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	Scherzi Musicali / Nicolas Achten - Mazzocchi: La Catena D'adone - 2CD	£18.56 VAT Inc £15.47 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Scherzi Musicali / Nicolas Achten Title: Mazzocchi: La Catena D'adone Music: Classical Opera Format: CD Label: Alpha View All: Scherzi Musicali Description: Released On: 26 March 2012 - Details: La Catena d’Adone was first performed in 1626 and marked the arrival of opera in Rome. With all the characteristics of the genre, a pastoral tale in one prologue and five acts, it chronicles the tumultuous love lives of Adonis, Apollo, Venus and Falsirena… Its frivolous and sensual, why even erotic tone, is placed in sharp contrast with Christian morality in a perfectly mastered Recitarcantando style supported here by a wealth of instruments. This opera w... view item page for full details >>>

	Thébault, Hjördis / Pierre-yves Pruvot - Patrie! Duets From French Romantic Opera - CD	£5.99 VAT Inc £4.99 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Hjördis Thébault / Pierre-yves Pruvot Title: Patrie! Duets From French Romantic Opera Music: Classical Opera Format: CD Label: Brilliant Classics View All: Hjördis Thébault Description: Released On: 26 March 2012 - Info: Recording: 16-18 April 2010, Philharmonic Hall, Kosice - DDD STEMRA - Details: An adventurous repertoire of arias from rare French operas, by famous (Saint-Saëns, Massenet, Gounod) and forgotten composers (Paladilhe). A fascinating overview of 19th century French opera life, in which the serious Drama Lyrique and the lighthearted Opera Comique were the predominant genres. Great liner notes, including the historical background of the repertoire written by Did... view item page for full details >>>

	Gasdia, Cecilia - Rossini: Armida - 2CD	£8.03 VAT Inc £6.69 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Cecilia Gasdia Title: Rossini: Armida Music: Classical Opera Format: CD Label: Brilliant Classics View All: Cecilia Gasdia Description: Released On: 26 March 2012 - Details: After its successful premiere, Rossini’s opera “Armida” was quickly forgotten, only to be triumphantly revived by Maria Callas in 1952, and ever since it is considered a masterpiece. This performance with primarily Italian forces, has all the wit, charm, beauty and sparkle that any Rossini opera can wish for. Some big names here: Cecilia Gasdia, Chris Merritt,William Matteuzzi and Ferruccio Furlanetto. Great addition to the Brilliant Classics Opera Collec... view item page for full details >>>

	Sampso, Carolyn - Purcell: The Fairy Queen - 2CD	£8.03 VAT Inc £6.69 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Carolyn Sampso Title: Purcell: The Fairy Queen Music: Classical Opera Format: CD Label: Brilliant Classics View All: Carolyn Sampso Description: Released On: 26 March 2012 - Details: The Fairy Queen is one of Purcell’s most popular operas, based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It contains some of his best music, both vocal and instrumental, giving proof of Purcell’s theatrical genius. A strong English cast is supported by the brilliant and zesty ensemble of Accademia Bizantina, conducted by Ottavio Dantone, a leading specialist in the Early Music scene. New addition to the Brilliant Classics Opera Collection. Prior to Hand... view item page for full details >>>

	Lear, Evelyn - R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier - CD	£9.47 VAT Inc £7.89 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Evelyn Lear Title: R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Music: Classical Opera Format: CD Box Set Label: Brilliant Classics View All: Evelyn Lear Description: Released On: 26 March 2012 - Details: A superb cast (Evelyn Lear, Frederica von Stade, Jose Carreras) and a Rotterdam Philharmonic in great form, under the inspiring baton of Edo de Waart, a specialist in Late Romantic repertoire, mark this Rosenkavalier as a must-have for opera fans and music lovers in general. Part of the Brilliant Classics Opera Collection. Opera libretto available on www.brilliantoperacollection.com. Richard Strauss, undoubtedly one of the most famous musical figures to h... view item page for full details >>>

