CATALOGUE NR: CDA67656
RECORD LABEL: Hyperion
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 11.99 including VAT, or £ 10.20 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 31-Mar-2008

COMPOSER: Friedrich Gulda  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Marc-Andre Hamelin - in a state of jazz
TRACKS: Play Piano Play : Exercise No.1 (Friedrich Gulda). Sonata No.2 op.54 (Nikolai Kapustin). Play Piano Play : Exercise No.4 (Friedrich Gulda). Sonate en etat de jazz : Evocation d'un tango / Reminiscence d’un charleston / Reflets d’un blues / Provocation de samba (Alexis Weissenberg). Play Piano Play : Exercise No.5 (Friedrich Gulda). Prelude and Fugue (Friedrich Gulda). Six arrangements of songs sung by Charles Trenet : Coin de rue / Vous oubliez votre cheval / En Avril a Paris / Boum! / Vous qui passez sans me voir / Menilmontant (Alexis Weissenberg). Jazz Sonata (George Antheil).
ARTISTS: Marc-Andre Hamelin      

- May-2008 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Jun-2008 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'his absolute technical mastery is of course expected; less so is the idiomatic way he slips into jazzman mode. Yet there's always the sense of both genres and of an entirely new territory where more or less anything goes'

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CATALOGUE NR: LSO0661
RECORD LABEL: LSO Live
FORMAT: Hybrid SACD
PRICE: £ 6.99 including VAT, or £ 5.95 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 31-Mar-2008

COMPOSER: Gustav Mahler
TRACKS: Symphony No.6 in A minor.
ORCHESTRA: London Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Valery Gergiev

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: DSD recording live at the Barbican Nov-2007 - May-2008 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Jun-2008 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'this is one of the most exciting accounts on disc - definitely one for the shelves'

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CATALOGUE NR: CDA67655
RECORD LABEL: Hyperion
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 11.99 including VAT, or £ 10.20 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 31-Mar-2008

COMPOSER: Ferdinand Hiller
TITLE: The Romantic Piano Concerto 45
TRACKS: Piano Concerto No.1 in F minor op.5. Piano Concerto No.2 in F sharp minor op.69. Piano Concerto No.3 in A flat major op.170 'Concerto espressivo’'.
ORCHESTRA: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Howard Shelley

- May-2008 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Jun-2008 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Hyperion's crusade to dust off long-forgotten classics has resulted in some real gems, quite a few of them, it seems, played by Howard Shelley. This latest is no disappointment.'

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CATALOGUE NR: ZZT0804026
RECORD LABEL: Zig Zag
FORMAT: 6 CD Set
PRICE: £ 28.99 including VAT, or £ 24.67 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 28-Apr-2008

COMPOSER: Ludwig van Beethoven
TITLE: Complete Symphonies
TRACKS: Symphony No.1 in C op.21. Symphony No.2 in D op.36. Symphony No.3 in E flat op.55 'Eroica'. Symphony No.4 in B flat op.60. Symphony No.5 in C minor op.67. Symphony No.6 in F op.68 'Pastoral'. Symphony No.7 in A op.92. Symphony No.8 in F op.93. Symphony No.9 in D minor op.125 'Choral'. The Consecration of the House Overture. Coriolan Overture. The Ruins of Athens Overture. The Creatures of Prometheus Overture. Marcia alla Turca Overture.
ORCHESTRA: Anima Eterna
CONDUCTOR: Jos van Immerseel

- Jun-2008 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'The eternal question with new Beethoven symphony cycles - is there room for another? When it's as good as this, absolutely.'

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CATALOGUE NR: BISCD1578
RECORD LABEL: BIS
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 03-Mar-2008

COMPOSER: John Pickard
TITLE: The Flight of Icarus
TRACKS: The Flight of Icarus. The Spindle of Necessity for trombone percussion and strings. Channel Firing.
ORCHESTRA: Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Martyn Brabbins
ARTISTS: Christian Lindberg      

- Jun-2008 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'A real treat here from a composer I hadn't heard before, John Pickard. His soundscapes are often rich and not a little threatening, and there is an almost Janacekian sense of the inexorability of nature.'

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CATALOGUE NR: SRCD233
RECORD LABEL: Lyrita
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 11.75 including VAT, or £ 10.00 excluding VAT
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RELEASE DATE: 14-Jan-2008

COMPOSER: Sir Arnold Bax
TRACKS: Symphony No.2. Symphony No.5 in C sharp minor.
ORCHESTRA: London Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Myer Fredman and Raymond Leppard

- Jun-2008 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Its something of a a bumper month for Bax fans. Not only can they enjoy Vernon Handley's new disc of tone-poems, but they can revisit classic accounts of the Second and Fifth symphonies, conducted by Myer Fredman and Raymond Leppard respectively.'

