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    1. John Williams and "The President's Own", Vol. 3
    2. John Williams and "The President's Own", Vol. 3
    Naxos

    John Williams and "The President's Own", Vol. 3

    CD · 1 disc

    $19.99
    Composer
    John Williams
    Artist
    The United States Marine Band
    Released
    Jul 04, 2026
    Legendary composer for stage and screen John Williams has admired the United States Marine Band, the "President's Own," since childhood - and in recent decades, the maestro and ensemble's mutual admiration has deepened amidst a series of collaborations marking the group's major anniversaries. The culmination of this twenty-year relationship was Williams' return to conduct the band's 225th anniversary gala concert in July 2023, along with the release of this 2026 album, John Williams and 'The President's Own,' Vol. 3. Completing a trilogy of albums issued by Naxos of America, this live recording brings the outstanding virtuosity, good cheer, and moving musicianship of that 2023 Kennedy Center concert to the world.
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    John Williams and "The President's Own", Vol. 3

    Naxos Jul 2026
    1 disc
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    $19.99
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    • Ferdinand Herold: Zampa ou La Fiancee de marbre
    Bru Zane

    Ferdinand Herold: Zampa ou La Fiancee de marbre

    CD · 2 discs

    $36.54 $42.99 Save 15%
    Composer
    Ferdinand Herold
    Artist
    Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Erik Nielsen, Julien Henric, Helene Carp
    Released
    Sep 18, 2026
    Zampa enjoyed a triumph at the Opera-Comique on 3 May 1831. This was probably because Melesville's libretto displayed some resemblances to Mozart's Don Giovanni: a godless and lawless protagonist, the pirate Zampa, attempts to force Camille, betrothed to Alphonse, to marry him, but the statue of Alice Manfredi, one of his earlier victims, comes to life and carries him off to Hell. The action skilfully combines tragic and comic elements. In musical terms, Herold responds to the Romantic sensibilities of his time: he incorporates a few discreet 'Gothic' touches, plays on local colour (the plot unfolds in Sicily), and exploits the dramatic resources of orchestration and harmony (Berlioz noted 'chords of a wild, fantastical appearance'). Zampa amplifies the opera-comique through borrowings from grand opera: vocal styles blending French and Italian elements, spectacular events such as the eruption of Mount Etna (recalling the denouement of La Muette de Portici in 1828), and the contrast between collective and intimate scenes. The work is clearly a response to the concurrent gestation of Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable.
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    Bru Zane Sep 2026
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    1. Louis Prima Forever: Christmas in Swing
    2. Louis Prima Forever: Christmas in Swing
    Frémeaux

    Louis Prima Forever: Christmas in Swing

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.99
    Composer
    Various
    Artist
    Louis Prima Forever
    Released
    Jan 20, 2023

    At long last! In the image of all the great jazz stars with any self-respect, the band Louis Prima Forever has taken up some of the immaculate standards and popular songs (by Mariah Carey, George Michael)associated with the magic of Christmas. You can catch the scent of fir trees already, so watch out... because Louis Prima Forever doesn't totally belong to the "Xmas album" tradition that reeks of squeaky-clean tinsel. These guys are as hot as chestnuts and swing so hard that Santa Claus would slip a disc. In fact this record would shake any party to life and make your Christmas feel like New Year's Day!

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    Louis Prima Forever: Christmas in Swing

    Frémeaux Jan 2023
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
    • The Leipzig Collegium Musicum, Vol. 1 - Music before Bach
    PENTATONE

    The Leipzig Collegium Musicum, Vol. 1 - Music before Bach

    CD · 1 disc

    $19.99
    Composer
    Johann Beer, Johann Friedrich Fasch, Christoph Graupner, Johann Gottlieb Heinichen, Georg Melchior H
    Artist
    Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum, Reinhard Goebel, Max Volbers, Clemens Roger
    Released
    Jul 31, 2026
    The Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum, under the direction of Reinhard Goebel and outstanding soloists such as Max Volbers on recorder and Clemens Röger on horn, present the first instalment in the series The Leipzig Collegium Musicum, Vol. 1: Music before Bach, offering a vivid exploration of a formative musical world. The term Collegium Musicum refers to an assembly of musicians who gathered regularly, under direction, to study and perform vocal and instrumental works, an idea that flourished in many cities, yet found particular resonance in Leipzig. By the early 18th century, this landscape of competing ensembles and personalities stood on the threshold of transformation, as musical life gradually evolved towards the later institutional structures that would shape the city's enduring legacy. In practice, however, these societies existed within a complex and often unsettled environment, where overlapping groups, shifting roles, and competing interests made the musical scene difficult to define and reconstruct with certainty. This programme offers a glimpse into that dynamic and, at times, elusive world, where music was shaped as much by collaboration and exchange as by individual voices. The works presented reflect a period before Bach's arrival in Leipzig, when compositional language was still evolving and stylistic boundaries were fluid. Drawing on influences from across Europe while asserting their own character, these pieces reveal a rich interplay of invention, contrast, and expressive immediacy. Composers such as Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Friedrich Fasch, and Georg Melchior Hoffmann were part of this environment, where musical ideas were shared, adapted, and developed through collective practice.
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    The Leipzig Collegium Musicum, Vol. 1 - Music before Bach

    PENTATONE Jul 2026
    1 disc
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    $19.99
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    1. Christmas Star - Carols For The Christmas Season / Rutter, Cambridge Singers
    2. Christmas Star - Carols For The Christmas Season / Rutter, Cambridge Singers
    Collegium Records

    Christmas Star - Carols For The Christmas Season / Rutter, Cambridge Singers

    CD · 1 disc

    $12.99
    Composer
    EBELING RUTTER
    Artist
    Rutter, Cambridge Singers
    Released
    Jan 01, 1997
    Another classic from the John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers, whose recordings have become a tradition of Christmas around the world.

