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    Capriccio

    Sacred Music Highlights / Capriccio 40th Anniversary Edition

    CD · 10 discs

    $47.99
    Composer
    Various
    Artist
    Various
    Released
    Feb 04, 2022

    Since the beginning of Capriccio's catalog, the sacred repertoire has held a very special place among the label's recordings. Started with the most famous boys' choirs in the former German Democratic Republic (such as the Dresden Boys' Choir and Thomanerchor Leipzig), continued with boys' choirs in the West (including the Vienna Boys' Choir, Tölz Boys' Choir, and Regensburger Domspatzen), and up to artists like the Rheinische Kantorei with Hermann Max, top-tier ensembles have filled the gaps in recording history. Here, long-silent cantatas and oratorios by Zelenka, Hasse, Telemann, and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach appear having been revived by Capriccio. This 40th Anniversary Box includes several remastered versions of long-out of print records, as well as a representative selection of niche- and standard repertoire productions.

    REVIEW:

    It must not have been easy to select which music to include in this commemorative package for the 40th anniversary of the Capriccio label, but the truth is that the more than 10 hours of music that they offer us is exquisite and an excellent example of the trajectory of this record label...which has always opted for the opening of new territories.

    Let's highlight the obvious: the ten albums are dedicated to religious music mostly performed by groups of German origin, such as Das Kleine Konzert and La Stagione. They offer works by authors who are consecrated today, but were not always so much when Capriccio bet on them, as in the cases of C.P.E. Bach and Telemann.

    The care of the sound recording (from the first minute of the beautiful first disc with Monteverdi's Vespers) makes it possible to distinguish all the flourishes of this music, either with its melodic ornaments, or with its intricate contrapuntal textures, such as in Bach's Motets, given by a boys' choir, the Rostocker Motettenchor. And it also has a section dedicated to 19th century music, with Schubert's Hymns, Brahms's German Requiem, and music by Saint-Saëns and Mendelssohn. All recorded between 1983 and 2002, this music is a living testimony of the good work of this still-active label. Long live Capriccio!

    -- Ritmo

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  • Sacred Music Highlights / Capriccio 40th Anniversary Edition

    Sacred Music Highlights / Capriccio 40th Anniversary Edition

    Capriccio Feb 2022
    10 discs
    CD
    $47.99
  • Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 11

    Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 11

    Bridge Records Apr 2008
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99
  • CROWN & GLORY / VARIOUS
    DECCA

    CROWN & GLORY / VARIOUS

    CD · 2 discs

    $21.56
    Artist
    CROWN & GLORY / VARIOUS
    Released
    Jun 23, 2023
    Two CD collection in celebration of the much-anticipated coronation of King Charles III and the Queen Consort, Camilla. 'Crown and Glory' houses over two and a half hours of British orchestral, instrumental, and choral music from across four centuries. Music enjoyed at coronations, jubilees and state occasions sits alongside evergreens of the Great British classical songbook heard throughout the year at annual national events such as the Last Night of the Proms. Melodies reflecting the close tie between the monarchy and the armed services also feature, as do select songs and tunes beloved by each country of the Union.
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  • CROWN & GLORY / VARIOUS

    CROWN & GLORY / VARIOUS

    DECCA Jun 2023
    2 discs
    CD
    $21.56
    Frémeaux

    V3: BOOGIE WOOGIE PIANO 1941-5

    CD · 2 discs

    $32.99
    Composer
    VARIOUS
    Artist
    Various
    Released
    Oct 01, 2008
    “A veritable driving power behind small swinging jazz bands, piano boogie would make a lasting mark on rhythm and blues before, in turn, being taken up by rock ‘n’ roll. Jean Buzelin allows us to discover this story with a 42 tracks boxset featuring a 32 pages booklet in both French and English.”
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  • V3: BOOGIE WOOGIE PIANO 1941-5

    V3: BOOGIE WOOGIE PIANO 1941-5

    Frémeaux Oct 2008
    2 discs
    CD
    $32.99
    Naxos

    Weinberg: Symphony No 6, Rhapsody On Moldavian Themes / Lande, St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra

    CD · 1 disc

    $19.99
    Composer
    WEINBERG, MIECZYS?AW
    Artist
    St Petersburg State So, Lande
    Released
    Apr 24, 2012


    WEINBERG Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes. Symphony No. 6 • Vladimir Lande, cond; Glinka Choral College Boys’ Ch; St. Petersburg St SO • NAXOS 8572779 (61:02)


    Mieczysaw Weinberg’s sad and tortured life is described in the liner notes. The fate of his impressive and unjustly neglected music is explained by the fact that he was kept under wraps by his Soviet masters while others were given all the international glory. Naxos’s series of Weinberg releases, which so far includes three CDs of his cello music, is augmented here with this release of his wonderful Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes and innovative Symphony No. 6.


