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ATOLL RECORDS p. 16–17 

Atoll Records, the premier New Zealand classical record label, has an 

established reputation for quality recordings featuring leading ensembles, 

composers, and soloists from New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and more. 

Releases include a range of works, from significant remastered historical 

tracks to high-quality modern recordings from outstanding New Zealand 

musicians, choirs, orchestras, chamber groups, and soloists. 

The historical artists’ catalog includes such New Zealand greats as Oscar 

Natzka and legendary mid-20 th century pianist Richard Farrell in collections 

re-mastered by the founder and producer of Atoll, Wayne Laird. The 

contemporary classical catalog is an accessible, challenging, and everdeveloping 

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Atoll Records comes to Allegro Classical via Launch Music International. 

CAppeLLA ROMAnA On 

npR’s WeekenD eDItIOn 

tOp 10 ReCent ReLeAses 

1. Philippe Herreweghe Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV 232 (PHY 4) 

2. The Sixteen Sacred Music: God’s Composer (CRO 16100) 

3. Hagen Quartet Introspective–Retrospective (MYR SACD 7) 

4. SF Ballet Orchestra Sylvia & Coppelia (REF 125) 

5. The Knights A Second of Silence (ANC SACD 137) 

6. Howard Shelley Dobrzynski Piano Concertos (FCS 101) 

7. Friedrich Cerha Und du... (KRO 13182) 

8. Richard Blackford Not In Our Time (NIM 6161) 

9. Holst Orchestra The Coming of Christ (EMR 4) 

10. Kenneth Woods Gal: Symphony No. 4 (AVR 2231)

Francesco piemontesi 

recital [Hybrid sAcd] 

Cat # AVA SACD 1034 

Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) 

Number of Discs: 1 

Digipak, Box Lot 25 

D U.s. ORDeRs OnLY 

release date: July 10, 2012 Avanti classic 

Francesco Piemontesi: piano 

BUZZ ALERT 

HANDEL: Suite in B-flat HWV 434 • BRAHMS: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24 • J.S. BACH: Partita No. 1 in 

B-flat, BWV 815 • Fantasy and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542 (tr. Liszt) • LISZT: Vallée D’Obermann, SW 156 from Les Années de 

Pèlerinage, 1 st Year 

Recently elected Newcomer of the Year by BBC Music magazine, 27-year-old Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi is one of the most 

sought-after artists of his generation. For his first international recital, Avanti Classic—in collaboration with Radio Svizzeria Italiana 

and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust—gave him carte blanche. Starting with Handel’s Suite in B-flat major, Piemontesi builds a fascinating 

program reflecting the influence of Handel and Bach’s music on Brahms’ and Liszt’s works. The narrative quality of his musical 

discourse, his deep understanding of counterpoint, and his quest for perfection will thrill music lovers around the globe. 

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Zig-Zag territoires 

Ludwig van beetHOVen 

complete sonatas for violin & piano 

Cat # ZIG 307 

Price Code: 2S (SRP $37.99) 


Digipak, Box Lot TBD 


Avie records 

Jeffrey khaner 

czech flute Music 

Cat # AVR 2219 

Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) 


Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 

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release date: July 10, 2012 

Midori Seiler: violin 

Jos van Immerseel: piano 

BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1–10 

After a recording of the great Mozart violin sonatas, which was awarded 

a Diapason d’Or several years ago, Midori Seiler and Jos van Immerseel 

present the complete Beethoven sonatas with their dialogue on an equal 

footing, in which the partners have roles of equal importance. 

ALsO AVAILAbLe 

Jeffrey Khaner: flute 

Charles Abramovic: piano 

W.A. MOZARt 

violin sonatas 

Cat # ZIG 21001 

Price Code: 2R (SRP $35.99) 



SCHULHOFF: Flute Sonata • FELD: Flute sonata • MARTIN ˚ U: Flute Sonata 

No. 1 • DVOˇRÁK: Flute Sonatina in G 

Jeffrey Khaner, Principal Flute of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 1990, is one 

of the most highly regarded flute soloists in the world. With a half-dozen Avie 

recordings to his credit, he turns in another virtuosic performance of sonatas 

by Czech composers of the late 19 th and 20 th centuries. 



American flute Music 

Cat # AVR 4 





french flute Music 

Cat # AVR 27 



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La serenissima 

venice By night 

Cat # AVR 2257 





InCLUDes WORLD pReMIeRes 


release date: July 10, 2012 Avie records 

Mhairi Lawson: soprano 

Simon Munday: trumpet 

Peter Whelan: bassoon 

La Serenissima 

Adrian Chandler: director 

BUZZ ALERT 

ANON.: Si la gondola avere (Arriving by Gondola) • Cara Nina el bon to sesto • No stè a condanarme • POLLAROLO: Sinfonia to 

La Vendetta d’Amore • ALBINONI: Sinfonia in G minor • Sinfonia to Il Nome Glorioso in Terra Santificato in Cielo • VIVALDI: Bassoon 

Concerto in C, RV 477 • Violin Concerto in E minor, RV 278 • Arias for Marianino Nicolini. Il fidarsi alla spene from L’Olimpiade, 

RV 725 • VERACINI: Fuga, o capriccio con quattro soggetti in D minor • LOTTI: Motet Alma ride exulta mortalis • PORTA: Sinfonia in D 

Adrian Chandler and La Serenissima’s 10 th release for Avie—coinciding with the label’s 10 th anniversary—has all the hallmarks that have 

made the Vivaldi specialists one of the best-selling and acclaimed period-instrument bands performing today. As with the chart-topping 

French Connection 2 (AVR 2218), which featured the world-premiere recording of the flute concerto “Il Gran Mogol,” Adrian has once 

again unearthed numerous works from this period, recorded for the first time. 

Full Page Feature: “Musician’s Diary” in Gramophone (July issue) 

Print & Online Advertising: Gramophone, BBC Music magazine, Fanfare, Listen, Early Music America 

E-Blast to Avie mailing list (c. 5,000) 

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Anton bRUCkneR 

symphony no. 3 [Hybrid sAcd] 

Cat # EXN 5073 

Price Code: Y (SRP $24.99) 





Royal Stockholm Symphony Orchestra 

Sakari Oramo: conductor 

BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 3 

This is the recording of an ambitious performance by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and Sakari Oramo, featuring the third version 

of Bruckner’s third symphony, the first performance of which was received with triumphant success after the composer’s unrelenting 

efforts to improve it. The interpretation by Oramo and the RSPO, full of profound insight into the work, recreates the rich sound of 

Bruckner’s musical world. 

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tomás Luis de VICtORIA 

officium defunctorum 

Cat # PHY 5 

Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) 


Digipak, Box Lot TBD 


release date: July 10, 2012 phi 

Collegium Vocale Gent 

Philippe Herreweghe: conductor 

VICTORIA: Officium Defunctorum (Requiem) • 2 Motets • Domine, non sum dignus a4 • Salve Regina a6 • Vadam et circuibo civitatem a6 

Tomás Luis de Victoria is definitely one of the most important composers in the musical history of Spain. His masterpiece is the 

“Officium Defunctorum,” published in Madrid in 1605. In this requiem—written for the funeral of Maria of Austria, daughter of 

Emperor Charles V—the composer reached a mystical intensity of expression. Philippe Herreweghe just loves composers “who know 

how to build entire worlds with sounds, recognizable from the first notes, profound and full of richness.” For him, Tomás Luis de Victoria 

is “one of the greatest musical minds ever.” So, it was an obvious choice for Herreweghe to make a recording of this heavenly “Officium 

Defunctorum.” And, of course, the crystal-clear sound of Collegium Vocale Gent is the perfect instrument to perform such music. 


J.s. bACH 

Mass in B minor, Bwv 232 

Cat # PHY 4 

Price Code: 2O (SRP $27.99) 


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bRAHMs 

works for chorus & orchestra 

Cat # PHY 3 



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Alpha 

Gabriel FAURÉ 

2 piano Quartets, op. 15 & 45 

Cat # APH 601 





Various Artists 

les grandes eaux Musicales de versailles 

Cat # APH 814 





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Eric Le Sage: piano 

François Salque: cello 

Lise Berthaud: viola 

Daishin Kashimoto: violin 

FAURÉ: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15 • Piano Quartet No. 2 

in G minor, Op. 45 

Between 1875 and his death in 1924, Fauré produced around 10 

compositions that are among the jewels of the French chamber 

repertoire, written at a time when opera and symphonic music were 

the predominant genres. International artist Eric Le Sage, who is 

a specialist in this repertoire, continues his exploration of Fauré’s 

complete chamber music with piano, accompanied by a fine team of 

first-rate artists. This second volume, expertly recorded by Jean-Marc 

Laisné in the wonderful setting of the MC2 Auditorium in Grenoble, 

shows extraordinary energy and elegance. The first volume was awarded 

the highest ratings by music magazine Classica in December 2011. 


Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra 

Skip Sempé: conductor 

Café Zimmermann 

Pygmalion 

Ausonia 

Le Poème Harmonique 

Vincent Dumestra 

Les Musiciens de St. Julien 

FAURÉ 

works for cello and piano 

Cat # APH 600 




Selections of French Baroque music by d’Anglebert, Rameau, 

Moulinié & Corrette 

The event known as “Les grandes eaux Musicales de Versailles 2012,” 

when all the fountains are working and accompanied by music, is 

presented by the Palace of Versailles in collaboration with Alpha. 