    REVIEW:

    Christmas Star is an entertaining collection of familiar holiday tunes and carols, all professionally performed by the Cambridge Singers. This is good, straight a cappella holiday mus­ic and should satisfy fans of that style[.]

    ­– All Music Guide (Stephen Thomas Erlewine)
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  • Christmas Star - Carols For The Christmas Season / Rutter, Cambridge Singers

    Christmas Star - Carols For The Christmas Season / Rutter, Cambridge Singers

    Collegium Records Jan 1997
    1 disc
    CD
    $12.99
    1. Down Came An Angel - Music for Christmas / Jacqueline Schwab
    2. Down Came An Angel - Music for Christmas / Jacqueline Schwab
    Sono Luminus

    Down Came An Angel - Music for Christmas / Jacqueline Schwab

    CD · 1 disc

    $9.49 $18.99 Save 50%
    Composer
    TRADITIONAL
    Artist
    Jacqueline Schwab
    Released
    Sep 07, 1999
    Before television or radio, the piano was the focal point of the home. Holiday recordings such as Jacqueline Schwab's DOWN CAME AN ANGEL evoke the spirit of days gone by.
    Best known for her solo piano soundtracks to Ken Burns's PBS documentaries, Schwab has a quaint, inviting touch on the keyboard and a wonderful appreciation of Appalachian musical tradition. The result is a warm, familiar Christmas sound filled with nostalgia. Schwab's piano shimmers with a delightful tone, like a parlor with a fireplace on a snowy day.
    Though the album is entirely instrumental, the traditional hymns, carols, and spirituals were meant to be sung. To that end, the producers have included lyric sheets, giving families the opportunity to gather around the piano once again to experience a Christmas tradition.
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    Down Came An Angel - Music for Christmas / Jacqueline Schwab

    Sono Luminus Sep 1999
    1 disc
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    $18.99 $9.49
    1. Sing We Noël - Traditional Carols From St. John's Cathedral
    2. Sing We Noël - Traditional Carols From St. John's Cathedral
    Delos

    Sing We Noël - Traditional Carols From St. John's Cathedral

    CD · 1 disc

    $18.99
    Composer
    TRADITIONAL
    Artist
    Traditional
    Released
    Jan 01, 1992
    1. Adeste fidelis (O Come All Ye Faithful) (arr. D. Willcocks)
    2. What Child is This?
    3. Ding Dong Merrily on High
    4. Sing we to this merry company
    5. The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol (arr. M. Allen)
    6. The Little Road to Bethlehem
    7. The Holly and the Ivy (arr. J. Rutter): The holy and the ivy
    8. Carol of the Bells (arr. P. Wilhousky)
    9. God rest you merry, gentlemen
    10. The First Nowell
    11. The Carol of the Angels
    12. I saw three ships
    13. Come, love we God
    14. Torches, Op. 7a
    15. Wexford Carol
    16. Angels we have heard on high
    17. Away in a manger (arr. J. Van)
    18. Good King Wenceslas
    19. Sussex Carol
    20. A Merry Christmas
    21. O Holy Night (Cantique de Noel) (arr. J. Rutter)
    22. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
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    Sing We Noël - Traditional Carols From St. John's Cathedral

    Delos Jan 1992
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99
  • Schütz: The Christmas Story, Etc / Oxford Camerata
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    Schütz: The Christmas Story, Etc / Oxford Camerata

    Naxos Sep 1996
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99 $13.99
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    Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"
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    Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"

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    Composer
    Gustav Mahler
    Artist
    Mari Eriksmoen, Anna Lucia Richter, Zurcher Sing-Akademie, Florian Helgath, Tonhalle-Orchester Zuric
    For this fourth volume of their complete recording of Mahler's symphonies, Paavo Jarvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich present a monumental work: Symphony No. 2, with it's five movements and colossal orchestra, complemented by a choir and soloists: 'Mahler's Symphony No. 2 is a gigantic work - both in substance and in scale', says Paavo Jarvi. Mahler completed the composition in 1894, after more than six years of work, at a time when, whilst he was certainly regarded as a great conductor, his life was difficult: he had lost his father, mother and sister Leopoldine in quick succession - suddenly finding himself responsible for his brothers and sisters - his first symphony had not been well received, and he was the target of an anti-Semitic press campaign in Budapest, where he had been director of the Royal Opera from 1888 to 1891. In a letter dated 1896, Mahler wrote: 'When you wake from this melancholy dream and have to return to life and it's chaos, it can easily happen that this ceaselessly moving, never resting and always incomprehensible bustle of life becomes horrifying to you"
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    • A Cambridge Christmas
    Collegium RecordsPre-order

    A Cambridge Christmas

    CD · 2 discs

    $21.99
    Composer
    John Rutter
    Artist
    The Cambridge Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    John Rutter writes: 'In 1971, David Willcocks invited me to co-edit Carols for Choirs 2. This most happy association cemented my lifelong association with Cambridge and with Christmas, and in calling this double album A Cambridge Christmas, I am paying homage to that association. Some of the carols included in it were written by Cambridge authors or musicians, others were made famous by Cambridge Choirs, some I have included just because I like them, and there are several carols I have arranged or composed myself, generally for friends or organisations I cherish.
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    A Cambridge Christmas

    Collegium Records Nov 2026
    2 discs
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    $21.99
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" (LP)
    AlphaPre-order

    Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" (LP)

