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Brahms: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 / New Zealand String Quartet

Naxos

$19.99 Jul 08, 2016

Successful string quartet performance is all about communication, in the purest sense of the word: constant giving and exchanging, a communion among the players based on an intimate relationship bound by deep understanding, of the music and of each other. It’s the essence of what is meant by ensemble. When you have that, you can play anything together and make it vital, and most of all, true to the composer’s intent.

As my colleague David Hurwitz said in an earlier review, Brahms’ quartets are “respected more than they are loved”, and can sound “overworked” and “texturally monotonous”. It’s true that you can play unlawfully fast and loose with these quartets and pretty much get away with it, given enough rhythmic finesse and blurring of textures, and these are among the many reasons that listeners, including me, usually aren’t that much in love with these dense, phenomenally busy, complicated pieces. But when you hear them played with the unusual clarity, scintillating detail, and dynamic, exacting, turn-on-a-dime expressive statements uttered by an ensemble of literally one interpretive mind and unassailable technique, you have to rethink the reasons for your avoidance reflex when faced with a Brahms quartet close encounter.

When the New Zealand Quartet made this recording its members had been working and playing together for 20 years, a rarity in the music world, and a situation that pays huge dividends in performance. There are few relationships anywhere in which the members spend more time together, pouring heart and soul into an intensely charged, creative collaboration, its success built both on individual artistic drive and vision, and contingent on compromising, blending, and capitalizing on the strengths of those impulses and passions. Any group that can manage this, whether a married couple or a string quartet, is something of a miracle, and, especially if you’ve seen this group in concert, you know how special it is.

And there is no holding back in these performances: the NZSQ literally attacks and wrestles Brahms’ scores to the ground–a positive, friendly intervention, for the good of all concerned. These performances should not disappoint any listener, whether you hate Brahms or love his music, because they take you out of the realm of preconception and just deliver aggressive, uninhibited, and yes, passionate expressions of these scores, respectful of the composer while always working to realize the fullness of the music that Brahms struggled so long and hard to create.

My only regret here is that with a recording you don’t truly experience what this group is doing. Unless you actually see them in concert, you don’t appreciate the incredible group dynamic that’s happening during a performance, you don’t totally get the ensemble interaction that produces this result. They stand when they perform–cellist Rolf Gjelsten sits on a special raised platform–and there’s a physicality to the communication among the players that’s only comparable to a dance, a ballet. And if you can make a ballet out of Brahms’ string quartets, well, you’ve got something that’s worth listening to.

– ClassicsToday (David Vernier)

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Brahms: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 / New Zealand String Quartet
Naxos Jul 2016
CD
$19.99

Feldman, Babbitt: Clarinet Quintets / Mark Lieb, Et Al

Innova Recordings

$16.99 Jan 26, 2010

FELDMAN Clarinet and String Quartet. BABBITT Clarinet Quintet • Mark Lieb (cl); Phoenix Ensemble • INNOVA 746 (62:35)

By reputation, such ideologically distinct composers would seem to be an awkward pairing as discmates—Morton Feldman’s abstract expressionist-influenced, intuitive, repetitively detailed formal design versus Milton Babbitt’s mathematically abstracted, reason-induced, labyrinthine methodology—and yet the individual virtues of each seem to emphasize and illuminate the dramatic character of the other. The contrast between these two works is both revealing and satisfying.

Feldman’s Clarinet and String Quartet (1983) is constructed around repeated, subtly altered, and juxtaposed melodic and textural patterns; the music’s progress is like a stationary view of a single shape (the combined colors and often divided attacks of the clarinet and strings) until it is replaced by a new shape, so there is continual forward motion, but not conventional rhythmic momentum. The effect is not passive, but intently active—the melodic outline expands and contracts, as natural as breathing—circumscribing an emotional voice that is muted, but nevertheless capable of suggesting moments of sadness, inquisitiveness, mystery, and fascination.

Though linked together seamlessly, the patterns of Feldman’s compositional design are on display continuously, so the structure is transparently audible. On the other hand, Babbitt’s Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet (1996) is swept along on an animated elaboration of melody, and the internal complexity of its form is of no concern. Details drive the music forward—twisting clarinet contours, contrapuntal string maneuvers, an unexpected sequence of pizzicato, sudden dynamic displacements, impulsive bursts of energy. The quintet’s extended linear development is in some ways reminiscent of Babbitt’s teacher, Roger Sessions, and what Sessions derived from Schoenberg, but given added oomph by the verve and scintillation of Babbitt’s wit.

Clarinetist Mark Lieb and his cohorts do a brilliant job in capturing the specific character of such radically different pieces of music. The Babbitt, by the way, receives its premiere recording—one wonders why such an exhilarating piece was neglected for so long. Highly recommended.

FANFARE: Art Lange

Those familiar with Morton Feldman’s music will know what to expect from his Clarinet Quintet: austere minimalist textures, rigorous logical structuring, detached but sonorous consonant chords, repeating but continually set off-kilter by asymmetric time signatures. They might be more surprised by the fact that there is room on the CD for another work, and that the work in question is by Milton Babbitt, a composer at the maximalist end of the American new music spectrum.

In fact, the pairing works very well. The Feldman work is far from ambient and requires the same kind of focused attention that listeners would expect to pay to Babbitt. The Feldman is process music to a degree, yet the processes are regularly subjected to human intervention. Motifs are introduced by, for example, scoring a bar of 5/4 as an accumulating chord, one instrument starting the bar, the next entering on the second beat, and so on until the final note is a chord made up of the motif. It’s a neat way of marrying harmony and melody, and it is far from the only textural device in the work, but all the others are of a similar level of simplicity. The clarinet stands out from the strings although less than you might expect: more of a guiding voice through the textures than a true soloist. Mark Lieb stresses the simplicity of the line in his clarinet playing. His stamina and evenness of tone are remarkable assets here. The work is currently available on two other commercial recordings, one in the Feldman Edition on the Mode label (Mode 119) with clarinettist Carol Robinson, the other on Metier with Roger Heaton (MSV 92082). This recording has the edge over both, thanks to the performance and the sound. Much of the music is at a very low dynamic, and the precision of the recording allows each of the detached, attenuated sounds to appear with the utmost clarity, and from a crystalline silence. Similarly, the disciplined precision of the string quartet is fully attuned to Feldman’s stern aesthetic. The few articulations that he indicates are never exaggerated to the point of disturbing his uneasy, but ultimately unbroken, continuum.

Milton Babbitt’s Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet is another extended single span of music: a paradoxical combination of expansive form and minutely detailed construction. But much about Milton Babbitt is paradoxical, not least the fact that his career at the cutting edge of serialist Modernism grew out of jazzy and folky roots. According to the liner-notes - and this was news to me - jazz and popular song have always been a part of the composer’s musical psyche. In his early days, he even wrote a Broadway musical entitled Fabulous Voyage. Less surprisingly, Broadway wasn’t interested. The Quintet dates from 1995-6, the far end of the composer’s career, but the jazzy rhythms on the clarinet are an important part of its musical identity. Alex Ross wrote of the work when he heard its premiere that it was ‘a delight to the senses, a fast flow of lovely chords and spry rhythms, a thing of sweetness and light.’ I’m not prepared to go quite that far, but the combination of lively rhythms and widely-spaced chordal textures gives the work a feeling of openness that is often absent from the composer’s more mathematical constructions. The counterpoint is very much in the serialist mould, with spaces in the texture appearing through the seemingly arbitrary and coincidental absences of notes in the individual parts.

If I were to describe the work as an indicator of the composer mellowing with age, it would be with the proviso that even Babbitt’s take on mellowness will seem violently aggressive to most listeners. But it is a rewarding listen, the composer’s ear for timbral and harmonic - or at least vertical - detail shines through in every bar. And there are surprises along the way, continually nudging the listener out of any sense of complacency at having fully digested a texture or contrapuntal construction. As with the Feldman, the formidable difficulties are expertly handled by the ensemble, which is fully attuned to Babbitt’s musical methods, and whose performance here is apparently endorsed by the composer. This is the first commercial recording of the work, and should serve as an excellent benchmark for future performers.

-- Gavin Dixon, MusicWeb International

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Feldman, Babbitt: Clarinet Quintets / Mark Lieb, Et Al
Innova Recordings Jan 2010
CD
$16.99

Forgotten Provence 1150-1550 / The Martin Best Consort

Nimbus

$20.99 Oct 01, 1996

The whole programme, the lively and the reflective, is very well performed.

