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CATALOGUE NR: ACC20243  (barcode: 4260234830255)
RECORD LABEL: Accentus Music
FORMAT: DVD Video  DURATION: 80 minutes
PRICE: including VAT £ 18.49
RELEASE DATE: 30-Apr-2012

COMPOSER: Anton Bruckner
TRACKS: Symphony Number 5 in B flat major WAB105 - Nowak edition.
ORCHESTRA: Lucerne Festival Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Claudio Abbado

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Picture Format: NTSC 16:9 / Sound Format: PCM Stereo Dolby Digital 5.1 DTS 5.1 / Region Code: 0 / Duration: 80 minutes / Recorded: live from the Lucerne Festival 2011 - Aug-2012 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Abbado keeps the music on the move' - Gramophone 2012 Award Winner

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CATALOGUE NR: CDA67914  (barcode: 0034571179148)
RECORD LABEL: Hyperion
FORMAT: CD  DURATION: 64 minutes
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 26-Mar-2012

COMPOSER: Herbert Howells
TITLE: Requiem and other works
TRACKS: A Hymn for St Cecilia. Salve regina. Gloucester Service : Magnificat / Nunc dimittis. Take him earth for cherishing. St Paul's Service : Magnificat / Nunc dimittis. Requiem : Salvator mundi / Psalm 23 / Requiem aeternam I / Psalm / Requiem aeternam II / I heard a voice from heaven. All my hope on God is founded.
CONDUCTOR: Stephen Layton
ARTISTS: Choir of Trinity College Cambridge      

- Jun-2012 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Jun-2012 Gramophone Editor's Choice - Gramophone 2012 Award Winner

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CATALOGUE NR: HMC902105  (barcode: 3149020210529)
RECORD LABEL: Harmonia Mundi
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 06-Feb-2012

COMPOSER: Ludwig van Beethoven  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Violin Concerto in D major opus 61 (Beethoven). Violin Concerto To the Memory of an Angel' (Berg).
ORCHESTRA: Orchestra Mozart
CONDUCTOR: Claudio Abbado
ARTISTS: Isabelle Faust      

- Apr-2012 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Mar-2012 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Faust brings a suggestion of gaiety that renders more poignant the effect of the dark, complex harmony - a bright memory rendered sad and bitter.' - Gramophone 2012 Award Winner

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CATALOGUE NR: SBT1473  (barcode: 0749677147327)
RECORD LABEL: Testament
FORMAT: CD  DURATION: 59 minutes
PRICE: including VAT £ 11.29
RELEASE DATE: 31-Oct-2011

COMPOSER: Frederic Chopin
TRACKS: Etudes Opus 10 : Etude Number 1 in C major / Etude Number 2 in A minor / Etude Number 3 in E major / Etude Number 4 in C sharp minor / Etude Number 5 in G flat major / Etude Number 6 in E flat minor / Etude Number 7 in C major / Etude Number 8 in F major / Etude Number 9 in F minor / Etude Number 10 in A flat major / Etude Number 11 in E flat major / Etude Number 12 in C minor. Etudes Opus 25 : Etude Number 1 in A flat major / Etude Number 2 in F minor / Etude Number 3 in F major / Etude Number 4 in A minor / Etude Number 5 in E minor / Etude Number 6 in G sharp minor / Etude Number 7 in C sharp minor / Etude Number 8 in D flat major / Etude Number 9 in G flat major / Etude Number 10 in B minor / Etude Number 11 in A minor / Etude Number 12 in C minor.
ARTISTS: Maurizio Pollini      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: original recording by EMI - May-2012 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Jan-2012 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'What superb articulacy, what awe-inspiring assurance and uncanny technical perfection. All lovers of great piano- playing will need to add this to their collection.' - Gramophone 2012 Award Winner

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CATALOGUE NR: 0941802  (barcode: 5099909418028)
RECORD LABEL: EMI
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 11.99
RELEASE DATE: 11-Apr-2011

COMPOSER: Robert Schumann
TITLE: Complete Piano Trios
TRACKS: Piano Trio Number 1 in D Minor Opus 63. Piano Trio Number 2 in F Major Opus 80. Sech Stuckein kanonischer Form Opus 56 arr. for Piano Trio. Piano Trio Number 3 in G Minor Opus 110. Fantasiestucke for Piano Violin and Cello Opus 88.
ARTISTS: Leif Ove Andsnes   Christian Tetzlaff   Tanja Tetzlaff  

- Jul-2011 Gramophone Editor's Choice - Gramophone 2012 Award Winner - Jun-2011 IRR Outstanding Recording 'Frankly, you don’t need to look any further for performances of this music: be it a first encounter, a lifelong passion or a need to reassess this particular corner of Schumann's genius'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4782551  (barcode: 0028947825517)
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 19.39
RELEASE DATE: 20-Jun-2011

COMPOSER: Ludwig van Beethoven
TITLE: Fidelio - complete
ORCHESTRA: Lucerne Festival Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Claudio Abbado
ARTISTS: Jonas Kaufmann   Nina Stemme    