	Oliveira, Hugo - Amour, Viens Animer Ma Voix! French Bass Canatas - CD	£13.18 VAT Inc £10.98 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Hugo Oliveira Title: Amour, Viens Animer Ma Voix! French Bass Canatas Music: Classical Orchestral Format: CD Label: Ramee View All: Hugo Oliveira Description: Released On: 26 March 2012 - Details: Throughout the first half of the 18th century many French composers ventured into the composition of Cantatas, creating a vast repertoire of approximately eight hundred works in this particular genre. Unfortunately, even though this extraordinary group of compositions includes many excellent pieces, and even some masterpieces, it hasn’t as yet attracted enough attention from either musicologists or performers. Modern performance editions and representativ... view item page for full details >>>

	Kreutzer Quartet - Finnissy: String Quartets Nos 2 and 3 - CD	£11.46 VAT Inc £9.55 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Kreutzer Quartet Title: Finnissy: String Quartets Nos 2 and 3 Music: Classical Orchestral Format: CD Label: Nmc Recordings View All: Kreutzer Quartet Description: Released On: 26 March 2012 - Details: Asked to sum up how he would characterize his two String Quartets - written in a neoclassical style and influenced by the sound world of Bruckner and Schoenberg - Michael Finnissy answered, ‘rich and chewy’!. In 2011 Michael Finnissy created a daring new interpretation of Mozart's Requiem. To influence his completion of the parts left missing after the 18th century composer’s death he said "I imagined Mozart in the present day, working to complete the Req... view item page for full details >>>

	London Sinfonietta - Knussen: Symphonies Nos 2 and 3 - CD	£9.06 VAT Inc £7.55 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: London Sinfonietta Title: Knussen: Symphonies Nos 2 and 3 Music: Classical Orchestral Format: CD Label: Nmc Recordings View All: London Sinfonietta Description: Released On: 26 March 2012 - Details: This release on the NMC mid-price re-issue label Ancora was previously issued on Unicorn-Kanchana Records. Composer/conductor Oliver Knussen celebrates his 60th birthday this year. Knussen's Ophelia Dances will be performed by BCMG at his 60th birthday concert held at the CBSO Centre. (Birmingham, UK). A new release on NMC of works by Knussen is released this autumn, featuring BCMG, Ryan Wigglesworth and. soprano Claire Booth. Knussen started composing at... view item page for full details >>>

	Gatto, Lorenzo - Martinu: Concertos For Violin and Cello - CD	£13.18 VAT Inc £10.98 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Lorenzo Gatto Title: Martinu: Concertos For Violin and Cello Music: Classical Orchestral Format: CD Label: Fuga Libera View All: Lorenzo Gatto Description: Released On: 26 March 2012 - Info: Digipak - Details: To graciously round off his time as conductor of the National Orchestra of Belgium, Walter Weller has chosen for his sixth album at the head of the Brussels-based phalanx, a composer that he holds dear to his heart, quite in keeping with his successful first Martin? album (FUG 531) which was warmly received by the international press. This time he offers the listener a chronologically coherent programme. Martin?’s Symphony Nr.1 was commiss... view item page for full details >>>

	Wilkinson, Stephen and Choir - Dover Beach - Choral Music - CD	£11.94 VAT Inc £9.95 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Stephen Wilkinson and Choir Title: Dover Beach - Choral Music Music: Classical Orchestral Format: CD Label: Deux- Elles View All: Stephen Wilkinson and Choir Description: Released On: 26 March 2012 - Details: Stephen Wilkinson was conductor of the BBC Northern Singers until well into the 1980s (when they became the Britten Singers). They sang widely around Europe, in Australia, Thailand and Hong Kong and made a number of records, some selected as Critics’ Choice in Gramophone. His compositional output is not large but includes works premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival and several works that receive air-time on Radio 3. Dover Beach presents five short a cappell... view item page for full details >>>