The music consists of a selection of absolute masterpieces of French 

Baroque music, from 17 th - and 18 th -century songs to great classics of 

the operatic repertoire, performed by some of the label’s leading artists.

Gustav Leonhardt 

A tribute to gustav leonhardt: 

the last recordings 

Cat # APH 815 

Price Code: 5J (SRP $49.99) 


Box Set, Box Lot TBD 


release date: July 10, 2012 Alpha 

Gustav Leonhardt: harpsichord 

Philippe Herreweghe, Elisabeth Joyé, Gilles Cantagrel 

Café Zimmerman 

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Selections from Renaissance and Baroque keyboard works, plus secular cantatas of J.S. Bach with Leonhardt conducting 

Alpha pays homage to Gustav Leonhardt in a lavish box set comprising the last five recordings made by this great pioneer. The set also 

includes tributes from musicians and collaborators such as Philippe Herreweghe, Elisabeth Joyé, and Gilles Cantagrel, and the booklet 

presents a gallery of unpublished photographs. 

These recordings take us on a fabulous journey into the world of keyboard works from late Renaissance to late Baroque, and explore a 

fascinating diversity of instruments (harpsichords, the hybrid claviorganum, and the extraordinary Dom Bedosorganof Sainte-Croix in 

Bordeaux). The last one, for which Leonhardt was artistic director and organist, is his final recording; it is devoted to secular cantatas by 

J. S. Bach, performed by the ensemble Café Zimmermann. 

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opera d’oro encore 

Jules MASSENET 

Manon 

Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Rolando Panerai, Antonio 

Zerbini, Franco Ricciardi, Giuseppe Morresi, Ida Farina: vocal 

soloists/Peter Maag: conductor 

MASSENET: Manon (complete opera, omitting the original 

Act III, Sc. 1) 

A live performance from La Scala 1969, with Pavarotti and Freni at 

the peak of their early careers. A collector’s treasure! This recording 

omits the original Act III, Sc. 1, as do many stage performances. 

Vincenzo BELLINI 

Norma 

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Introducing the 

OPERA D’ORO ENCORE SERIES 

Gina Cigna, Ebe Stignani, Giovanni Brevario, Tancredi Pasero, 

Adriana Perris, Emilio Renzi: vocal soloists/RAI Symphony 

Orchestra & Chorus, Turin/Vittorio Gui: conductor 

BELLINI: Norma (complete opera) 

ActuAl sticker 

Cat # OPD 1270 

Price Code: E (SRP $7.99) 


Double Slimline, Box Lot 30 








Gina Cigna was the most famous Norma after the retirement 

of Rosa Ponselle, and up to the mid-’40s. Also notable here are the 

young Ebe Stignani, and Gui’s fine conducting. Recorded 1937. 

Ruggero LEONCAVALLO 

Pagliacci 

Beniamino Gigli, Iva Pacetti, Mario Basiola, Giuseppe Nessi, 

Leone Paci: vocal soloists/Members of the Chorus & Orchestra of 

La Scala, Milan/Franco Ghione: conductor 

LEONCAVALLO: Pagliacci (complete opera) 

Any recording of Gigli is a treasure, but the special treat here is 

Mario Basiola, a baritone of great presence and a truly superb 

singer. Recorded Milan, July 1934. 

W.A. MOZART 

Le nozze di Figaro 

José Van Dam, Mirella Freni, Frederica von Stade, Tom Krause, 

Elizabeth Harwood, Jane Barbié, Michel Sénéchal: vocal soloists/ 

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus of the Vienna State 

Opera/Herbert von Karajan: conductor 

MOZART: Le nozze di Figaro (complete opera) 

PRICING EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2012 



Price Code: B (SRP $4.99) 






Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) 


Double Jewel, Box Lot 15 


Another full-bore Mozart performance with a tremendous cast 

and Karajan at the podium in Salzburg, 1974.

elease date: July 10, 2012 opera d’oro encore 

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Giacomo PUCCINI 

Tosca 

Beniamino Gigli, Maria Caniglia, Armando Borgioli, Ernesto 

Dominici, Nino Mazziotti, Gino Conti, Giulio Tomei, Cenna 

Marcangeli: vocal soloists/Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal 

Opera House, Rome/Oliviero De Fabritiis: conductor 

PUCCINI: Tosca (complete opera) 

Recorded September 1938, and described as “superlative” by the 

Rough Guide to Opera! 

Gioachino ROSSINI 

William Tell 

Giangiacomo Guelfi, Leyla Gencer, Gianni Raimondi, Anna Maria 

Rota, Enrico Campi: vocal soloists/Teatro San Carlo Orchestra & 

Chorus/Fernando Previtali: conductor 

ROSSINI: William Tell (complete opera) 









Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) 


Double Jewel, Box Lot 15 


Turkish soprano Leyla Gencer has long been a favorite of vocal 

collectors, as she never had a major recording contract and can 

only be heard in live performances. 

Camille SAINT-SAËNS 

Samson et Dalila 

Jon Vickers, Oralia Dominguez, Ernest Blanc: vocal soloists/ 

Netherlands Radio Orchestra & Chorus/Jean Fournet: conductor 

SAINT-SAËNS: Samson et Dalila (complete opera) 

An outstanding recording of the most famous opera by Saint-Saëns, 

and one of the glories of the entire French opera repertoire, in 

crystalline sound with a top-flight cast. Live broadcast, Amsterdam, 

February 29, 1964. 

Giuseppe VERDI 

Falstaff 

Giacomo Rimini, Pia Tassinari, Salvatore Baccaloni: vocal soloists/ 

Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Milan/Lorenzo Molajoli: conductor 

VERDI: Falstaff (complete opera) 














Features the outstanding Falstaff of Rimini and the youthful, 

spirited Alice of Pia Tassinari, described as “the best Alice on 

record” by Harold Rosenthal, editor of Opera magazine. Recorded 

in Milan, April 1932. 

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Arte nova encore 

W.A. MOZART 

Clarinet Concerto & Symphony No. 41 

Ralph Manno: clarinet/Staatskapelle Weimar/George Alexander 

Albrecht:conductor 

MOZART: Clarinet Concerto KV 622 • Symphony No. 41 

At only 29 years old, Ralph Manno became professor for clarinet 

at the Hochschule für Musik Cologne and leads one of the most 

successful master classes for clarinet in Europe. He is one of the 

leading clarinetists of his generation, performing as a soloist at 

many international festivals and concert halls. 

Frédéric CHOPIN 

Complete Nocturnes 

Ricardo Castro: piano 

CHOPIN: Nocturnes Nos. 1–21 

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Introducing the 

ARTE NOVA ENCORE SERIES 


Cat # ANO 464950 






Cat # ANO 304941 

Price Code: 2B (SRP $9.99) 




Ricardo Castro studied with Esther Cardoso in Salvador de Bahla, 

and had his first official piano performance at the age of eight. 

He achieved numerous prizes, among them first prize of the 

International Piano Competition in Leeds in 1993. 

Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY 

Symphony No. 6 & Sleeping Beauty 

Russian Philharmonic Orchestra/Samuel Friedmann: conductor 

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 

“Pathétique” • Suite from the ballet The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66a 

Samuel Friedmann graduated from the Kharkov Conservatory 

as a violinist in 1964, and from the Leningrad Conservatory as a 

conductor in 1966. Till 1973, he performed throughout the Soviet 

Union, then immigrated to Israel and began his international career. 

Johannes VON LUBLIN 

The Tabulature of Johannes Von Lublin 

René Clemencic: clavicytherium 



Cat # ANO 563440 






Cat # ANO 391160 





VON LUBLIN: Tabulatura 1540 (including motets by Senfl, 

Brumel, Isaac, Josquin, and anonymous composers; songs by 

Wolff, Brack, Stoltzer, Verdelot, Festa, Sandrin & Josquin) 

René Clemencic is a composer and virtuoso player, founder of the 

world-famous Clemencic Consort.

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Cesar FRANCK & Gabriel FAURÉ 

Works for Cello and Piano 

Emil Klein: cello/Sorin Melinte: piano 

FRANCK: Cello Sonata in A • FAURÉ: Après un rêve • Elegy, 

Op. 24 • Lamento • Sérénade, Op. 98 • Papillon, Op. 77 • Sicilienne, 

Op. 78 • Fileuse, Op. 80 

Emil Klein was born in Romania in 1955, and studied at the 

Bucharest Conservatoire and with David Geringas in Hamburg. 

Alongside his solo career he spends time playing chamber music, 

and in 1990 founded the chamber orchestra “Hamburg Soloists.” 

Gustav MAHLER 

Symphony No. 1 “Titan” 

Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria/Adrian Leaper: conductor 

MAHLER: Symphony No. 1 in D “Titan” 


Cat # ANO 304680 






Cat # ANO 433140 





After the cool reception of Mahler’s First Symphony (Budapest 

1889), he put it away for three years, eventually reworking it for a 

performance in Hamburg, 1893. This recording does not include 

the original second movement, marked “Blumen” (“Flowers”), in 

deference to the composer’s wishes. 

