16,56 €
SUPRAPHON NEW RELEASE
Bohuslav Martinu – Juliette
Albeit the recognition and success that his opera Juliette achieved, the Three Fragments from the Opera Juliette had to wait some 70 years for its first performance. This was entrusted to the safe hands of that most competent of conductors Sir Charles Mackerras. Thanks to Martinu’s dreamily beautiful music and the outstanding performance of all the interpreters (with Magdalena Kožená and Steve Davislim at the forefront), the performance was a joint triumph. This is supplemented here by the orchestral suite from the same opera, which sensitively treats the music of with the “dreamy logic” of the original.
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29,95 €
DYNAMIC NEW RELEASE
Monteverdi – L’Orfeo
Monteverdi’s Orfeo is to be considered the first mature Opera in history. Its incredible modernness leaves the spectator amazed. In this Orfeo, Luigi Pizzi in a co-effort with ”Teatro Real” and ”La Fenice”, has offered a very attractive, even original staging: the beauty of the Palace, the rich colour of 17th century costumes and the movement of the extras and dancers. William Christie’s direction of the orchestra and chorus of Les Arts Florissants is a serious reading of great delicacy which is fully matching with Pizzi’s ideas. The cast is thoroughly suited, and musical at every turn.
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16,56 €
BIS NEW RELEASE
Haydn – Complete Overtures
This collection of the 22 extant overtures by Joseph Haydn charts the course of the composer’s creative career from its beginnings in the late baroque, via Classicism to the onset of a wholly new, Romantic musical idiom. From Acide (1762/63) to The Seasons (1801), the programme comprises overtures to operas, German Singspiele and oratorios, testifying to Haydn’s unwavering creative power and his seemingly infinite potential for development. This development is particularly striking in the present recordings, which are based on the original parts used at the first performances.
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33,12 €
CHALLENGE NEW RELEASE
Johann Sebastian Bach – Mass in B minor
Sigiswald Kuijken’s new production, the h-Moll-Messe of J.S. Bach (CC 72316) also throws this new, brilliant light on a old masterwork, which sounds fresh and pure because of the vision of conductor Sigiswald Kuijken. The bare but beautiful essentials come to light as if the dust was wiped away of all these ages of performances and Kuijken goes back to the core of the work, to its inner beauty. He does this by way of not using a choir but single solo voices in the 'choir'-parts. Just concentrating on the music, that is what Kuijken does. And that is what he does best: a total accomplishment!
THE CHALLENGE NEW RELEASES

15,75 €
ECM NEW RELEASE
Jon Balke – Siwan
The listener is at first struck by the power of Amina Alaoui’s voice, soaring above Jon Balke’s remarkable compositions for baroque ensemble - with soloists drawn from jazz, scattered improvisational traditions, and the world of early music. Behind this remarkable musical integration is a web of philosophical, historical, and literary interconnections, as Balke and Alaoui set texts from Sufi poets, Christian mystics, troubadours and more. Setting new standards in transcultural music, Siwan shows what can be made today when artists of the most divergent background pool their energies.
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16,56 €
GLOSSA NEW RELEASE
Monteverdi - Scherzi Musicali
In a certain way, this new disc from La Venexiana can be thought of as having the qualities of a pause or “interval” following the Monteverdian intensity of recent years – during which time the group has recorded the entirety of the madrigals by the Mantuan author (eight volumes), the Selva morale e spirituale and L’Orfeo – and before going on to tackle new and ambitious projects. We find ourselves before the mature phase of the Monteverdian output, Monteverdi as precursor, experimenter and innovator. The pizzicati from the theorbos, the melodic cornetto, the swing of the voice… pure delight.
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GLOBE NEW RELEASE
Gesualdo – Madrigals, Book V
The Globe label presents two flamboyant and rigorous versions of Carlo Gesualdo’s –the enfant terrible of the madrigalistic world- Fifth and Sixth Book of Madrigals. With a propulsive and perfectly-narrowed expressive energy, members of the Kassiopeia Quintet define with wondrous contrast and lyric abandonment Gesualdo’s beautiful musical meanings in a reading that goes straight to the top. Soloists and ensemble, so much acquainted to this repertoire, sing with a captivating sense of passion and beauty, touching these staves of silk and gold with ease and perfection.