    The Rhapsody begins softly, mysteriously, but builds into an impressive musical structure in which the music almost morphs from one section to another rather than sounding forcibly juxtaposed. These Moldavian themes have a certain Sephardic quality about them, a soulful minor-key tendency that influences one’s emotional reaction to the music even in the most energetic passages. Wisely, too, Weinberg does not over-write, so the piece doesn’t overstay its welcome.


    The Sixth Symphony, composed in 1963, is a more mature and reflective work. Divided into five movements, it begins quietly, but this initial Adagio sostenuto does not stay quiet for long; rather, it breaks out into louder, yet no less somber, moods in which the brass and winds combine with the strings in a mode that tends toward the minor. Basses (and possibly cellos) sustain quiet chords while a solo flute plays with great anxiety above them; the solo role then passes on to horn and clarinet. A group of winds, including clarinets, plays a mysterious and restless melody above growling basses; another, quieter eruption with horns ensues; then it ebbs into a soft, unresolved dissonance for the finale.


    The second movement includes the chorus of boys’ voices, singing a Lev Kvitko poem about a boy who makes a violin from scraps which he then plays to an audience of animals and birds. (Unfortunately, no texts are included, nor does Naxos direct you to a translation on its website.) The music is bitonal and polyrhythmic, in fact producing at times an almost purposefully uneven, galumphing gait. The music for the boys’ chorus is almost a chant, covering perhaps six tones that are played against the ever-changing harmonies of the orchestral background. A solo violin, emulating the boy’s homemade violin, plays plaintively, then the chorus returns while low wind, string, and brass chords play below them.


    The third movement, marked Allegro molto, sounds almost hectic in its fast-forward motion, brass and percussion dominating the soundscape in a more mature and advanced sort of Khachaturian style. An almost klezmer-style clarinet solo interacts with glockenspiel and woodblocks, slurred trombones, and tubas. The fourth is described as a subtle reworking of one of Weinberg’s Jewish Songs from 1944, a rather ominous poem by Samuil Galkin in which the place where a home once stood is now a graveyard for murdered children, which will serve in the future as a memorial. The movement begins in a loud and ominous mood, with crashing timpani, but the chorus enters here in a softer, more conciliatory mood. Its song is a little more involved melodically here, written in C Minor and with the boys often singing in their lower range. Even the clarinet is pitched low, and the basses continue to pursue an ominous mood with occasional outbursts by the horns and low trumpets over percussion. Eventually, what sounds like very low, soft trombones underscore the boys’ song, occasionally colored by glockenspiel and oboe. Oddly, Weinberg ends the symphony with yet another slow movement, marked Andantino. It is based on a poem by Mikhail Lukonin in which “children of the present and future, from the Mississippi to the Mekong, are bid sleep in the confidence of a bright and productive tomorrow.” Appropriately, the music itself is like a lullaby, with wistful choral passages sparsely accompanied, first by the winds and then by lower strings. Certain elements heard earlier make tentative reappearances here, then the choir stops singing in order to give way to a solo violin playing a plaintive melody. The ending is a quiet, unresolved dissonance.


    This is remarkable music, excellently played and sung by the various forces involved. As usual, Naxos’s over-reverberant sound blurs the clarity of certain instruments, but in the more atmospheric movement of the symphony this works to its advantage. There’s another recording of the Rhapsody available, conducted by Gabriel Chmura with the Polish National Philharmonic on Chandos 10237, which received a good review in these pages from Barry Brenesal, and both the excellent Kiril Kondrashin and Vladimir Fedoseyev have recorded versions of the Sixth Symphony that I haven’t heard, but taken on its own merits, Vladimir Lande’s performance is very fine.