Felix MENDELSSOHN 

Symphonies 1 & 4 

London Festival Orchestra/Ross Pople: conductor 

MENDELSSOHN: Symphonies 1 & 4 

Born in New Zealand, Ross Pople first came to London as a gifted 

16-year-old cellist. He quickly moved to the top of the profession, 

successively becoming principal cello of the Menuhin Festival 

Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. By the 1980s these 

two contrasting experiences had led to his development as director 

and conductor of his own orchestra, the London Festival Orchestra. 

Olivier MESSAIEN 

Quartuor pour le fin de temp 

Ensemble Incanto/Michaela Paetsch Neftel: violin/Ralph Manno: 

clarinet/Guido Schiefen: cello/Liese Klahn: piano 

MESSIAEN: Quatuor pour la fin du temps 



Cat # ANO 340260 






Cat # ANO 770760 





Olivier Messiaen was a prisoner in a Nazi war camp in 1940. A 

German officer gave him paper and pencil, and he wrote this 

profoundly moving chamber work dedicated “In homage to the 

Angel of the Apocalypse.” 

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fuga libera 

François seRVAIs 

cello concertos 1 & 2 

Cat # FGL 593 





doMo records 

Fuzjko 

Masterpieces of piano 

Cat # DMR 73179 

Price Code: 6J (SRP $59.99) 


Box Set, Box Lot 6 



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Didier Poskin: cello 

KBS Symphony Orchestra 

Patrick Davin: conductor 

SERVAIS: Morceau de Concert, Op. 14 (CD premiere) • Fantaisie 

Burlesque sur le Carnaval de Venise, Op. 9 (CD premiere) • La Romanesca 

(CD premiere) • Cello Conerto in B minor, Op. 5 

Includes three CD premieres! The “Paganini of the cello” was how 

Berlioz and Rossini rated François Servais, one of the principal architects 

of the development of cello technique in the 19 th century. Like Paganini, 

he wrote a substantial concert repertoire for his instrument, thus making 

up for the dearth of specific cello literature in the Romantic period; it is a 

great joy to discover some of his key concertante works here, performed 

by one of his most eminent interpreters. Ably supported by the orchestra 

of the Korean Broadcasting System under the baton of Patrick Davin, 

who has been much admired for his contribution to the recording of the 

complete Vieuxtemps violin concertos, here is a discovery that should 

excite all lovers of panache and diabolical virtuosity! 

Fuzjko (Ingrid Fuzjko-Hemming): piano 

LISZT: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat, S. 124 • GRIEG: Piano Concerto 

in A minor, Op. 16 (1 st mvt) • Other works by Liszt, Beethoven, Chopin, 

D. Scarlatti, Debussy, Schumann & Schubert 

“There is no secret to her appeal: Fuzjko is not just playing the piano; 

she is using the music to make love, seeming to enter a romantic reverie 

to find and unfold the music’s beauties and intentions.” — Gramophone 

This box set, which includes the albums Echoes of Eternity, La 

Campanella, Nocturnes of Melancholy, Live At Carnegie Hall, Liszt Piano 

Concerto No. 1, and Fuzjko’s self-titled album, contains works by Chopin, 

Liszt, Debussy, Schubert, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Scarlatti, Brahms, 

and Schumann. Four of these CDs received Classical Album of the Year 

at the Japan Gold Disc Awards, a feat never before accomplished!

Gregorio ALLeGRI 

Masses and Motets 

Cat # DPH 34103 

Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) 






release date: July 10, 2012 delphian records 

The Choir of King’s College London 

David Trendell: conductor 

ALLEGRI: Missa In lectulo meo (premiere) • Miserere • Missa Christus resurgens (premiere) 

“A choir as passionate as it is disciplined.” — BBC Music magazine 

Gregorio Allegri deserves better than for his reputation to rest on just one piece; alongside his iconic Miserere, which never fails to cast 

its spell on listeners, the Choir of King’s College London presents premiere recordings of two of his five surviving Masses, richly wrought 

with consummate skill in the prima prattica of Palestrina. Combining David Trendell’s scholarly integrity with great musical intensity, 

these glowing performances shed new light on a much-loved composer. 

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sCHeDRIn 

the sealed Angel 

Cat # DPH 34067 




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Atoll records 

Cat # TOL 118 




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Boris PIGOVAT 

Requiem 


New Zealand String Quartet 

Notes from a Journey 

New Zealand String Quartet/Richard Nunns: traditional Maori instruments/Helene Pohl, 

Douglas Beilman: violins/Gillian Ansell: viola/Rold Gjelsten: cello 

John PSATHAS: Abhisheka • Ross HARRIS: Variation 25 • Jack BODY: Three Transcriptions • 

Michael NORRIS: Exitus • Gareth FARR/Richard NUNNS: He Poroporoaki A farewell 

Winner of Classical CD of the Year 2011 at the New Zealand Music Awards, this diverse 

and fascinating disc features NZ’s leading quartet with authoritative performances by NZ 

composers, with Taonga Puoro (traditional instruments of the Maori) played Richard Nunns. 

Donald Maurice: viola/Vector Wellington Orchestra/Marc Taddei: conductor 

PIGOVAT: Requiem “The Holocaust” for viola & orchestra • Prayer for viola & piano • Silent Music 

for viola & piano • Nigun for string quartet 

“This is a most extraordinary release … stunning, impactful, and overwhelming.” — Fanfare 

This live recording based on a concert presented in memory of the 70 th anniversary of Kristallnacht 

features Requiem “The Holocaust,” winner of the 1995 Prize of ACUM, Israel. The title track of 

this extraordinary release includes a dramatic requiem for viola and orchestra that has been called 

the finest composition for that combination since the Walton concerto. Includes Hebrew and 

English text. 

Camille SAINT-SAËNS 

Organ Symphony 

Thomas Trotter: organ/Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra /Arvo Volmer: conductor 

POULENC: Organ Concerto in G minor • SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony No. 3 “Organ Symphony” 

This common coupling of the two greatest symphonic works for organ and orchestra is 

distinguished by dramatic live performances from both soloist and orchestra captured in superb 

sound, enhanced by the wonderful new Klais organ at Auckland Town Hall. Two of the great 

French symphonic organ works on one disc!

Eve de CASTRO-ROBINSON 

Releasing the Angel 

David Chickering: cello/Tzenka Dianova: piano/Vesa-Matti Leppanen: violin/New Zealand 

Symphony Orchestra/Kenneth Young: conductor 

CASTRO-ROBINSON: Releasing the Angel • Peregrinations • Other echoes • These arms to 

hold you • Len Dances 

release date: July 10, 2012 Atoll records 

New Zealand’s leading female composer’s first recording of orchestral works! Eve de Castro- 

Robinson has a unique ability to imbue her compositions with color. Her works always have 

a sense of melodic and rhythmic adventure about them, and range from intimate solos to 

dramatic large-scale orchestral canvases. This is her first full orchestral production specifically 

for CD release. 

New Zealand Chamber Soloists 

Elegy 

New Zealand Chamber Soloists/Katherine Austin: piano/James Tennant: cello/Lara Hall: violin 

RACHMANINOV: Trio Élégiaque No. 1 in G minor, Op. posth. • Arno BABAJANIAN: Piano Trio 

in F-sharp minor • SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67 

“Unaffected, but deeply affecting, playing.” — Fanfare 

Debut CD by the New Zealand Chamber Soloists features a compelling performance of the 

little-known and recorded Piano Trio in F Sharp Minor by Babajanian, which has been performed 

on five continents by this group since 2006, sandwiched between two famous 20 th -century Russian 

piano trios. 

Tsenka Dianova 

Deconstruction 

Tsenka Dianova, Sara Watkins: pianos 

CAGE: The Perilous Night for prepared piano solo • Bacchanale transcribed for prepared 

piano duet • Charlotte ROSE/Tsenka DIANOVA: First DeConstruction (The Perilous Night) 

for unprepared piano and electronics • SATIE: Socrate I. Portrait de Socrate • Le piège de 

Méduse, for paper-prepared piano • Gnosienne IV – simulated quarter-tone piano version • 

Vexations—celesta version 

“Very well produced and superbly performed program of some fascinating music.” 

— MusicWeb International 

Atoll is proud to present Tsenka Dianova, considered to be the greatest exponent of prepared 

piano. The title Deconstruction started just as the name of a sound-recycling piece, written to 

“unprepare” the piano following Cage’s “Perilous Night.” Later, the word inspired the idea of a 

collection of “deconstructed” works of Satie and Cage—works reinvented by unusual means! 

Cat # TOL 141 




WORLD pReMIeRe 


Cat # TOL 209 





Cat # TOL 309 





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Berlin classics 

The successful BASICS series 

continues with a cycle of composer 

best-of releases—double CD 

sets presented to provide any 

budding classical music 

fan with an overview of the 

standard repertoire! 