The very welcome resurgence of the Nimbus and Lyrita labels has restored many treasures to the catalogue. This is emphatically one of them – an hour of music from medieval and early-Renaissance Provence on a recording to sit back and enjoy. Technically, this and the other recordings made by the Martin Best Consort and Ensemble are not reissues, since they are again available with their original catalogue numbers and still at full price. Almost five years after Nimbus got back on its feet, it is incredible that their recordings are not featured in the 2008 editions of either the Penguin Guide or the Gramophone Guide. I hope that the current review will partly redress that unfortunate situation.

The recording covers a number of themes, as stated in the sub-titles. The overall tone of the programme is lively, though with some reflective interludes. The texts are in Occitan, the medieval language of Provence, and Latin.

The first section deals with love, not always of the courtly type. In Ne l’oseray-je the woman laments that she is to be married off to an uncouth peasant; the man complains that everything in the home seems to be for his wife’s benefit. In Dessus la rive a sailor tries to have his way with a young girl, who appears to get the better of him.

Track 3 brings us to the theme of fin amors or courtly love, but with the boot on the other foot – the woman’s rather than the man’s. Beatriz, La Comtessa de Dia, or Comtesse de Die, was one of several independent-minded medieval Provençal women who fought their corner in a male-dominated world. In A chanter m’er de so qu’ieu non volria (I must sing of that which I would rather not), the only piece by any of the trobairitz, or female troubadours, to have survived with its melody, she adopts the role usually taken by the male lover, complaining that she is compelled to sing about a love that consumes her for someone who does not value her.

This work is also included on an excellent Hyperion recording, Bella Domna: The Medieval Woman (Stevie Wishart with Sinfonye on the budget-price Helios label, CDH55207 review – a well-deserved Musicweb Bargain of the Month). Sinfonye perform the work unaccompanied and at a slightly more leisurely pace. Both performances work well, capturing a tone of regret, rather than anger, at the indifference of the beloved. If I marginally prefer the Hyperion, it is a very close call – Lilly Crabtree on Nimbus sings excellently. All the versions which I know give the text as chantar, which would seem to be correct Occitan, but Crabtree clearly sings chanter, as per the booklet.

Those wishing to know more about the trobairitz should consult Klinck A L and A M Rasmussen (eds.), Medieval Woman’s Song: Cross Cultural Approaches (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002). References to A chanter m’er are on p.8. Vecy le mai is a carole in rondeau form, one of those countless medieval celebrations of the month of May, "the merry month which stirs our hearts." Ma charmante cadet belongs to the chanson d’aventure type, though it omits the usual prefatory matter in which the man’s riding out is described; it represents a dialogue between a knight and a peasant girl who, as so often in such chansons, is his intellectual superior.

The sequence of free organum which follows allows a temporary respite from secular concerns. The term organum refers not to an organ accompaniment but to an early kind of polyphony in which the voices move at an interval against each other, usually at a fifth; in this case the technique is applied to a sung Alleluia into which the psalm text Justus ut palma has been inserted – "the righteous shall flourish like a palm tree." Those seeking to understand terms such as organum and polyphony will find lucid explanations in the Oxford Companion to Music. In any case, don’t be put off by these technical terms; just enjoy the music. A l’entrada del tens cler takes us back to familiar troubadour territory, the return of Spring. Li gelos chastises jealous men, while the Air de Cheval gives us a brief instrumental interlude.

Lancan li jorn is one of the most celebrated of troubadour cansos; in Jaufré’s text the lover longs with what the notes aptly describe as Michelangelo’s ‘divine discontent’, for his beloved in a far-off country. This piece is no less effective for its being viewed from the conventional male perspective. The note-writer thinks that Beatriz’s female-orientated version in A chanter m’er is somehow more ‘real’, but long experience has taught me never to be wholly convinced by circumstantial detail in literature – as when Rousseau retells Montaigne’s account of being knocked out by a rampaging animal, as if it were his own experience. Jaufre is just as convincing when his canso is sung as affectively as it is here.

In Ara Lauzata a lascivious monk wishes that the pretty girl he sees could be a beautiful nun encloistered in his house; he is obviously second cousin to some of the worldly clerics in the Carmina Burana, best known in Carl Orff’s arrangement, though the original medieval music has survived. The Sequence to St Peter and St Paul recalls us to the joyful praise which the monk should have been offering to the saints instead of the scurrilous thoughts to which he has given voice.

The Montpellier Motets are not all religious pieces – the term did not have that limited meaning originally. Pucelete/Je languis, Aucun and Lonc tans are all secular motets but Alle Psallite, which closes the sequence, is another eked-out Alleluia in praise of God. If you would like to investigate further the manuscript from which these pieces came, you could do much worse than to try the Anonymous 4 in Love’s Illusion: Music from the Montpellier Codex – a different style from that of Martin Best but equally enjoyable (Harmonia Mundi HMX290 7109, budget price).

Nightingales figured largely in medieval poetry and music. The first of the pieces entitled Rossignolet du bois asks if the nightingale has heard the voice of a village boy who wishes to be married but doesn’t understand how to behave in love. In the second the nightingale announces the arrival of Spring-time and love. In le Sodard, the soldier hears the nightingale sing that his love is dead. The lyrics are worthy of Housman’s Shropshire Lad and the music a rousing martial theme, played here with gusto, which contrasts with the soldier’s loss.

The Epiphany sequence Epiphaniam Domino is one of many such pieces contained in medieval missals, lengthy pieces which replaced the Gradual between Epistle and Gospel, very few of which survived the reforming zeal of the Council of Trent.

The final piece, Reis glorios, is a dawn-song, alba in Occitan, aubade in standard French. The words are spoken as if by the watchman who has been keeping guard over his master as he made love, but they are religious words, in praise of the Glorious King and His Holy Mother. The fine performance of this wonderful alba by Guiraut de Bornelh, named by Dante as the Master of the troubadours, makes an excellent conclusion to a very worthwhile programme, combining the secular and the spiritual, as the medievals did effortlessly.

The singing and instrumental playing throughout are excellent, in both the lively music – the courtly and the not so courtly – and the more reflective pieces. I leave aside the thorny issue of the extent to which such music should be accompanied. Regular readers will know that I have consistently given the highest praise to Hyperion’s budget-price Helios reissues of the recordings of Gothic Voices, who very rarely include an instrumental accompaniment. I trust that I shall not seem illogical in praising the Martin Best Consort, who do regularly employ such an accompaniment, in equal measure. There is certainly room for both approaches when such fine performers are involved; in any case, the accompaniments here are not overdone. Apart from the fact that the Gothic Voices reissues are at budget price, comparisons are odious – and there is no overlap, as far as I am aware, between this Nimbus recording and anything that Gothic Voices recorded: they concentrated on a mainly Northern French repertoire.

The recording is good – a little close, but that is not inappropriate in such music. The notes are informative, offering a general overview and individual notes on the separate tracks. Nimbus offer translations of all the works, but not the original texts. If only one could be included, I suppose that is the right way round, but I still think it a pity – medieval Provençal is not exactly a common enough skill for the listener to pick it up from hearing the CD. Hyperion are more generous in this matter: they always offer texts, albeit in minuscule form, including that of A chantar m’er in the booklet accompanying Sinfonye’s recording of Bella Domna. For convenience of those who buy the recording – many of you, I hope – I have included such original texts as I have access to, in an Appendix to this review.

Until recently, this CD was available with other Martin Best medieval recordings in a bargain collection. If you hurry, you may find that some dealers are still offering that set – a wonderful bargain. It was the original intention that I should review the collection but, although it is deleted in that form, Nimbus have kindly sent me the individual CDs to review. Watch out for reviews of the remaining volumes in due course.

