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Dacapo Classical

Axel Borup-Jørgensen: Viola Works

CD · 1 disc

$13.99

Composer: BORUP-JORGENSEN, AXEL
Artist: Slaatto, Bjorkoe, Asmussen, Slaatto, Reumert, Ekkozone
Released: Feb 12, 2016

Axel Borup- Jørgensen (1924-2012) was born in Denmark, but he grew up in Sweden where he was influenced by the incredible scenery and by the gloomy, introverted mood of Swedish poets and composers. The dark, unique tone of the viola fascinated Borup- Jørgensen, and throughout his composing career he utilized this instrument as an opulent resource for expression. The works on this album chronicle the development of Borup- Jørgensen as a composer. His Duo for Violin and Viola Op. 12 is lyrical and accessible, and contrasts Mobiles after Alexander Calder Op. 38 which displays more abstract tonalities. Finally, O Baume Lebens Op. 81 shows intense lyricism and extreme attention to detail.

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Axel Borup-Jørgensen: Viola Works
Dacapo Classical Feb 2016

1 disc

CD
$13.99

Utskärgård
Proprius May 1991

1 disc

CD
$20.99

Bridge Records

Partch: Sonata Dementia / Krieger, Rosenboom, Partch Ensemble

CD · 1 disc

$18.99

Composer: PARTCH, HARRY
Artist: Partch, Krieger, Rosenboom
Released: Jun 07, 2019

Did you know that the legendary American Maverick Harry Partch wrote music for West Coast jazz icons Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan? They never got a chance to play his smart and funny Ulysses at the Edge of the World, but this “Minor Adventure in Rhythm” really swings in time signatures that would have made Dave Brubeck blush. So opens a collection of Partch classics that no one has really heard before. His score for the film Windsong was edited for the soundtrack, and though music lovers will recognize the material from the subsequently expanded Daphne of the Dunes, the symphonically structured original is much more dramatically crafted, and is presented here for the first time. It turns out that there are actually Twelve Intrusions, too, not eleven. And a demented sonata? Oh yes! Though the composer never performed or recorded it, his 1950 composition Sonata Dementia is in three movements: I. Abstraction & Delusion, II. Scherzo Schizophrenia, and III. Allegro Paranoia. Filled to the brim with humor, flights of fancy, and a febrile imagination, it was later reworked as “Ring Around the Moon,” but what a treat to hear the original in all its zany glory. The Bonus Tracks reveal even more lost treasures: here is the original 1904 Edison recording of the Native American “Cançion” that Partch had transcribed in the 1930s and used to close his final Intrusion “Cloud Chamber Music.” But best of all, the first-ever recording of Partch as performer, playing what is probably his most famous piece, Barstow: 8 Hitchhiker Inscriptions in front of a live audience in 1942, just a year after it was written.

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REVIEWS:

The recording is excellent with the performers giving a committed and engaging performance. Even the 1942 recording, wonderfully remastered, comes up well. The information in the booklet gives an excellent introduction to Partch and his music. This disc would serve as a good introduction to Partch’s music for any fan of American music, especially that off the beaten track. It certainly makes me want to hear the previous recordings in this series.

– MusicWeb International

There isn't a dull moment here. While Harry Partch admirers may be the primary market, anybody will enjoy this.

– AllMusic Guide

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Partch: Sonata Dementia / Krieger, Rosenboom, Partch Ensemble
Bridge Records Jun 2019

