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CATALOGUE NR: CHSA5095  (barcode: 0095115509524)
RECORD LABEL: Chandos
FORMAT: Hybrid SACD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 26-Sep-2011

COMPOSER: Bernard Herrmann
TITLE: Moby Dick
TRACKS: Moby Dick - A Cantata. Sinfonietta for Strings.
ORCHESTRA: Danish National Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Michael Schonwandt
ARTISTS: Richard Edgar Wilson   David Wilson-Johnson    

- Dec-2011 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'This performance is full of excitement… In surround sound it is simply stunning with vivid singing and playing, all of the highest order.'

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CATALOGUE NR: CKD374  (barcode: 0691062037426)
RECORD LABEL: Linn
FORMAT: Hybrid SACD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 19-Sep-2011

COMPOSER: Henry Purcell
TITLE: Twelve Sonatas in Three Parts
TRACKS: Sonata I in G minor Z790. Sonata II in Bb Major Z791. Sonata III in D minor. Z792. Sonata IV in X Major Z793. Sonata V in A minor Z794. Sonata VI in C Major Z795. Sonata VII in E minor Z796. Sonata VIII in G Major Z797. Sonata IX in C minor Z798. Sonata X in A Major Z799. Sonata XI in F minor Z800. Sonata XII in D Major Z801.
ARTISTS: Retrospect Trio      

- BBC Music Magazine 2012 Award Winner - Dec-2011 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Dec-2011 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'These performances of brief movements convey rhetorical suggestions of speaking intimately, unforced breathing, and listening attentively.' - Oct-2011 IRR Outstanding Recording 'all four musicians and their instruments combine to complete a survey of Purcell's sonatas which are not only authoritaive but unfailingly enjoyable.'

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CATALOGUE NR: OC401  (barcode: 4260034864016)
RECORD LABEL: Oehms
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.77
RELEASE DATE: 12-Aug-2011

COMPOSER: Mauro Giuliani
TITLE: Eduardo Fernandez plays Giuliani
TRACKS: Rossiniana No.4 op.122. Sonatina op.71/2. Le Giulianate op.148. Variations uber Ruhm und Liebe op.105. Sonata Eroica op.150.
ARTISTS: Eduardo Fernandez      

- Dec-2011 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Fernandez delights in the simplicity and virtuosity of Giuliani's music while bringing a vast dynamic and tonal palette to bear on its more subtle aspects of coloration.'

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CATALOGUE NR: CDA67839  (barcode: 0034571178394)
RECORD LABEL: Hyperion
FORMAT: CD  DURATION: 76 minutes
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.50
RELEASE DATE: 31-Oct-2011

COMPOSER: John McEwen  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Flos Campi & Viola Concerto
TRACKS: Viola Concerto (McEwen). Flos Campi - suite for viola and small orchestra (Vaughan Williams).
ORCHESTRA: BBC National Orchestra of Wales
CONDUCTOR: Martyn Brabbins
ARTISTS: Lawrence Power      

- Jan-2012 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Dec-2011 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Power's playing is wonderfully varied, at times delicate and poetical, at others broad, passionate and generous.'

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CATALOGUE NR: ASM06  (barcode: 3149028001822)
RECORD LABEL: Actes Sud
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 24-Oct-2011

COMPOSER: Igor Stravinsky
TITLE: L'Oiseau de feu: Les Siecles Live
TRACKS: L'Oiseau de feu (Stravinsky). Les Orientales ballet by Arensky / Glazunov / Grieg & Sinding.
ARTISTS: Les siecles   Francois-Xavier Roth    

- Dec-2011 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Dec-2011 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'The Firebird was the sensation of 1910. It is played here with a difference. The intention is for it to sound as it did to those first, dazzled Paris audiences.'

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CATALOGUE NR: ODE11732  (barcode: 0761195117323)
RECORD LABEL: Ondine
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.77
RELEASE DATE: 30-Aug-2011

COMPOSER: Kaijo Saariaho
TRACKS: D'Om Le Vrai Sens for solo clarinet and orchestra. Laterna Magica for large orchestra. Leino Songs for soprano and orchestra.
ORCHESTRA: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Sakari Oramo
ARTISTS: Kari Kriikku   Anu Komsi    

- Jan-2012 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Dec-2011 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Cast in interlinked movements, the concerto explores the five senses as depicted in the medieval tapestry series, The Lady and the Unicorn.'

