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CATALOGUE NR: ODE12162  (barcode: 0761195121627)
RECORD LABEL: Ondine
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 28-Jan-2013

COMPOSER: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: In this Moonlit Night
TRACKS: Six Songs opus 73 (Tchaikovsky). Songs and Dances of Death (Mussorgsky). All are asleep opus 17/10. Minuet opus 26/9. Not the wind from on high opus 17/5. Winter path opus 32/4. Stalactites opus 26/6. Anxiously beats the heart opus 17/9 (Taneyev).
ARTISTS: Dmitri Hvorostovsky   Ivari Ilja    

- Apr-2013 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Apr-2013 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'He brings to his interpretations a new richness and darkness of timbre, beautifully polished as it always was.'

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CATALOGUE NR: GLO5252  (barcode: 8711525525207)
RECORD LABEL: Globe
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.85
RELEASE DATE: 07-Dec-2012

COMPOSER: Arvo Part
TITLE: Te Deum
TRACKS: Wallfahrtslied - Pilgrims' Song for male choir and string orchestra. Orient & Occident for string orchestra. Nunc dimittis for mixed choir a cappella. Fratres for string orchestra and percussion. Te Deum for 3 choirs prepared piano string orchestra and tape.
ORCHESTRA: Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Risto Joost
ARTISTS: Netherlands Chamber Choir   Gordan Nikolic    

- Apr-2013 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'This is an absolutely outstanding release, bringing together a number of particularly intriguing works and the Dutch performers have risen to the occasion with much inspiration.'

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CATALOGUE NR: 6026722  (barcode: 5099960267221)
RECORD LABEL: Virgin
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 18.49
RELEASE DATE: 07-Jan-2013

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TITLE: The Rape of Lucretia - complete
CONDUCTOR: Oliver Knussen
ARTISTS: Ian Bostridge   Angelika Kirchschlager   Susan Gritton   Peter Coleman-Wright

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded live in 2011 at the Aldeburgh Festival - Apr-2013 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Apr-2013 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Ian Bostridge is on top form, engagingly conversational and managing to invest Ronald Duncan's contorted libretto with poetic feeling.'

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CATALOGUE NR: AVSA9893  (barcode: 7619986398938)
RECORD LABEL: Alia Vox
FORMAT: Hybrid SACD
PRICE: including VAT £ 9.19
RELEASE DATE: 22-Oct-2012

COMPOSER: Francois Couperin
TITLE: Pieces de violes 1728
TRACKS: Premiere suite: Prelude / Allemande legere / Courante / Sarabande grave / Gavotte / Gigue Passacaille ou Chaconne. Deuxieme suite: Prelude / Fuguete / Pompe funebre / La Chemise blanche.
ARTISTS: Jordi Savall   Ton Koopman   Ariane Maurette  

- Apr-2013 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Although still at the beginning of his career, Savall, serenely supported by Ton Koopman, plays with consummate mastery.'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4645462  (barcode: 5099946454621)
RECORD LABEL: Virgin
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 11.99
RELEASE DATE: 07-Jan-2013

COMPOSER: Felix Mendelssohn  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: String Quartets
TRACKS: String Quartet Number 2 in A minor opus 13 (Felix Mendelssohn). String Quartet in E flat major (Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel). String Quartet Number 6 in F minor opus 80 (Felix Mendelssohn).
ARTISTS: Quatuor Ebene      

- Apr-2013 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Apr-2013 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'This disc abounds in the kind of lively engagement with the music that we've come to expect from Quatuor Ebene, caught up-close and personal by the microphone.' - Mar-2013 IRR Outstanding Recording 'This is marvellous playing, worthily recorded.'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4790086  (barcode: 0028947900863)
RECORD LABEL: Deutsche Grammophon
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.77
RELEASE DATE: 07-Jan-2013

COMPOSER: Johannes Brahms  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Violin Concerto in D opus 77 (Brahms). 3 Romances For Violin And Piano opus 22 (Clara Schumann).
ORCHESTRA: Staatskapelle Dresden
CONDUCTOR: Christian Thielemann
ARTISTS: Lisa Batiashvili      

- Apr-2013 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Even before Lisa Batiashvili makes her entrance, we can sense this will be an outstanding performance.'

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CATALOGUE NR: 5060192780222  (barcode: 5060192780222)
RECORD LABEL: Stone Records
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 28-Jan-2013

COMPOSER: Franz Schubert
TITLE: Winterreise D911
ARTISTS: Matthew Rose   Gary Matthewman    

- Apr-2013 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Like Hans Hotter, Matthew Rose leaves one with a sense of a vast burden of suffering determindedly endured against appalling odds.'

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CATALOGUE NR: DCD34117  (barcode: 801918341175)
RECORD LABEL: Delphian
FORMAT: CD  DURATION: 72 minutes
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.50
RELEASE DATE: 14-Jan-2013

COMPOSER: Sir Hubert Parry
TITLE: From a city window
TRACKS: Good-night. To Lucasta on Going to the Wars. Sleep. Where shall the Lover Rest. What Part of Dread Eternity. Julia. From a City Window. My Heart is like a Singing Bird. Looking Backward. Proud Maisie. The Faithful Lover. Bright Star. Crabbed Age and Youth. Nightfall in Winter. Grapes. O Never Say that I was False of Heart. Dirge in Woods. A Girl to her Glass. There. O Mistress mine. Whence. Willow Willow Willow. And Yet I Love Her till I Die. Lay a Garland on my Hearse. Armida's Garden. If Thou would'st Ease thine Heart. A Welsh Lullaby.
ARTISTS: Ailish Tynan   Susan Bickley   William Dazeley   Iain Burnside

- Jun-2013 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Apr-2013 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Full of subtle vocal nuance, excellent diction and discerning accompaniment, the performances are exquisite.'

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CATALOGUE NR: NMCD182  (barcode: 5023363018227)
RECORD LABEL: NMC
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 11.75
RELEASE DATE: 24-Sep-2012

COMPOSER: Jim Aitchison
TITLE: English Violin Duos
TRACKS: Syruw : Still / Gently restless / Working / Capricious / Distant (Jim Aitchison). Spielend (John McCabe). Sonata for Two Violins (EJ Moeran). Sonata IV (William Croft). Eight Duos : English Dance / Slavonic Dance / Still Afternoon / Bells at Evening / Pastoral / Contra-Pastoral / Fugue and Dance / Arietta (David Matthews). Theme & Variations (Alan Rawsthorne).
ARTISTS: Retorica   Philippa Mo   Harriet Mackenzie  

- Apr-2013 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Harriet Mackenzie and Philippa Mo project the music's often intricate contrapuntal interweaving with faultless technique and unfailing insight.'

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CATALOGUE NR: OP30539  (barcode: 709861305391)
RECORD LABEL: Naive
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.65
RELEASE DATE: 14-Jan-2013

COMPOSER: Antonio Vivaldi
TITLE: Concerti per fagotto III
TRACKS: Concerto RV485 in F major. Concerto RV502 in B flat major. Concerto RV474 in C major. Concerto RV480 in G minor.Concerto RV494 in G major. Concerto RV475 in C major.
ARTISTS: Sergio Azzolini   L'Aura Soave Cremona    

- Mar-2013 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Apr-2013 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'There is the usual crop of achingly beautiful slow movements, some conjouring a summer night on the Grand Canal, others early-morning mist creeping across the lagoon.'

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