16,56 €
TUDOR NEW RELEASE
Gustav Mahler - Symphony Nº 1, “Titan”
After his mahlerian baptism with a spectacular Fifth Symphony, British conductor Jonathan Nott takes a new ride on Mahler with his First Symphony. Like the previous symphonic effort, this performance shows an iron-wielded precision and a well-carried sharpness of sound. The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, finely polished since Nott’s arrival in 2000, offers a powerful, crystal-clear performace, shining in all its glory thanks to this SACD presentation.
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16,56 €
BIS DVD NEW RELEASE
Christian Lindberg – The total musician
BIS’ first-ever DVD is dedicated to one of the label’s most charismatic and longest-standing artists: Christian Lindberg. It forms an extensive -3h 40 minutes- portrayal of this multi-facetted musician who since his début on disc in 1984 almost single-handedly has turned the trombone into a solo instrument. But those who have followed his career will know that over the past few years Lindberg has also been developing a reputation as a composer and conductor. In celebration of his 50th birthday, BIS is therefore releasing this DVD which reflects all aspects of his extraordinary career. The DVD includes two hour-long documentaries.
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17,55 €
NEOS NEW RELEASE
Cage – Seven – Quartets I-VIII
John Cage's Quartets I-VIII is one of the most unusual and sophisticated orchestral works I know. It was written for the bicentennial of the United States of America. Cage used eight old American chorales, which he then reformed into an entirely new work with the help of the Chinese oracular work I Ching. The basic idea is to have just four instruments of the orchestra playing together at any time. As a result new groups are constantly forming into variously composed quartets. The piece seems very simple from looking at the score. But in fact the fragmentary character of the instrumentation makes it a great challenge to perform.
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14,58 €
CHRISTOPHORUS NEW RELEASE
The Purcell brothers– Chamber Music
Henry Purcell has enjoyed enduring fame whereas his brother Daniel, five years his junior, has been completely eclipsed over the course of the centuries. However, Daniel was also a successful composer in his day – particularly of theatre music in the years following his brother's premature death. Here Ensemble juxtapose works by Daniel Purcell and Henry Purcell, demonstrating the stylistic diversity of their music and the remarkable compositional abilities of both men. The result is an exciting, varied and wholly compelling programme.
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33,12 €
CARUS NEW RELEASE
Franz Schubert – Sakontala
The hope of working more closely together with theatres in Vienna led Franz Schubert to devote himself in 1821 to the oriental subject of Sakontala, the hermit’s daughter. Unfortunately, only a few drafts and sketches of the first two acts of this project have been preserved in autograph. However, thanks to the recent rediscovery of the complete libretto and to a skillful reconstruction by Karl Aage Rasmussen, this opera is recorded here for the first time. Not least, thanks to the interpretation by Frieder Bernius and a group of renowned soloists, this CD is a “must” for all Schubert lovers and lovers of 19th century opera.
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23,35 €
UNIVERSAL NEW RELEASE
Leos Janácek – From the House of the Dead
At last the yellow label has released on DVD the impressive From the House of the Dead, written by the superb Moravian composer Leos Janácek while spending his last years of life. Furthermore, this production is no less than exceptional. After their huge Centenary-aimed Ring cycle and 1979’s Lulu, film director and playwriter Patrice Chéreau and egregiuos conductor Pierre Boulez join forces together after 30 years to offer an awesome Janácek, meeting his orchestral luxuries and striking vocal writing an ideal companion in Chéreau’s intelligent stage design. This is undoubtedly a not-to-be-missed release for all opera-lovers.
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16,56 €
CARUS NEW RELEASE
Ludwig Güttler & the Bach Collegium Leipzig
The chamber music of the 18th century is impressive, due to its stylistic and formal variety. Ludwig Güttler’s recording “Sonate e Concerti”, featuring works from Bach to Vivaldi, offers insight into this fascinating diversity. Such a wide-ranging repertoire calls for an outstanding artist such as Ludwig Güttler, who for many years has immersed himself intensely in this music. With this CD –together with the Leipzig Bach-Collegium– he once again underscores his outstanding reputation as a virtuoso soloist on the trumpet and corno da caccia.
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16,56 €
MDG NEW RELEASE
Mel Bonis – Piano Quartets
Mel Bonis (1858-1937), the most important woman composer of the French Belle Époque, has long been forgotten in the music world. Wrongly so, thus the judgment of the Mozart Piano Quartet, and in honor of the 150th anniversary of her birth its members are now presenting her two Piano Quartets with enthusiasm and winning expertise. “I never would have believed that a woman could write something like this!“ Camille Saint-Saëns exclaimed in wonder of her first Piano Quartet of 1901.
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17,55 €
WINTER & WINTER NEW RELEASE
Hank Roberts with Marc Ducret & Jim Black – Green
After the success of their first European tour, the new Hank Roberts Trio quickly develops the Green concept, which is recorded in Munich with short notice. Collaborating with guitar player Marc Ducret and drummer Jim Black, Roberts creates a CD that has the melancolic appeal to be found in indie America’s post-rock, mixing Indian chanting, rock ‘n’ roll and American Folk music and that demonstrates a compositive and instrumental expression more serene than Robert’s previous efforts. Green is a work created by three empathic individual musicians at the peak of their careers.