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25,84 €
ABC NEW RELEASE
Williamson – Complete Works for Piano
Williamson was the first non-British composer to be appointed Master of the Queen’s Music. This CD is the first complete recording of Williamson’s piano music. Australian pianist Antony Gray gives stunning performances of these highly accessible and inventive works. Indeed the composer himself said of Gray’s playing ‘… [he] belongs to that small group of internationally distinguished pianists who blend depth of understanding with technical mastery.’ This collected piano music decently recorded, makes a fine start and Gray sets the scene admirably in his CD booklet.
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17,55 €
ECM NEW RELEASE
Schnittke – Symphony nº 9
Composed shortly before his death, Schnittke’s ultimate symphony is an unusual “Ninth”. The composer’s widow treated it as a testament and was long doubtful whom to entrust with the difficult task of deciphering and reconstructing the highly expressive three movements for large orchestra. She finally settled on Alexander Raskatov, who thought that Schnittke had intended to write a fourth movement. Both pieces were given their first performances in 2007 by the musicians of this world première recording which feautures the Hilliard Ensemble and conductor Dennis Russell Davies.
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26,91 €
ARCANA NEW RELEASE
Franz Joseph Haydn – Complete Quartets, vol. 4
Arcana proudly announces the release of the last volume of the Haydn String Quartets performed by the Festetics Quartet. The long-awaited release is released on occasion of the 200th anniversary of Haydn’s death. This monumental project is the first complete on period instruments and features the complete 58 string quartets authenticated by the composer for the great Artaria edition: 19 CDs collected in 9 volumes in chronological order. The liner notes of the whole series are written by the most eminent Haydn scholar on whom The Festetics have relied heavily to record them.
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33,12 €
CARUS NEW RELEASE
Haendel - Messiah
Seldom has a CD recording been so eagerly awaited as the “Messiah” with Frieder Bernius. This CD is distinguished both by the special sound and refinement of his ensembles –theKammerchor and the Barockorchester Stuttgart, which has long enjoyed an outstanding reputation for historically informed performance practice– as well as by the select ensemble of soloists, including Carolyn Sampson, Daniel Taylor, Benjamin Hulett and Peter Harvey. Just in time for the 250th anniversary of his death on 14 April 2009 Carus continues its CDs series of works by George Frideric Handel with “Messiah,” his most famous oratorio.
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16,56 €
ONDINE NEW RELEASE
Hindemith – Klaviermusik mit Orchester
Ondine is proud to announce the first-ever commercial recording of a long lost major work by Paul Hindemith, the Klaviermusik mit Orchester op. 29 for piano left-hand and orchestra. The New York Times has called it, “a fantastic work that requires tremendous technique and stamina.” Hindemith wrote this concerto for the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein in 1923. The work received an acclaimed 2004 world premiere in Berlin, with piano legend Leon Fleisher as soloist and the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle. This recording also features Antonín Dvorák’s popular Symphony No. 9
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14,72 €
CHRISTOPHORUS NEW RELEASE
Antonio Valente - Intavolatura de Cimbalo
Antonio Valente (c.1520-c.1580) must have been a remarkable man, even though there is only very little known about him. Blind from childhood, he was (at least from time to time) active in Naples as a harpsichordist and organist as well as a teacher of his instruments. As part of his teaching activities he declared that, with his Method, Intavolatura de Cimbalo, those "who have absolutely no previous experience of music, without any help from a teacher" could learn the art of playing the harpsichord. From this developed an early system of "playing by numbers", as well as a clever technique of using the “latest hits” for highly virtuoso variations.
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16,56 €
TIMPANI NEW RELEASE
Fauré - Violon, Violoncelle, Flûte, Piano & Orchestre
Ballade, Berceuse, Élégie, Fantaisies, Romance: titles which define to themselves as Gabriel Fauré's poetic and captivating imagination. This first complete recording of the concertante works of the musician introduces partitions composed between 1878 and 1919. Covering more than forty years of creation, here is a faithful musical portrait of the one who was the soul of a tremendous and fascinating time of the French music recorded by the first rate French artists: Henri Demarquette, Jérôme Ducros, Juliette Hurel, Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian and the Orchestra of Bretagne conducted by Moshe Atzmon.
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16,56 €
FUGA LIBERA NEW RELEASE
Tomaso Albinoni – Concerti con oboe
The much awaited return of the beautiful Flemish ensemble Il Fondamento comes with the return of its founder and director, Paul Dombrecht, whom many "baroque" oboists from all corners of the world consider as their model. We encounter him here as a soloist, full of refinement and verve, in a most intriguing programme: Tomaso Albinoni's eight oboe concerti! Those looking for an adagio won't be disappointed, but they will also find numerous fast movements in this new recording, to be enjoyed with the first spring sunshine. This is a CD to cherish and delight with for years to come!
