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I Was Glad: Sacred Music of Stanford and Parry

1 CD / Vivat Import / 2013-04-09

Works: Charles Villiers Stanford: Services in A major, Op. 12; Magnificat in G; Evening Service (Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis) for chorus & organ (or orchestra) in B flat major, Op; Evening Service (Magnifi...
Performers: Finch, Catrin; Sampson, Carolyn
Conductors: King, Robert

Recording information: St Jude's Church, London NW 11 (09/20/2012-09/22/2012)....continue...

Samuel Adler (b.1928): Cantos; Close Encounters; Five Snapshots / Fulmer, violin; Kelly, viola; Eldan, cello; Muroki, db; Han, Harp

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2013-03-26

Works: Samuel Adler: Canto III for violin solo; Canto XVI, for viola solo; Canto X, for cello; Close Encounters for violin & cello; Canto VII, for bass; Canto XIX, for guitar; Canto XXI, for harp; Snapshots...
Performers: Eldan, Amir [Cello]; Fulmer, David; Han, June; Iznaola, Ricardo; Kelly, Randolph; Muroki, Kurt

The winner of many prestigious awards for composition, Samuel Adler is also Professor emeritus at the Eastman School of Music. His Canto series was written...continue...

The music of Eleni Karaindrou - Concert in Athens / Kashkashian, Garbarek, Christopoulos, Karaindrou, Nastasa, Ripo, Gadedi et al.

1 CD / ECM / 2013-03-05

Works: Eleni Karaindrou: Death of a Salesman; Eternity and a Day; Closed Roads, for viola & orchestra; Number Ten; Voyage to Cythera; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf; The Glass Menangerie; Landscape in the M...
Performers: Anthis, Socratis; Bildea, Maria; Boulard, Marie-Cecile [Clarinet]; Christopoulos, Vangelis; Dimitriadis, Aris; Gadedi, Stella; Garbarek, Jan; Hadjiiordanou, Dinos; Karaindrou, Eleni; Kashkashian, Kim...
Conductors: Myrat, Alexander
Ensemble: ; Camerata Friends of Music Orchestra

An exceptional live recording, Concert In Athens, the tenth ECM release by Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou incorporates moving performances by guests Kim Kashkashian and Jan...continue...
Recording information: Megaron, Athens (11/19/2010)....continue...

Jack Reacher [Music from the Motion Picture]

1 CD / La-La Land Records / 2013-03-05

Works: Joe Kraemer: Jack Reacher, film score
Performers: Altenbach, Richard; Becknell, Steven; Bisharat, Charlie; Bleth, Chris [Oboe]; Bosler, Annie [Horn]; Brand, Jacqueline; Brophy, Robert; Cani, Roberto; Clark, Heather; Clark, Stuart [Clarinet]; Clayton...
Conductors: Kraemer, Joe

Recording information: Streisand Scoring Stage, Sony Pictures Studios....continue...

50 Best Chillout Classics

3 CD / EMI Classics / 2013-02-26

Works: Johann Pachelbel: Canon and Gigue for 3 Violins and Basso Continuo in D major; Tomaso Albinoni: Adagio; Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite no 3 in D, BWV 1068; Keyboard Concerto no 5 in F minor, BWV 1056; ...
Performers: Barrueco, Manuel; Beniston, Paul; Bloch, Nikolaj; Chance, Michael; Daniels, David; Donohoe, Peter; Farr, Stephen; Finley, Gerald [Bass-Baritone Vocals]; Garrett, Lesley [Soprano Vocal]; Gavrilov, And...
Conductors: Handford, Maurice; Marriner, Sir Neville; Ledger, Philip, Sir; Cleobury, Stephen; Nézet-Séguin, Yannick; Warren-Green, Christopher; Olah, Erno; Norrington, Roger; Trevor, Kirk; Sawallisch, ...
Ensemble: ; 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic; Ahn Trio; Fretwork; Rostal & Schaefer Piano Duo

This 3 CD set contains 50 tracks of classical chill out music from the catalogues of EMI Classics and Virgin Classics. Performed by some of...continue...