1 disc

CD
$18.99

OUR Recordings

Satie Surprises

CD · 1 disc

$16.99

Composer: Erik Satie
Artist: Christina Bjorkoe
Released: Jun 06, 2025

Erik Satie's influence, once barely acknowledged, has now permeated nearly every corner of modern music. Best known for the sensual simplicity of his tender Gymnopedies, such seeming naivety masked a colorful, and frequently, complex life and artistic vision. The experimental composer John Cage famously called Satie "indispensable," citing him as a profound inspiration for his own groundbreaking work. Satie's eccentricities were part of his charm, and this whimsy often seeped into his work. In Embryons desseches (Dried Embryos), for instance, he included absurd instructions in the score, phrases like "on the tip of your tongue" or "open your head," as well as giving his works absurd titles like Effronterie and Prelude canin, gleefully written to deflate the precious seriousness of classical music traditions. In contrast, there are works like Pieces froides (1897) that anticipate the rhythmic minimalism of Philip Glass and his visionary 5 Nocturnes (1919), the final series of his cyclically organized piano pieces composed using a highly complex system rigorously guiding the interplay of melody (right hand) and harmonic accompaniment (left hand). Even today, there are many surprises to be discovered in Satie's oeuvre. This specially curated program is brilliantly realized by Christina Bjorkoe, one of Denmark's leading musicians. Much in demand as a recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist with symphony orchestras, ClassicsToday praised Bjorkoe for her dynamism and passion. Her extensive discography includes critically acclaimed recordings of works spanning the piano repertoire from Beethoven to Borup-Jorgensen.

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Satie Surprises
OUR Recordings Jun 2025

1 disc

CD
$16.99

Danacord

My Heart and I - Songs by Clara Schumann & Nancy Dalberg

CD · 1 disc

$18.99

Composer: Nancy Dalberg, Clara Schumann, Martin Andersen-Nexo, Ellen Arendrup, Holger Drachmann, Wilhelm Gerha
Artist: Nina Bols Lundgren, Christina Bjorkoe
Released: Feb 06, 2026

Nancy Dalberg's (1881 - 1949) songs were written in the period from 1909 to the beginning of the 1930s, and through her choice of lyrics she tells a lot about herself and her life. She grew up in a prosperous entrepreneurial environment, and early on she developed skills as a pianist. In 1901 she married First Lieutenant Erik Dalberg, who also had a significant artistic vein, and a few songs were thus written together. Due to an arm disease, however, she had to give up becoming a concert pianist, and with Johan Svendsen and especially Carl Nielsen as teachers, she acquired from 1909 on the compositional skills that, in addition to the songs and other smaller works, led to her string quartets and orchestral works, thus three of her songs are also available in an orchestral version. With the very personal choice of 47 mainly Danish poems, her songs take up a considerable amount of space, and she provoked her contemporaries with a sometimes quite rich piano accompaniment, whereby the soloist and pianist became more equal in the performance. The lyrics range widely from the cheerful to several more serious lyrics that revolve around the family and marital dreams that remained unfulfilled due to her lifelong health challenges and her husband's increasing mental illness, of the present selection, 9 songs have not previously been recorded.

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My Heart and I - Songs by Clara Schumann & Nancy Dalberg
Danacord Feb 2026

1 disc

CD
$18.99

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BLIXT
CUNEIFORM Oct 2011

1 disc

CD
$17.98

Navona

Jolly, K.: Preach Sister, Preach

CD · 1 disc

$16.99

Composer: BODER MACK WILLIAMS
Artist: Jolly, Cole, Mossburg, Johnson-Helms, Bjorkling, Harper
Released: Aug 09, 2019

PREACH SISTER, PREACH showcases award-winning Katherine Jolly's "agile, bright lyric soprano" voice (The New York Times) on a series of pieces that are distinctively individual in their inspiration while cohesively united by the passions of their composers. Collaborating with pianist Emily Yap Chua, Jolly evokes the passion and curiosity of Emily Dickinson's poetry in Evan Williams' Emily's House, a collection of ten poems in which she communicates the lyrics such that one could imagine the voice being that of the poet's herself. A keen observer, Dickinson used images from nature, religion, and science to probe universal themes: the wonders of the natural world, the identity of the self, death and immortality, and love. Together Jolly and Chua breathe incredible new life into these ideas, delivering a personal and profound performance while transporting modern audiences to another place and time. Jolly turns to inspiration of a more contemporary and crucial nature on Absent an Adjustment in which her voice, ominous and purposeful, floats above and around the strings, frequently in a dissonant duet with the clarinet, heightening the intense spirit of the piece. The acrobatic coloratura vocal line, use of repeated motives and text, combined with the highly rhythmic ensemble in Katherine Bodor's Absent an Adjustment, support it's message of urgency in the face of ecological disaster. Acclaimed composer Evan Mack was inspired by the energy of the first women's march to craft Preach Sister, Preach, a song cycle which explores and celebrates the voices of ten powerful women such as Lucille Ball, Mae West, Simone de Beauvoir, Tina Fey, and Ellen DeGeneres. The intricate collaboration of Jolly and Chua succinctly portrays the power of the quotes from these women and, in doing so, offers both musical and lyrical insights into the women themselves.