-- Brian Wilson, MusicWeb International

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Forgotten Provence 1150-1550 / The Martin Best Consort
Nimbus Oct 1996
CD
$20.99

Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 - Ravel: Piano Concerto in

Idil Biret Archive

$14.99 Sep 29, 2009

Idil Biret' new Liszt album prompts a reappraisal of her extraordinary talent... in her Liszt Sonata... you will hear playing of a formidable power and assurance... 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this recording made in Paris in 1978 was a pioneering version using reconstructed scores and revised by renowned musicologist and scholar H C Robbins Landon. 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This is the first of four projected volumes. 809730505225 DVRT25052.2 14374722 .00 19.99 .22 DIVINE ART COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 04/14/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/9/1/5/1495191.jpg 21 1 N CASKEN / WEIR / SAXTON / KREUTZER QUARTET NOTHERN LIGHTS: BRITISH STRING QUARTETS The three composers featured on this CD are in themselves leading lights of the contemporary music scene in the UK, and their works (of which these are first recordings) very fine examples of the modern string quartet, all extremely accessible. 809730850721 METI28507.2 14371738 .00 19.99 .22 METIER COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 04/14/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/9/1/5/1495196.jpg 9 1 N SCHUMANN / JANDO PIANO CONCERTO 747313254729 NXS8557547.2 10559703 .00 19.99 .19 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 02/22/2005 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/3/1/5/705132.jpg 25 1 N ORCH DEL TEATRO FENICE / MAAZEL / BONFADELLI NEW YEAR'S CONCERT 2004 This concert celebrates the reopening of the Gran Teatro La Fenice several years after it was destroyed by fire. Stefania Bonfadelli, Roberto Aronica, Greta Hodgkinson, Il Ballet to del Sud, and the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro La Fenice perform. 824121000882 TDDVNYC4VDVD 10561478 .00 24.99 .27 TDK DVD VIDEO DIGITAL VIDEO DISC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 02/22/2005 03/27/2018 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/29/549729.jpg 47 1 N DOHNANYI / PEDERECKI / BEETHOVEN / DIAZ TRIO STRING TRIOS 661853002124 ATEK21.2 10557112 .00 18.99 .22 ARTEK COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 02/22/2005 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/3/6/5/705634.jpg 2 1 N CHOPIN / ARRAU / KLEMPERER / WDR SO BALLADES / PIANO CONCERTO 8025726042303 URNA4230.2 10578742 .00 18.99 .23 URANIA COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 03/01/2005 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/80/551380.jpg 7 1 N SCHUMANN / ENDERS MAJOR PIANO WORKS 812864015638 OEHM366.2 10623299 .00 37.99 .43 OEHMS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 03/22/2005 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/5/1/9/709152.jpg 0 3 N CHOPIN / KEMPF / PERL / HEWITT PIANO MUSIC More than two hours of beautiful music for solo piano by one of the instrument's best-loved composers, played by Freddy Kempf, Alfredo Perl and Angela Hewitt. 809478000938 BOPU893DVD 10572955 .00 26.99 .21 BBC / OPUS ARTE DIGITAL VIDEO DISC CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 02/22/2005 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/9/2/5/705290.jpg 3 1 N SOR / STAROBIN LES PLUS BELLES PAGES 090404916625 BRI9166.2 10609859 .00 18.99 .10 BRIDGE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 03/29/2005 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/31/558631-2553411.jpg 8 1 N HAKALA,TOMMI GREAT BARITONE ARIAS 761195104828 OND1048.2 10648315 .00 18.99 .25 ONDINE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CLASSICAL VOCALS 04/26/2005 08/31/2026 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/7/1/6/7/707617.jpg 1 1 N STILL / JETER / FORT SMITH SYMPHONY AFRO-AMERICAN SYMPHONY 636943917428 NAAC8559174.2 10592229 .00 19.99 .20 NAXOS AMERICAN COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 03/22/2005 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/8/0/0/710085.jpg 0 1 N BACH / IM / KIELLAND / HALLENBERG / MULLER-BRUHL MASS IN B MINOR 747313110254 NXS5110102-03DVA 10592496 .00 32.99 .29 NAXOS DVD AUDIO CLASSICAL CLASSICAL VOCALS 03/22/2005 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/9/0/0/710092.jpg 19 2 N DISCOVER BAROQUE MUSIC / VARIOUS DISCOVER BAROQUE MUSIC / VARIOUS 636943816028 NXS8558160-61.2 10595114 .00 21.99 .53 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC V/A COMPILATIONS 03/22/2005 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/9/0/0/710093.jpg 0 2 N BRITTEN / LOTT / LANGRIDGE / JOHNSON / BONELL FOLK SONG ARRANGEMENTS 747313222025 NXS8557220-21.2 10592571 .00 29.99 .28 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CLASSICAL VOCALS 03/22/2005 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/7/9/0/0/710097.jpg 3 2 N CHOIR OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE / ROBINSON ENGLISH CHORAL MUSIC 747313255726 NXS8557557-58.2 10593370 .00 29.99 .25 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CLASSICAL VOCALS 03/22/2005 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/1/1/0/710115.jpg 6 2 N ALFANO / YINON / BRANDENBURGISCHES STAATSORCH SYMPHONIES 1 & 2 761203708024 CPO777080.2 10593578 .00 18.99 .21 CPO RECORDS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 03/22/2005 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/2/1/0/710124.jpg 0 1 N MATHIEU / LEFEVRE HOMMAGE A ANDRE MATHIEU 774204927523 ANL29275.2 10595015 .00 20.99 .22 ANALEKTA COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 03/22/2005 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/5/1/0/710155.jpg 5 1 N ZIMMERMANN / HCD ENSEMBLE / BACH,M ECHOING GREEN 764593015024 MOD150.2 10912072 .00 20.99 .22 MODE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 08/23/2005 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/7/4/1/4/744147.jpg 3 1 N REINHARDT,ISMAEL GYPSY SWING 743037192422 ARM1924.2 10737101 .00 16.99 .22 ARC MUSIC COMPACT DISCS POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC 05/03/2005 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/4/7/4/714740.jpg 86 1 N RAFF / DASKALAKIS / ROGLIT VIOLIN SONATAS NO 1 IN E MAJOR OP 73 812973011224 TUDO7122.2 11198697 .00 21.99 .23 TUDOR COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 11/08/2005 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/8/2/2/782283.jpg 3 1 N APOLLO SAXOPHONE QUARTET SHORT CUTS 880040201229 QURT2012.2 10689424 .00 18.99 .25 QUARTZ COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 04/26/2005 08/31/2026 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/6/1/6/716161.jpg 18 1 N BACH / KIELLAND / COLOGNE BACH CHOIR / MULLER-BRUH SACRED CANTANAS FOR ALTO 747313262120 NXS8557621.2 11226420 .00 19.99 .19 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 12/13/2005 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/8/5/4/784584.jpg 29 1 N ADAMS,JOHN LUTHER PLACE WE BEGAN 800413003229 CDBL32.2 14400902 .00 18.99 .19 COLD BLUE LABEL COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 05/12/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/5/3/1/1511354.jpg 2 1 N RUSSKAYA MUZYKA TRADITIONAL MUSIC FROM RUSSIA 5019396220027 ARM2200.2 14319013 .00 16.99 .24 ARC MUSIC COMPACT DISCS POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC RUSSIA / EASTERN EUROPE 03/24/2009 01/03/2025 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/25/1413925.jpg 3 1 N NIGL,GEORG / PIANCA / GHIELMI GUERRA AMOROSA 5425004849465 PASS946.2 14781414 .00 21.99 .21 PASSACAILLE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 10/13/2009 08/31/2026 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/9/6/4/1564694.jpg 4 1 N RUBINSTEIN / BANOWETZ PIANO MUSIC (1852-1894) / SOUVENIR DE DRESDE On this second volume of Anton Rubinstein' piano music, GRAMMY-nominated pianist Joseph Banowetz interprets works spanning the composer' long career, from the famous Melody in F, written by the 23-year-old Rubinstein to the nostalgic Souvenir of. 747313094271 NXS8570942.2 15152114 .00 19.99 .19 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 07/27/2010 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/90/1414290-2788019.jpg 30 1 N CASELLA / HEE YOU / LA VECCHIA SYMPHONY NO 2 / NOTTE ALTA FOR PIANO & ORCHESTRA From the very first notes, with their tolling bells, Casella' Symphony No. 2 is deeply indebted to it's model, Mahler' own Symphony No. 2, whose Parisian premiere was championed by Casella during his years in the French capital. 