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16,56 €
ARTE VERUM NEW RELEASE
Beethoven - Songs- Hendricks
Beethoven is not especially known for his songs, with a relatively small production of ca. 80 songs, but a quite larger production of 170 folksongs, commited by George Thomson. Within this production, Barbara Hendricks has chosen a very representative selection, with the first cycle of songs ever written, An die ferne Geliebte op. 98, several songs on poems by Goethe, as well a selection of Volkslieder, coming from all over Europe, from Poland to Spain, from Ireland to Sweden. Perfectly accompagnied by a piano trio, Barbara Hendricks is presenting a CD of a repertoire rarely recorded.
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18,36 €
MDG NEW RELEASE
Saint-Saëns - Piano Quartets
The official list of the compositions of Camille Saint- Saëns contains only one piano quartet, but he actually contributed with three works to the repertoire of this chamber genre. Apart from the well-known op. 41, this recording by the Mozart Piano Quartet also presents a quartet composed by Saint-Saëns while a student in the middle of the nineteenth century but not published until 1992 and the Barcarolle op. 108, which he set as a piano quartet only the second time around.
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15,75 €
ECM NEW RELEASE
Keith Jarrett Trio – Yesterdays
The trio of pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette passed the quarter-century mark last year. And the accumulated wisdom continues to pay dividends. This live recording boasts a wealth of great standards from Tin Pan Alley to bebop, and represents a good mix between celebrating the melodies and freeing them. Jarrett … can change eras in an instant, finishing up Richard Rodgers’ “You Took Advantage of Me” with a sudden spasm of stride piano. Or taking on Dizzy Gillespie’s “Shaw ‘Nuff” like a player piano set to explode. The energy rocks the audience. …
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17,55 €
NEOS NEW RELEASE
Debussy-Stravinsky - Le Sacre
Igor Stravinsky and Claude Debussy, although contemporaries, followed very different musical paths. Whereas Stravinsky went on the attack with shocking new rhythmic and metric devices, Debussy revolutionised music in a much more subtle way: with harmonic schemes that are no longer rooted in tonality, and a musical language that offers a freedom not found in the cold logic of Stravinsky, banning herewith constructivist moments via an approach to open form never previously encountered.
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16,56 €
RICERCAR NEW RELEASE
Carlo Farina - Capriccio Stravagante; Sonate
Even though the astonishing Capriccio stravagante is well known to all lovers of baroque music, the other works by this virtuoso violinist are almost completely unknown. Born in Mantua, Farina was in the service of the court in Dresden. The Capriccio is the only example of such a work in the five volumes of music that he published in the 1620s, his remaining works consisting of polyphonic dances in the French style and sonatas for violin; This collection of works by Farina is a source not only of astonishment and wonder but also of tenderness as well as other emotions.
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25,84 €
NOVEDAD GALA
A Portrait of Conchita Supervía, vol. 1
The art and voice of the Barcelona-born Conchita Supervía find its way, without question, amongst all-time greatests’. A lyrical singer of perfect dramatism, gifted with a very intuitive phrasing and capable of mastering dynamics with an amazing ease. A selection of Supervía’s best recordings from the first phase of her career (1927-1930) is what is featured on this awesome historical document; a release that certainly is not-to-be-missed and that, coupled with the imminent second volume, will become the most ambitious and comprehensive compilation ever made on Conchita Supervía’s recordings.
LAS NOVEDADES GALA

MELODIYA NEW RELEASE
Aram Khachaturian – Spartacus
Fifteen years passed since the idea of “Spartacus” came to the composer’s mind till its first night. The famous librettist and specialist in drama study N. Volkov initiated the creation of the ballet on the antique subject – in 1940 he suggested Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978) composing it. The composer wrote: “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. In fact, the creation of the ballet music took eight months and a half though the whole work lasted for three years and a half.
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16,56 €
OBSIDIAN NEW RELEASE
Josquin Desprez - Missa, Motets & Chansons
Josquin Desprez (1450-1521) is widely recognized as the greatest of the Renaissance master musicians. He set the standard for the various compositional techniques borrowed and utilized by most composers of his generation and beyond, and became an iconic figure whose art captivated musicians and scholars for centuries.This recording centres around some of Josquin’s earliest works, and, in particular, his fascination with the D’ung aultre amer rondeau composed by his teacher Johannes Ockeghem. Also included are some of his most popular motets and chansons performed here by a solo voice (Clare Wilkinson) with renaissance harp (