    Vinyl · 2 discs

    $39.99
    Composer
    Gustav Mahler
    Artist
    Mari Eriksmoen, Anna Lucia Richter, Zurcher Sing-Akademie, Florian Helgath, Tonhalle-Orchester Zuric
    For this fourth volume of their complete recording of Mahler's symphonies, Paavo Jarvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich present a monumental work: Symphony No. 2, with it's five movements and colossal orchestra, complemented by a choir and soloists: 'Mahler's Symphony No. 2 is a gigantic work - both in substance and in scale', says Paavo Jarvi. Mahler completed the composition in 1894, after more than six years of work, at a time when, whilst he was certainly regarded as a great conductor, his life was difficult: he had lost his father, mother and sister Leopoldine in quick succession - suddenly finding himself responsible for his brothers and sisters - his first symphony had not been well received, and he was the target of an anti-Semitic press campaign in Budapest, where he had been director of the Royal Opera from 1888 to 1891. In a letter dated 1896, Mahler wrote: 'When you wake from this melancholy dream and have to return to life and it's chaos, it can easily happen that this ceaselessly moving, never resting and always incomprehensible bustle of life becomes horrifying to you"
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  • Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" (LP)
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    Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" (LP)

    Alpha Nov 2026
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    • Joaquin Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez | Maurice Ravel: Bole
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    Joaquin Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez | Maurice Ravel: Bole

    Vinyl · 1 disc

    $39.99
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel, Joaquin Rodrigo
    Artist
    Ana Vidovic, Orquesta de Valencia
    Two iconic masterpieces of the twentieth century come together on this exceptional release that will be available on vinyl and digitally: Joaquin Rodrigo's "Concierto de Aranjuez" and Maurice Ravel's "Bolero". Recorded at Valencia's renowned Palau de la Música, the album combines a live performance of Rodrigo's celebrated guitar concerto and the rarely heard "Tiento Antiguo" (June 2024) with a studio recording of Ravel's mesmerizing Bolero (February 2026). Together, these works reveal two distinct yet complementary visions of musical Spain, viewed through the lenses of one of Spain's greatest composers and one of France's most brilliant orchestrators. At the center of the recording is acclaimed Croatian guitarist Ana Vidovic, whose artistry, technical mastery and expressive depth have made her one of the leading guitarists of her generation. She is joined by the Orquesta de Valencia under the direction of Alexander Liebreich, whose dynamic leadership has further strengthened the orchestra's position among Spain's leading symphonic ensembles. From the poetic lyricism and emotional intensity of Concierto de Aranjuez to the irresistible rhythmic momentum and dazzling orchestral colors of Bolero, this release captures music of enduring beauty, passion and brilliance. The combination of live spontaneity and studio precision makes for a compelling listening experience and a distinguished addition to any classical vinyl collection.
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  • Joaquin Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez | Maurice Ravel: Bole
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    Joaquin Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez | Maurice Ravel: Bole

    Accentus Music Oct 2026
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    Les Chemins qui montent (Live)
    B Records

    Les Chemins qui montent (Live)

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.99
    Composer
    Georges Bizet
    Artist
    Amel Brahim Djelloul, Dahmane Khalfa, Orchestre national de Cannes, Benjamin Levy
    Released
    Oct 23, 2026
    Les Chemins qui montent builds on Amel Brahim-Djelloul's first album dedicated to the Kabyle repertoire, giving it a new orchestral dimension. Thomas Keck has arranged songs by Idir, Djamel Allam, Djurdjura and Taos Amrouche, and set the poems of Rezki Rabia to music. Led by Benjamin Levy and the Cannes National Orchestra, the album presents these songs in a new light, enhanced by a focus on timbre, linguistic phrasing and rhythm. The ensemble reveals the timeless power of a repertoire that is perfectly at home in a symphonic concert.
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    Les Chemins qui montent (Live)

    B Records Oct 2026
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
    • Carmen
    Opus Arte

    Carmen

    Blu-Ray · 1 disc

    $39.99
    Composer
    Georges Bizet
    Artist
    Aigul Akhmetshina, Piotr Beczala, Olga Kulchynska, Kostas Smoriginas, Blaise Malaba, Grisha Martiros
    Released
    Oct 23, 2026
    In a remote Spanish town, the free-spirited Carmen declares that any man she loves should beware. But even she is unprepared for what happens when she decides to seduce police officer Don Jose. Though initially uninterested in Carmen's charms, Don Jose - against the wishes of his mother and of Micaëla, the woman who loves him - soon abandons his respectable career for a life of danger with Carmen, joining her and her smuggler friends as they outrun the law. But Carmen quickly wearies of Don Jose's possessiveness, longing to return to her life of independence. When she turns her attention to the celebrated toreador Escamillo, Don Jose's jealousy and despair threaten to violently erupt. Damiano Michieletto's searing production casts scorching light on the lust, violence and passion of Bizet's ever-popular opera.
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    Carmen

    Opus Arte Oct 2026
    1 disc
    Blu-Ray
    $39.99
    • Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin & Concerto for Orchestra
    Linn Records

    Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin & Concerto for Orchestra

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.99
    Composer
    Bela Bartok
    Artist
    Cristian Macelaru, WDR Sinfonieorchester
    Released
    Oct 23, 2026
    Bela Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin was premiered 100 years ago, on 27 November 1926. The evening ended in chaos and is regarded as one of the most high-profile theatre scandals, certainly the biggest since the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring in Paris a few years earlier. Causing shock among the public - perhaps because there is nothing miraculous in the fairy-tale sense - the work is in Bartok's own words 'hellish with instruments clanging, clattering and blaring'. Today, it's realism, rhythmic melody and harmony still inspire awe. Released to coincide with the centenary of it's premiere, this second album in Cristian Macelaru and WDR Sinfonieorchester's Bartok series pairs the Mandarin with the composer's other major work for orchestra, the Concerto for Orchestra. Unlike the former, the reception was a triumph.
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    Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin & Concerto for Orchestra