747313241477 NXS8572414.2 15152190 .00 19.99 .21 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 07/27/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/7/6/3/2/1672367.jpg 11 1 N GOLDEN BOUGH CELTIC & ORIG MUSIC: WINDING ROAD BY GOLDEN BOUGH 5019396229426 ARM2294.2 15143624 .00 13.99 .23 ARC MUSIC COMPACT DISCS POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC 07/27/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/7/8/3/2/1672387.jpg 20 1 N RODRIGO / BIZET / SAAD / MANSUROV / RPO CELEBRATION OF THE SPANISH GUITAR 5050693194024 RPOR15.2 15168405 .00 18.99 .25 ROYAL PHIL ORCHESTRA COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 07/27/2010 07/01/2025 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/2/4/2/1672428.jpg 15 1 N SCHUMANN / SYM ORCH BADEN-BADEN / GIELEN SYMPHONIES 2 & 3 4010276023166 HAC93259.2 15144041 .00 20.99 .23 SWRMUSIC COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 07/27/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/4/4/2/1672446.jpg 43 1 N BELLSON,LOUIE HOT One of the most exciting drummers ever to climb up onto a jazz bandstand leads a terrific group (featuring Clark Terry on flugelhorn) on this recording. Their inspired take on Caravan joins Hot; Hookin' It; Ode to a Friend; the Peaceful Poet; Walkin' with Buddy, and more! 710357271229 NIM2712.2 14299025 .00 16.99 .20 NIMBUS RECORDS COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 03/10/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/2/2/9/1489226.jpg 3 1 N GRONDAHL / KJERULF / NORDRAAK / GERICKE / HADLAND LIL EVA: SELECTED NORWEGIAN SONGS 7033662012381 SMXC1238.2 15540164 .00 20.99 .25 SIMAX CLASSICS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 04/27/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/0/2/8/1558209.jpg 3 1 N DE LA FUENTE,BENJAMIN LA LONGUE MARCHE: WORKS FOR VIOLIN & ELECTRONICS 3760058369807 AEON980.2 14503498 .00 8.99 .18 AEON COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 07/14/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/6/2/3/1533260.jpg 79 1 N BACH,J.S. / WINTER / GUILLON / BEEKMAN / ARNOULD CANTATAS 12 78 & 150 3760009292048 ZIG90502.2 14503207 .00 20.99 .16 ZIG ZAG TERRITORIES COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CLASSICAL VOCALS 07/14/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/6/3/3/1533364.jpg 2 1 N AUERBACH / PETERSEN QUARTET / KUSHPLER STRING QUARTET 8 / 6 VERSES 845221006437 CIO71104.2 14687419 .00 10.99 .26 CAPRICCIO COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 01/01/2006 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/9/7/3/1503791.jpg 0 1 N BRAHMS / GHINDIN / SPIVAKOV VIOLIN SONATAS 1-3 845221006277 CIO71082.2 14687143 .00 10.99 .24 CAPRICCIO COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 01/01/2000 08/31/2026 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/1/8/3/1503814.jpg 14 1 N YSAYE / KRAGGERUD / MONSEN / TOMTER / REE STRING TRIO LE CHIMEY While Ysaye' Six Solo Violin Sonatas remain his best known works, the Belgian virtuoso also composed other pieces which translate his thorough knowledge of the violin' capabilities into thrilling music. The performance here of his Sonata for Two Vio. 747313097777 NXS8570977.2 14736742 .00 19.99 .21 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 10/27/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/3/0/9/1569033.jpg 1 1 N PAGANINI / KUUSISTO / ESKELINEN DUOS 761195114223 OND1142-2.2 14743993 .00 18.99 .21 ONDINE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 10/27/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/7/0/9/1569072.jpg 2 1 N MENDELSSOHN / VOLLE / HAAG / SONNLEITNER / KOFLER GERMAN ROMANTIC CHRISTMAS 812864018400 OEHM924.2 14744600 .00 19.99 .55 OEHMS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 10/27/2009 08/31/2026 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/7/0/9/1569079.jpg 6 1 N LEVY / BALLANTYNE / YUASA SYMPHONY 3 CELLO CONCERTO 2 Son of the distinguished Swiss composer, pianist, and teacher Ernst Levy, Frank Ezra Levy was born in Paris on 15th October, 1930, and came to New York in 1939. He began cello lessons at the age of ten, and at twelve he began studies in theory and composition with Hugo Kauder, which continued for nine years. After graduating from the High School of Music and Art, Levy attended the Juilliard School of Music and the University of Chicago. His major cello teachers were Leonard Rose and Janos Starker. A former member of the St Louis Symphony and the Feldman Chamber Ensemble, Frank Ezra Levy is still a professional cellist, and continues to compose. Large works include a four-act comic opera, a cantata, four symphonies, several other orchestral pieces, and eight concertos. All the rest of his 88 published works are chamber music, an extraordinary variety of pieces for 1-15 instruments, often in highly unusual combinations. Notable premières of Frank Levy's music include his Third Symphony at Carnegie Hall (1989), the Holocaust Triptych at Manhattan School of Music (1993), his First Cello Concerto at Lincoln Center (2002) and Apostrophe No. 3 for 15 solo strings, at Music Festival of the Hamptons (2004). Currently available among his recorded works are the Fourth Symphony and First Cello Concerto. LP recordings include the Violin Duo, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Suite for Horn and Piano, Adagio and Rondo for Two Clarinets and Bass Clarinet, and the Brass Quintet. 636943923429 NAAC8559234.2 11226802 .00 19.99 .22 NAXOS AMERICAN COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 12/13/2005 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/4/8/4/784846.jpg 6 1 N RAVEL / TRIO DALI / SAVARY / SAREIKA / LA MARCA PIANO TRIO 5400439005471 FUGL547.2 14312441 .00 20.99 .17 FUGA LIBERA LABEL COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 03/10/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/5/2/9/1489255.jpg 2 1 N KHANER,JEFFREY / ABRAMOVIC GERMAN FLUTE MUSIC 822252207620 AVIE2076.2 14693403 .00 19.99 .25 AVIE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 10/13/2009 08/31/2026 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/9/1/8/1558193.jpg 6 1 N CHANG,EVELYN POETS FROM THE EAST 822252216820 AVIE2168.2 14503238 .00 19.99 .24 AVIE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 07/14/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/8/2/3/1533282.jpg 2 1 N PORPORA / MANZOTTI / I MUSICI DELLA CONCORDIA OPERA ARIAS 8007194104417 TCS681601.2 14503795 .00 21.99 .23 TACTUS RECORDS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 07/14/2009 08/31/2026 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/7/5/3/3/1533357.jpg 4 1 N SHOSTAKOVICH / RLPO / PETRENKO SYMPHONY NO. 11 THE YEAR 1905 Charismatic young conductor Vasily Petrenko launches his Shostakovich Symphonies series with the Eleventh, a highly charged depiction of the 'Bloody Sunday' massacre of over two hundred peaceful demonstrators by Czarist soldiers outside the Winter Palace in St Petersburg in 1905. Scored for a sizeable orchestra of triple woodwind, four horns, three each of trumpets and trombones, tuba timpani, percussion, celesta, harps and strings, the Symphony makes extensive use of revolutionary songs as thematic elements, as it progresses, without pause, from the glacial opening movement, Palace Square, to the terrifying massacre and it's aftermath, The Ninth of January, the funereal third movement, Eternal Memory, and the final movement, The Tocsin, which culminates with cataclysmic bell strokes. 747313208272 NXS8572082.2 14339059 .00 19.99 .22 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 03/31/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/3/6/4/1494632.jpg 3 1 N BREWER,CHRISTINE / LPO / PARRY CHRISTINE BREWER SOPRANO 2 Featuring Gluck Arias from Alceste, Wagner Arias from Tannhauser, Beethoven Fidelio Act 1, Britten, Menotti, Handel (sung in English). 095115315927 CHN3159.2 14344602 .00 13.99 .36 CHANDOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CLASSICAL VOCALS 03/31/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/7/3/6/4/1494637.jpg 2 1 N SAINT-SAENS / RIMONDA / CANZIANI PETITE ECOLE DE LA MELODIE 095115151020 CHN10510.2 14344534 .00 21.99 .25 CHANDOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 03/31/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/6/6/4/1494664.jpg 33 1 N MENDELSSOHN / GOETZ / BRUTSCHER / MERTENS / HAGEL PAULUS OP 36 881488900859 PROL9008.2 14341946 .00 24.99 .42 PROFIL - G HAENSSLER COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 03/31/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/8/6/4/1494685.jpg 8 2 N INSTITUTO EL CIMARRON MUSIC FROM ARGENTINA: FOLK MUSIC & TANGOS 743037220729 ARM2207.2 14404344 .00 16.99 .25 ARC MUSIC COMPACT DISCS POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC 05/05/2009 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/94/1418294.jpg 3 1 N FESTIVAL OF SAN MIGUEL TZINACAPAN / VARIOUS FESTIVAL OF SAN MIGUEL TZINACAPAN / VARIOUS 794881916320 OCO561099.2 14431210 .00 20.99 .18 OCORA FRANCE COMPACT DISCS POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC V/A COMPILATIONS 05/12/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/2/8/1/1511820.jpg 3 1 N JOACHIM / KIM / STAATSKAPELLE WEIMAR / HALASZ VIOLIN CONCERTOS IN HUNGARIAN STYLE OP 11 A colleague of Mendelssohn, the Schumann's and Brahms, the virtuoso violinist Joseph Joachim was himself a composer of note. His exuberant single-movement Opus 3 Violin Concerto from around 1851 was dedicated to Liszt. 