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CATALOGUE NR: 8572598  (barcode: 0747313259878)
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 5.75
RELEASE DATE: 26-Sep-2011

COMPOSER: John Ireland
TRACKS: Piano Concerto in E flat. Legend. First Rhapsody in F sharp minor. Pastoral. Indian Summer. A Sea Idyll. Three Dances.
ORCHESTRA: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: John Wilson
ARTISTS: John Lenehan      

- Dec-2011 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Dec-2011 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'It's bright finale has an indelible main theme you won't be able to get out of your head once the work concludes…John Lenehan is again at his finest here.'

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CATALOGUE NR: CHAN10692  (barcode: 0095115169223)
RECORD LABEL: Chandos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.50
RELEASE DATE: 26-Sep-2011

COMPOSER: Robert Schumann
TITLE: String Quartets
TRACKS: String Quartet No.1 in A minor op.41/1. String Quartet No.2 in F op.41/2. String Quartet No.3 in A op.41/3.
ARTISTS: Doric String Qt      

- Dec-2011 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Dec-2011 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'They play up Schumann's unique combination of whimsy and fervour… These are performances that make you fall in love with the music all over again.'

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CATALOGUE NR: 0743390  (barcode: 0440007433904)
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: DVD Video
PRICE: including VAT £ 18.49
RELEASE DATE: 06-Jun-2011

COMPOSER: Richard Wagner
TITLE: Tannhauser - complete
ORCHESTRA: Royal Danish Opera Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Friedemann Layer
ARTISTS: Stig Andersen   Tommi Hakala   Susanne Resmark   Stephen Milling

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Picture Format: NTSC high definition / Sound Format: Dolby Digital Surround Sound / Region Code: 0 - Dec-2011 Gramophone Editor's Choice

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CATALOGUE NR: APR7502  (barcode: 5024709175024)
RECORD LABEL: APR
FORMAT: 5 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 26.99
RELEASE DATE: 31-Aug-2011

COMPOSER: Isaac Albeniz
TITLE: Complete Parlophone & Columbia Solo Recordings
TRACKS: Albeniz / Godowsky / d'Albert / Bach / Beethoven / Bergman / Brahms / Debussy / Dohnanyi / Chopin / Farjeon / Faure / Friedman-Gartner / Granados / Grieg / Henselt / Hummel / Liszt / Bach - Liszt / Gounod - Liszt / Schumann - Liszt / Wagner - Liszt / Mendelssohn / Moszkowski / Mozart / Palmgren / Paradies / Pick-Mangiagalli / Rachmaninov / Ravel / de Schlozer / Schubert / Schumann / Scott / Scriabin / Shostakovich / Sibelius / Sinding / Stavenhagen / Richard Strauss / Gieseking.
ARTISTS: Eileen Joyce      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 1933-1945 - Dec-2011 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Not for nothing was Joyce chosen to play Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto for the soundtrack of brief encounter.'

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CATALOGUE NR: DCD34072  (barcode: 0801918340727)
RECORD LABEL: Delphian
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.50
RELEASE DATE: 03-Oct-2011

COMPOSER: Gabriel Jackson  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: In The Beginning
TRACKS: In the Beginning was the Word (Gabriel Jackson). Lugebat David Absalon (Gombert). When David Heard (Weelkes). When David Heard (Eric Whitacre). Nunc Dimittis (Palestrina). Nunc Dimittis (Holst). Nunc Dimittis (Pawel Lukaszewski).
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Nicholas and Peter Phillips
ARTISTS: Choir of Merton College Oxford      

- Christmas-2011 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Dec-2011 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'This choir are fully responsive to the different styles of 16th- and 17th- century polyphonic compositions and the rich chordal textures of 20th - and 21st-centuary pieces.'

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CATALOGUE NR: 0709072  (barcode: 5099907090721)
RECORD LABEL: Virgin
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 11.99
RELEASE DATE: 19-Sep-2011

COMPOSER: Domenico Scarlatti  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Lamentazione
TRACKS: Stabat Mater a 10 (Domenico Scarlatti). Crucifixus a 10 (Antonio Lotti). Quam amarum est Maria (Giovanni Legrenzi). Crucifixus a 16 voci (Antonio Caldara). Miserere mei Deus a due cori obligati (Leonardo Leo). Crucifixus etiam pro nobis a 8 voci (Antonio Lotti).
CONDUCTOR: Paul Agnew
ARTISTS: Les Arts Florissants      

- Nov-2011 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Dec-2011 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Leo's miserere is sung with the boldness,authority, lamenatation and soft compassion that the composer variously demands… a masterly and valuable recording.'

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