    Linn Records Oct 2026
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
    • Dvorak: The Wild Dove (Holoubek); Brahms: Symphony No. 1
    Fuga Libera

    Dvorak: The Wild Dove (Holoubek); Brahms: Symphony No. 1

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.99
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms, Antonin Dvorak
    Artist
    Philzuid, Duncan Ward
    Released
    Oct 23, 2026
    Philzuid's eighth album is a live recording of Antonin Dvorak's The Wild Dove and Johannes Brahms's Symphony No. 1. Dvorak was deeply fond of the poetry of his compatriot Karel Erben. The Wild Dove is one of four compositions in which Dvorak drew inspiration from Erben's poetry. Brahms spent more than two decades working on his first symphony, ultimately producing what would become his magnum opus. Both works are performed by the orchestra under the direction of chief conductor Duncan Ward.
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  • Dvorak: The Wild Dove (Holoubek); Brahms: Symphony No. 1

    Dvorak: The Wild Dove (Holoubek); Brahms: Symphony No. 1

    Fuga Libera Oct 2026
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
    • Haydn 2032, Vol. 17 - Per il Luigi (LP)
    Alpha

    Haydn 2032, Vol. 17 - Per il Luigi (LP)

    Vinyl · 2 discs

    $39.99
    Composer
    Joseph Haydn
    Artist
    Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antonini
    Released
    Oct 23, 2026
    Per il Luigi is the 17th volume of the complete Haydn 2032 collection and presents a number of Haydn's earliest symphonies; these had been composed to display the talent of the musicians who had joined the Esterhazy court orchestra during the same period as Haydn himself. The centre of the programme is the Symphony No. 13 in D major from 1763, whose orchestration includes four horns and whose final movement features a prefiguration of the famous theme of Mozart's 'Jupiter' symphony, to be composed twenty-five years later. The Violin Concerto in C major is marked fatto per il Luigi in Haydn's catalogue of works and was dedicated to Luigi Tomasini (1741-1808), a violin virtuoso born in Pesaro and a friend of Haydn. Two centuries later, the young Baroque violin virtuoso Dmitri Smirnov now brilliantly champions this repertoire with the Kammerorchester Basel under Giovanni Antonini.
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    Haydn 2032, Vol. 17 - Per il Luigi (LP)

    Alpha Oct 2026
    2 discs
    Vinyl
    $39.99
    • Ysaye: 6 Violin Sonatas, Op. 27 and works by Bartok, Chansar
    First Hand Records

    Ysaye: 6 Violin Sonatas, Op. 27 and works by Bartok, Chansar

    CD · 2 discs

    $26.99
    Composer
    Bela Bartok, Rene Chansarel, Mathieu Crickboom, Georges Enescu, Leopold Godowsky, Manuel Quiroga, Eu
    Artist
    Dmitry Smirnov, Marco Scilironi, Benedek Horvath
    Released
    Oct 23, 2026
    Eugene Ysaye remains best remembered for his 6 Sonatas for Solo Violin: six diverse and contrasted pieces that have kept his name alive across the century since they were written. For the present album, each one of the sonatas was dedicated to a violinist whose style and manner of playing is accordingly reflected through the piece in question. Each work has been situated in the context of music by the performer or artist who inspired it. Written for violin and piano/piano 4-hands, these works are rarely performed. Programmed between each of the sonatas, these works create an intriguing way of listening to the Ysaye's 6 Sonatas for Solo violin. The Ysaye Sonatas, Op. 27, were played on violins made by Philipp Bonhoeffer. All other works were played on the 'Caspar Hauser' violin, made by Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù', c. 1724.
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    Ysaye: 6 Violin Sonatas, Op. 27 and works by Bartok, Chansar

    First Hand Records Oct 2026
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    $26.99
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    Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"
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    Composer
    Gustav Mahler
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    Mari Eriksmoen, Anna Lucia Richter, Zurcher Sing-Akademie, Florian Helgath, Tonhalle-Orchester Zuric
    For this fourth volume of their complete recording of Mahler's symphonies, Paavo Jarvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich present a monumental work: Symphony No. 2, with it's five movements and colossal orchestra, complemented by a choir and soloists: 'Mahler's Symphony No. 2 is a gigantic work - both in substance and in scale', says Paavo Jarvi. Mahler completed the composition in 1894, after more than six years of work, at a time when, whilst he was certainly regarded as a great conductor, his life was difficult: he had lost his father, mother and sister Leopoldine in quick succession - suddenly finding himself responsible for his brothers and sisters - his first symphony had not been well received, and he was the target of an anti-Semitic press campaign in Budapest, where he had been director of the Royal Opera from 1888 to 1891. In a letter dated 1896, Mahler wrote: 'When you wake from this melancholy dream and have to return to life and it's chaos, it can easily happen that this ceaselessly moving, never resting and always incomprehensible bustle of life becomes horrifying to you"
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    • A Cambridge Christmas
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    A Cambridge Christmas

    CD · 2 discs

    $21.99
    Composer
    John Rutter
    Artist
    The Cambridge Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    John Rutter writes: 'In 1971, David Willcocks invited me to co-edit Carols for Choirs 2. This most happy association cemented my lifelong association with Cambridge and with Christmas, and in calling this double album A Cambridge Christmas, I am paying homage to that association. Some of the carols included in it were written by Cambridge authors or musicians, others were made famous by Cambridge Choirs, some I have included just because I like them, and there are several carols I have arranged or composed myself, generally for friends or organisations I cherish.
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    Collegium Records Nov 2026
    2 discs
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    • Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" (LP)
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    Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" (LP)