	Boulanger, Lucile - J.s. Bach: Viola Da Gamba Sonatas - CD	£13.18 VAT Inc £10.98 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Lucile Boulanger Title: J.s. Bach: Viola Da Gamba Sonatas Music: Classical Orchestral Format: CD Label: Alpha View All: Lucile Boulanger Description: Released On: 26 March 2012 - Info: Digipak - Details: Imagined as a concert that Bach could have instigated, this disc explores the Cantor ‘s art of transcription and reveals the wealth of influences which the Germanic empire was exposed to in the first half of the eighteenth century. Going back and forth between fantasy and counterpoint, between German and Italian styles, Bach makes these forms and styles his own and thus plays with the rich sound pallets of the viola da gamba and the harpsi... view item page for full details >>>

	Ensemble Cairn - Raphael Cendo: Furia - CD	£13.18 VAT Inc £10.98 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Ensemble Cairn Title: Raphael Cendo: Furia Music: Classical Orchestral Format: CD Label: Aeon View All: Ensemble Cairn Description: Released On: 26 March 2012 - Info: Digipak - Details: Raphaël Cendo's music seizes us bodily or, more precisely, captures all our senses!His biography is a legend. Upon graduating from the Paris Conservatoire, the jury dared not grant him his full legitimacy. The institution bestowed only a second prix, but his music was already first. He had turned his back on his peers quite some time ago and chosen shortcuts at the risk of being misunderstood. The radical nature of his thinking asserted it... view item page for full details >>>

	Ensemble Organum - Anthonius Divitis; Antoine De Févin: Lux Perpetua; Requiem - CD	£13.18 VAT Inc £10.98 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Ensemble Organum Title: Anthonius Divitis; Antoine De Févin: Lux Perpetua; Requiem Music: Classical Orchestral Format: CD Label: Aeon View All: Ensemble Organum Description: Released On: 26 March 2012 - Details: This Requiem is known in five sources; two of them mention no composer, two attribute it to Antoine de Févin, one, the Occo Codex, to Antoine Divitis. It is recorded here in the version transmitted by an early sixteenth-century manuscript, the Occo Codex, a sumptuous, richly illuminated volume. The book was originally intended for use in worship at one of the oldest churches in Amsterdam, built in the fourteenth century on the site of a miracle which play... view item page for full details >>>

	Belder, Pieter-jan - C.p.e. Bach: Sonatas For Keyboard - CD	£9.47 VAT Inc £7.89 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Pieter-jan Belder Title: C.p.e. Bach: Sonatas For Keyboard Music: Classical Orchestral Format: CD Box Set Label: Brilliant Classics View All: Pieter-jan Belder Description: Released On: 26 March 2012 - Info: Recording: 20-21 May 2011 (CD 1), 8-9 June 2011 - (CD 2 and 3), - Oud Katholieke Kerk De Hoop, Diemen, The - Netherlands - Producer: Peter Arts, Arts Music Recording Rotterdam - Harpsichord built by Nico van Waals, Oudkarspel 1977 after Dulcken - Clavichord built by Geert Karman, Amsterdam 1990 after Friederic - DDD STEMRA - Details: Fifth son of Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel was in his time even more celebrated than his father. His style devel... view item page for full details >>>

	Ensemble Le Tendre Amour - All In A Garden Green 4 Seasons English - CD	£5.99 VAT Inc £4.99 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Ensemble Le Tendre Amour Title: All In A Garden Green 4 Seasons English Music: Classical Orchestral Format: CD Label: Brilliant Classics View All: Ensemble Le Tendre Amour Description: Released On: 26 March 2012 - Info: Recording: 16-19 July 2011, - St. Joan de Sanata Church in Llinars de Vallès, Catalunya, Spain - DDD STEMRA - Details: The first recording on Brilliant Classics of the splendid Early Music ensemble Le Tendre Amour.The ensemble present a beautiful bouquet of English Lute Songs, divided in 4 groups centred around the four seasons Spring, Summer,Autumn,Winter. Composers are famous names like Purcell, Byrd, Croft, Lawes, Morley and Eccles, and lesser known like ... view item page for full details >>>

