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CATALOGUE NR: CDA67925  (barcode: 0034571179254)
RECORD LABEL: Hyperion
FORMAT: CD  DURATION: 61 minutes
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 02-Apr-2013

COMPOSER: Joseph Haydn
TITLE: Piano Concertos
TRACKS: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D HobXVIII:11. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in F HobXVIII:3. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G HobXVIII:4.
CONDUCTOR: Bernard Labadie
ARTISTS: Marc-Andre Hamelin   Les Violins du Roy    

- May-2013 4 star BBC Music Mag. - May-2013 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'In the early F major Concerto, Marc-Andre Hamelin weaves an enchanting spell, approaching an almost Mozartian pathos.'

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CATALOGUE NR: BIS1992  (barcode: 7318599919928)
RECORD LABEL: BIS
FORMAT: Hybrid SACD  DURATION: 67 minutes
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 25-Feb-2013

COMPOSER: Ernest Bloch  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: In The Shadow of War
TRACKS: Schelomo Hebrew Rhapsody for cello and orchestra (Ernest Bloch). Oration Concerto Elegiaco for solo cello and orchestra H180 (Frank Bridge). The Loneliest Wilderness Elegy for cello and orchestra (Stephen Hough).
ORCHESTRA: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Tapiola Sinfonietta
CONDUCTOR: Hugh Wolff and Gabor Takacs-Nagy
ARTISTS: Steven Isserlis      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Please note: the music on this Hybrid Super Audio CD can be played back in Stereo (CD and SACD) as well as in 5.0 Surround sound (SACD) - Jun-2013 5 star BBC Music Mag. - May-2013 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Isserlis's spellbinding advocacy of Bridge's masterpiece has acquired a plangent intensity.'

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CATALOGUE NR: CHSA5108  (barcode: 0095115510827)
RECORD LABEL: Chandos
FORMAT: Hybrid SACD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 25-Feb-2013

COMPOSER: Witold Lutoslawski
TITLE: Orchestral Works 4
TRACKS: Dance Preludes. Symphony number 1. Partita. Chain 2.
ORCHESTRA: BBC Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Edward Gardner
ARTISTS: Michael Collins   Tasmin Little    

- Jun-2013 4 star BBC Music Mag. - May-2013 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Gardner's recording of the First Symphony with the BBC Symphony Orchestra is easily the best-played version with the most vivid sound.'

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CATALOGUE NR: CC72543  (barcode: 608917254327)
RECORD LABEL: Challenge Classics
FORMAT: Hybrid SACD
PRICE: including VAT £ 14.99
RELEASE DATE: 28-Jan-2013

COMPOSER: Felix Mendelssohn
TRACKS: Symphony Number 2 in B flat Lobgesang - Hymn of Praise opus 52.
ORCHESTRA: Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Jan Willem de Vriend
ARTISTS: Machteld Baumans   Judith van Wanroij   Patrick Henckens  

- May-2013 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'For a fresh, immediate statement that compels one's attention from start to finish, I cannot imagine anyone being disappointed by this new release, which is also beautifully recorded.'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4164712  (barcode: 5099941647127)
RECORD LABEL: EMI
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 11.99
RELEASE DATE: 04-Mar-2013

COMPOSER: Jacques Ibert  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Tine
TRACKS: Impromptu (Ibert). Albumblatt (Glazunov). Legende (Enescu). Perpetuum Mobile (Bull). Storiella d'amore / Sole e amore / E l'uccellino / Canto d'anime / Avanti Urania (Puccini originally for voice and piano arranged for trumpet and piano by Tine). Divertimento for solo trumpet opus 21 (Sommerfeldt). 7 canciones populares espanolas - 7 Popular Spanish Songs : El Pano Moruno - The Moorish cloth / Seguidilla Murciana / Asturiana - Asturian / Jota / Nana / Cancion - Song / Polo (de Falla originally for voice and piano arranged for trumpet and piano by Tine). Trumpet Sonata (Hindemith). Vocalise (Rachmaninov originally for voice and piano arranged for trumpet and piano by Tine). Marche Miniature Viennoise (Kreisler). Toy Soldiers March (Kreisler originally for violin and piano arranged for trumpet and piano by Tine).
ARTISTS: Tine Thing Helseth   Kathryn Stott    

- May-2013 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Tine Thing Helseth's playing is stylish in every way and there is ready virtuosity when required.'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4778107  (barcode: 0028947781073)
RECORD LABEL: Deutsche Grammophon
FORMAT: CD  DURATION: 83 minutes
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.77
RELEASE DATE: 04-Feb-2013

COMPOSER: Franz Schubert
TITLE: Schubert
TRACKS: Piano Sonata Number 16 in Aminor D845. Piano Sonata Number 21 in B flat major D960.
ARTISTS: Maria Joao Pires      

- May-2013 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'The Portuguese pianist produces such a consistently beautiful, mellow sound that one is liable to be seduced by that single element of her playing.'