    Vinyl · 2 discs

    $39.99
    Composer
    Gustav Mahler
    Artist
    Mari Eriksmoen, Anna Lucia Richter, Zurcher Sing-Akademie, Florian Helgath, Tonhalle-Orchester Zuric
    For this fourth volume of their complete recording of Mahler's symphonies, Paavo Jarvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich present a monumental work: Symphony No. 2, with it's five movements and colossal orchestra, complemented by a choir and soloists: 'Mahler's Symphony No. 2 is a gigantic work - both in substance and in scale', says Paavo Jarvi. Mahler completed the composition in 1894, after more than six years of work, at a time when, whilst he was certainly regarded as a great conductor, his life was difficult: he had lost his father, mother and sister Leopoldine in quick succession - suddenly finding himself responsible for his brothers and sisters - his first symphony had not been well received, and he was the target of an anti-Semitic press campaign in Budapest, where he had been director of the Royal Opera from 1888 to 1891. In a letter dated 1896, Mahler wrote: 'When you wake from this melancholy dream and have to return to life and it's chaos, it can easily happen that this ceaselessly moving, never resting and always incomprehensible bustle of life becomes horrifying to you"
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  • Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" (LP)
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    • Joaquin Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez | Maurice Ravel: Bole
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    Joaquin Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez | Maurice Ravel: Bole

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    $39.99
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel, Joaquin Rodrigo
    Artist
    Ana Vidovic, Orquesta de Valencia
    Two iconic masterpieces of the twentieth century come together on this exceptional release that will be available on vinyl and digitally: Joaquin Rodrigo's "Concierto de Aranjuez" and Maurice Ravel's "Bolero". Recorded at Valencia's renowned Palau de la Música, the album combines a live performance of Rodrigo's celebrated guitar concerto and the rarely heard "Tiento Antiguo" (June 2024) with a studio recording of Ravel's mesmerizing Bolero (February 2026). Together, these works reveal two distinct yet complementary visions of musical Spain, viewed through the lenses of one of Spain's greatest composers and one of France's most brilliant orchestrators. At the center of the recording is acclaimed Croatian guitarist Ana Vidovic, whose artistry, technical mastery and expressive depth have made her one of the leading guitarists of her generation. She is joined by the Orquesta de Valencia under the direction of Alexander Liebreich, whose dynamic leadership has further strengthened the orchestra's position among Spain's leading symphonic ensembles. From the poetic lyricism and emotional intensity of Concierto de Aranjuez to the irresistible rhythmic momentum and dazzling orchestral colors of Bolero, this release captures music of enduring beauty, passion and brilliance. The combination of live spontaneity and studio precision makes for a compelling listening experience and a distinguished addition to any classical vinyl collection.
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  • Joaquin Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez | Maurice Ravel: Bole
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    • ¡a la fiesta!
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    ¡a la fiesta!

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    Joseph de San Juan, Francisco Hernandez y Llana, Mateo Romero
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    Cantoria, Jorge Losana
    This recording celebrates the Christmas season and it's music, but above all it offers an opportunity to discover a little-known Catalan composer, Jose de San Juan, one of the most famous of his time in Spain, born in Olot (Girona) in 1687 and who died in Madrid in 1735. The works featured on this album are villancicos, Christmas carols performed in churches, mainly during Christmas Matins (December 24) and Epiphany (January 5). This music is brought back to life by Cantoria, a vocal ensemble specialising in the performance of the Iberian vocal repertoire of the Renaissance and early Baroque periods - their first album, recorded at the Centre culturel d'Ambronay in 2022, won the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik - and by it's founder, the singer Jorge Losana. Born in Murcia and now based in Barcelona, he is deeply committed to promoting the Spanish repertoire and cultural decentralisation through his extensive artistic and educational work.
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    • Guys and Dolls
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    Composer
    Frank Loesser
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    Sierra Boggess, Nathaniel Hackmann, Louise Dearman, David Seadon Young, Sinfonia of London, John Wil
    John Wilson and Sinfonia of London continue their series of complete recordings of shows from the golden age of Broadway with Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls. The show opened in 1950, ran for 1,200 performances, and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The book is based on short stories by Damon Runyon, written in the 1920s and 1930s. These stories concerned gangsters, gamblers, and other characters of the New York underworld. Runyon was known for the unique comic dialect he employed in his stories; mixing highly formal language, without contractions, and colourful slang. As in all previous issues in this series, John Wilson has gone back to the original orchestrations of the show's opening night, and the recording includes every note. In the case of Guys and Dolls, these originals were lost (subsequent productions had used a simplified orchestration calling for fewer players), but have been painstakingly reconstructed by Larry Moore. Wilson says of his soloists: 'Casting is so important, choosing singers who not only perform the role but who can make an impression on a record. I keep my eyes peeled and, on every recording, you see new additions, but at the core there is a group of artists who I know can turn up on a Monday morning for the recording and deliver the goods. That extends right through the ensemble which is a collection of the brightest stars in London.' The notable additions for this recording are Damien Humbley as Nicely-Nicely Johnson and Sir Thomas Allen (persuaded by John to come out of retirement!) in the role of Arvide Abernathy.
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    Schoenberg: Piano Works
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    Schoenberg: Piano Works

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    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
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    Pierre-Laurent Aimard
    Released
    Oct 02, 2026
    The French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, a leading figure in contemporary classical music and an insightful interpreter of the core piano repertoire, has joined Alpha Classics and launches the partnership with an album that has long been close to his heart: Schonberg's piano works. He has waited more than forty years to record them - a journey that began in 1973 when, as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, he performed Schonberg's Opus 11 live on TV after winning the Olivier Messiaen Competition. At a time when the composer's music was often misunderstood, Aimard developed a lasting connection to it's originality and expressive power. In this long-awaited recording, he traces the composer's artistic evolution through five landmark piano works, from the Expressionism of Op. 11 (1909) to Op. 33b (1931), written on the eve of Schonberg's emigration to the United States and reflecting both Brahmsian tradition and a world in transition.
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    Alpha Oct 2026
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    • Hotel Metamorphosis
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    Hotel Metamorphosis

