les funérailles d’un soldat • SCHUBERT: Gesang der Geister über den 

Wassern • GOGUEL: Chant des marais • MARLY: Le chant des partisans • 

MÉHUL: Le chant du départ • GOUNOD: Faust (ext.) • STEFFE: Battle 

Hymn of the Republic 

This unique men’s professional choir in France, founded in 1982, counts 45 

singers from among the greatest professionals. Part of the French Republican 

Guard, it’s the official choir of the republic of France. The choir regularly 

performs with the large French symphonic orchestras, under conductors 

such as Yutaka Sado, Christoph Eschenbach, Pierre Boulez, Michel Plasson, 

and Peter Eötvos. 



Cat # IDS 33 




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Jan Talich: violin 

Agnès Pyka: violin 

BARTOK: 44 Duets for 2 violins, Sz. 98 

Although intended as part of a violin teaching method, Bartók’s Violin 

Duos far exceeded the expectations of their commissioner. These exquisite 

miniatures, imbued with traditional folk music, are beautifully rendered by 

the bows of Jan Talich and Agnès Pyka. 

Béla BARTÓK 

44 Violin Duets 

Cat # IDS 49 




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Syrius 

Helga Schauerte: organ 

A collection of early organ pieces predating and leading up to the 

compositions of J.S. Bach 

The Kloster Oelinghausen (in the town of Arnsberg, Westphalia), which was 

founded in 1174 by the order of the Premontarians, is one of the Meccas of 

the sacred art and music of the Sauerland. While the altar and the organ are 

a unique ensemble of baroque style in the interior of the abbey church, the 

chapel also houses several treasures of Gothic religious art such as the Virgin, 

called “Madonna of Cologne,” which dates from the first decades of the 13 th 

century. The music presented on this wonderful CD is in harmony with the 

beauty and the spirituality of this exceptional site. 

Helga Schauerte 

Organum Antiquum: Earliest organ music until J.S. Bach 

Cat # SYR 141459 




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Etcetera 

De Nederlandse Opera & Chorus 

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra 

Reinbert de Leeuw: conductor 

WAGEMANS: Legende 

The original version of Legende was created as three acts, each approximately 

55 minutes long, with two intervals. The version produced by De Nederlandse 

Opera in Amsterdam, recorded here, differs from the original in that 

substantial cuts have been made; however, Act 1 is almost complete, lacking 

only a short aria for Ursula and Pontus. 

Peter-Jan WAGEMANS 

Legende 

Cat # ETC 1443 




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Etcetera 

Franz LISZT 

Via Crucis (version for piano solo, 1879) 

Reinbert de Leeuw: violin/Vera Beths: violin 

LISTZ: Via Crucis • La Notte 





Via Crucis is one of Reinbert de Leeuw’s favorite pieces. In an interview in 2002, he said that the 

“A in the Fourth Station was the most beautiful note” in the history of music. In that same year, 

he performed for the first time the solo piano version that he would go on to feature more often 

in recitals. On this CD he combines that piece with La notte, in a performance with his usual 

violinist partner Vera Beths. 

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RAYUELA 

Made of Melting Snow: Elizabethan Consort Songs 

RAYUELA/Andrea Lauren Brown: soprano/Claudia Gerauer, Martina Joos, Thomas Engel: 

recorders/Christoph Urbanetz: viol/Thor-Harald Johnsen: lute, theorbo/Johannes Hämmerle: 

harpsichord, organ 





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JOHNSON: Satyr’s Dance • BYRD: Though Amaryllis dance in green • All as a sea • Fantasia • In 

fields abroad • Ye sacred muses • This sweet and merry month of May • MORLEY: April is in my 

Mistress’s face • Now is the Month of Maying • ANNONYMOUS: When May is in his prime • My 

Sweet Little Darling • The Dark is my Delight • NICHOLSON: In a Merry May Morn • SIMPSON: 

Almande • Ballet • Bonny sweet Robin • BALDWINE: Coockow as I me walked • GIBBONS: The 

Silver Swan • BEVIN: Browning • DOWLAND: Courant • HOLBORNE: Fantasia • PILKINGTON: 

Diaphenia, like the daffdowndilly 

RAYUELA was formed in 2004 as a result of the close cooperation between Claudia Gerauer, 

Martina Joos, and Thomas Engel together with other musician friends. The members completed 

their degrees at leading European music academies (Zurich, Vienna, Basel, Trossingen) and have 

been active internationally as members of various ensembles for Early Music. 

Johannes BRAHMS 

Piano Quartets 

Tetra Lyre/Nana Kawamura: violin/Tony Nys: viola/Geert De Bièvre: cello/Jan Michiels: piano 

BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 • Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60 • 

Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 26 





Tetra Lyre is an ensemble of like-minded musicians that has grown in an organic way. All of the 

players have gained experience in chamber music or as soloists. The ensemble, which basically 

consists of a piano quartet, explores the history of music starting from the impressive canon of 

19 th -century chamber music repertoire. 

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