SUMMER BLOWOUT SALE 2026
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A Violin's Life, Vol. 2: Music for the "Lipinski" Stradivari / Almond, Wolfram
c. 1817: The violin is bequeathed to Polish virtuoso violinist Karol Lipinski who inspired many works for the instrument.
2008: After passing through many countries and collections, the "Lipinski" Strad arrives in the hands of Frank Almond, through an anonymous donor.
2013: Frank Almond releases "A Violin's Life", an album that traces the provenance of the "Lipinski" Strad, with music by Schumann, Tartini, Julius Rontgen, and Lipinski himself.
January 2014: Following a concert, walking towards his car, Frank Almond is tasered by an assailant and the "Lipinski" Strad is stolen. An FBI pursuit results in the recovery of the "Lipinski" Strad a few weeks later. International media coverage goes viral, including international TV coverage, a feature in Vanity Fair, NPR, BBC, and much more.
May 2016: Frank Almond releases "A Violin's Life, Vol. 2", featuring more music associated with the "Lipinski" Strad, including works by Beethoven, Amanda Maier-Rontgen, and Eduard Tubin, poised to create another classic release.
The "Lipinski" Strad lives on.
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore / Gavazzeni, Valletti, RAI Milano
Wagner: Siegfried / Kollo, Janowski, Staatskapelle Dresden
Mozart; Don Giovanni / Titus, Kubelik, Bavarian Radio Symphony
First Day / Metcalf, Varga
Cellist Laura Metcalf enjoys a thriving career performing as a soloist, orchestral musician, and performing in the ensembles Break of Reality and Sybarite 5. Joined by pianist Matei Varga, this release is Laura’s debut solo recording. Following this release, Laura has scheduled a series of concerts which will begin in New York City in April. The program for this album features works by Martinu, Enescu, Poulenc, and more.
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1 / Sokolov, Rowicki, Munich Philharmonic
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REVIEW:
An extraordinary document, with Sokolov’s integrity and humanity illuminating every bar.
– Gramophone
Scarlatti: La gloria di primavera / McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

Featuring the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, this new release includes compositions by Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725). La Gloria di Primavera, the work featured on this album, has been called a “feast of vocal invention, supplemented by wondrous instrumental writing…” The performances on this album were recorded live in Berkeley, California, at First Congregational Church in October of 2015.
Handel at Vauxhall, Vol. 1 / Cunningham, London Early Opera
The Evening Hour: British Choral Music from the 16th & 20th Centuries / Williams
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 - Suk: Serenade / Jansons, BRSO
Since its premiere in Prague in 1890, Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony has become one of the composer’s most-performed works. Josef Suk, Dvořák’s son-in-law and student-is obviously influenced by Dvořák, but displays his compositional skills in his own right in his Serenade for Strings. Consistently praised for his interpretation of Slavic music, Mariss Jansons conducts the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks in this live recording.
REVIEW
This disc contains three very fine performances and I thoroughly enjoyed it all. The BR Klassik recording is very good indeed. I’ve come to expect clarity and very pleasing, natural sound from this label and this latest disc is another excellent example of their work.
--MusicWeb International (John Quinn)
Bartók By Arrangement: Music For Viola / Nagy, Divertimento Budapest
Bela Bartok, while most widely known for his orchestral works, was also an established composer of chamber music. His music for violin has become some of the most important in the instrument’s repertoire. The three works featured on this recording have been transcribed for viola by Vidor Nagy. Vidor Nagy, accompanied by Peter Nagy and Divertimento Budapest, brilliantly performs these technically challenging works.
Britten, Mathias, Finzi & Cooke: British Clarinet Concertos,
The precursor to this album made a Critic’s Choice of the Year in Gramophone (2013). The program presented includes works by Benjamin Britten, William Mathias, Arnold Cooke, and Gerald Finzi. Michael Collins brilliantly walks the line between being a soloist and conductor, as he serves as both in this recording. The accompanying ensemble here is the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Big Bands Live: Quincy Jones & His Orchestra
Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale
Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 83, Violin Concerto In C Major / Handel & Haydn Society
Chopin: Polonaises & Scherzos
Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (Arr. B. Kominek)
Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
Ravel: L'Heure espagnole & Don Quichotte a Dulcinee / Slatkin
Moravec: Violin Concerto, Shakuhachi Quintet, Equilibrium & Evermore
Jarzebski, Vivaldi, Bach, Pachelbel, Haydn & Lutoslawski: Wo
Handel: Acis and Galatea
Now the American ensemble joins forces with successful soloists like Aaron Sheehan and Teresa Wakim for our production of Handel’s opera Acis and Galatea in the version of 1718, which was composed for the landed estate of the Earl of Carnarvon and does not recycle music from the earlier version. Both Acis and Galatea and the cantata Sarei troppo felice heard here represent decisive turning points in Handel’s career. The Italian cantata came at the beginning of the one and half decades spent by Handel in the service of patrons. Acis and Galatea marks the highpoint of this phase and therefore, like the cantata before it, clearly renders recognizable the musical means available to him in the private ensembles of his employers. Moreover, Acis and Galatea contains the musical and textual seeds of the English oratorio, which after 1742 completely supplanted opera compositions.
Bartok: The Works for Violin and Piano / Becker-Bender, Nagy
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REVIEW:
These players don’t seem to be among those who conceive Bartók’s music primarily as a rigorous exploration of dissonance; and their moving it from center stage, though hardly underplaying its jagged power (as in the Solo Violin Sonata), allows it to speak naturally and, in general, cogently. Highly recommended to admirers of the composer’s paradigm-shattering synthesis.
– Fanfare
Grainger: Music for Saxophones
Percy Grainger called the saxophone ‘the world’s finest wind-tone tool, the most voice-like’, and wrote for it a series of fascinating but hitherto little-explored works. These arrangements are special in that, unusually, Grainger largely abandoned his idea of ‘elastic scoring’ and noted specific instrumental configurations. The selections include the music of J.S. Bach, British and Norwegian folksongs, old polyphonic instrumental and vocal music, as well as two original compositions, each indelibly stamped with Grainger’s experiences as pianist, folk-song collector, and proponent of early music.
Milan Dvorák: Complete Jazz Piano Etudes
Born in 1934, the Czech jazz composer Milan Dvořák, no relation to his better-known classical composer namesake, has been active since the 1960s leading big bands and swing ensembles and remains active today. This is the debut recording of his 45 Jazz Piano Etudes which combine transcriptions of popular songs with classical influences and features the pianist Milan Franěk.