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    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
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    Angela Winkler, Barrie Kosky, Cecilia Bartoli, Gianluca Capuano, Il Canto di Orfeo, Lea Desandre, Le
    Released
    Oct 02, 2026
    As an endless source of inspiration, Ovid's Metamorphoses have left a lasting mark on our culture for over two thousand years. Combining some of it's episodes with music by Antonio Vivaldi, Stage Director Barrie Kosky creates a pasticcio for our times, a fascinating new work of rich imagination and breathless narratives. With a leading cast of singers assembled by Cecilia Bartoli, and with the participation of actor Angela Winkler, Hotel Metamorphosis stands out as 'a panopticon of human emotions'. Vivaldi expert Gianluca Capuano conducts Les Musiciens du Prince - Monaco, presenting a unique variety of Vivaldi's arias, ensembles and choruses, music with a particularly powerful emotional charge. 'What a brilliant evening of theatre.' (BR Klassik) / 'Checking into this hotel guarantees a luxury stay.' (Kurier) / 'the musical Champions League.' (Deutschlandfunk Kultur)
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    Composer
    Antonio Vivaldi
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    Angela Winkler, Antonio Vivaldi, Barrie Kosky, Cecilia Bartoli, Gianluca Capuano, Il Canto di Orfeo
    Released
    Oct 02, 2026
    As an endless source of inspiration, Ovid's Metamorphoses have left a lasting mark on our culture for over two thousand years. Combining some of it's episodes with music by Antonio Vivaldi, Stage Director Barrie Kosky creates a pasticcio for our times, a fascinating new work of rich imagination and breathless narratives. With a leading cast of singers assembled by Cecilia Bartoli, and with the participation of actor Angela Winkler, Hotel Metamorphosis stands out as 'a panopticon of human emotions'. Vivaldi expert Gianluca Capuano conducts Les Musiciens du Prince - Monaco, presenting a unique variety of Vivaldi's arias, ensembles and choruses, music with a particularly powerful emotional charge. 'What a brilliant evening of theatre.' (BR Klassik) / 'Checking into this hotel guarantees a luxury stay.' (Kurier) / 'the musical Champions League.' (Deutschlandfunk Kultur)
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    • Palestrina: Song of Songs
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    Palestrina: Song of Songs

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    Composer
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
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    The Sixteen
    Palestrina's Song of Songs is one of the most beautiful and intimate collections of Renaissance sacred music and this album brings together all 29 settings performed by The Sixteen in one place. The cycle shows Palestrina at his most expressive and human, while still maintaining the balance, purity and clarity of text that he is famous for. Compared to some of his more formal liturgical works, Palestrina's Song of Songs have a more sensual and lyrical feel, reflecting the poetic and romantic nature of the text. Unusually for sacred music the Song of Songs are deeply romantic and sensual, yet Palestrina treats them with spiritual elegance, conveying the emotion through subtle harmonic shifts and melodic shaping.
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    • Maria Stuarda
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    Maria Stuarda

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    Composer
    Gaetano Donizetti
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    Aleksei Kulagin, Antonello Manacorda, Bekhzod Davronov, Dancers of SEAD, Kate Lindsey, Konzertverein
    Released
    Sep 25, 2026
    With a sublime cast and the revolutionary staging by Ulrich Rasche, this Salzburg Festival production of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda transforms a bel canto masterpiece into an evening of theatre. The conflict between Maria and Elisabetta becomes tangible through contrasting costumes, a constantly shifting space of rotating platforms, and projected images. Lisette Oropesa's Maria showcases 'a truly wonderful display of vocal intelligence, human warmth and a completely effortless, natural tone' (Süddeutsche Zeitung), while Kate Lindsey's Elisabetta conveys the fury and despair of the English monarch with striking intensity. Under the baton of Antonello Manacorda and with the outstanding contribution of the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, this production conquers through rhythm, movement, and physical presence as expressive forces. 'Lisette Oropesa imbues all of this with vocal mastery and emotion. Beyond pure virtuosity, she shapes the inner workings of the character into operatic drama.' (Der Standard)
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    • Almeida Prado: Piano Trios; Cello Sonata; Balada for Cello a
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    Almeida Prado: Piano Trios; Cello Sonata; Balada for Cello a

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    Composer
    Jose Antonio de Almeida Prado
    Artist
    Emmanuele Baldini, Rafael Cesario, Sonia Rubinsky
    Released
    Sep 25, 2026
    Jose Antônio de Almeida Prado's music is the result of a unique combination of influences, moving through different styles and techniques while always displaying a recognisably strong personal imprint. Chamber music accounts for a large part of Almeida Prado's output. The Trio de Fontainebleau is infused with the ambience of his studies in France with Nadia Boulanger. The Balada is characteristic of the composer's mature style, with textures based on resonances, free modalism, consonant 'transtonal harmony,' and alternation between simple and complex rhythms. Trio Marítimo evokes the Portuguese poetry of Fernando Pessoa, while the Cello Sonata, with it's richly expressive palette of references, was considered by the composer to be one of his greatest achievements.
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    1. John Williams and "The President's Own", Vol. 3
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    John Williams and "The President's Own", Vol. 3