747313099177 NXS8570991.2 14736711 .00 19.99 .21 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 10/27/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/3/0/9/1569034.jpg 3 1 N SHOSTAKOVICH / RLPO / PETRENKO SYMPHONIES NOS 5 & 9 Following their electrifying account of Shostakovich' Eleventh Symphony, Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra explore the profound ambivalences of the composer' most performed symphony, the Fifth, written in 1937 at a time. 747313216772 NXS8572167.2 14736674 .00 19.99 .22 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 10/27/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/3/0/9/1569036.jpg 0 1 N ADAM / COJOCARU / KOBBORG / NUNEZ / PETIPA GISELLE Alina Cojocatu, Johan Kobborg, Marianela Nunez, and Martin Harvey perform in this Royal Ballet production of the Adam ballet conducted by Boris Gruzin. 809478070306 BOPU7030BR 14471902 .00 39.99 .25 BBC / OPUS ARTE BLU-RAY CLASSICAL OPERA / OPERETTA / ORATORIO 05/26/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/7/0/3/1513071.jpg 0 1 N VIVALDI / DEUTER / HARMONIE UNIVERSELLE VIOLIN CONCERTOS 3760107400154 ELOQ815.2 13784300 .00 29.99 .20 ELOQUENTIA FRANCE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 08/12/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/4/2/1/1381245.jpg 0 2 N FREITAS / RTE NAT'L SO / CASSUTO SYMPHONY NO. 1 / SUITE ALENTEJANA Luis de Freitas Branco was a pre-eminent figure in Portuguese music of the first half of the twentieth century. This first disc of a four volume series of Freitas Branco' orchestral works features the First Symphony in which the influence of Cesar Franc. 747313076574 NXS8570765.2 13802110 .00 19.99 .22 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 07/29/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/1/2/9/1379214.jpg 14 1 N HAYDN / BABANOV / SCHUSTER / DASKALAKIS TRUMPET CONCERTO / HORN CONCERTO NO. 1 Haydn' popular Trumpet Concerto is best known for it's thrilling first movement cadenza and brilliant and inventive Rondo finale. The Horn Concerto No. 1 is also notable for the technical demands made on the soloist, not least the large octave leaps. 747313048274 NXS8570482.2 13787165 .00 19.99 .20 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 07/29/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/2/2/9/1379220.jpg 3 1 N IRELAND / LENEHAN PIANO WORKS 3 John Ireland' piano music, some of the most appealing British piano music of the twentieth century, reflects the composer' many interests: his love of literature, his interest in paganism and Celtic mysticism. 747313046171 NXS8570461.2 13786939 .00 19.99 .20 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 07/29/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/2/2/9/1379224.jpg 105 1 N BELLINI / CORELLI / NERI / CALLAS / SANTINI NORMA: ACT 1 8014399501514 MYT151.2 13699697 .00 10.99 .21 MYTO RECORDS ITALY COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL OPERA / OPERETTA / ORATORIO 06/24/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/3/4/9/1379439.jpg 4 1 N BELLOMY,DAN BACK TO BROOKLYN 021475011087 CMB1108.2 06410759 .00 18.99 .20 CAMBRIA RECORDS COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 06/29/1999 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/6/4/2/1552468.jpg 1 N KING'S SINGERS COLLECTION / VARIOUS KING'S SINGERS COLLECTION / VARIOUS 635212012024 SGUK120.2 13688608 .00 58.99 1.11 SIGNUM CLASSICS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC V/A COMPILATIONS 06/24/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/3/7/4/1374732.jpg 11 5 Y EWAZEN / TELEMANN / DOPPLER / MULLER / BACH SOUVENIRS: CHAMBER MUSIC HORN FLUTE & PIANO Souvenirs: Chamber Music for Horn, Flute and Piano by Peter Green 044747294421 CAV2944.2 13696504 .00 18.99 .18 CENTAUR COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 06/24/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/5/7/4/1374755.jpg 4 1 N WOLF-FERRARI / RODRIGUES / RLPO / PETRENKO SUSANNA'S SECRET 822252219326 AVIE2193.2 15133885 .00 19.99 .34 AVIE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 08/10/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/2/6/4/1674621.jpg 8 1 N MY FIRST MOZART ALBUM / VARIOUS MY FIRST MOZART ALBUM / VARIOUS If you listen carefully to this CD, you will get to know one of the best composers in the world. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived 250 years ago but he carries on being famous-so he must have been special. He giggled a lot. 747313820474 NXS8578204.2 16182974 .00 19.99 .21 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC V/A COMPILATIONS 11/15/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/7/2/8/1908270.jpg 0 1 N HAAS / ENSEMBLE COSMEDIN ANIMA MEA: SACRED MUSIC OF THE MIDDLE AGES Anima mea explores the Christian concept of the soul through these masterpieces of medieval Sacred Music. Hildegard of Bingen' beautifully exalted harmonies represent God' order in the music of the spheres. 747313263271 NXS8572632.2 16182882 .00 19.99 .23 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 11/15/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/3/3/8/1908333.jpg 0 1 N WAGNER / YOUNG / PHILHARMONIKER HAMBURG / POLASKI GOTTERDAMMERUNG 4260034869288 OEHM928.2 16183056 .00 47.99 .77 OEHMS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 11/15/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/5/3/8/1908350.jpg 5 4 Y WETZ / ZUMBUELT / DOMBERGCHOR ERFURT CHRISTMAS ORATORIO 53 761203763825 CPO777638.2 16136182 .00 18.99 .25 CPO RECORDS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHRISTMAS / CHANUKKAH 11/15/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/6/3/8/1908360.jpg 16 1 N PORTSMOUTH CHAMBER CHOIR / BEAMISH / MOLDOVEANU SONG MORE SILENT 822252214727 AVIE2147.2 14159244 .00 19.99 .16 AVIE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHILDRENS 11/25/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/7/2/3/1443278.jpg 11 1 N PLACE / HICKEY / LINELL MUSIC FOR SHAKESPEARE'S THEATRE Music played an important role in the Renaissance theatre and Shakespeare brought new subtlety to it's use. In a theatre without lights and sets, it fell to music to underline mood, whether for magic, comedy, feasting or pathos. 747313070879 NXS8570708.2 20566654 .00 19.99 .21 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 04/29/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/2/5/2/1482524.jpg 3 1 N KORNGOLD / STRAUSS / PRAGUE SYM ORCH / KOUT CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN & ORCHESTRA 099925396220 SPP3962.2 14737381 .00 14.99 .20 SUPRAPHON COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 10/27/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/5/4/1/1571451.jpg 0 1 N KOVACS / DONATONI / BASSETT / KOMIVES / HARTIG CHALUMEAU 044747296524 CAV2965.2 14737640 .00 18.99 .20 CENTAUR COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 10/27/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/6/4/1/1571462.jpg 12 1 N VIVALDI / MCMURTRY / HUHTANEN / MCLEOD / MALLON SACRED MUSIC -MAGNIFICAT 3 / NISI DOMINUS Vivaldi' sacred music occupies a place of honour in his vast output, dovetailing passages of great tenderness and sombre beauty, rich in cantabile expressiveness, with highly operatic movements of colourful and exciting virtuosity. 747313044573 NXS8570445.2 13956387 .00 19.99 .25 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 09/30/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/4/8/1/1411848.jpg 28 1 N HAYDN / OELZE / WEIR / LIKA / NORRINGTON / COE CREATION HOBXXI:2 881488707458 PROL7074.2 13959890 .00 24.99 .25 PROFIL - G HAENSSLER COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 09/30/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/5/8/1/1411854.jpg 7 2 N CLASSICAL DREAMS / VARIOUS CLASSICAL DREAMS / VARIOUS 881488806557 PROL8065.2 13960827 .00 54.99 .25 PROFIL - G HAENSSLER COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL V/A COMPILATIONS 09/30/2008 08/31/2026 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/38/1308038.jpg 9 3 N RAVEL / SAINT-SAENS / FOURNET / BILKENT SO / BIRET IDIL BIRET RAVEL EDITION 3 - PIANO CONCERTOS The Turkish pianist Idil Biret was one of the greatest child prodigies of the 20th century. Her recital at the Boston Conservatory demonstrated that she is no less prodigious today. She played a long and demanding program with the power, concentration.

