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CATALOGUE NR: NMCD156  (barcode: 5023363015622)
RECORD LABEL: NMC
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 11.75
RELEASE DATE: 16-May-2011

COMPOSER: Sir Harrison Birtwistle
TITLE: Night's Blackbird
TRACKS: The Shadow of Night. Night's Black Bird. The Cry of Anubis.
ORCHESTRA: Halle Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Ryan Wigglesworth
ARTISTS: Owen Slade      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Gramophone Awards 2011 Shortlist - Contemporary - BBC Music Magazine 2012 Award Winner - Sep-2011 4 star BBC Music Mag. 'The pairing with the “richly refined elegy” of The Cry of Anubis, a tuba concerto mined from the opera The Second Mrs Kong, finds the Hallé Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth on top form.' - Gramophone 2011 Award Winner

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CATALOGUE NR: SIGCD280  (barcode: 0635212028025)
RECORD LABEL: Signum Classics
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 18.95
RELEASE DATE: 03-Oct-2011

COMPOSER: Hector Berlioz
TITLE: Grand Messe des Morts op.5
ORCHESTRA: Wroclaw Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Paul McCreesh
ARTISTS: Gabrieli Consort & Players      

- BBC Music Magazine 2012 Award Winner - Nov-2011 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Nov-2011 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Certainly not for the faint- hearted either in terms of its enormous scale or its spectrum of powerful, visionary espression. The impact is overwhelming.'

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CATALOGUE NR: CHSA5084  (barcode: 0095115508428)
RECORD LABEL: Chandos
FORMAT: Hybrid SACD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 01-Nov-2010

COMPOSER: Maurice Ravel  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Piano Concerto in G major. Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (Ravel). Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra (Debussy). Valse Folle. Papillons blancs. Papillons noirs. Eau courante. Eau dormante. Toccata (Massenet).
ORCHESTRA: BBC Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Yan Pascal Tortelier
ARTISTS: Jean Efflam Bavouzet      

- BBC Music Magazine 2012 Award Winner 'BBC Music Magazine 2012 Awards Nomination' - Jan-2011 5 star BBC Music Mag. '….it is Debussy’s infrequently aired Fantaisie which is the disc’s trump card – a “voluptuous” and “tantalising foretaste of things to come” from the then young composer.' - Gramophone 2011 Award Winner

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CATALOGUE NR: 4782262  (barcode: 0028947822622)
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.79
RELEASE DATE: 17-Jan-2011

COMPOSER: Henry Purcell
TITLE: O Solitude
TRACKS: If music be the food of love - First setting: 1692. Come ye sons of art : Sound the Trumpet. Come ye sons of art away - Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary II : Strike the viol touch the lute. Chacony Z628. King Arthur or The British Worthy : Fairest Isle - Venus / What Power art thou - Genius. Chacony in G minor Z730. The Fairy Queen : One charming night. Pausanius the Betrayer of his Country : Sweeter than Roses. Dido and Aeneas : When I am laid in earth. The Gordian Knot Untied : Overture / Air / Rondeau / Air / Jig / Chaconne / Air / Minuet. Ode for St Cecilia's Day 'Welcome to all the pleasures' Z339 : Here the Deities approve. Oedipus : Music for a While. O dive custos Auriacae domus Z504. O Solitude Z406. Pavan Number 5 in G minor a 4 Z752. An Evening Hymn Z193.
ORCHESTRA: Accademia Bizantina
CONDUCTOR: Stefano Montanari
ARTISTS: Andreas Scholl      

- BBC Music Magazine 2012 Award Winner 'BBC Music Magazine 2012 Awards Nomination' - Jan-2011 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: 6420220  (barcode: 5099964202204)
RECORD LABEL: Virgin
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 11.99
RELEASE DATE: 22-Nov-2010

COMPOSER: Robert Schumann
TITLE: Piano Works
TRACKS: Humoreske Opus 20. Studien fur den Pedalflugel Opus 56. Gesange der Fruhe Opus 133 : Number 1 Im ruhigen Tempo / Number 2 Belebt nicht zu rasch / Number 3 Lebhaft / Number 4 Bewegt / Number 5 Im Anfange ruhiges im Verlauf bewegteres Tempo.
ARTISTS: Piotr Anderszewski      

- BBC Music Magazine 2012 Award Winner 'BBC Music Magazine 2012 Awards Nomination' - Jan-2011 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Jan-2011 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Is it me or is Anderszewski, this most elusive of pianists, recording more regularly these days? Cause for celebration if so!'