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    Composer
    John Williams
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    The United States Marine Band
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    Jul 04, 2026
    Legendary composer for stage and screen John Williams has admired the United States Marine Band, the "President's Own," since childhood - and in recent decades, the maestro and ensemble's mutual admiration has deepened amidst a series of collaborations marking the group's major anniversaries. The culmination of this twenty-year relationship was Williams' return to conduct the band's 225th anniversary gala concert in July 2023, along with the release of this 2026 album, John Williams and 'The President's Own,' Vol. 3. Completing a trilogy of albums issued by Naxos of America, this live recording brings the outstanding virtuosity, good cheer, and moving musicianship of that 2023 Kennedy Center concert to the world.
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    • Ferdinand Herold: Zampa ou La Fiancee de marbre
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    Composer
    Ferdinand Herold
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    Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Erik Nielsen, Julien Henric, Helene Carp
    Released
    Sep 18, 2026
    Zampa enjoyed a triumph at the Opera-Comique on 3 May 1831. This was probably because Melesville's libretto displayed some resemblances to Mozart's Don Giovanni: a godless and lawless protagonist, the pirate Zampa, attempts to force Camille, betrothed to Alphonse, to marry him, but the statue of Alice Manfredi, one of his earlier victims, comes to life and carries him off to Hell. The action skilfully combines tragic and comic elements. In musical terms, Herold responds to the Romantic sensibilities of his time: he incorporates a few discreet 'Gothic' touches, plays on local colour (the plot unfolds in Sicily), and exploits the dramatic resources of orchestration and harmony (Berlioz noted 'chords of a wild, fantastical appearance'). Zampa amplifies the opera-comique through borrowings from grand opera: vocal styles blending French and Italian elements, spectacular events such as the eruption of Mount Etna (recalling the denouement of La Muette de Portici in 1828), and the contrast between collective and intimate scenes. The work is clearly a response to the concurrent gestation of Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable.
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    1. Louis Prima Forever: Christmas in Swing
    2. Louis Prima Forever: Christmas in Swing
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    Louis Prima Forever: Christmas in Swing

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    Composer
    Various
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    Louis Prima Forever
    Released
    Jan 20, 2023

    At long last! In the image of all the great jazz stars with any self-respect, the band Louis Prima Forever has taken up some of the immaculate standards and popular songs (by Mariah Carey, George Michael)associated with the magic of Christmas. You can catch the scent of fir trees already, so watch out... because Louis Prima Forever doesn't totally belong to the "Xmas album" tradition that reeks of squeaky-clean tinsel. These guys are as hot as chestnuts and swing so hard that Santa Claus would slip a disc. In fact this record would shake any party to life and make your Christmas feel like New Year's Day!

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    Louis Prima Forever: Christmas in Swing

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    • The Leipzig Collegium Musicum, Vol. 1 - Music before Bach
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    The Leipzig Collegium Musicum, Vol. 1 - Music before Bach

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    Composer
    Johann Beer, Johann Friedrich Fasch, Christoph Graupner, Johann Gottlieb Heinichen, Georg Melchior H
    Artist
    Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum, Reinhard Goebel, Max Volbers, Clemens Roger
    Released
    Jul 31, 2026
    The Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum, under the direction of Reinhard Goebel and outstanding soloists such as Max Volbers on recorder and Clemens Röger on horn, present the first instalment in the series The Leipzig Collegium Musicum, Vol. 1: Music before Bach, offering a vivid exploration of a formative musical world. The term Collegium Musicum refers to an assembly of musicians who gathered regularly, under direction, to study and perform vocal and instrumental works, an idea that flourished in many cities, yet found particular resonance in Leipzig. By the early 18th century, this landscape of competing ensembles and personalities stood on the threshold of transformation, as musical life gradually evolved towards the later institutional structures that would shape the city's enduring legacy. In practice, however, these societies existed within a complex and often unsettled environment, where overlapping groups, shifting roles, and competing interests made the musical scene difficult to define and reconstruct with certainty. This programme offers a glimpse into that dynamic and, at times, elusive world, where music was shaped as much by collaboration and exchange as by individual voices. The works presented reflect a period before Bach's arrival in Leipzig, when compositional language was still evolving and stylistic boundaries were fluid. Drawing on influences from across Europe while asserting their own character, these pieces reveal a rich interplay of invention, contrast, and expressive immediacy. Composers such as Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Friedrich Fasch, and Georg Melchior Hoffmann were part of this environment, where musical ideas were shared, adapted, and developed through collective practice.
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    The Leipzig Collegium Musicum, Vol. 1 - Music before Bach

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    1. Shura Cherkassky - The Complete 78 RPM Recordings, 1923-1950
    2. Shura Cherkassky - The Complete 78 RPM Recordings, 1923-1950
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    Shura Cherkassky - The Complete 78 RPM Recordings, 1923-1950

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    $32.99
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven, Cecile Chaminade, Shura Cherkassky, Frederic Chopin, Mikhail Glinka, Morton Go
    Artist
    Shura Cherkassky, Marcel Hubert
    Released
    Nov 03, 2023

    In his later years, SHURA CHERKASSKY (1909–1995) was regarded as one of the last ‘Romantics’ – a throwback to the so-called ‘golden age’ of pianism in the first decades of the 20th century. As a pupil of Josef Hofmann, he had an impeccable pedigree, but we tend to forget his long career meant he was already playing and recording in that ‘golden age’. Here then are these early recordings, complete for the first time, starting in the acoustic era with the young prodigy’s 1923 Victor discs. Much of the repertoire is unique in his discography, including his only recording of chamber music – the Rachmaninov cello sonata. The Tchaikovsky 2nd Concerto, Cherkassky’s earliest concerto recording, has never previously been reissued and reveals the 36-year-old artist at his virtuoso peak.

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    It is a joy to have all these recordings available together. Cherkassky was a supremely gifted and communicative pianist and there is something to admire in every piece in this collection.