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CATALOGUE NR: CDA679012  (barcode: 0034571179018)
RECORD LABEL: Hyperion
FORMAT: 2 CD Set  DURATION: 118 minutes
PRICE: including VAT £ 25.00
RELEASE DATE: 25-Feb-2013

COMPOSER: Johann Sebastian Bach
TITLE: St John Passion BWV245
ORCHESTRA: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
CONDUCTOR: Stephen Layton
ARTISTS: Ian Bostridge   Neal Davies   Carolyn Sampson   Polyphony

- Apr-2013 4 star BBC Music Mag. - May-2013 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Stephen Layton's outstanding new St John is about as state-of-the-art a Bach Passion recording as you'll hear.'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4785242  (barcode: 0028947852421)
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: CD  DURATION: 60 minutes
PRICE: including VAT £ 10.57
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RELEASE DATE: 08-Apr-2013

COMPOSER: Antonio Vivaldi  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Alleluia
TRACKS: In furore RV626 : In furore iustissimae irae / Miserationum Pater piissime / Tunc meus fletus / Alleluia - Allegro (Vivaldi). Saeviat Tellus Inter Rigores HWV240 : Saeviat tellus inter rigores / Carmelitarum ut confirmet ordinem / O nox dulcis quies serena / Stellae fidae vobis sit cura / Sub tantae Virginis tutela / Alleluia (Handel). In caelo stele clare fulgescant : In caelo stelle clare fulgescant / Exulta exulta o cor! / Care Deus cordis amantis / Alleluia (Porpora). Exsultate Jubilate K165 : Allegro / Care Deus cordis amantis / Tu virginum corona / Allelujia (Mozart).
CONDUCTOR: Giovanni Antonini
ARTISTS: Julia Lezhneva   Il Giardino Armonico    

- May-2013 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Julia Lezhneva fields a voice of bell-like purity, even throughout its compass, immaculately fluent in coloratura.' - Apr-2013 IRR Outstanding Recording 'This is a quite lovely disc - fabulous music, ravishingly sung and played.'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4785189  (barcode: 0028947851899)
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.77
RELEASE DATE: 11-Feb-2013

COMPOSER: Richard Wagner
TITLE: Wagner
TRACKS: Die Walkure : Ein Schwert verhiess mir der Vater. Siegfried : Dass der mein Vater nicht ist... Du holdes Voglein!. Rienzi : Allmacht'ger Vater blick herab. Tannhauser : Inbrunst im Herzen. Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg : Am stillen Herd. Lohengrin : In fernem Land unnahbar euren Schritten. Wesendonck : Der Engel Wagner / Stehe still / Im Treibhaus / Schmerzen / Traume.
ORCHESTRA: Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
CONDUCTOR: Donald Runnicles
ARTISTS: Jonas Kaufmann      

- May-2013 5 star BBC Music Mag. - May-2013 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Mighty tents are already pitched on this summit of early Wagnerian arioso but Kaufmann and Runnicles are up there with them.' - Apr-2013 IRR Outstanding Recording 'This is dramatic singing of the highest order, Kaufmann asserts his position not only as the outstanding Wagner tenor of his day but one of the greatest of all time.'

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CATALOGUE NR: OA1099D  (barcode: 0809478010999)
RECORD LABEL: Opus Arte
FORMAT: 2 DVD Video Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 28.69
RELEASE DATE: 28-Jan-2013

COMPOSER: Christoph Willibald Gluck
TITLE: Iphigenie en Aulide / Iphigenie en Tauride
TRACKS: Veronique Gens / Salome Haller / Nicolas Teste / Anne Sofie von Otter - Aulide. Mireille Delunsch / Laurent Alvaro / Jean-Francois Lapointe / Yann Beuron / Salome Haller - Tauride.
CONDUCTOR: Marc Minkowski
ARTISTS: Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Picture Format: NTSC 16:9 / Sound Format: 2.0 LPCM Stereo DTS 5.1 / Region Code: 0 / Duration: 267 minutes / Recorded: live at De Nederlandse Opera Sep-2011 / Subtitles: English French German Dutch Korean - May-2013 5 star BBC Music Mag. - May-2013 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Veronique Gen's Iphigenia is touching and beautifully sung.'

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