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Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 - Ravel: Piano Concerto in
Idil Biret Archive Sep 2009
CD
$14.99

CELEBRATION OF DUKE

ANALOGUE PROD.

Vinyl

$59.99 Dec 06, 2024

Anyone who ever heard Count Basie launch his band into a blues with several choruses of effortless piano has lamented that there is far too little of Basie the soloist among his recorded legacy. This shortage was rectified to a certain extent by the trio albums Basie made with Ray Brown and Louis Bellson in the Seventies, of which this is the sequel to the For the First Time set of the previous year. Once again, Basie's poetic introductions, precise calibrations of touch and coloration, and definitive swing create a joyous program of four venerable standards and an equal number of new blues. Bellson is empathetic throughout and dances with his brushes on 'Sandman,' while Brown's robust tone and earth-moving walking lines bring out the best in Basie the soloist and accompanist. Mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tape, and pressed at Quality Record Pressings for optimal sound quality, this Analogue Productions 180-gram reissue is a reissue jazz fans and audiophiles alike will treasure. Housed in a single pocket Stoughton Printing tip-on jacket. 180-gram vinyl Mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tape Pressed at Quality Record Pressings Housed in Stoughton Printing tip-on single pocket jacket Tracklist: Side A 1. Sandman 2. If I could Be With You One Hour Tonight 3. Draw 4. On The Sunny Side of the Street Side B 1. The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else 2. Blues for Eric 3. I Surrender, Dear 4. Racehorse

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CELEBRATION OF DUKE
ANALOGUE PROD. Dec 2024
Vinyl
$59.99

Haydn: Keyboard Sonatas / Vladimir Feltsman

Nimbus

$16.99 Jul 01, 2013

Vladimir Feltsman has a long-established reputation as a major artist. His 1987 arrival in the United States (after a seven-year shutdown of his career by Soviet authorities) was greeted with loud huzzahs. His first American recital took place at the White House, and his ensuing Carnegie Hall debut was recorded in its entirety. His repertoire covers everything from Bach through the 20th century. Recording first for Melodiya, then for Sony, then Camerata, he has now made a great many recordings for Nimbus since 2008.

These seem to be Feltsman’s first recordings of Haydn; his readings are very personal, as if he were trying to be different from every other performance or recording. There are many unmarked and unexpected tempo changes, some amounting to Luftpausen more appropriate to mid-19th-century music. Such playing can be either invigorating in its freshness or cloying in its fussiness; it would no doubt upset period practice purists. As a long-time lover of conductor Willem Mengelberg’s erratic ways, I would expect to be open to Feltsman’s performances, but I can be invigorated and exasperated by the same passage on succeeding days. I am bothered by Feltsman’s wildly inconsistent playing of the C-Minor Sonata, but maybe that’s just me: I have never been satisfied with any performance and am not even sure what I want from this often recorded piece. The only pianist to come close is Youri Egorov, yet I cannot cite anything special in his recording; he just plays it straight, offering no special insight.

I listen again as I write this, and I continue to be disturbed by the dichotomy: Such magnificent pianism takes the breath away, yet such inappropriate music-making almost loses Haydn. Then comes the opening Presto of the E-Minor Sonata: Feltsman understands well that the vibrancy of a Presto is never based on speed alone. Every mark in the score is faithfully observed, the clarity and sheer life of the playing are inimitable; there is only one slight slowdown at an internal cadence, and a thrilling virtuoso flourish—lasting less than a second—is tossed into the second repeat. I could keep, and recommend, this two-CD set for this one track. But the following Adagio is filled with bluster and virtuoso posturing (in his program notes, Feltsman calls it “elaborate ornamentation in the manner of C.P.E. Bach.”), and the final Vivace molto wanders fitfully, searching in vain for its true character. So it goes throughout both discs. Listening again to the C-Minor Sonata, Feltsman produces a lovely, yearning character in the opening measures, but after a minute or so his odd phrasings, unexpected pauses, and sudden violent attacks spoil the mood.

The opening Andante con espressione of the C-Major Sonata is fascinating here. Feltsman’s left hand is leonine, like nothing since Cliburn. But a cutesy twist of the three chords in measure nine breaks the spell before it has a chance settle in. In the Presto , there is an awkward moment during the repeat of measure 17 (at 0:37) that sounds like a too-tight edit, cutting a fraction of a second from the music. Nimbus’s trademark reverberance is too much for this tempo, blurring what seems to be pristine pianism. The Eb Variations are gentle, subtle music, and Feltsman has a strong feeling for them. There is not a single virtuoso excess in its 17 minutes.

It’s clear that Feltsman can do anything he wants at the keyboard, and do it better than almost anyone else. One constantly receives the impression that one is listening to a dominant artist. But his style of playing generally does not suit Haydn—Sviatoslav Richter could get away with it because he was so sensitive to every type of music. It works on and off for Feltsman. I equate his playing with Nimbus’s recorded sound: both are brilliant but overdone, too glittering, too shiny. Has any piano ever sounded this bright, with a tiny halo around every note? The results are not for me, but that doesn’t mean they may not be for you. What I do recommend is that every piano lover hear these performances.

Postscript : The package is a single-CD-sized jewel case, but the swinging inner tray fell out every time I opened it. It’s long past time to abandon the fragile jewel case.

FANFARE: James H. North

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Haydn: Keyboard Sonatas / Vladimir Feltsman
Nimbus Jul 2013
CD
$16.99

JAZZ MONEY

CANDID

$16.35 Jun 21, 2024

JAZZ MONEY, the 2024 debut album from multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer Zacchae'Us Paul is an irreverent, fresh take on "America's classical music" that speaks to the 24 year old artist's deep-beyond-his-years understanding of Black music and the African diaspora. Paul stretches and bends jazz sounds around the Atlanta hip-hop he grew up with, the gospel sounds and philosophies that have long shaped his music making, and the Caribbean rhythms he learned studying in Puerto Rico. He has created a wholly personal sound that is youthful, and thoughtful all at once. "When you listen to this album, listen to it again," Paul says. "A lot of the songs have multiple meanings, and I'd love for people to have different perspectives on them." Made with a cast of improvising upstarts and veterans that includes the album's executive producer, Terri Lyne Carrington, fellow Atlanta native and Candid recording artist Morgan Guerin and Paul's fiancee and star vocalist Melanie Charles, Jazz Money is jazz music for this, and future, generations.

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JAZZ MONEY
CANDID Jun 2024
CD
$16.35

MEMORIES OF HOME

ECM RECORDS

Vinyl

$30.99 Jan 09, 2026

Guitarist John Scofield and bassist Dave Holland, two of jazz's contemporary masters, have played together over the years in contexts including projects with Herbie Hancock and Joe Henderson and a spirited co-led band with Joe Lovano and Al Foster. Memories of Home is their first duo album, made at NRS Studios, in Catskill, New York, last year, after extensive touring activity. John Scofield: "The record, like our live shows, features tunes each of us composed, some new, some old. We share decades of common references musically. The similarities and differences in our approaches make for a more interesting collaboration, I think." The album includes Scofield's "Icons at the Fair", "Meant to Be", "Mine Are Blues", "Memorette" and "Easy for You", and Holland's "Mr. B", "Not for Nothin'", "You I Love" and "Memories of Home."