Frédéric CHOPIN 

Best of Chopin 

Annerose Schmidt: piano/Sebastian Knauer: piano/Marc Laforet: 

piano/Peter Schreier: tenor/Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Großes 

Rundfunkorchester Berlin/Robert Hanell, Kurt Masur: conductors 

CHOPIN: Selected works 

Johannes BRAHMS 

Best of Brahms 

Rosemarie Lang: mezzo-soprano/Theo Adam: bass baritone/Peter 

Rösel: piano/Rolf-Dieter Arens: piano/Berlin Symphony Orchestra/ 

Günther Herbig, Václav Neumann, Kurt Masur: conductors 

BRAHMS: Selected works 

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Cat # BER 300342 

Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) 





Cat # BER 300344 







Felix MENDELSSOHN 

Best of Mendelssohn 

Peter Schreier: tenor/Louis Lortie: piano/Igor Oistrach: violin/ 

Günther Herbig: conductor/Kurt Masur, Helmut Koch: 

conductors/Staatskapelle Berlin/Gewandhausorchester Leipzig 

MENDELSSOHN: Selected works 

Robert SCHUMANN 

Best of Schumann 

Peter Schreier: tenor/Rundfunkchor Leipzig/Horst Neumann: 

conductor/Annerose Schmidt: piano/Staatskapelle Dresden/ 

Siegfried Kurz: conductor/Gewandhausorchester Leipzig 

SCHUMANN: Selected works 

Richard WAGNER 

Best of Wagner 

Hanne-Lore Kuhse: soprano/Fritz Wunderlich: tenor/Theo Adam: 

bass baritone/Rundfunkchor Berlin/Thomanerchor Leipzig/ 

Dresdner Philharmonie/Heinz Fricke, Otmar Suitner: conductors 

WAGNER: Selected works 

Cat # BER 300341 






Cat # BER 300343 






Cat # BER 300345 





D U.s. ORDeRs OnLY

Ori Kam: viola 

TELEMANN: Fantasies Nos. 1–12, TWV 40 

Georg Philipp Telemann published his “12 Fantasies” for solo violin in Hamburg 

in 1735. These pieces place him firmly in the tradition, established in the late 

17 th century, of such renowned violinists as Carlo Ambrogio Lonati, Francesco 

Geminiani, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, and Johann Paul von Westhoff, 

culminating with J.S. Bach, who published his famous cycles of sonatas and 

partitas for solo violin around 1720. The focal point of such works was to 

produce rich contrapuntal harmonies on a solo melody instrument in music 

that went beyond pure practice pieces and captivated its listeners. Telemann 

succeeded in this by avoiding virtuosic acrobatics by the instrumentalist and 

instead allowing the catchy tunes and dance rhythms to prevail. 

This recording features Ori Kam, brother of clarinetist Sharon Kam, playing 

a version for solo viola in which the pieces have been transposed down by a 

fifth but are otherwise unchanged. The tone of the viola, warm in the lower 

register and possessing brilliance in the high notes, lends the works a new 

dimension of expression in comparison to the original. Ori Kam, playing in 

the Jesus-Christus Church in Berlin, draws from his instrument a sound that 

transcends all constraint and lets the listener simply float away with the music. 

Gould Piano Trio 

Lucy Gould: violin 

Alice Neary: cello 

Benjamin Frith: piano 

BEETHOVEN: Trio, Op. 1, No. 2 • Allegretto, WoO 39 • Variations, Op. 44 • 

Trio, Op. 70, No. 1 “Ghost” 

“The joyous ebullience of the Piano Trio in G, Op. 1 No. 2, with its expansive 

first movement, set the tone for the evening—the strings filled with warmth, 

the piano sound exquisite. The Largo con espressione glowed; the Scherzo 

lived up to its name, and the tempo seemed spot-on for the energetic Finale 

… Then it was on to the big-name work of the evening: the Ghost Trio. The 

initial furor of the opening theme was explosive, and there was a real sense 

of the music wanting to take flight … The terrific Presto was met with cheers 

suggesting an audience twice the size.” — BBC Music magazine 

This dynamic group, which celebrates its 20 th anniversary this year, has 

been exploring the remarkable variety displayed in the Beethoven Trios in 

many of their concerts over the years. SOMM has recorded them live at the 

famous St. George’s Concert Hall, Bristol, before capacity audiences and 

these concerts have been a huge success. Volume 1 will launch the Trio’s 

20 th anniversary celebrations! 

release date: July 10, 2012 Berlin classics 

Georg philip teLeMAnn 

12 fantasies for solo viola 

Cat # BER 300390 






soMM recordings 

Ludwig van beetHOVen 

piano trios, vol. 1 

Cat # SMM 114 






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col legno 

Cat # CNO 30006 





Cat # CNO 20305 

Price Code: 2L (SRP $23.99) 




winter & winter 

Cat # WTR 910188 



Smartpak, Box Lot 20 


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Quadrat:sch 

Stubenmusic 

Fabio NIEDER 

Der Bilderfresser 


Jelena POPRŽAN & Rina KAÇINARI 

Catch-Pop String-Strong 

Jelena Popržan: viola, voice/Rina Kaçinari: cello, voice 

13 selections of Balkan music with interpretations of Weill, J.S. Bach and others 

The ability to build new forms from miscellaneous components, using wit and virtuosity as mortar, 

is a remarkable skill—one that Jelena Popržan and Rina Kaçinari have honed to perfection. One is a 

Serbian, the other a Kosovo Albanian, and together they play Bach, traditional music from the Balkans 

and the Scottish highlands, pop songs, and their own compositions resounding with a multitude of 

different influences. In their music, they combine stories and interpretations from different places, 

eras, and angles. Equipped with a cello, a viola, and their voices, they build bridges across centuries and 

musical traditions, and they do it all with a light-footedness and natural ease that is simply amazing. 

Quadrat:sch/Barbara Romen: hammered dulcimer/Christof Dienz: zither/Gunter Schneider: guitar/ 

Alexandra Dienz: double bass/Zeena Perkins: harp/Herbert Pirker: percussion 

21 selections, 9 composed by Christof Dienz 

The “Stube” is the parlor in a farmhouse, usually paneled in wood, where people go to rest, to 

celebrate, to mourn, and to make music. Alexandra Dienz, Christof Dienz, Barbara Romen, and 

Gunter Schneider guide us into a friendly and sophisticated version of this multi-purpose meeting 

place. The first CD comprises song-like pieces in various interpretations, while on the second CD the 

focus is skillfully shifted from structures to sounds. The musicians delve deep into the nature of their 

instruments, exploring their potential as sound-generating bodies, leading us from seemingly familiar 

models to free musical moods. Deep-reaching roots are carefully unearthed, grafted, and propagated 

with great intelligence and devotion, and the result is pure delight. 

Marino Formenti: piano/Teodoro Anzellotti: accordion/Percussion Quartet, Cologne/WDR Radio 

Choir, Cologne/WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne/Emilio Pomàrico: conductor 

NIEDER: Der Bilderfresser [“The Devourer of Images”] (instrumental music from the opera) 

When Stefan Winter first heard Fabio Nieder’s “The Devourer of Images,” he did not know the plot 

of this opera, which will be premiered in Salzburg in 2015. He was also not aware that the music 

is but one part of that opera. And Nieder was unknown to him, too. But he made the decision to 

release the music on Winter & Winter, because Fabio Nieder creates dream sequences that give 

wings to fantasy. The music, the story, and the sounds seem so thrilling—foreign and at the same 

time familiar—perhaps because Nieder’s music talks in such an emphatic, beautiful way about 

love, dreams, loss, death, and life.

Havergal BRIAN 

The Complete Songbook, Vol. 1 


Mark Stone: baritone/Jonathan Stone: violin/Sholto Kynoch: piano 

BRIAN: 21 songs and piano pieces (includes 9 premieres) • Legend for violin & piano 

“Baritone Mark Stone has it all: a terrific technique, theatrical presence, and a voice guaranteed to 

tingle bits of your spine never tingled before.” — Classic FM 

Stone Records is delighted to announce the first CD in a two-disc series that will comprise the 

first complete recording of the songs of Havergal Brian (1876–1972) for voice and piano. Brian is 

best known for his vast Gothic symphony, and in fact wrote over 30 symphonies. This disc shows 

another facet to his complex artistic character, with songs ranging from the lyrically whimsical to the 

angularly tormented. 

Hugo WOLF 

The Complete Songs, Vol. 4: Keller, Fellersleben, Ibsen & other poets 

Mary Bevan: soprano/Quirijn de Lang: baritone/Sholto Kynoch: piano 

WOLF: 29 songs including Auf der Wanderschaft II, Der Schwalben Heimkehr, Der goldene Morgen, 

So wahr die Sonne scheinet, Ständchen, Bescheidene Liebe, Perlenfischer, Andenken, Wanderlied, Auf 

der Wanderschaft, Auf der Wanderung, Liebesfrühling, Ja, die Schönst! ich sagt es offen, Nach dem 

Abschiede & Ein Grab (includes 12 premieres) 

Stone Records is delighted to announce its newest Oxford Lieder Live release, the fourth disc in the 

first-ever complete edition of the songs of Hugo Wolf (1860–1903). This disc, recorded live at the 

2011 Festival, includes 12 premiere recordings of Wolf’s settings of poems by Chamisso, Hebbel, 

Ibsen, Roquette, Rückert, Zschokke, and Zusner. The CD features a large number of songs that have 

yet to be incorporated into the Hugo Wolf editions produced by other record labels, and each is an 

entertaining and enlightening example of the master song-composer’s craft. 