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Jolly, K.: Preach Sister, Preach
Navona Aug 2019

1 disc

CD
$16.99

Footprint Records

A Christmas Wish

CD · 1 disc

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Composer: VARIOUS
Artist: Johansson
Released: Jan 04, 2019

Footprint Records is proud to present a very special Christmas gift: the album 'A Christmas Wish,' performed by the Gothenburg Youth Choir under the choral direction of Anne Johansson. The Gothenburg Youth Choir, one of Sweden's most acclaimed, consists of boys and girls between the ages of 16 and 25. Anne Johansson, who has dedicated her professional life to teaching secondary-school children to sing, is an authority on young voices. The album contains arrangements of traditional Christmas songs from Sweden and France, as well as compositions by Benjamin Britten, Max Reger, and others- it is the perfect accompaniment to the Yuletide season. The Gothenburg Youth Choir wishes you and your family a very Merry Christmas!

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A Christmas Wish
Footprint Records Jan 2019

1 disc

CD
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Stockholm Symphonic Wind Orchestra
Caprice Jun 1996

1 disc

CD
$20.99

Verdi: Aida (abridged performance, 1956) / Wagner: Lohengrin
Caprice Oct 2004

2 discs

CD
$32.99

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Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier / Beethoven: Fidelio
Caprice Mar 2003

2 discs

CD
~~$32.99~~ $24.99Save 24%

Dacapo Classical

Heinrich Schutz: Die Sieben Worte; Johannes-passion

CD · 1 disc

$13.99

Composer: SCHUTZ, HEINRICH
Artist: Hillier, Ars Nova Copenhagen
Released: Apr 27, 2010

“The five singers of Ars Nova Copenhagen blend beautifully in the deeply expressive Introitus and the fantastic quality of consort singing is no more notable than the touching communication of the text. Each singer performs their solo lines insightfully...this spellbinding performance is well worth acquiring.” - Gramophone Magazine, August 2010

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Heinrich Schutz: Die Sieben Worte; Johannes-passion
Dacapo Classical Apr 2010

1 disc

CD
$13.99

Prophone

There Is No Future / Sara Aldén

CD · 1 disc

$20.99

Composer: Various
Artist: Sara Alden
Released: Mar 22, 2024

Sara Aldén - Vocals
August Björn - Piano & Harmonium
Daniel Andersson - Double Bass

Jazz on life and death! In There Is No Future, Swedish jazz singer Sara Aldén makes her album debut with self-written music and arranged jazz standards with a focus on grand crescendos and vulnerable intimacy. She creates jazz as if her life depended on it where the question of the end of everything is allowed to exist, the small endings and the big ones. Sara Aldén and her trio present a musical sinkhole in the ongoing history of jazz, where doom-filled and intimate compositions alternate with dizzying arpeggios and dystopian and lyrical sound worlds.

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There Is No Future / Sara Aldén
Prophone Mar 2024

1 disc

CD
$20.99

TUM RECORDS

STRING QUARTETS NOS. 1-12

CD · 7 discs

$116.52

Artist: SMITH, WADADA LEO
Released: Jun 17, 2022

(7-CD set) String Quartets Nos. 1-12 focus on Wadada Leo Smith as a composer for strings. Smith began work on his first string quartet in 1965 and has composed string quartets and other works for strings throughout his career. Smith has also featured strings on a number of his other major works, including Ten Freedom Summers in 2011, Occupy The World in 2012 (TUM CD 037-2) and Rosa Parks: Pure Love in 2016/17 (TUM CD 057).String Quartets Nos. 1-12 represent a magnificent addition not only to Smith's own recorded output but also to the literature for modern string quartet music in general. Compositions vary from relatively brief, one-part quartets of highly evocative and at times meditative soundscapes to the groundbreaking "String Quartet No. 11" that fills two discs with it's nine movements. String Quartets Nos. 1-12 were recorded by the RedKoral Quartet. The group was brought together by Smith during his tenure at CalArts and was featured on the recording of Ten Freedom Summers more than a decade ago and again on Rosa Parks: Pure Love as well as on numerous live performances of Smith's string quartets and other works over the past decade. In addition, featured soloists on the recording include harpist Alison Bjorkedal ("String Quartet No. 4"), pianist Anthony Davis ("String Quartet No. 6"), percussionist Lynn Vartan ("String Quartet No. 6"), guitarist Stuart Fox ("String Quartet No. 7") and voice artist Thomas Buckner ("String Quartet No. 8") as well as Wadada Leo Smith himself on trumpet ("String Quartet No. 6" and "String Quartet No. 8").