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded live at the Lucerne Festival 2010 - Sep-2011 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Sep-2011 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'An operatic masterpiece, bang in the centre of the repertoire, from the baton of one of our greatest conductors.' - Gramophone 2012 Award Winner

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CATALOGUE NR: 4783206  (barcode: 0028947832065)
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.79
RELEASE DATE: 11-Jul-2011

COMPOSER: Frederic Chopin  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Chopin Liszt Ravel
TRACKS: Scherzo Number 1 In B Minor opus 20 (Chopin). Nocturne Number 5 in F sharp opus 15 Number 2 (Chopin). Scherzo Number 4 in E opus 54 (Chopin). Nocturne Number 19 in E minor opus 72 Number 1 (Chopin). Scherzo Number 3 in C sharp minor opus 39 (Chopin). Nocturne in C Sharp Minor opus posth (Chopin). Scherzo Number 2 in B Flat Minor opus 31 (Chopin). My Joys opus 74 Number 12 arranged Liszt as Number 5 of Six Chants Polonais S480. The Maiden's Wish opus 74 Number 1 arranged Liszt as Number 1 of Six Chants Polonais S480. En Reve Nocturne S207 (Liszt). Gaspard de la nuit : Ondine / Le gibet / Scarbo (Ravel).
ARTISTS: Benjamin Grosvenor      

'BBC Music Magazine 2012 Awards Nomination' - Oct-2011 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Oct-2011 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'These aren't just fine performances for a youngster. They are fine performances, full stop' - Gramophone 2012 Award Winner - Sep-2011 IRR Outstanding Recording

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CATALOGUE NR: ODE11782  (barcode: 0761195117828)
RECORD LABEL: Ondine
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 27-Feb-2012

COMPOSER: Einojuhani Rautavaara
TRACKS: Cello Concerto Number 2 'Towards the Horizon'. Modificata. Percussion Concerto 'Incantations'.
ORCHESTRA: Helsinki Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: John Storgards
ARTISTS: Truls Mork   Colin Currie    

- May-2012 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Apr-2012 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'This is an immensely noteworthy issue, not as a potential epitaph for Rautavaara the concerto-composer but for the quality of the music-making itself.' - Gramophone 2012 Award Winner

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CATALOGUE NR: CDA67924  (barcode: 0034571179247)
RECORD LABEL: Hyperion
FORMAT: CD  DURATION: 78 minutes
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 28-May-2012

COMPOSER: George Frideric Handel  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Arias for Guadagni
TRACKS: O Lord whose mercies numberless from Saul. The raptur'd soul from Theodora. Yet can I hear that dulcet lay from The Choice of Hercules. Destructive war from Belshazzar (Handel). Ah che dissi!. Se resto sul lido from Didone abbandonata. Odi cola la frigia tromba?. A trionfar mi chiama from Didone abbandonata (Hasse). Say lovely Dream! from The Fairies (John Christopher Smith). Vengeance O come inspire me! from Alfred (Thomas Arne). Orchestra-Sinfonie in D major H663 (Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach). Ah! non turbi il mio riposo from Telemaco. The Dance of the Blessed Spirits. Che puro ciel! from Orfeo ed Euridice. Ahime! Dove trascorsi?. Che faro senza Euridice? from Orfeo ed Euridice (Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck). Pensa a serbarmi o cara (Gaetano Guadagni).
CONDUCTOR: Jonathan Cohen
ARTISTS: Arcangelo   Iestyn Davies    

- Aug-2012 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Aug-2012 Gramophone Editor's Choice - Gramophone 2012 Award Winner

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CATALOGUE NR: HMC90211314  (barcode: 3149020211328)
RECORD LABEL: Harmonia Mundi
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 19.99
RELEASE DATE: 01-Nov-2011

COMPOSER: Johann Sebastian Bach
TITLE: Orchestral Suites / Overtures
TRACKS: Orchestral Suite Number 1 in C major BWV1066. Orchestral Suite Number 3 in D major BWV1068. Orchestral Suite Number 2 in B minor BWV1067. Orchestral Suite Number 4 in D major BWV1069.
ORCHESTRA: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

- Apr-2012 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Gramophone 2012 Award Winner

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CATALOGUE NR: RIC311  (barcode: 5400439003118)
RECORD LABEL: Ricercar
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.77
RELEASE DATE: 13-Jun-2011

COMPOSER: Heinrich Schutz
TITLE: Musicalische Exequien
TRACKS: Herr nun lassest du deinen Diener in Friede fahen SWV432. Ich bin die Auferstehung und das Leben SWV464. Herr nun lassest du deinen Diener in Friede fahen SWV433. Das ist je gewisslich wahr SWV277. Wir glauben all an einen Gott (Scheidt). Musicalische Exequien SWV279 - Concert in Form einer teutschen Begrabnis-Missa : Nakket bin ich / Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt / Herr wenn ich nur dich habe SWV280 / Herr nun lassest du deinen Diener in Friede fahren SWV281.
CONDUCTOR: Lionel Meunier
ARTISTS: Vox Luminis Ensemble      

- Gramophone 2012 Award Winner

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CATALOGUE NR: 88697944242  (barcode: 0886979442429)
RECORD LABEL: Sony
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.50
RELEASE DATE: 07-Nov-2011