Reiko Fujisawa 

Bach, Beethoven & Schubert 

Reiko Fujisawa: piano 

J.S. BACH: Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826 • BEETHOVEN: Sonata in C, Op. 53 “Waldstein” • 

SCHUBERT: Impromptus, D. 899 

Debut Quartz album for Reiko Fujisawa, who studied under Martino Tirimo and Yonty Solomon. 

Reiko has since established herself as an exciting and formidable virtuoso performer, with recital and 

concerto appearances at prestigious venues and festivals around the world. 

stone records 

Cat # SNR 8015 






Cat # SNR 8016 






Quartz 

Cat # QTZ 2094 

Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) 




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nimbus Alliance 

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN 

Symphonies 4 & 5 

London Symphony Orchestra/Yondani Butt: conductor 

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat, Op. 60 • Symphony 

No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 

Frequently in demand as a guest conductor, Yondani Butt has 

recorded and performed in the US, Canada, Latin America, Asia, 

and Europe. He has conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra of 

London, London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, American 

Symphony, Hamilton Philharmonic of Canada, Orquesta 

Sinfónica del Estado de Mexico, Singapore Symphony, and Seoul 

Philharmonic, among many others. 

James FRISKIN 

Piano Quintet 

Rasumovsky Quartet/Catherine Dubois: piano 

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Cat # NIM 6147 












FRISKIN: Piano Quintet in C minor • Phantasie for String 

Quartet • Elegy for viola & piano • Phantasy for Piano Quintets 

James Friskin was born in Glasgow in March 1886. His early 

musical talent as pianist and composer resulted in a piano 

scholarship to the Royal College of Music at the age of 14; five 

years of piano study with Edward Dannreuther followed. He 

was an original faculty member of the Juilliard Graduate School, 

where he taught until his death. 


Antonio VIVALDI 

The Four Seasons 

David Juritz: violin/London Mozart Players 

VIVALDI: The Four Seasons • Concerto in D • Concerto in C 

Brilliant, unconventional, and vain, it was Vivaldi’s boast that he 

could compose a complete concerto in less time than it took to 

copy out the parts. Ordained as a clergyman, he sported a head of 

flaming red hair that earned him the sobriquet “the red priest.” As a 

composer and virtuoso violinist, he was famed throughout Europe. 

Frith Piano Quartet 

Piano Quartets 

Frith Piano Quartet 













WALTON: Piano Quartet in D minor • BRIDGE: Phantasy in 

F-sharp minor • LEKEU: Piano Quartet 

The Frith Piano Quartet was formed in 2001, and since its 

inception has played concerts throughout the United Kingdom. 

One of the Quartet’s goals has been to perform new and unjustly 

neglected works. In 2009 they gave the premiere of Michael 

Finnissy’s Piano Quartet, and in 2012 the world premiere of the 

Piano Quartet by Richard Roderick Jones.

John CAGE 

Imaginary Landscapes 

Ensemble Prometeo/Marco Angius: conductor 

CAGE: Imaginary Landscapes Nos. 1–5 • Sixteen Dances 

release date: July 10, 2012 stradivarius 

Landscape and dance, the two themes proposed by this CD—conceived as the prolongation 

of the homage to John Cage performed on October 22, 2009 in Parma—intersect with a natural 

circularity in the mysterious world of the great musician, who once declared graphically: 

“Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death.” 

Alessandro SCARLATTI 

Ardo è ver: Sonatas & Cantatas with Flute 

Valentina Varriale: soprano/Tommaso Rossi: recorder/Ensemble Barocco di Napoli/Raffaele Di 

Donna: recorder/Ugo Di Giovanni: archlute/Marco Vitali: cello/Patrizia Varone: harpsichord 

A. SCARLATTI: Sonatas in G & F • Mentre Clori la bella • Ardo è ver per te d’amore • Filli, tu sai 

ch’io t’amo • Clori mia, Clori bella • Augellin, vago e canoro 

In the context of Alessandro Scarlatti’s immense musical production, the recorder repertory 

certainly plays an important role, the fruit of an interest spanning the entire career of the composer 

both in his instrumental works and in larger orchestral groups of serenades and musical dramas. 

This CD proposes cantatas with the soprano voice requiring one or two recorders, besides two 

sonatas for recorder and basso continuo. It is a homogeneous musical corpus, not by chance almost 

all contained in two manuscripts preserved in the extraordinary Santini collection, preserved in 

the Diözesanbibliothek Münster, with the exception of the cantata “Ardo è ver per te d’amore,” a 

manuscript copy of which is in the library of the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella in Naples. 

Marco DI BARI 

… di un mirabile gioco sonoro 

Luisa Castellani: soprano/Jeffrey Swann, Bruno Canino, Massimiliano Damerini: pianos/Tempo 

reale Firenze (Giomi-Meacci): live electronics/RAI National Symphony Orchestra/Pascal Rophé: 

conductor/Quartetto Accademia/Eduard Brunner: clarinet/Walter Grimmer: cello 

DI BARI: … di un mirabile gioco sonoro • All Is Lost • Bird’s Fractal Voice 

The highly refined work of Marco Di Bari reveals a cultured individual who is fully aware of 

the traditions to which he refers. Piano is a constant presence in the work of this composer. The 

tradition of the instrument is interpreted through the investigation of objects and technical 

formulas that are used to generate new sonorous ideas and deep emotions. The relation between 

past and future, between usual and unusual techniques, is approached from a contemporary point 

of view, thus creating a successful and paradigmatic synthesis. 

Cat # STV 33918 





Cat # STV 33922 





Cat # STV 33923 





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toccata classics 

Hans GÁL 

Music for Cello 

Alfia Nakipbekova: cello/Jakob Fichert: piano 

GÁL: Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 109a • Suite for Solo Cello, 

Op. 109b • Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 89 

Vienna-born Hans Gál (1890–1987) settled in Edinburgh after 

fleeing from the Nazis in 1938, and became a much-loved figure 

in his adoptive town. But he never lost his Viennese fondness for 

melody, as these three works demonstrate—the Sonata with piano 

composed in 1953, and the two works for solo cello composed in 

1982, when he was 92 years old, almost the last music he wrote. 

Georg Philipp TELEMANN 

Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst, Vol. 4 

Bergen Barokk 

TELEMANN: 6 cantatas 

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Cat # TOC 43 







Cat # TOC 84 







This is the fourth CD in the first complete recording of the 72 

cantatas from Telemann’s collection Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst, 

published in Hamburg in 1726—the first complete set of cantatas 

for the liturgical year to appear in print. The cantatas are designated 

for voice, an obbligato instrument, and basso continuo, and 

generally take the form of two da capo arias with an intervening 

recitative. Although intended for worship, Telemann’s cantatas 

are a masterly blend of tunefulness with skilled counterpoint and 

vocal and instrumental virtuosity. 


Karel REINER 

Cello Concerto 

Sebastian Foron: cello/Matti Raekallio: piano/Czech Philharmonic 

Orchestra /Zdenek Macal: conductor 

REINER: Cello Concerto, Op. 34 • Sonata Brevis, Op. 39 • Elegy 

and Capriccio • Verses 

Karel Reiner (1910–79), a major missing voice in Czech music, 

suffered under both of 20 th -century Europe’s major tyrannies 

(Nazism and Communism). This first CD of a series reviving 

Reiner’s music presents the large-scale Concerto he completed 

just before his internment in Terezín—first heard, in this live 

performance, only in 2010. 

Igor RAYKHELSON 

Concertos for Viola and Violin 

Cat # TOC 83 







Cat # TOC 130 







Yuri Bashmet: viola/Nikolay Sachenko: violin/Novaya Rossiya 

Orchestra/Claudio Vandelli, Alexander Slatkovsky: conductors 

RAYKHELSON: Violin Concerto in C minor • Viola Concerto in 

A minor 

In the words of his friend, violist and conductor Yuri Bashmet, 

composer-pianist Igor Raykhelson “possesses a superb mastery 

of both classical and jazz idioms.” The unashamed Romanticism 

of Raykhelson’s Violin Concerto (2007) and its emphasis on 

melody place it downstream from Korngold, and though the Viola 

Concerto (2005) has its darker moments, its vigorous, jazz-tinged 

finale has the knock-about good humor of Shchedrin.

Gerard SCHURMANN 

Music for Violin and Piano 

Alyssa Park: violin/Mikhail Korzhev: piano 

SCHURMANN: Duo for Violin and Piano • Leotaurus: Theme 

and Variations for Piano • Autumn Leaves for Violin and Piano • 

Contrasts for Piano 

Anglo-Dutch composer Gerard Schurmann, born in the East 

Indies in 1924 and based in the US since 1981, first made his 

mark in Britain in the 1940s and ’50s as a pianist and composer, 

particularly of chamber music and film scores. His concert output 

is intense, passionate, tightly argued, and charged with energy, 

but also infused with lyricism, as these four pieces demonstrate. 