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MEMORIES OF HOME
ECM RECORDS Jan 2026
Vinyl
$30.99

BENNY GOODMAN HITS COLLECTION VOL. 1 1931-38

ACROBAT

$30.49 Oct 06, 2023

This collection comprises all hits with his orchestra and small bands during these years on the Melotone, Columbia and Victor labels. It features his No.1 hits from these years and includes: Moon Glow, It's Been So Long, Goody-Goody, The Glory of Love, These Foolish Things, You Turned The Tables On Me, Goodnight My Love, This Year's Kisses, Don't Be That Way and I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart. It includes performances by featured vocalists Jack Teagarden, Billie Holiday, Mildred Bailey, Scrappy Lambert, Ann Graham, Helen Ward, Ray Hendricks, Margaret McCrae, Jimmy Rushing, Betty Van and Martha Tilton. It's a fascinating and enlightening overview of a key era of popular music when swing arrived on the scene, and a fine showcase for one of the most influential musicians of his times.

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BENNY GOODMAN HITS COLLECTION VOL. 1 1931-38
ACROBAT Oct 2023
CD
$30.49

WE GET REQUESTS (100% PURE LP)

TOWER RECORDS

Vinyl

$136.49 Dec 26, 2025

This limited-edition release brings back a 1964 classic by the "emperor of the keyboard," Oscar Peterson, showcasing his beautiful touch, elegant phrasing, and effortless swing as he moves briskly through standards and bossa nova selections. Widely regarded as a historic masterpiece-and long praised for it's exceptional sound quality by legendary engineer Bob Simpson-the album is now reborn as a super high-end analog "100% Pure LP." This audiophile pressing includes the celebrated reference track "You Look Good To Me" among other highlights and is strictly limited to 1,000 serial-numbered copies. Pressed on 180g heavyweight, uncolored virgin vinyl using a metal master press, the audio is sourced from the latest 96kHz/24-bit master transferred directly from the original analog tapes, ensuring outstanding fidelity. The deluxe presentation features a gatefold coated jacket with obi, a special soft vinyl outer bag, and includes lyrics and liner notes. As a limited production item, availability may be unstable and orders may be subject to cancellation depending on circumstances.

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WE GET REQUESTS (100% PURE LP)
TOWER RECORDS Dec 2025
Vinyl
$136.49

Creating God

GIA

$18.99 Jan 01, 1989

You are going to love this collection of music for Eucharist. Contents include "Song of the Body of Christ," a delightful communion song based on an ancient Hawaiian chant (with both English and Spanish texts), "I Want to Call You," perfect for RCIA, "The Lord Upholds My Life," an ostinato setting of Psalm 54, "Come to Me," drawn from one of the Scripture's most beloved texts, and "Mass of Light," a marvelous setting of music for Eucharist. Three additional songs complete the collection. "Mass of Light" represents some of David's best writing to date. In addition to a complete setting of the Ordinary, you'll find a lovely musical setting of Eucharistic Prayer IV and, best of all, the Gospel Acclamation (including one for Lent) comes complete with settings of more than 45 Gospel verses from the Lectionary, makeing this collection an indispensable resource for cantors.

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Creating God
GIA Jan 1989
CD
$18.99

GOLD

MUSIC ON VINYL

Vinyl

$48.94 Feb 27, 2026

Celebrate 25 years of smooth sophistication with GOLD, the definitive Best Of vinyl compilation by Gare du Nord. A journey through their finest moments in lounge, nu-jazz, blues and cinematic soul supervised by the creators themselves. From golden hits such as 'Pablo's Blues' and 'Marvin & Miles' to legendary deep cuts such as 'Rock Your Baby'; this brand-new anniversary collection captures the band's unmistakable flair for stylish storytelling and elegant soundscapes. Faithfully mastered from the original sources to deliver the most authentic vinyl experience possible, GOLD is a richly curated set for both longtime fans and new listeners. Released as an individually numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies on gold-colored vinyl, GOLD includes personal track-by-track commentary from the creators - making this a truly collectable release. LISTEN: https://youtu. Be/KfG8CXPES5Q * RELEASED IN CELEBRATION OF THE 25th ANNIVERSARY OF GARE DU NORD * PERSONALLY COMPILED AND CURATED BY THE ORIGINAL CREATORS * FAITHFULLY REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER SOURCES * INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE, PERSONAL TRACK-BY-TRACK COMMENTARY * LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED COPIES ON GOLD COLORED VINYL Track listing: A1 Marvin & Miles (Blue Note version) A2 Pablo's Blues A3 You're My Medicine (Blue Note version) A4 Groove Me Up (Tarantino mix) A5 Beautiful Day (Blue Note version) A6 Love Of My Life B1 How Was It For You B2 I'm Not A Woman I'm Not A Man B3 Yo... Que Pasa B4 Summertime B5 Rock Your Baby

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GOLD
MUSIC ON VINYL Feb 2026
Vinyl
$48.94

BALLADEXTROUS

CELLAR LIVE

Vinyl

$34.76 Jul 07, 2023

Sienna Dahlen & Bill Coon - Balladextrous "Se balader": a French verb meaning to stroll, wander or roam. In other words, a slow and easy movement through time. Musically-speaking, this is what Sienna Dahlen and Bill Coon set out to experience in early January of 2020 under a misty evening sky in Vancouver, BC. There was really no end goal, only the moment to honour, as living in a jazz ballad means remaining open and vulnerable while navigating silence and shaping time. We strive to sink into the soul of the story, reacting in the ways that the music needs us to do so. We listen and we follow through accordingly. Lovers of the music that was made by people like Ed Bickert and Shirley Horn, (both masters of ultra-relaxed, soulful playing and vocalizing), Dahlen and Coon also feel most at home when residing in the realms of spacious spontaneity. The tempos and vibes on this album run the gamut of sometimes unpredictably minimal and quirky, sometimes "dirgy", sometimes ballroom dance-ballad, sometimes rubato etc. (with the exception of the last song on the record which was included as a sort of tongue-in-cheek clin d'oeil as if to say "yes, we like up-tempos too"!) Each of the tunes on the album,(many well-known and others not as much), has resided in Dahlen and Coon's respective repertoires for decades. "Balladextrous" is a guaranteed mood-setter. It goes down well with a bottle of red shared among loved ones, a hot soak in a bubble bath or, perhaps a long and luxurious drive to the beach to catch the last rays of the sun. Whatever your fancy, we hope you enjoy the ride now as much as we did then. Vinyl LP pressing.

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BALLADEXTROUS
CELLAR LIVE Jul 2023
Vinyl
$34.76

UNSTOPPABLE

GREEN HILL PROD.

Vinyl

$28.99 Jan 23, 2026

The Piano Guys return with Unstoppable, a fan favorite album now on both CD & vinyl featuring their signature cinematic take on today's biggest hits. Includes stunning renditions of "As It Was," "When You're Gone," and "Easy on Me." Own the music you love in a beautifully packaged release from the viral sensations who redefine instrumental music. Don't miss this must-have addition to your collection!

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UNSTOPPABLE
GREEN HILL PROD. Jan 2026
Vinyl
$28.99

Mix & Match

DELTA BOUND

DELMARK

$15.70 Aug 21, 2012

Delta Bound celebrates Mississippi Heat's 20th year of creating wonderful blues music and their 10th recording! Fourteen original songs, twelve by leader and harmonica player Pierre Lacocque, and two written and/or arranged by lead vocalist Inetta Visor. While the record is a solid electric blues album, you will also find acoustic blues, a catchy New Orleans tune as well as a stunning version of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" written by Nina Simone and made famous by the Animals in 1965. Special guests include Heat alumnus and original member, singer Deitra Farr who delivers on three awesome songs, zydeco giant Chubby Carrier, guitarists Billy Flynn and Carl Weathersby.

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DELTA BOUND
DELMARK Aug 2012
CD
$15.70

EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE

DELMARK

$15.70 Dec 20, 2019

Now in his 90s, this enduring Chicago blues great entered the studio to create his first album in a decade-and it's on Delmark, for whom he first recorded 40 years ago! His Delmark homecoming blends his originals with takes on some classics: "I Need You So Bad," "My Ring," "Lead Me On," "Love Me or Leave Me," "Rattlesnake" and more blues with that trademark Jimmy Johnson R&B flavor. Delmark.