    -- MusicWeb International

    Of special note are the many Chopin pieces and a smashing performance of the Fantasy in F minor from 1950. The latter has reasonably decent sound and gives us the opportunity of hearing what Cherkassky can do with one of Chopin’s masterworks.

    Outstanding in-depth notes are supplied by Jonathan Summers, and special praise must be given to Seth B. Winner for his detail about restoration techniques. No lover of the art of the piano can afford to be without this set.

    -- American Record Guide

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  • Shura Cherkassky - The Complete 78 RPM Recordings, 1923-1950

    Shura Cherkassky - The Complete 78 RPM Recordings, 1923-1950

    APR Nov 2023
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    1. Moszkowski: Complete Music for Solo Piano, Vol. 1 / Hobson
    2. Moszkowski: Complete Music for Solo Piano, Vol. 1 / Hobson
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    Moszkowski: Complete Music for Solo Piano, Vol. 1 / Hobson

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    $20.99
    Composer
    MOSZOWSKI, MORITZ
    Artist
    Ian Hobson
    Released
    May 07, 2021

    Moritz Moszkowski (1854–1925) wrote a considerable quantity of piano music, but it is generally remembered today only for a single piece, ‘Étincelles’, which Horowitz enjoyed playing. The early works on this first instalment in Ian Hobson’s survey of Moszkowski’s complete music for solo piano reveal a debt to Mendelssohn and Schumann, but the craftsmanship already justifies a later remark of Paderewski’s: ‘After Chopin, Moszkowski best understands how to write for the piano, and his writing embraces the whole gamut of piano technique’.

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    Moszkowski: Complete Music for Solo Piano, Vol. 1 / Hobson

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    Beethoven: Violin Sonatas, Op. 12 & Op. 24
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    Beethoven: Violin Sonatas, Op. 12 & Op. 24

    SACD · 1 disc

    $21.99
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Artist
    Alina Ibragimova, Cedric Tiberghien
    Released
    Jun 05, 2026
    For her first solo album with BIS Records, Alina Ibragimova, together with Cedric Tiberghien, embarks on recording of Beethoven's entire violin sonatas. As one might expect, the first violinist of the Chiaroscuro Quartet presents these chamber music masterpieces on period instruments. While she plays a gut-stringed instrument, Tiberghien plays a fortepiano, a copy of a Viennese instrument from 1794. This new interpretation of Beethoven's violin sonatas brings us as close as possible to the soundscape that listeners present at the première of these works would have heard at the turn of the 19th century. This first volume contains the three violin sonatas Opus 12, the first that Beethoven published in Vienna, where he had already established himself as Mozart's successor. As was customary at the time, they are written 'for harpsichord or fortepiano, with the accompaniment of a violin', but following Mozart's example, they are truly for both instruments in equal measure. The disc concludes with the 'Spring' Sonata, the most popular and probably the most poetic of the violin sonatas. We look forward to continuing this undoubtedly landmark recording series, with a second and third instalment soon to come.
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    Beethoven: Violin Sonatas, Op. 12 & Op. 24

    BIS Jun 2026
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“…Tiberghien this time round plays on a replica 1794 Walter fortepiano from the era, while Ibragimova uses gut strings on her 16th-century Amati violin – taking us into a textured sound-world.”

Limelight, Editor’s choice, September 2026

    Haydn2032, Vol. 19 - Trauer
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    Haydn2032, Vol. 19 - Trauer

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    Composer
    Joseph Haydn
    Artist
    Il Giardino Armonico
    Released
    May 15, 2026
    This 19th volume of Haydn's complete symphonies coincides with the 40th anniversary of Il Giardino Armonico, the ensemble created and conducted by Giovanni Antonini, artistic director of the Haydn 2032 series. Il Giardino has made it's mark on the baroque world with it's revolutionary approach to Vivaldi, but Haydn has long been part of the Italian group's history, and Symphony No. 44, featured in this volume, was the first work by Haydn performed by the ensemble and Antonini. The title of this symphony, known as the "Funeral Symphony", inspired the inclusion in this programme of Scheidt's Paduana Dolorosa, published in 1621 at the beginning of the bloody Thirty Years' War, and Arvo Part's Da pacem Domine, dedicated to the memory of the victims of the 2004 Madrid train bombings: 'It's contemplative fixity and the sad Paduana dolorosa take on an almost cathartic function which, in my opinion, shows a perfect integration between music that is so stylistically and chronologically distant,' says Antonini, who also conducts Symphonies Nos. 108 (1762) and 52 (1771).
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    Haydn2032, Vol. 19 - Trauer

    Alpha May 2026
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“This recording is anything but ordinary. The varying line-up and occasional inclusion of works by other composers in the »Haydn 2032« series continually bring new perspectives to Haydn’s music.”

Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Quarterly critic’s choice, July 2026

    Pomponio Nenna: Il primo libro de madrigali
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    Pomponio Nenna: Il primo libro de madrigali

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    Composer
    Pomponio Nenna
    Artist
    Comet Musicke
    Released
    May 08, 2026
    Pomponio Nenna was born in Bari in 1556 and studied there under Stefano Felis. He then moved to Naples, where he began his career as a composer in a stimulating spirit of emulation; Nenna and Carlo Gesualdo each influenced the other's madrigal style in their treatment of text, dissonance, and chromatic modulation. Nenna's vocal works are complemented here by a number of organ pieces by local composers such as Giovanni Maria Trabaci and Giovanni di Macque, transcribed here for a consort of viols.
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“Today, Pomponio Nenna tends to be overshadowed by his contemporary and colleague Carlo Gesualdo.”

Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Quarterly critic’s choice, July 2026

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