Myroslav SKORYK 

Music for Violin and Piano 

Solomia Soroka: violin/Arthur Greene: piano 

release date: July 10, 2012 toccata classics 

Cat # TOC 133 







Cat # TOC 137 







SKORYK: Melody from the High Pass • Violin Sonata No. 1 • 

Allegretto and Dance from Hutsulian Triptych • Caprice for solo 

violin • Carpathian Rhapsody • Poem • Violin Sonata No. 2 • 

Spanish Dance 

Today’s leading Ukrainian composer, Myroslav Skoryk, grew up in 

Siberia, where his family was deported after WWII, and he began 

to write music under the tutelage of other political prisoners there. 

He later studied with Kabalevsky in Moscow before settling back 

in his native city, where he soon became an important teacher and 

is now a major figure in Ukrainian cultural life. 

Vytautas BACEVIČIUS 

Piano Music, Vol. One 

Gabrielius Alekna, Ursula Oppens: pianos/Matthew Lewis: organ 

BACEVIČIUS: The Complete Mots (6) 

Lithuanian pianist and composer Vytautas Bacevičius (1905–70) 

is one of the undiscovered pioneers of 20 th -century music. His 

series of seven Mots (‘Words’) for keyboard—five for solo piano, 

one for organ, and one for two pianos—were written between 

1933 and 1966, and show the evolution of his musical language 

from the post-Scriabin style of the early works, via the influence 

of Prokofiev and Stravinsky, to a highly individual modernism 

akin to that of two fellow radicals, Varèse and Wolpe. 

John McCabe 

Farewell Recital 

John McCabe: piano 

Cat # TOC 134 







Cat # TOC 139 







SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata in A minor • HOWARD: Sky and 

Water • CASKEN: The Haunting Bough • RAVEL: Valses nobles et 

sentimentales • McCABE: Tenebrae • BRIDGE: Heart’s Ease 

In August 2010, at the Presteigne Festival on the Welsh borders, 

John McCabe gave his last public piano recital, bringing to an end a 

career as solo pianist that had lasted half a century. McCabe—born 

in Liverpool in 1939 and a composer-pianist in the tradition of 

Beethoven and Rachmaninov—has always championed the music 

of his contemporaries alongside his own and that of the masters 

of the past, and this farewell recital included two works by friends 

and colleagues as well as his own grandiose “Tenebrae.” 

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ed priest recordings 

Antonio VIVALDI & G.F. HAnDeL 

recorder Music 

Cat # RPR 8 

Price Code: 2Q (SRP $31.99) 





indésens 

Carlo tessARInI 

complete 12 violin concertos, op. 1 

Cat # IDS 1207 

Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) 





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Piers Adams: recorder 

Howard Beach: harpsichord, organ 

David Watkin: cello 

Musica da Camera 

Robert King: director 

VIVALDI: Concerto in F, RV 433 • Concerto in A minor, RV 445 • Concerto 

in C minor, RV 441 • Concerto in D, RV 428 • Concerto in G minor, RV 439 • 

Concerto in C, RV 443 • HANDEL: Sonata in G • Sonata in G minor • Sonata 

in C • Harmonious Blacksmith Variations • Sonata in D, HWV 378 • Sonata in 

D minor, Op. 1, No. 1 • Sonata in D minor • Sonata in F • Sonata in D minor 

“A dazzling virtuoso star.” — BBC Music magazine 

“The reigning recorder virtuoso in the world today.” — Washington Post 

Piers Adams is widely regarded as one of the greatest recorder players of our 

time. He has worked tirelessly to develop the recorder’s reputation as a serious 

solo instrument, in particular through his research into forgotten corners of 

the instrument’s repertoire and his numerous arrangements and transcriptions 

from a wide range of genres. In 1997 Piers founded his now world-renowned 

baroque quartet Red Priest, with whom he has toured the globe several times, 

performing over 1,000 concerts on four continents in some of the most 

prestigious music festivals. The group has appeared frequently on TV and 

radio—including hour-long televised features on LWT’s The South Bank Show 

(UK)—and recorded several acclaimed discs for Red Priest Recordings. 

Marco Pedrona: violin 

Ensemble Guidantus 

TESSARINI: Violin Concertos, Op. 1 (12) 

The first half of the 18 th century was largely dominated by the innovative genius 

of Antonio Vivaldi, but one of his most talented younger contemporaries was 

Carlo Tessarini. His complete 12 Concertos, Op. 1, are presented here in their 

first modern recording.

Wojciech ´Switała: piano 

CHOPIN: Ballade in F, Op. 38 • Ballade in A-flat, Op. 47 • Ballade in 

G minor, Op. 23 • Ballade in F minor, Op. 52 • Nocturne in C minor, 

Op. 48, No. 1 • Nocturne in F-sharp minor, Op. 48, No. 2 • Scherzo in 

B-flat minor, Op. 31 

Recorded by one of the best Polish pianists specializing in the music of 

Chopin, this program was recorded on a period piano (Pleyel from 1848) 

in Warsaw’s Polish Radio Concert Studio in in February 2011. 

Wojciech ´Switała: piano 

CHOPIN: Ballade in F, Op. 38 • Ballade in A-flat, Op. 47 • Ballade in 

G minor, Op. 23 • Ballade in F minor, Op. 52 • Nocturne in C minor, 

Op. 48, No. 1 • Nocturne in F-sharp minor, Op. 48, No. 2 • Scherzo in 

B-flat minor, Op. 31 

Another recording by one of the best Polish pianists specializing in the 

music of Chopin, this recording was made on a contemporary piano 

Steinway D, 578221 in Warsaw’s Polish Radio Concert Studio in May 2011. 

release date: July 10, 2012 fryderyk chopin society 

Frédéric CHOpIn 

4 Ballades (on pleyel, 1848) 

Cat # FCS 26 






4 Ballades (on steinway) 

Cat # FCS 211 





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la Bottega discantica 

Alessandro sCARLAttI 

venere, Amore e ragione 

Cat # BDI 209 





Victor De sAbAtA 

il Mercante di venezia 

Cat # BDI 228 






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Gabriella Costa, Veronica Lima: sopranos 

Elena Biscuola: mezzo-soprano 

Les Eléments Baroque Orchestra 

Piero Cartosio: director 

A. SCARLATTI: Venere, Amore e Ragione • Sinfonia from Concerto Grosso 

No. 10 

Alessandro Scarlatti was undoubtedly the greatest composer of vocal music 

in Italy in the 17 th and 18 th centuries. However, despite his grandeur being 

recognized by historians, it’s only recently that his music can be heard 

and appreciated in concerts. The “serenata” could be considered the form 

that lies between opera and cantata, a kind of mini-opera with the usual 

alternation between arias and recitatives but without the effects of staging. A 

characteristic of the beautiful and rare serenata recorded here is the presence 

of a general dancing nature of many of the arias along with real instrumental 

dances that, towards the end, intertwine with the arias. 

Málaga Chorus 

Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra 

Aldo Ceccato: conductor 

DE SABATA: Il Mercante di Venezia [The Merchant of Venice] (complete 

incidental music to Shakespeare’s play) 

The complete incidental music for William Shakespeare’s The Merchant 

of Venice, recorded for the first time! Aldo Ceccato conducts the Orquesta 

Filarmónica de Málaga in a brilliant score by legendary Italian conductor 

Victor De Sabata. Ceccato is a conductor of international fame. He studied 

music at the “G. Verdi” Conservatoire in Milan, his birthplace, and later 

attended specialization courses held by Sergiu Celibidache. He has conducted 

many great symphonic and operatic masterpieces in the most important 

Theatres—from Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, Naples’ San Carlo Theatre, and 

Florence’s Maggio Musicale Fiorentino to London’s Covent Garden, the Paris 

Opera, the Vienna Staatsoper, and the Hamburg Staastoper. He has been 

invited as guest conductor at the principal international music festivals in 

Glyndebourne, Edinburgh, Berlin, and Prague.

elease date: July 10, 2012 Améson 

William bYRD & John DOWLAnD 

Ye sacred Muses 

Cat # AMN 1122 






Jean-Michel Fumas: countertenor 

Eliza Consort 

Liam Fennely, Martin Bauer, Lucile Boulanger, Sylvia Abramowicz: viols 

Thomas Dunford: Renaissance lute 

BYRD: The man is blest • Ye Sacred Muses • Fair Britain Isle • Rejoice unto the Lord • Fantasy Quartet • Lullaby, my sweet baby boy • 

DOWLAND: In darkness let me dwell • Go, nightly cares • I saw my lady weep • Flow my tears • Now, O Now I needs must part • 

ROSSETER: What then is love • COPRARIO: Fantasia • O Sweet flower • PARSONS: Pour down, you pow’rs • ANON.: Willow song 

This new recording features Jean-Michel Fumas’ warm, radiant voice accompanied by Thomas Dunford on Renaissance lute. The 

magnificent program of Elizabethan ballads, songs, and elegies includes remarkable works, all recorded in the original key. 