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STRING QUARTETS NOS. 1-12
TUM RECORDS Jun 2022

7 discs

CD
$116.52

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CHOPIN PROJECT
DECCA Sep 2024

1 disc

Vinyl
$42.35

Azica Records

River Edge, New Jersey

CD · 1 disc

$18.99

Composer: CUNLIFFE JOBIM SCHWARTZ, A.
Artist: BILL CUNLIFFE TRIO
Released: Apr 30, 2013

Jazz pianist, composer, and Grammy Award-winning arranger Bill Cunliffe is known his innovative and swinging recordings and compositions. Bill began his career as pianist and arranger with the Buddy Rich Big Band and worked with Frank Sinatra, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Benny Golson, and James Moody. He has since established himself as a solo artist and bandleader. Bill is a winner of the Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition and has received stipends from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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River Edge, New Jersey
Azica Records Apr 2013

1 disc

CD
$18.99

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CLASSEN, Fay: Sing!
Challenge Records Sep 2010

1 disc

CD
$13.99

Sterling Records

Ture Rangstrom: Kronbruden - Opera in four Acts

CD · 2 discs

$27.99

Composer: Ture Rangstrom, August Strindberg
Artist: Various
Released: Jun 05, 2026

Ture Rangstrom's The Bridal Crown has proven to be one of the most durable Swedish operas, and has been performed in abundance in many different productions across the country. Located in Dalarna in the latter half of the 19th century, it is a kind of Romeo and Juliet story with two young lovers - Mats and Kersti - from families in enmity with each other. The drama itself cries out for music and there is even some melodies created by playwright August Strindberg himself. But then, it was released as an opera by the composer Rangstrom who created, as it would turn out, an eternally young music drama.

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Ture Rangstrom: Kronbruden - Opera in four Acts
Sterling Records Jun 2026

2 discs

CD
$27.99

Mix & Match

Divertimenti / Trondheim Soloists [Blu-ray Audio + SACD]

Blu-Ray with SACD · 2 discs

$44.99

Composer: BRITTEN BACEWICZ BJORKLUND
Artist: Trondheimsolistene
Released: Aug 26, 2008

Following on from the award winning recording of MOZART's violin concertos with Marianne Thorsen, TrondheimSolistene team up once again with the recording company 2L for their new production. This album features a selection of some of the finest and most technically challenging repertoire for string orchestra, and includes repertoire by Benjamin Britten, the Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz, the Norwegian composer Terje Bjørklund as well as Bela Bartok's seminal work for string orchestra the Divertimento. DIVERTIMENTI is the first music-only recording to be made available commercially in the ground breaking format of Blu-ray. A true world premiere!

The divertimento as a musical genre dates back to the nineteenth century. Divertimenti were composed for various social occasions and were intended to be light, uncomplicated and cheerful. Such pieces were often scored for small string ensemble. Over the years this effortless, elegant form has appeared in many different musical styles and, to a large extent, set the standard for the virtuosic chamber music we know today. A number of the most prominent composers of our age have engaged with this most fascinating musical style and have contributed to its further refinement as a chamber-symphonic showpiece.

Hybrid SACD + music Blu-ray
5.1 SURROUND + STEREO produced in DXD (Digital eXtreme Definition)
The hybrid SACD looks like a normal CD and plays on all standard players and computers.

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Divertimenti / Trondheim Soloists [Blu-ray Audio + SACD]
2L Aug 2008

2 discs

Blu-Ray with SACD
$44.99