    FANFARE: Lynn René Bayley
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  • Bridge Of Dreams / Hillier, Ars Nova Copenhagen

    Bridge Of Dreams / Hillier, Ars Nova Copenhagen

    Dacapo Classical Nov 2011
    1 disc
    SACD
    $13.99
    Cedille

    Khachaturian, Arutiunian, et al.: Gems from Armenia / Aznavoorian Duo

    CD · 1 disc

    $19.99
    Composer
    Various
    Artist
    Anznavoorian Duo
    Released
    Apr 08, 2022
    Cellist Ani Aznavoorian and pianist Marta Aznavoorian, each a renowned soloist and chamber musician in her own right, together celebrate the sounds of their ancestral homeland on Gems from Armenia. The album marks the Chicago-raised sisters’ recording debut as the Aznavoorian Duo. Their panoramic survey of Armenian classical music opens with ancient folk songs arranged with haunting harmonies by early 20th-century Orthodox priest, composer, and musicologist Komitas Vardapet. The Armenian musical renaissance of the Soviet era finds expression in Aram Khachaturian’s glorious ode to his hometown of Yerevan; Arno Babajanian’s impassioned tribute to his mentor Kachaturian; the early Sonata for Cello and Piano by Avet Terterian, whose admirers included Dmitri Shostakovich; and the Impromptu of Alexander Arutiunian, winner of many Soviet and Armenian musical honors and awards. Contemporary voices include Serouj Kradjian, whose “Sari Siroun Yar” is an arrangement of an Armenian troubadour love song. Vache Sharafyan’s Petrified Dance is haunted by the memory of Armenian soldiers lost in recent battles. American Peter Boyer’s Mount Ararat, commissioned for this project and receiving its world-premiere recording, evokes the snow-capped twin peaks of Biblical fame central to Armenian national and religious identity.
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  • ROCK ME BABY
    P-VINE

    ROCK ME BABY

    Vinyl · 1 disc

    $49.94
    Artist
    KING, B.B.
    Released
    Feb 13, 2026
    The period from around 1950 to 1965, when B.B. King released numerous recordings on RPM Records and Kent, can be considered not only the earliest but also one of the most glorious chapters in the career of this blues giant. This album, originally released in 1964, is Kent's ultimate "greatest hits" compilation - the most powerful collection of B.B.'s early masterpieces.
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  • ROCK ME BABY
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    ROCK ME BABY

    P-VINE Feb 2026
    1 disc
    Vinyl
    $49.94
  • LIVE IN JAPAN
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    LIVE IN JAPAN

    ANAGRAM MUSIC LLC May 2024
    2 discs
    Vinyl
    $43.05
  • ALL OF US
    MERCURY KX

    ALL OF US

    Vinyl · 1 disc

    $33.49
    Artist
    HOWARD, LUKE
    Released
    Apr 29, 2022
    Vinyl LP pressing. Like all of Melbourne, Luke Howard lived through the longest Covid-related lockdown in the world. Turning adversity into an artistic triumph, he forged a new album, his second solo record for Mercury KX and a new benchmark for the contemporary classical composer, pianist, and Australian Music Prize nominee. 'All Of Us' is an exquisite portrait of isolation, loss, resistance and reconciliation in both stark and rich shades of piano, orchestra and electronics.
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  • ALL OF US
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    ALL OF US

    MERCURY KX Apr 2022
    1 disc
    Vinyl
    $33.49
    Capriccio

    150 German Folksongs / Prey, Schreier, Dresden Kreuzchor, Thomanerchor Leipzig

    CD · 5 discs

    $21.99
    Composer
    TRADITIONAL
    Artist
    Prey, Schreier, Dresdner Kreuzchor, Thomanerchor Leipzig, Regensubrger Domspatze
    Released
    Aug 30, 2011

    A festive concert of great voices, this Volkslied-Edition offers on 5 CDs the most famous and most beloved German folksongs, performed by well known singers like Hermann Prey, Peter Schreier, and famous choirs, especially boys choirs, such as the Dresden Kreuzchor, Thomanerchor Leipzig and the Regensburger Domspatzen. A well done edition for all friends of choir music offered for a verys special price!

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    Naxos

    Maxwell Davies: Suites From The Boyfriend / Maxwell Davies, Cleobury, Aquarius

    CD · 1 disc

    $19.99
    Composer
    DAVIES, MAXWELL
    Artist
    Aquarius, Cleobury
    Released
    Mar 25, 2014


    MAXWELL DAVIES The Boyfriend: Suite. 1 The Devils: Suite. 1 Seven in Nomine. 1 The Yellow Cake Revue: Excerpts 2 • 1 Nicholas Cleobury, cond; 1 Aquarius; 2 Peter Maxwell Davies (pn) • NAXOS 8.572408 (71:02)