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flora 


Abel en norvège (Abel in norway) 

Cat # FLO 1307 





Les sacqueboutiers 

rabelais: fay ce que vouldras 

Cat # FLO 2410 





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Nils Økland: Hardanger fiddle 

Elisabeth Seitz: drum 

Philippe Pierlot: bass viol 

Traditional Norwegian folk music, interspersed with short works 

by Carl Friedrich Abel, Giardini, Mattheson, Robinson, Fischer, 

Brade & Lupo 

Carl Friedrich Abel goes to Norway, where the famous bass viol virtuoso 

meets a player of the Hardanger fiddle (a violin fitted with sympathetic 

strings typical of the Hardanger region). This meeting occurs during 

a wedding and every circumstance is an opportunity for nice music: 

walking to church, the religious ceremony, the ball and its aristocratic 

and popular dances, the telling of anecdotes and confidences around 

the fire, and a good pint of beer, ending up in an early-morning frenzy 

with a last dance that marks the end of the festivities. 

Les Sacqueboutiers 

Ensemble Clément Janequin 

15 selections of Early Music by Josquin, Janequin, Lejeune, and more 

Cheerful and nostalgic pieces, bawdy and poetic, mark the track of 

Gargantua, the gentle giant, from his birth to the founding of the Abbey of 

Theleme with his wise moto “Do what thou wilt”—a lesson of good living!

Alexander ZEMLINSKY, Carl GOLDMARK & Hans GÁL 

Piano Trios 

Thomas Albertus Irnberger: violin/Attilia Kiyoko Cernitori: cello/Evgueni Sinaiski: piano 

release date: July 10, 2012 gramola 

ZEMLINSKY: Piano Trio, Op. 3 • GOLDMARK: Piano Trio, Op. 33 • GÁL: Piano Trio, Op. 49b 

Trio compositions by great admirers of Brahms are the subject and contents of this new CD 

by successful young Austrian violinist Thomas Albertus Irnberger and his chamber music 

partners Attilia Kiyoko Cernitori (cello) and Evgueni Sinaiski (piano). Like a leitmotif, both 

stylistic elements and the spirit of the great master of German Romanticism link the works 

of this compilation, whose dates of publication mark a period of 70 years, from 1879 to 1949, 

and whose composers fell prey to censorship and suppression by the Nazi regime due to their 

Jewish origins. 

Wilfried Gottwald 

Facets of the Clarinet 

Wilfried Gottwald: clarinet/Libor Meisl, Maiko Enomoto, Johannes Flieder, Kentaro Yoshii, 

Franz Schaden, Anna Wagner: assisting artists 

MOZART: Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622 (arr. clarinet & string quartet) • POULENC: 

Clarinet Sonata • GARSON: Jazz Variations on a Theme of Paganini • Ballad • Jazz Etude 

With this recording, versatile Austrian clarinetist Wilfried Gottwald traces a wide arc from 

W.A. Mozart up to jazz. The Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622 is presented for the first time in an 

arrangement for clarinet and string quartet. Besides this classic of the clarinet repertoire, you 

can also hear the Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, and a late work by Francis Poulenc. In classical 

jazz trio instrumentation, i.e. together with piano and double bass, the long-standing Vienna 

Symphony Orchestra member impressively shows—with Mike Garson’s Jazz Variations on a 

Theme of Paganini—that this genre is often closer to classical music than imagined, and that 

he feels equally at home in both. 

J.S. BACH 

Partitas 2 & 4 

Wolfgang Dimetrik: accordion 

J.S. BACH: Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826 • Partita No. 4 in D, BWV 828 • Chorale 

Prelude “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme” BWV 140 

With this new recording for Gramola, the exceptionally gifted Wolfgang Dimetrik once more 

draws on the highly comprehensive and impressive pool of the literature for solo piano by 

J.S. Bach. After the Goldberg Variations and the English Suites, the award-winning accordionist 

presents Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826 and Partita No. 4 in D, BWV 828 from the 

compendium of piano music by the Baroque maestro casually termed “Clavierübung” in a 

technically perfect and musically convincing manner. 

Cat # GLA 98933 



Jewel w/ O-Card, Box Lot 20 


Cat # GLA 98939 





Cat # GLA 98945 





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editions Hortus 

Jehan ALAIn 

Jardin suspendu 

Cat # HOR 92 





Isaac ALbÉnIZ 

iberia 

Cat # HOR 93 

Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) 




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Yoann Tardivel: organ 

Marion Ralincourt: flute 

ALAIN: Deuxième Fantaisie • Trois Mouvements for flute & organ • 

Suite • Deux Danses à Agni Yavishta • Première Fantaisie • Variations 

on a Theme of Clément Janequin • Le Jardin suspendu • Litanies 

Born in 1982, Yoann Tardivel teaches organ alongside Bernard 

Foccroulle at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. His principal teachers 

were Michel Bouvard, François Henri Houbart, and Olivier Latry. After 

studying at the Regional Conservatories of Paris and RueilMalmaison, 

he completed his studies at the National Conservatory in Paris. In 

2008 he was awarded the First Grand Prize in Interpretation at the 

Xavier Darasse International Competition in Toulouse, and was the 

E.C.H.O. Young Artist of the Year for 2009. Marion Ralincourt is 

laureate of a number of international competitions: first prize in the 

Krakow International Flute Competition and special prize for the best 

interpretation in the Pendercki Competition (April 2005), third prize 

in the Carl Nielsen International Competition (Denmark 2006), special 

mention in the Jean-Pierre Rampal Competition, and laureate in the 

Festival Musical d’Automne. 

Kotaro Fukuma: piano 

ALBÉNIZ: Iberia 

Born in Tokyo, Kotaro Fukuma started learning piano at the age of 

five. He studied music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de 

Musique de Paris with Bruno Rigutto and Marie-Francoise Bucquet, 

then at the Universität der Künste Berlin with Klaus Hellwig and at the 

International Piano Academy Lake Como in Italy. He also has studied 

with several pianists, including Leon Fleisher, Mitsuko Uchida, Richard 

Goode, Alicia de Larrocha, Maria Joao Pires, Leslie Howard, Dominique 

Merlet, and Aldo Ciccolini. In 2003, at the age of 20, Kotaro won both 

First Prize and the Chopin Prize at the 15 th Cleveland International 

Piano Competition. Since then, his concert career has developed on five 

continents including performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center in 

New York, Wigmore Hall in London, and many more.

Bergen Domkantori 

Magnar Mangersnes: conductor 

Tør Grønn: organ 

Nils Ole Oftebro: narrator 

KARLSEN: St. Luke Passion 

Kjell Mørk Karlsen’s St. Luke Passion was composed in 2006. The main 

textual source is the Passion of Christ according to St. Luke, Chapters 

22–23. In Mørk Karlsen’s work, the text is recited with accompanying 

organ sequences, while the dramatic narrative is reinforced by additional 

concertizing organ parts. Nine greater Latin choral hymns function as 

commentaries to the Gospel text, the words having been taken from early 

liturgical texts for Good Friday, still in use in the Catholic and Orthodox 

traditions. While the large-scale, chiefly eight-part choral compositions have 

their musical roots both in Russian Orthodox church music and in Gregorian 

chant, the melodic character and particular sound of our own times are also 

clearly present in Mørk Karlsen’s work. This is how the composer himself 

describes the structure and design of the St. Luke Passion, a work that 

startles, moves, and engages the listener. 

Harald Rise: organ 

HABBESTAD: Gaudeamus, Op. 79 • Introduction & Passacaglia, Op. 18 • 

A Solis Ortus Cardine, Op. 78 • Organ Chorale • Organ Suite, Op. 22b • 

Fanfare and Blues, Op. 57 • Almighty God and Loving Father 

On this CD from LAWO Classics, the organist—Harald Rise, Professor of 

Church Music at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 

Trondheim—performs most of the organ works of composer Kjell Habbestad, 

which were written during the period 1976–2007. The compositions include 

works commissioned for the dedication of new organs, works dedicated to 

performers, and works composed in honor of other composers. The largest 

composition is a grandly conceived Introduction & Passacaglia based on 

themes of Norwegian composer Fartein Valen. Other works include an organ 

suite, some organ chorales, and even wedding music, from a composer whose 

compositional and technical repertoire is very extensive. 

release date: July 10, 2012 lAwo classics 

kjell Mørk kARLsen 

st. luke passion 

Cat # LAW 1020 





kjell HAbbestAD 

gaudeamus 

Cat # LAW 1031 





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Melodiya 


Anthology of piano Music, vol. 3 

Cat # MYD 1001965 







Anthology of piano Music, vol. 4 

Cat # MYD 1001966 





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Tikhon Khrennikov, Fikret Amirov, Yuri Favorin, Nikita Mdoyants: pianos 

Lev REVUTSKY: Song (premiere) • Vsevolod ZADERATSKY: Sonata 

No. 2 (premiere) • Nikolai ROSLAVETS: 5 Preludes • 2 Poems • Samuil 

FEINBERG: Sonata No. 5 • Sergei PROTOPOPOV: Sonata No. 3, Op. 6 • 

Vladimir DESHEVOV: Rails 

Firma Melodiya and the Tikhon Khrennikov Charitable Foundation 

present a joint project—the Anthology of Piano Music, by Russian 

and Soviet composers! The project was conceived as a series of 30 discs 

featuring recordings of recognized masterpieces as well as a revival of 

unjustly forgotten compositions. 