Britten: The Sacred Choral Music / Choir of New College Oxford, Higginbottom

2 CD / Novum / 2013-02-26

Works: Benjamin Britten: Hymn to St Cecilia, Op. 27; A Wedding Anthem, for soprano, tenor, chorus & organ, Op. 46; The Company of Heaven; Te Deum in C major; Jubilate Deo, for chorus & organ in E flat major...
Performers: Bloor, Benjamin [Organ]; Cutting, Guy; Geidt, James; Grahl, Steven; Grainger, Emma; Pritchard, Nick; Saunderson, Duncan; Thain, Lawrence [Organ]
Conductors: Higginbottom, Edward
Ensemble: ; Choir of New College Oxford

Benjamin Britten's sacred music is among the most engaging and original music of its kind composed in the middle years of the 20th century. New...continue...
Recording information: Chapel of New College Oxford (2011-07-18_2011-07-20&2012-)....continue...

The Shakespeare Concerts Series, Vol. 1: Shakespeare's Memory / Chad Sloan, Andrea Chenoweth, Kellie Van Horn

1 CD / Navona / 2013-01-29

Works: Joseph Summer: With Mirth in Funeral, for baritone & piano (from Oxford Songs); On The Death Of A Fair Infant, for voice & string quartet; Leda and the Swan; Full Fathom Five, for mezzo-soprano, teno...
Performers: Chenoweth, Andrea [Soprano Vocal]; Ferrante, Maria; Hartelova, Lydie; Sekera, Miroslav; Sloan, Chad [Baritone Vocal]; Van Horn, Kellie; Vickers, Justin; Watson, Ian
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kalmia String Quartet

Shakespeare's Memory is the first offering in Navona's Shakespeare Concerts Series. Vol. 1 includes Summer's original chamber and vocal compositions set to Shakespeare's dramas and...continue...

Songs from Evening Land - Per Norgard: songs in new instrumentations / Helene Gjerris, mezzo-soprano

1 CD / Dacapo / 2013-01-29

Works: Per Norgård: Recitatives (2), for voice & piano, Op. 16; Entwicklungen, songs (2) for alto, cello, flute, guitar & percussion; Plutonian Ode, for soprano & cello; Songs (3) from "L'Amour la po&#...
Performers: Abildskov, Anne Marie Fjord; Gjerris, Helene; Hansen, Johannes Soe; Jorgensen, Ulla Miilmann; Lutzhoft, Jesper; Moldrup, Toke; Rehling, Tine; Sorensen, Gert; Wallevik, Lotte
Conductors: Schreiber, Casper

This CD is a testimony of the extraordinary meeting between two strong artistic personalities. Danish mezzo-soprano Helene Gjerris explores six decades of vocal music by...continue...
Recording information: Royal Danish Academy of Music (05/2010-05/2011)....continue...

Hymn to the Dawn - works for female choir by Holst, Prokofiev, Beach, Rheinberger, Mendelssohn & Rossini / Etherea Vocal Ens.

1 CD / Delos / 2013-01-29

Works: Gustav Holst: Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, H99, Op. 26/3; Eastern Pictures (2), for female chorus & harp, H. 112; Sergey Prokofiev: Prelude in C major for piano (or harp), Op. 12/7; Amy Beach: Sha...
Performers: Cloutier, Grace [Harp]; Gomez, Esteli [Soprano vocal]; Greten-Harrison, Derek; Murchie, Alan; Petrus, Jessica; Sidebottom, Amanda
Conductors: ; Horn, Noah
Ensemble: ; Etherea Vocal Ensemble

Expedition Audio - Music that deserves to be heard
...With only eight singers, and several of the works sung by a portion of that number, each...continue...

Mozart: Complete Flute Concertos / Frans Vester, Edward Witsenburg, flutes. Frans Bruggen

2 CD / Newton Classics / 2013-01-29

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Andante for Flute and Orchestra in C major, K 315 (285e); Concerto for Flute & Harp, K. 299 in C major; Rondo for flute & orchestra in D major, K. Anh. 184 (after Rondo for v...
Performers: Vester, Frans; Witsenburg, Edward
Conductors: Brüggen, Frans
Ensemble: Mozart-Ensemble Amsterdam

These 1972 recordings were made by the cream of the Dutch early music movement, led by one of its alma parens, Frans Brüggen. They date...continue...
Recording information: Doopegezinde Kerk, Amsterdam....continue...