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26,91 €
PAN CLASSICSNEW RELEASE
Henrico Albicastro – 12 concerti a quattro op.7
Henrico Albicastro (1661-1730) was a fairly productive composer. The pieces issued between 1701-1706 under the by the Amsterdam music publisher Estienne Roger are a rather compact series of nine opuses. They comprise collections of violin sonatas (opp.2, 3, 5, 6 and 9), trio sonatas (opp.1, 4 and 8), and string concertos (op.7) in a decidedly Italianate idiom (i.e. that of Corelli), but slightly more angular and with occasionally more unexpected turns.
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20,25 €
GALA NEW RELEASE
Giuseppe Verdi – Aida
Of all Aida studio recordings made in the fifties this one was certainly poorly aired. In its time it was released by the Capitol label and now has been recovered by Gala. Being its bigger characteristic to feature the powerful voice of recognised rumanian soprano Stella Roman, who displays a warm and sumptuous middle-range voice, the rest of the cast is no less astounding: the american mezzo Sylvia Sawy, who shows a beautiful soprano texture and the bold Gino Sarri, Antonio Manca Serra, Vittorio Tattozzi & Franco Pugliese. At the helm is conductor Alberto Paoletti, one of the greatests masters who ever worked for RAI.
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10,76 €
ENCHIRIADIS NEW RELEASE
Rafael Bonavita – Al Compás de la Vihuela
This CD contains very well-known vihuela works for everyone who appreciates the legacy of this unique instrument (Narváez, Fuenllana, Mudarra, Milán); Nonetheless, Rafael Bonavita’s performance sounds brand new, fully personal. The musician shows an astounding technique, a strong freedom of will and that renaissance sensibility mentioned by Spanish thinkers from the 16th Century as well. All of this makes for a truly beautiful CD, a not-to-be-missed addition to this instrument’s already large recorded history that is intented to clear its ways through the 21st Century.
THE ENCHIRIADIS CATALOGUE

25,84 €
UNITED ARCHIVES NEW RELEASE
Serge Koussevitzky – Boston Symphony Orchestra (1936-1950)
Serge Koussevitzky was the first Russian conductor to have gained the international recognition that he did. No other conductor incited and created so many major compositions of the 20th century’s pieces stemming from his own enthusiasm and meticulous preparation as though they were works that already belonged to the repertoire of masterpieces. His Boston Symphony Orchestra became one of the finest in the world, and the recordings made between 1928 and 1950 are a clear testimony to his talent.
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16,56 €
ETCETERA NEW RELEASE
Avecillas sonoras – Villancicos from 18th century Latin America
Avecillas sonoras is a selection of vocal works for two voices from the rich archives of the Latin American cathedrals. Most of them are villancicos dating from the early 18th century, which largely consists of works for many voices, and even for two, three or more choirs. For this cd, the Ensemble Música Temprana, conducted by Adrián Rodríguez van der Spoel, have worked with two female vocalists: Xenia Meijer from the Netherlands and Marisú Pavón from Argentina, specialists in Spanish and Latin American baroque music.
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16,56 €
NMC NEW RELEASE
Johnatan Harvey – Orchestral works
New works fof Johnatan Harvey, now with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Harvey continues his fascinating exploration into Eastern philosophies — from the ecstatic Indian text of White as Jasmine, meditative Tranquil Abiding and ...towards a Pure Land, to the raucous Tibetan brass and percussion of Body Mandala. The disc is completed by Timepieces, his early work for orchestra with two conductors. The release of this disc coincides with the IRCAM Festival of New Sounds event in Glasgow, UK; the first time the famous Paris-based centre for new music has collaborated with a British Orchestra, thanks to the vision and reputation of Jonathan Harvey.
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16,56 €
ACCENT NEW RELEASE
Beethoven - Bagatelles
Linda Nicholson is one of the foremost keyboard players specialising in the performance of baroque, classical and early romantic music on instruments of the period. She has performed widely throughout Europe and the Far East, in solo recitals, chamber music and as concerto soloist; for example with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Les Arts Florissants, and the Academy of Ancient Music. This CD marks the beginning of a long-term cooperation between Linda Nicholson and ACCENT.
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16,56 €
CPO NEW RELEASE
Brahms – Serenades
The Capella Augustina was founded by Andreas Spering in 1996 for the primary purpose of performing baroque operas and the great oratorios of Viennese classicism in keeping with the tenets of historical performance practice. The ensemble’s fine achievements soon brought it wide recognition. Its interpretation of the two Orchestral Serenades by Johannes Brahms under Spering marks its first recording of two important nineteenth-century works.
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16,56 €
STRADIVARIUS NEW RELEASE
Agustín Charles – Orchestral works
Born in Manresa (Barcellona) in 1960, Agustín Charles represents one of the most distinguished and independent figures on the present scene of Spanish musical creativity. The technical virtuoso quality of his writing (enriched by a profound knowledge of the history of art and of culture), the programming of the structures, the knowledge of the nuances and tension of perception, live side by side in Charles’ work with a refined sense of the imagination and an extraordinary ability to form into sounds some of the mysteries and glimpses of the inexpressible.
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16,56 €
ONDINE NEW RELEASE
Roussel – Symphony n.3; Le Festin de l’araignée
This Albert Roussel disc couples two of the composer's most popular pieces, which are given authentic performances by the Orchestre de Paris under Christoph Eschenbach. It is the final in a successful cycle of three releases featuring the four symphonies and two ballets by the French composer. The Third Symphony is a true masterpiece and remains the most popular of Roussel's symphonic works. Le Festin de l'araignée (The Spider's Feast) was completed in 1913 and is one of Roussel's two most celebrated ballets.
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17,55 €