    After listening to much of Maxwell Davies’s “regular” music, the suite from The Boyfriend, written for the Ken Russell movie, certainly sounds a bit strange to say the least, being a take-off on 1920s “Jazz Age” music. The interesting thing about it is that both the music and its orchestration are not only more subtle but better both as music and scoring than a great deal of real “Jazz Age” pop, particularly the majority of Paul Whiteman’s output. It has a wonderful charm about it, and as a suite it holds together extremely well, something you might not at all expect from movie music specifically crafted to tie into a certain period. In a way, it almost sounds like a suite of early Gershwin tunes arranged by a master. Or, to put it another way, the music is “bound” organically, despite its allusions to 1920s songs, in a way that even some modern music is not properly tied together. Moreover, the chamber orchestra Aquarius is having an absolute ball with this music, playing it with a verve and a kick one might never expect from a British chamber orchestra (a dance band, yes, but a chamber orchestra, not necessarily). I was absolutely enchanted from first note to last with the Boyfriend suite, though I didn’t expect to be. Bravo!


    The suite from The Devils, a score for a film based on Aldous Huxley’s The Devils of Loudon, is quite the opposite: dark, moody, often ominous-sounding music. An uncredited soprano sings very well in a portion of the Sanctus during the second piece, “Sister Jeanne’s Vision,” and here we encounter the type of “madness” music that Maxwell Davies reworked so effectively in his song cycle, Eight Songs for a Mad King (written around the same time). One certainly couldn’t imagine a sharper contrast in styles than between these two film scores—except for, believe it or not, a bit of 1920s-style music in the midst of track 10, “Exorcism.” The soprano returns, after which we inexplicably get another short bit of 1920s dance music. (Apparently, those devils of Loudon liked to do the Charleston.)


    Seven in Nomine, dating from 1965, quotes the tune of John Taverner’s Gloria Tibi Trinitas in four of the seven pieces, only one of which actually bears Taverner’s title. Written for the unusual combination of a wind quintet, string quartet, and harp, it reveals yet another side of the composer, the ability to paraphrase earlier music while taking it to a new level. I found it interesting, considering that this is technically a modern work, that the solo strings of Aquarius play with straight tone. You just can’t break the British of that nasty habit. Yet the music itself is evocative, atmospheric, and very beautifully scored, with Maxwell Davies’s unusual modern harmonies creeping in such that they almost seem to have been part of the original piece, so organic do they sound. Since the music maintains a soft volume level and generally slow tempos (one notable exception being the low-volume but cheerful outburst of winds on track 16), it also generates a feeling of calm and well-being.


    A similar calm, albeit more syncopated in places, emerges from his two piano solos from The Yellow Cake Revue. This was Maxwell Davies’s contribution to a campaign against mining uranium discovered on the Orkney Islands, where he lives. Both pieces here, the slightly jaunty “Yesnaby Ground” and the reflective “Farewell to Stromness,” are built around a repeating chords pattern in the left hand with undulating melodies in the right. The latter piece almost sounds like Minimalism, but is much more attractive than any American Minimalist piece I’ve yet heard.


    All in all, a good if unusual album in Naxos’s Maxwell Davies collection, and one that you will probably want if you are a fan of this composer.


    FANFARE: Lynn René Bayley
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  • 100 Masterpieces of Sacred Choral Music
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    100 Masterpieces of Sacred Choral Music

    Capriccio Mar 2013
    5 discs
    CD
    $33.99
  • PUCCINI: TURNADOT
    DECCA

    PUCCINI: TURNADOT

    Vinyl · 3 discs

    $206.99
    Artist
    SUTHERLAND / CABALLE / PAVAROTTI
    Released
    Jun 26, 2026
    Puccini's opera Turandot premiered on April 25, 1926 and Decca Classics is proud to celebrate this centenary with the third in a series of brand-new, limited edition deluxe presentations of Pavarotti-Puccini reissues. Pavarotti's links to this opera are inextricable, and although he rarely sang the role of Calaf on stage, the character's aria Nessun Dorma became his signature song when the 1972 recording was used by the BBC as the theme to it's coverage of Italia 90, the FIFA World Cup tournament. It was released as a single and peaked at #2 on the UK singles chart. To this date, it is the most streamed opera aria of all time and has been linked to sporting success ever since. The 1972 recording is widely regarded as the definitive version of this opera, now newly-mastered from the original 1972 master tapes in 24-bit/192 kHz definition. 3-LP set in cloth slipcase.
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  • PUCCINI: TURNADOT
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    PUCCINI: TURNADOT

    DECCA Jun 2026
    3 discs
    Vinyl
    $206.99
  • Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 - Bates: Resurrexit / Honeck, Pittsburgh Symphony
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    Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 - Bates: Resurrexit / Honeck, Pittsburgh Symphony