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CATALOGUE NR: HMC902076  (barcode: 0794881984527)
RECORD LABEL: Harmonia Mundi
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 31-Jan-2011

COMPOSER: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
TITLE: String Quartets
TRACKS: String Quartet Number 4 in C K157. String Quartet Number 17 in B flat major K458 'The Hunt'. String Quartet Number 22 in B flat major K589.
ARTISTS: Jerusalem Quartet      

- BBC Music Magazine 2012 Award Winner 'BBC Music Magazine 2012 Awards Nomination' - Apr-2011 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: SIGCD248  (barcode: 0635212024829)
RECORD LABEL: Signum Classics
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.65
RELEASE DATE: 28-Mar-2011

COMPOSER: Tomas Luis de Victoria  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Requiem
TRACKS: Requiem Mass 1605 (Tomás Luis de Victoria). Versa Est in Luctum. Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae (Alonso Lobo).
CONDUCTOR: Nigel Short
ARTISTS: Tenebrae      

- BBC Music Magazine 2012 Award Winner 'BBC Music Magazine 2012 Awards Nomination' - Jun-2011 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: ACC20214  (barcode: 4260234830040)
RECORD LABEL: Accentus Music
FORMAT: DVD Video
PRICE: including VAT £ 18.49
RELEASE DATE: 31-Jan-2011

COMPOSER: Gustav Mahler
TRACKS: Symphony Number 9 in D. Bonus: Conductor Camera - Andante comodo.
ORCHESTRA: Lucerne Festival Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Claudio Abbado

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Picture Format: NTSC 16:9 / Sound Format: PCM Stereo DTS 5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1 / Region Code: 0 / Duration: 94 minutes / Recorded: live from Lucerne 2010 - BBC Music Magazine 2012 Award Winner 'BBC Music Magazine 2012 Awards Nomination' - Jul-2011 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Jun-2011 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'strongly recommended.' - Apr-2011 IRR Outstanding Recording 'this is a mind -blowing experience.'

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CATALOGUE NR: AVANTI10342  (barcode: 5414706103425)
RECORD LABEL: Avanti
FORMAT: Hybrid SACD
PRICE: including VAT £ 13.25
RELEASE DATE: 17-Jun-2011

COMPOSER: George Frideric Handel  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Recital
TRACKS: Suite in B flat major HWV434 (Handel). Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel opus 24 (Brahms). Partita Number 1 in B flat BWV825 (JS Bach). Fantasy and Fugue in G minor BWV542 (JS Bach transcribed for piano by Franz Liszt R120 SW463). Vallee D'Obermann SW156 R8 from Annees de Pelerinage premiere annee Suisse (Liszt).
ARTISTS: Francesco Piemontesi      

- BBC Music Magazine 2012 Award Winner - Sep-2011 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: HMC95208890  (barcode: 3149020208878)
RECORD LABEL: Harmonia Mundi
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 26.50
RELEASE DATE: 03-Oct-2011

COMPOSER: George Frideric Handel
TITLE: Agrippina - complete
TRACKS: Drama per musica in tre atti original version Dec-1709 - Libretto di Vincenzo Grimani. BONUS DVD. Meet all the participants in this film made by Nayo Titzin in 2005 at the time of the Berlin production. Director Vincent Boussard explains his theatrical conception of the opera while Rene Jacobs reveals all about this highly metaphysical work!
ORCHESTRA: Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin
CONDUCTOR: Rene Jacobs
ARTISTS: Alexandrina Pendatchanska   Sunhae Im   Bejun Mehta   Marcos Fink

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: includes bonus DVD-Video - BBC Music Magazine 2012 Award Winner 'BBC Music Magazine 2012 Awards Nomination' - Dec-2011 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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