Tikhon Khrennikov, Fikret Amirov, Yuri Favorin, Nikita Mdoyants: pianos 

Edison DENISOV: Variations • Andrei VOLKONSKY: Musica stricta • 

Yuri BUTSKO: Partita • Alexander VUSTIN: Lamento • Nikolai 

KARETNIKOV: Two pieces • Rostislav BOIKO: Cypriot Sketches • 

Sonatina • Edvard MIRZOYAN: Poem • Sofia GUBAIDULINA: Chaconne 

This amazing series provides a 21 st -century outlook on the previous two 

centuries of piano music, featuring young virtuosos. But these young 

artists did not just perform—they actually took part in compiling the 

series, searching in the music archives for the compositions that deserved 

to find a way back to the listeners.

Arthur Rubinstein: piano 

CHOPIN: Polonaise in F-sharp minor, Op. 44 • Polonaise in A–flat, Op. 53 

“Heroic” • Impromptu in G-flat, Op. 51, No. 3 • Nocturne in D-flat, Op. 27, 

No. 2 • Sonata No. 2 • Barcarole in F-sharp, Op. 60 • Etude in A-flat, Op. 25, 

No. 1 • Etude in G-flat, Op. 10, No. 5 • Etude in E minor, Op. 25, No. 5 • Etude 

in C-sharp minor, Op. 10, No. 4 • Waltz in A minor, Op. 34, No. 2 • Waltz in 

A-flat, Op. 34, No. 1 

In 2010 the world celebrated the 200 th anniversary of Polish composer 

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849). This romantic composer was a genuine poet 

of grand piano. He composed neither symphonies nor operas—his whole 

creative life was dedicated to piano works. Chopin considered this instrument 

ideal for expressing feelings and ideas; his nocturnes, waltzes, ballads, 

mazurkas, polonaises, etudes, and scherzos are the recognized masterpieces 

of piano art, played here by a true master. 

Daniil Shafran: cello 

J.S. BACH: Suite Nos. 2, 4 & 6 • CHOPIN: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65 • 

RACHMANINOV: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19 • BRAHMS: Cello 

Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 • SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Sonata, Op. 40 • PROKOFIEV: 

Cello Sonata in C, Op. 119 • Symphony-Concerto in E minor, Op. 125 • 

BOCCHERINI: Cello Concerto No. 9 • HAYDN: Cello Concerto No. 2 • 

TCHAIKOVSKY: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33 

“The Paganini of the 21 st century” whose “art reaches the borders of 

supernatural”—these are some of the enthusiastic epithets that domestic & 

foreign music critics endowed upon Daniil Shafran, whose creative career, 

which spanned more than 60 years, made up a whole era in the Russian 

performing arts of the 20 th century. 

release date: July 10, 2012 Melodiya 


Arthur rubinstein plays frédéric chopin 

Cat # MYD 1001684 





Daniil shafran 

cello 

Cat # MYD 1001938 



Box Set, Box Lot 5 


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Melodiya 

pyotr Il’yich tCHAIkOVskY 

eugene onegin 

Cat # MYD 1001945 





nikolai RIMskY-kORsAkOV 

sadko 

Cat # MYD 1001979 



Double Digipak, Box Lot 20 


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Galina Vishnevskaya, Valentina Petrova: sopranos 

Evgeni Belov: baritone 

Sergei Lemeshev: tenor 

Bolshoi Theatre Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra 

Boris Khaikin: conductor 

TCHAIKOVSKY: Eugene Onegin (complete opera) 

Firma Melodiya presents one of the most famous and beloved works 

of great Russian composer Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky—the opera 

Eugene Onegin! This 1955 staging featured some of the leading artists 

of the operatic stage as well as the soloists, choir, and orchestra of the 

USSR Bolshoi Theatre conducted by Boris Khaikin. 

Vera Davydova, Elizaveta Shumskaya, Natalia Shpiller: vocal soloists 

Bolshoi Theater Orchestra & Chorus 

Nikolai Golovanov: conductor 

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Sadko (complete opera) 

The recording of Sadko featured on these three discs is archival, and 

historic. Its special value comes from the fact that it is one of the best 

recordings put on tape by outstanding music director Boris Pokrovsky, 

who realized it for the USSR Bolshoi Theatre in 1949. For this 

recording, the director, conductor, art directors, and main performers 

were awarded the Stalin Prize of the First Degree. At that time, it was 

one of the most honorable decorations, later given the same status as 

the USSR State Prize.

Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra & Chorus 

Algis Zuraitis: conductor 

KHACHATURIAN: Spartacus (complete ballet) 

Spartacus was conceived as a monumental narration about the mighty 

avalanche of the antique slaves’ uprising, who defended a person’s freedom 

and to whom. The music, the creation of which took eight & a half months, 

was the centerpiece in Khachaturian’s creative work. In 1959 Khachaturian 

was awarded the highest title of the Soviet epoch—the title of Lenin 

laureate—for the music of the ballet. 

London Symphony Orchestra 

Mariinsky Orchestra 

Valery Gergiev: conductor 

Igor Fedorov: clarinet 

SHAKHIDI: Sado • Death of Usurer (exc.) • Siyavush (exc.) • RUBAI 

HAYAM (exc.) • Clarinet Concerto • Darius • The March 

This album is addressed to judges of symphonic and academic ballet 

music, with its basis on melodies and intonations of eastern folklore. 

The recording features one of the best orchestras in the world, the 

London Symphony Orchestra, with Valery Gergiev conducting. 

release date: July 10, 2012 Melodiya 

Aram kHACHAtURIAn 

spartacus 

Cat # MYD 1001530 



Double Digipak, Box Lot 14 


tolibkhon sHAkHIDI 

orchestral Music 

Cat # MYD 1002007 





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passacaille 

Jan Dismas ZeLenkA & J.s. bACH 

lamentationes 

Cat # PAS 977 





J.s. bACH 

french suites i–iii 

Cat # PAS 984 





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Damien Guillon: countertenor 

Marcus Ullman: tenor 

Lieven Termont: baritone 

Il Gardellino 

Marcel Ponseele: director 

ZELENKA: Lamentationes I & II • J.S. BACH: Cantata “Schauet doch 

und sehet, ob irgendein Schmerz sei” BWV 46 • “Herr, deine Augen 

sehen nach dem Glauben!” BWV 102 

The two Bach cantatas presented here were written three years apart 

(1723 and 1726) for the same Sunday of the liturgical year, the tenth 

Sunday after Trinity. The Gospel for the day reports Jesus weeping 

over Jerusalem, and announcing its destruction. Marcel Ponseele 

thought it was very interesting to juxtapose these cantatas against two 

lamentations composed by Zelenka in 1722. In a span of four years, 

geographically closely connected, we have three musical settings of the 

same subjects. One lamentation is for baritone solo and the other for 

alto voice, performed on this recording by the French countertenor 

Damien Guillon. 

Lorenzo Ghielmi: harpsichord 

J.S. BACH: French Suites Nos. 1–3, BWV 812–814 • Italian Concerto, 

BWV 971 • Aria Variata in A minor, BWV 989 “In the Italian Style” 

Until recently, Lorenzo Ghielmi has made solo recordings with 

Passacaille mainly as an organist. However, as a performer he is 

continuing the tradition of the 18 th century, where musicians were 

masters on all keyboard instruments that were available. This new 

recording presents him as a harpsichord player. Two instruments were 

used for this recording: for the French Suites a harpsichord by Keith 

Hill inspired by an anonymous 18 th century German harpsichord, 

and for the pages reflecting the Italian influence, a harpsichord by 

Andrea Restelli inspired by the Christian Vater harpsichord held in the 

Nuremberg Museum.

Gernoth Süßmuth: violin 

Frank-Immo Zichner: piano 

SCHUBERT: Sonata in D, D. 384 • Sonata in A minor, D. 385 • Sonata in G 

minor, D. 408 • Sonata in A, D. 574 

All of Franz Schubert’s early works for violin and piano on one CD, 

performed by renowned chamber musicians Gernot Süßmuth (violin) 

and Frank-Immo Zichner (piano). The two artists have performed with 

the Aperto Piano Quartett, Vogler Quartett, Petersen Quartett, and other 

important chamber music formations, as well as with numerous orchestras. 

Ercole Nisini: trombone 

Rebecca Maurer: harpsichord 

Monika Fischaleck: baroque bassoon 

Instrumenta Musica 

ALBINONI: Concerto a cinque No. 2 • TELEMANN: Sonata I • 

Sonata • Exc. from Sonata 4 • MARCELLO: Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3 • 

D. GABRIELLI: Ricercar 2 

On Ercole Nisini’s fourth CD on the Querstand label, the renowned 

specialist of historical trombone playing presents the second disc in a 

series presenting the trombone repertoire from the mid-16 th century to 

the mid-19 th century. All pieces are recorded with a trombone for the 

first time! 

release date: July 10, 2012 Querstand 

Franz sCHUbeRt 

sonatas for violin and piano 

Cat # QUE 1128 





ercole nisini 

the Historical trombone, vol. 2: the Baroque trombone 

Cat # QUE 1204 





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