Britten: A Ceremony of Carols; Bruckner: Motets; Gallus: Missa / Vienna Boys Choir

2 CD / Acanta / 2013-01-29

Works: Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28; Anton Bruckner: Locus iste, gradual for chorus in C major, WAB 23; Virga Jesse, gradual for chorus in E minor, WAB 52; Os justi meditabitur sapientiam,...
Performers: Bayer, Elisabeth
Conductors: Neyder, Anton; Gillesberger, Hans
Ensemble: ; Vienna Boys Choir

The Vienna Boys choir is the most famous and best known boys' choir in the world. In their 500 year history, they have worked with...continue...
Recording information: Casino Zögernitz, Vienna, Austria (1971-09-??&1971-11-??_1971-)....continue...

Essential Choral - Over 2 hours of uplifting classics

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2013-01-22

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria in D, RV 589; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" BWV 147; Magnificat in D, BWV 243; Cantata no 140; Mass in B minor; George Frederick Han...
Performers: Barley, Peter; Bell, David [Organ]; Beniston, Paul; Bowley, John; Corkhill, David [Conductor]; Finley, Gerald [Bass-Baritone Vocals]; Garcia, Jose Luis; Harper, Heather; Harrhy, Eiddwen; Lott, Felici...
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville; Willcocks, David; Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Cleobury, Stephen; Welser-Möst, Franz; Neumann, Peter; Sawallisch, Wolfgang; Muti, Riccardo; Tennstedt, Klaus; Pappano, Antonio;...

This collection of popular choral classics starts with some of the glories of the Baroque era by some of its greatest composers like Vivaldi, Handel...continue...

Viva Verdi: Overtures & Preludes / Riccardo Chailly

1 CD / Decca / 2013-01-22

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: I vespri siciliana; Alzira; La traviata; Il corsaro; Nabucco; Jérusalem (Original Version (libr. from 1843 "I Lombardi")); Jérusalem; Giovanna d'Arco; Aida, opera; Macbeth...
Performers: Ferrando, Mauro; Meloni, Fabrizio; Prandino, Luisa; Thouand, Fabien; Zoni, Marco
Conductors: Chailly, Riccardo
Ensemble: ; Filarmonica Della Scala

Wiiner of the 2012 ECHO Award for "Conductor of the Year" and one of the world's most respected maestros Riccardo Chailly celebrates Verdi's bicentenary year...continue...
Recording information: Auditorium di Milano (06/05/2012-06/11/2012)....continue...

Trumpet Concertos - works by Goedicke, Bohme, Shakhov, Vasilenko, Arutiunian / Reinhold Friedrich, trumpet

1 Super Audio CD / MD&G / 2013-01-15

Works: Ilya Shakhov: Romantic Concerto for trumpet & orchestra; Alexander Arutiunian: Concerto for Trumpet in A flat major; Oskar Böhme: La Napolitaine, tarantella for trumpet & ensemble, Op. 25; Serge...
Performers: Friedrich, Reinhold [Trumpet]; Tyre, Marjorie
Conductors: Mueller, Christoph-Mathia
Ensemble: ; Gottinger Symphony Orchestra

Reinhold Friedrich is one of the leading trumpet soloists of our time.

Shakhov is little known, and outside Russia his name has been subject to

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Recording information: Hannover (2011-09-16_2011-09-18&2012-)....continue...

Rhapsodie: Prism of 20th Century Music

1 CD / Origin Classical / 2013-01-15

Works: Marcel Grandjany: Rhapsodie, for harp, Op. 10; André Caplet: Deux Divertissements; Marcel Tournier: Vers la source dans le bois; Toshiro Mayuzumi: Rokudan, for harp; Bernard Andres: Tanka, for h...
Performers: Schlaffer, Yumiko Endo

Recording information: St. Andrew United Methodist Church, Plano, Texas (2012-08-20&2012-08-22_2012-)....continue...

Adriaen Willaert: Chansons; Madrigali; Villanel / Romanesque

1 CD / Ricercar / 2013-01-08

Works: Adrian Willaert: Qual dolcezza giami, madrigal for 5 voices (Madrigali); Zoia zentil che per secreta via, canzona for 4 voices ("Canonza di Ruzante"); Dessus le marché d'Arras, chanson for 4 v...
Performers: Coen, Bart [Recorder]; Devaere, Hannelore; Malfeyt, Philippe; Van Laethem, Katelijne [Soprano Vocal]; Watillon, Sophie
Conductors: Malfeyt, Philippe;
Ensemble: ; Romanesque

To celebrate Adriaen Willaert's anniversary, this recording of the composer's secular repertoire gives us a very different vision of his work compared to his religious...continue...
Recording information: Église Saint-Apollinaire à Bolland (06/1994)....continue...