	Ensemble Cordia - Wranitzky: String Quintet, String Sextet - CD	£5.99 VAT Inc £4.99 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Ensemble Cordia Title: Wranitzky: String Quintet, String Sextet Music: Classical Orchestral Format: CD Label: Brilliant Classics View All: Ensemble Cordia Description: Released On: 26 March 2012 - Info: Recording: 2-4 November 2009, - Vereinshaus St. Georgen-Bruneck (Südtirol, Italy) - Details: Anton Wranitzky (1761-1820), a near-contemporary of Beethoven, was a leading figure in Vienna’s highest musical circles. He was under the patronage of Prince Lobkowitz and in that capacity he led the world premieres of Beethoven’s 3rd and 6th symphonies. Beethoven held him in high esteem as a composer. Wranitzky’s skills and originality are shown in these two works f... view item page for full details >>>

	Britten Quartet - Tippett: String Quartets 1-4 - 2CD	£8.03 VAT Inc £6.69 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Britten Quartet Title: Tippett: String Quartets 1-4 Music: Classical Orchestral Format: CD Label: Brilliant Classics View All: Britten Quartet Description: Released On: 26 March 2012 - Info: Recording: December 1990, St. George’s, Brandon Hill, Bristol - Details: Sir Michael Tippett (1905-1998) was a leading figure in British contemporary music of the 20-th century. His 4 string quartets span his entire creative life, and show him as an extremely skilful and innovative composer. In his String Quartets, the most challenging and complicated musical form, Tippett draws inspiration from the late quartets of Beethoven, particularly in his fugal writi... view item page for full details >>>

	Bolshoi To / Svetlanov - Khachaturian: Ballet Suites - CD	£5.99 VAT Inc £4.99 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Bolshoi To / Svetlanov Title: Khachaturian: Ballet Suites Music: Classical Orchestral Format: CD Label: Brilliant Classics View All: Svetlanov Description: Released On: 26 March 2012 - Info: Recorded: 3-6 January 2000, Moscow - Licensed from National Music Publishers, Russian Federation - DDD MCPS - Details: Aram Khachaturian, 20th century Armenian composer, kept the Soviet authorities happy: his music is accessible, melodious, dramatic, folkloristic and glorifies the victory over evil forces. The ballet suites Spartacus and Gayane enjoy huge popularity, not in the least because of the Sabre Dance and the Adagio from Spartacus, which were used i... view item page for full details >>>

	Novosibirsk So / Arnold Katz - Prokofiev: Ballet Suites - CD	£5.99 VAT Inc £4.99 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Novosibirsk So / Arnold Katz Title: Prokofiev: Ballet Suites Music: Classical Orchestral Format: CD Label: Brilliant Classics View All: Arnold Katz Description: Released On: 26 March 2012 - Info: Recorded: June 1997 - Licensed from National Music Publishers, - Russian Federation - Details: In his ballets the great Soviet composer Sergei Prokofiev continues the long and famous tradition of Russian ballet music, which culminated in the immortal ballets of Tchaikovsky (Nutcracker, Swan Lake). Prokofiev’s genius for characterisation produced such classical “hits” as the Montagues and Capulets (often used in films, commercial and even sporting events!), a... view item page for full details >>>

	Sambeek, Bram Van - Bassoon Kaleidoscope - CD	£5.99 VAT Inc £4.99 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Bram Van Sambeek Title: Bassoon Kaleidoscope Music: Classical Orchestral Format: CD Label: Brilliant Classics View All: Bram Van Sambeek Description: Released On: 26 March 2012 - Info: Recording: 20-23 April 2011, De Doelen, Rotterdam - Recording engineer: Peter Arts - Artist photos: Marco Borggreve · Cover photo: Bram van Sambeek - DDD MCPS - Details: The programme on this new recording spans nearly 400 years, and brilliantly showcases the many colours and moods that the bassoon is ideally suited to creating. The music ranges from the early Baroque sonata of Böddecker, dating from 1651, through to Saint-Saëns’s witty, elegant late sonata ... view item page for full details >>>