    Reference Recordings Jul 2024
    1 disc
    SACD
    $24.99
  • Schumann: Scenes from Goethe's Faust / Terfel, Mattila, Abbado
    Sony Masterworks

    Schumann: Scenes from Goethe's Faust / Terfel, Mattila, Abbado

    CD · 2 discs

    $33.99
    Composer
    SCHUMANN, ROBERT
    Artist
    Barbara, Töl, Brigitte, Bonney, Poschner-Klebel
    Released
    Jul 29, 2014
    Schumann’s treatment of Goethe is a curiously uneven work, composed at various stages in the last decade of his life. Parts 1 and 2 consist of dramatic scenes, which lie somewhere between opera and oratorio, rather as in Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust; but Schumann’s third part takes the music on to an altogether higher plane, setting the mystical final scene from Goethe’s poem (the same text Mahler used in his Eighth Symphony). Recordings and performances of the complete work are rare, partly because of its length (nearly two hours) and the need for multiple soloists (ten in this performance); so this exceptionally fine new Sony set, recorded ‘live’ at Berlin concerts last year, is very welcome indeed. Bryn Terfel is an ideally ardent, troubled Faust, and sings a large amount of music with consummate authority. Mattila makes us feel for Gretchen, and the ensemble numbers are led by Barbara Bonney’s silvery high soprano. The choral singing (Swedish choirs prepared by the legendary Eric Ericson) is simply outstanding, as are the Tölz Boys Choir’s lusty contributions. Most importantly of all, Claudio Abbado conducts with flair and also with great sensitivity, and the members of the orchestra respond as if they believe in every note. If this set doesn’t win an award, there’s no justice in the world.

    Performance: 5 (out of 5), Sound: 5 (out of 5)

    -- BBC Music Magazine
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    Capriccio

    Sacred Choral Music / Vienna Boys' Choir

    CD · 7 discs

    $36.99
    Composer
    VARIOUS
    Artist
    Academy Of London, M
    Released
    Apr 05, 2019
    Note: Also included in this set is a bonus CD of Christmas songs.

    The Vienna Boys’ Choir is one of the oldest boys’ choirs in the world and still a living tradition after more than 500 years. Even Haydn sang there and Schubert also commenced his musical career there. Antonio Salieri was a member of the admissions jury. What is captivating about these recordings is, on the one hand, the clarity of the textual and musical declamation and, on the other, a very special authentic charm deriving from the slight Viennese accent. In the performance by the Vienna Boys’ Choir, it is a question not just of perfect pronunciation and intonation, but also of a sensual musical element that is frequently overlooked in Mozart and Haydn, but that is absolutely vital.
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  • Sacred Choral Music / Vienna Boys' Choir
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    Sacred Choral Music / Vienna Boys' Choir

    Capriccio Apr 2019
    7 discs
    CD
    $36.99
  • Music Of Elliott Carter Vol 7 / Knussen, Hodges
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    Music Of Elliott Carter Vol 7 / Knussen, Hodges

    Bridge Records Dec 2005
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99
  • COMPLETE WARNER CLASSICS EDITION
    WARNER CLASSICS

    COMPLETE WARNER CLASSICS EDITION

    CD · 41 discs

    $140.49
    Artist
    TENNSTEDT, KLAUS
    Released
    May 29, 2026
    Klaus Tennstedt's studio recordings for EMI Classics, primarily with his cherished London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), are celebrated as a towering achievement, cementing his reputation as one of the great conductors of the late 20th century. His landmark studio cycle of Mahler's Symphonies is the monumental centerpiece of this legacy, alongside the live Mahler recordings he did. Tennstedt's Mahler is universally praised for it's sheer emotional commitment and deep feeling. This cycle, often cited for it's thrilling climaxes and masterful shaping of Mahler's vast canvases, is universally recognized as one of the finest surveys of the composer's symphonies. Tennstedt's interpretations of the Central European repertoire, which also included magnificent recordings of Brahms and Wagner included in this box, favour an unfailingly beautiful orchestral tone and a massive solidity. These recordings are a lasting testament to Tennstedt's profound artistry and his extraordinary musical partnership with the LPO (which represent two-thirds of the recordings in this box).
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  • COMPLETE WARNER CLASSICS EDITION
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    COMPLETE WARNER CLASSICS EDITION

    WARNER CLASSICS May 2026
    41 discs
    CD
    $140.49