COMPOSER: John Ireland  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Songs of War
TRACKS: Sea Fever (Ireland). Into My Heart An Air That Kills (Somervell). Youth and Love (Vaughan Williams). The Infinite Shining Heavens (Vaughan Williams). A Shropshire Lad : Loveliest of Trees / When I was One-and-Twenty / Look not in my Eyes / Think no more Lad / The Lads in their hundreds / Is my Team Ploughing? (Butterworth). There Pass the Careless People (Somervell). The Night (Warlock). White in the Moon (Somervell). Bredon Hill (Butterworth). O Fair Enough are Sky and Plain (Butterworth). When the Lad for Longing Sighs (Butterworth). On the Idle Hill of Summer (Butterworth). With Rue my Heart is laden (Butterworth). The Vagabond (Ireland). The Three Ravens (Trad). Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun (Finzi). Thy Hand in Mine (Bridge). Songs of Travel : The Vagabond (Vaughan Williams). War Scenes : An Incident (Rorem). When Death to Either Shall Come (Gurney). In Flanders (Gurney). The Street Sounds to the Soldiers' Tread (Somervell). Beat! Beat! Drums! (Weill). Dirge for Two Veterans (Weill).
ARTISTS: Simon Keenlyside   Malcolm Martineau    

- Jan-2012 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Gramophone 2012 Award Winner

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CATALOGUE NR: 811063011090  (barcode: 0811063011090)
RECORD LABEL: MMAC
FORMAT: DVD Video
PRICE: including VAT £ 17.89
RELEASE DATE: 23-May-2011

TITLE: Music Makes a City
TRACKS: includes interviews with Virgil Thomson / Roger Sessions / Elliott Carter / Paul Hindemith / Aaron Copland / William Schuman / Lukas Foss / Ned Rorem / Joan Tower / Chou Wen Chung / Norman Dello Joio / Harold Shapero.
ORCHESTRA: Louisville Orchestra

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Picture Format: NTSC / Sound Format: Dolby Digital / Region Code: 0 / Duration: 100 minutes - Gramophone 2012 Award Winner

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CATALOGUE NR: ONYX4061  (barcode: 0880040406129)
RECORD LABEL: Onyx Classics
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 25.55
RELEASE DATE: 27-Jun-2011

COMPOSER: Bohuslav Martinu
TITLE: The 6 Symphonies
TRACKS: Symphony Number 1. Symphony Number 2. Symphony Number 3. Symphony Number 4. Symphony Number 5. Symphony Number 6 'Fantaisies symphoniques'.
ORCHESTRA: BBC Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Jiri Belohlavek

- Oct-2011 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Gramophone 2012 Award Winner

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CATALOGUE NR: 4779747  (barcode: 0028947797470)
RECORD LABEL: Archiv
FORMAT: 10 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 39.95
RELEASE DATE: 15-Aug-2011

COMPOSER: Tomas Luis de Victoria
TITLE: Sacred Works
TRACKS: CD1 - Missa pro Victoria - 1600. Missa pro Defunctis - 1583. Psalms and Responsories. CD2 - Lamentations of Jeremiah. CD3 - Missa Gaudeamus. Magnificat Octavi toni. Missa Ave maris stella. CD4 - Missa de Beata Virgine. Motets: Vide speciosam / Gaude Maria virgo / Quam pulchra sunt. CD5 - Missa Alma redemptoris Mater. Magnificat primi toni. Alma redemptoris Mater. CD6 - Missa O quam gloriosum. Christe redemptore omnium Doctor bonus. Tibi Christe. CD7 - Music for the Easter Liturgy in Habsburg Madrid. CD8 - Missa Ave Regina. Motets and music for Vespers. CD9 - Missa Salve and motets. CD10 - Motets and Hymns for the liturgical year.
CONDUCTOR: Michael Noone
ARTISTS: Ensemble Plus Ultra      

- Gramophone 2012 Award Winner

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CATALOGUE NR: SU40652  (barcode: 0099925406523)
RECORD LABEL: Supraphon
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 31-Oct-2011

COMPOSER: Bedrich Smetana  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Ma Vlast - Live 1939
TRACKS: My Country - A cycle of symphonic poems : The original radio introductory announcement 5-Jun-1939 : Vysehrad / Vltava / Sarka / From Bohemian Fields and Groves / Tabor / Blanik (Smetana). Czech National Anthem - audience singing. The original sign off (Smetana). Slavonic Dances 2nd Series opus 72 B147 : The original radio introductory announcement 13-Jun-1939 : Number 9 in B major Molto vivace / Number 10 in E minor Allegretto grazioso / Number 11 in F major Allegro / Number 12 in D flat major Allegretto grazioso / Number 13 in B flat minor Poco adagio / Number 14 in B flat major Moderato quasi minuetto / Number 15 in C major Allegro vivace / Number 16 in A flat major Grazioso e lento ma non troppo quasi tempo di valse. Czech National Anthem from record. The original sign off.
ORCHESTRA: Czech Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Vaclav Talich

- Gramophone 2012 Award Winner

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