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CATALOGUE NR: V5116
RECORD LABEL: Naive
FORMAT: DVD Video
PRICE: £ 22.65 including VAT, or £ 19.28 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 25-Feb-2008

COMPOSER: Gustav Mahler  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Transcriptions
TRACKS: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen : Die zwei blauen Augen (Mahler). Scheherazade : La flute enchantee (Ravel). Adagietto from Symphony No.5 : Kein deutscher Himmel (Mahler). Scheherazade : L'indifferent (Ravel). Wesendonk Lieder : Im Treibhaus (Wagner). Death and the Maiden Quartet : Grablied (Schubert). Nacht und Traume op.43 No.2 D827 : Nacht und Traume (Schubert). Adagio for Strings op.11 : Agnus Dei (Barber). Four Seasons : Winter (Vivaldi). Les Angelus (Debussy). Mother Goose : The Fairy Garden / Pavane (Ravel). Alexander Nevsky : The Field of the Dead (Prokofiev). Lieder aus der Jugendzeit : Scheiden und Meiden (Mahler). Preludes, Book I : Des pas sur la neige (Debussy). Ruckert-Lieder : Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Mahler). Etude for piano op.10 No.6 : Lacrimosa (Chopin). Trois Poemes de Stephane Mallarme : Soupir (Ravel).
CONDUCTOR: Laurence Equilbey
ARTISTS: Accentus   Les Monts du Reuil    

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Picture Format: NTSC / Sound Format: Dolby Digital 5.1 - Stereo / Region Code: 0 - Jun-2008 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'If you have missed the two marvellous 'Transcriptions' volumes from Laurence Equilbey and her wonderful Accentus group, this might be a perfect introduction. Otherwise, this is a fine complement. A film to match the albums for sheer quality.'

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CATALOGUE NR: CHAN10446
RECORD LABEL: Chandos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 31-Mar-2008

COMPOSER: Sir Arnold Bax
TITLE: Tone Poems volume 2
TRACKS: Three Northern Ballads. Into the Twilight. The Happy Forest. Nympholept. Red Autumn.
ORCHESTRA: BBC Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Vernon Handley

- May-2008 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Jun-2008 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'It is almost as though he [Handley] acquires more vigour with the passing years and the result here is a disc that bristles with energy and excitement. Marvellous.'

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CATALOGUE NR: HMC90190911
RECORD LABEL: Harmonia Mundi
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: £ 23.99 including VAT, or £ 20.42 excluding VAT
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RELEASE DATE: 28-Apr-2008

COMPOSER: Ludwig van Beethoven
TITLE: Piano Sonatas volume 4
TRACKS: Sonata for Piano No.5 in C minor op.10/1. Sonata for Piano No.6 in F op.10/2. Sonata for Piano No.7 in D op.10/3. Sonata for Piano No.15 in D op.28 'Pastoral'. Sonata for Piano No.19 in G minor op.49/1. Sonata for Piano No.20 in G op.49/2. Sonata for Piano No.26 in E flat op.81a 'Les adieux'. Sonata for Piano No.30 in E op.109. Sonata for Piano No.31 in A flat op.110. Sonata for Piano No.32 in C minor op.111.
ARTISTS: Paul Lewis      

- Jun-2008 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Every one of Paul Lewis's now-complete Beethoven Sonatas series has been selected as an Editor's Choice. Deservedly so.'

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CATALOGUE NR: 7559799494
RECORD LABEL: Nonesuch
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.95 including VAT, or £ 11.02 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Steve Reich
TITLE: Daniel Variations
TRACKS: Daniel Variations : I saw a dream / My name is Daniel Pearl - I'm a Jewish American from Encino California / Let the dream fall back on the dreaded / I sure hope Daniel likes my music when the day is done. Variations for Vibes Pianos and Strings.
ORCHESTRA: London Sinfonietta
CONDUCTOR: Alan Pierson
ARTISTS: Los Angeles Master Chorale      

- Jun-2008 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Small consolation to say that it has inspired some fine works of art. But this is a very special piece, with Reich trying to make sense of the horror by juxtaposing Pearl’s statements with biblical readings.'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4776600
RECORD LABEL: Deutsche Grammophon
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 16.99 including VAT, or £ 14.46 excluding VAT
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RELEASE DATE: 12-May-2008

COMPOSER: Giacomo Puccini
TITLE: La Boheme - complete
ORCHESTRA: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
CONDUCTOR: Bertrand de Billy
ARTISTS: Rolando Villazon   Anna Netrebko   Nicole Cabell   Boaz Daniel

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded live at the Gasteig in Munich - Jun-2008 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'any new complete Puccini opera is to be cheered nowadays and this one is very fine'

Currently scheduled to be available 12-May-2008. Order now and we will ship as soon as possible after that date.

CATALOGUE NR: V5130
RECORD LABEL: Naive
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 14.99 including VAT, or £ 12.76 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 28-Apr-2008

COMPOSER: Georges Bizet
TRACKS: Carmen : Prelude / Entr'acte 1 / Entr'acte 2 / Entr'acte 3. L'Arlesienne Orchestral Suite No.1 : Overture - Allegro deciso / Minuet - Allegro giocoso / Adagietto / Carillon - Allegro moderato. Incidental music (version by Marc Minkowski) : Pastoral entr'acte & chorus Act 2 scene 1 / Melodrama Act 2 scene 2 / Chorus Act 2 Scene 2 / Melodrama Act 2 Scene 2 / Melodrama Act 3 Scene 4 / Farandole Act 3 Scene 4 / Entr'acte, Act 3 Scene 5 / Chorus Act 3 Scene 5. Orchestral Suite No.2 (Ernest Guiraud) : Pastoral / Intermezzo / Minuet / Farandole.
CONDUCTOR: Marc Minkowski
ARTISTS: Les Musiciens du Louvre   Choeur De L'Opera de Lyon    

- Jun-2008 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'the L'Arlesienne suites have rarely sounded so genuinely moving'

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