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EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE
DELMARK Dec 2019
CD
$15.70

CHOPIN ETUDES OP. 25 - 4 SCHERZI

WARNER CLASSICS

Vinyl

$40.99 Oct 15, 2021

Chopin is reserved, visionary and mysterious," says Beatrice Rana. "There are many layers to his music. It's pleasing to the ear and sincere in it's communication, but the deeper you go, the more you find..." For this album, Rana pairs Chopin's 12 op 25 etudes with his four scherzi, focusing on two musical genres that the composer, combining intellect and imagination, transformed into something new. "It was Chopin who invented the 'concert study'," explains Rana. "To me, the etudes seem implicitly connected, joined by a single line of expression, as if they are taking you on a journey. The scherzi are evocative pieces, full of contrasts... They represent three distinct stages of Chopin's life and creativity and it is easy to read stories into them." When Beatrice Rana played the op 25 etudes for her New York recital debut in 2019, the New York Times wrote: "If you can play Chopin's etudes comfortably, you can probably play anything written for the piano... and the best performances convey their musical riches. In that regard, Beatrice Rana set a new standard... She didn't just surmount the technical challenges; she made the pieces sound as poetic and colorful as anything Chopin ever wrote.

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CHOPIN ETUDES OP. 25 - 4 SCHERZI
WARNER CLASSICS Oct 2021
Vinyl
$40.99

HOLLYWOOD GALA

EUROARTS

Vinyl

$42.99 Sep 15, 2023

Glamorous Hollywood Gala with Blockbuster Movie Hits. The Danish National Symphony Orchestra rolls out the red carpet for a sparkling Hollywood Gala with a musical fireworks display from Oscar-winning films such as: The Bodyguard · Moulin Rouge · The Umbrellas of Cherbourg · Gladiator · Harriet · A Star Is Born. The successful Blu-ray and CD release now available on vinyl. A riveting and emotional selection of movie hits: from dramas about love and jealousy to the wildest journeys and the world's fastest cars - spiced with murder and gangsters. The evening also features a special section dedicated to music favourites from iconic Oscar-winning movies. The evening's two vocal soloists have taken audiences and the Danish press by storm. Andrea Oehlenschlæger, only 23, made headlines when she broke out as a musical star in Bodyguard - The Musical in autumn of 2021. In this concert Andrea gives her debut in the concert hall with Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You. Dilukshan Jeyaratnam, has received a Reumert Talent Award for his performance in the musical "The Prince of Egypt" and has most recently starred in musicals such as American Idiot, Urinetown, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

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HOLLYWOOD GALA
EUROARTS Sep 2023
Vinyl
$42.99

CHOPIN ETUDES OP. 25 - 4 SCHERZI

WARNER CLASSICS

Vinyl

$40.99 Oct 15, 2021

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CHOPIN ETUDES OP. 25 - 4 SCHERZI
WARNER CLASSICS Oct 2021
Vinyl
$40.99

SARAH VAUGHAN WITH MICHEL LEGRAND

SOLID

Vinyl

$63.99 Nov 15, 2024

The Michel Legrand Songbook features the timeless masterpieces of Michel Legrand, which have graced many famous French films, sung by the legendary jazz vocalist Sarah Vaughan under the direction of Legrand himself! In the 1970s, Sarah moved away from her traditional jazz vocal style and began to approach a wider range of musical genres. This album, which features beautiful masterpieces by the master of French film music Michel Legrand, is a masterpiece that brought out Sarah's new charm as a singer! LISTEN: https://youtu. Be/pBgsxjCZqgw Tracklist A1. The Summer Knows A2. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? A3. Once You've Been in Love A4. Hands of Time A5. I Was Born in Love with You B1. I Will Say Goodbye B2. Summer Me, Winter Me B3. His Eyes, Her Eyes B4. Pieces of Dreams B5. Blue, Green, Grey and Gone

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SARAH VAUGHAN WITH MICHEL LEGRAND
SOLID Nov 2024
Vinyl
$63.99

LARS EDEGRAN TRIOLIAN STRING BAND

GHB RECORDS

$16.60 ~~$16.61~~ Save 0% Jul 17, 2012

Lars Edegran is generally known as a pianist but on this new CD he is on his National Trillian tenor guitar with his string band backing him. Tracks: Blame It on the Blues, I'm Glad for Your Sake, La Rosita, That Old Gang of Mine, Black Cat on the Fence, You Tell Me Your Dream, I'll Tell You Mine, the Red Rose Rag, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Aquellos Ojos Verde (Green Eyes), Savior, Lead Me, Lest I Stray, South, a Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid, Sobre Las Olas (Over the Waves), We'll Meet Again, Cecelia.

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LARS EDEGRAN TRIOLIAN STRING BAND
GHB RECORDS Jul 2012
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DANCE OF THE OCTOPUS
HEP RECORDS Sep 1995
CD
$15.99

PAVAROTTI: THE LOST CONCERT - LIVE AT LLANGOLLEN

MERCURY STUDIOS

Blu-Ray

$25.99 Nov 21, 2025

Luciano Pavarotti -"Pavarotti: The Lost Concert - Live at Llangollen 1995" [Blu-ray] Marking the 40th anniversary of winning a singing competition as part of a choir from his hometown of Modena in 1955, Luciano Pavarotti returns to North Wales to give a special gala concert at the 1995 Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod. Joining him that evening is the BBC Philharmonic, the modern-day Corale Gioachino Rossini, Modena and, for the finale, Japanese soprano Atzuko Kawahara. The program combines popular operatic arias & choruses, Neapolitan songs, one of Pavarotti's own compositions, orchestral overtures & interludes, and a special duet for the finale. The final moments of an unforgettable event are made even more emotional by the singer's departing words. "You don't know what this is for me, what it is for me to try to concentrate for myself tonight, in what I am doing, with my music - while a million of memories come to my mind. For forty years, I was looking for this day... thank you for the beautiful night that you gave to me." Blu-ray with 20-page booklet.

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PAVAROTTI: THE LOST CONCERT - LIVE AT LLANGOLLEN
MERCURY STUDIOS Nov 2025
Blu-Ray
$25.99

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LOVE YOU MADLY LIVE AT BUBBA'S

2XHD

Vinyl

$107.49 Mar 07, 2025

This 2021 winner of Postive Feedback's Writer's Choice Award for it's reel-to-reel edition, recorded in 1982 by the legendary Mack Emerman, documents an underrepresented chapter of Monty Alexander's recording output, live at Fort Lauderdale's Club Bubba. It's Monty at his best, with a great band and incredibly high-energy performance! Now available as a 200-gram 45 RPM double LP set! Recorded live at Bubba's Jazz Restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on August 6, 1982. 'The more of these albums the 2xHD label uncovers, remasters and releases, the more you appreciate the work it's doing in letting us rediscover superb performances. These live recordings, taken from pianist Monty Alexander's own collection and made in August 1982 at a Florida 'Jazz Restaurant', were captured by engineer Mack Emerman, founder of Criteria Studios - home of many a big-selling recording. Here we find a tight quartet featuring bassist Paul Berner, Duffy Jackson on drums and extra percussion from Robert Thomas, Jr. Performing truly spirited, generous 92 minutes of an exceptionally well-recorded and finely remastered performance. You really don't have to be a beard stroking Jazzer to enjoy this. An ear for a great recording of fine performances will do.' - 5/5 stars, Andre Everard, Hi-Fi News & Review Monty Alexander - Love You Madly 200-gram 45 RPM double LP set 2xHD mastering on Nagra equipment by Rene Laflamme Lacquers cut all-analog at Bernie Grundman Mastering on tube cutting equipment Tracklist: Side A Arthur's Theme Blues For Edith Side B Love You Madly Samba de Orfeu Side C Reggae Later SKJ Side D Fungii Mama

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LOVE YOU MADLY LIVE AT BUBBA'S
2XHD Mar 2025
Vinyl
$107.49

SINGS THE RODGERS AND HART SONG BOOK

VERVE

Vinyl

$58.99 Mar 27, 2026

Ella Fitzgerald -"Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series)" The second of her celebrated song book albums and heralded as one of the best vocal jazz albums ever made, Ella and arranger/conductor Buddy Bregman began work on the Rodgers and Hart sessions three months after the release of her Cole Porter Song Book. Like it's predecessor, it features the cream of West Coast session musicians, many of whom graced the fabulous recordings that Frank Sinatra was making around the same time in the same studio. Maynard Ferguson (trumpet), Milt Bernhart (trombone), Herb Geller, Ted Nash & Bud Shank (reeds), Barney Kessel (guitar), and Alvin Stoller (drums). The album is full of standards that everyone knows and loves, but in Ella's hands these songs become even more special. Standouts include "There's a Small Hotel," "You Took Advantage of Me," and the perennial, "My Funny Valentine." Verve's Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180g vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.

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SINGS THE RODGERS AND HART SONG BOOK
VERVE Mar 2026
Vinyl
$58.99