William Lawes: The Passion of Musicke / Sophie Gent: violin; Giovanna Pessi: triple harp; Eduardo Egüez: theorbo; Philippe Pierlot: viol

1 CD / Flora / 2013-01-08

Works: William Lawes: Consort for harp, bass viol, violin & theorbo no 1 in G minor; Corant for lyra viol (VdGS no 431); Consort for harp, bass viol, violin & theorbo no 4 in D minor; Divisions on a Pavan i...
Performers: Eguez, Eduardo; Gent, Sophie; Pessi, Giovanna; Pierlot, Philippe

On the death of William Lawes, King James I - who called him "The Father of Music" - observed several weeks of mourning. Lawes is...continue...
Recording information: Bra-sur-Lienne (08/2006)....continue...

The Valley Sings - Choral Music by composers of the Hudson Valley / Works by Aaron Copland, James Fitzwilliam, Craig Fryer, John B Hedge

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2013-01-08

Works: George Tsontakis: Rossetti Nursery Rhymes (3) for chorus; Aaron Copland: Four Motets; Panaiotis: Arise, My Love, for chorus; James Fitzwilliam: A Rose of Sharon, for 2 sopranos, baritone & chorus; Cr...
Performers: Andrawis, Shanna; Boyer, Donald; Chenette, Jeanmarie Kern; Clifton, Elizabeth Leonard; Goldin, Amy; Hedges, John B.; Joscelyn, Amy; Knickerbocker, Glenn; Lundergan, Carol; Saunders, Michael; Wagner, ...
Conductors: Lundergan, Edward
Ensemble: ; A Consort of Singers

Kairos - A Consort of Singers offers a program of choral music by composers living and working in the Hudson Valley region of New York...continue...
Recording information: Holy Cross Monastery, West Park, NY (2012-06-12_2012-06-13_2012-)....continue...

Philip Glass: Metamorphosis; The Hours / Lavinia Meijer, harp

1 Super Audio CD / Channel Classics / 2013-01-08

Works: Philip Glass: Glassworks; Metamorphosis, for piano; The Hours, music from the film score for piano
Performers: Meijer, Lavinia

Since their first encounter in May 2011, rising star harpist Lavinia Meijer has worked with some frequency with Philip Glass, even though he has never...continue...
Recording information: Doopsgezinde Kerk, Deventer (05/2012)....continue...

Dan Visconti: Lonesome Roads / Horszowski Trio

1 CD / Bridge / 2012-12-11

Works: Dan Visconti: Black Bend, for string quartet; Lawless Airs, for violin & harp; Ramble and Groove, for bassoon; Hard-Knock Stomp, for viola; Drift of Rainbows, for 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass...
Performers: Afkham, Micha; Bader, Alexander; Brandl, Wolfram; Duven, Richard; Jezierski, Stefan de Leval; Langlamet, Marie-Pierre; Lenton, Rebecca; Schlichte, Jan; Stockhausen, Majella; Streuli, Christoph; Weidm...
Conductors: ; Hasel, Michael
Ensemble: ; Horszowski Trio; Members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Expedition Audio - Music that deserves to be heard
The opening track, Black Bend for string quintet, starts with what sounds like distant train whistles...continue...
Recording information: Kammermusiksaal, Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany (05/13/2009-05/19/2009); Performing Arts Center, Theater C, SUNY College at Purc (05/13/2009-05/19/2009); Kammermusiksaal, Philhar...continue...

Harp Dances - Music for solo harp by Salzedo, Granados, Lecuona, Albeniz, Rodrigo / Floraleda Sacchi, harp

1 CD / Amadeus Arte / 2012-12-11

Works: Carlos Salzédo: Suite of Eight Dances; Song in the Night, for harp; Enriqué Granados: Danzas Españolas, Op. 37; Valses (7) poeticos; Ernesto Lecuona: Zambra gitana, for piano; Isaac Al...
Performers: Sacchi, Floraleda

Harpist Floraleda Sacchi has recorded a program built on dance rhythms....continue...
Recording information: Exclaim Studio, Italy (Olgiate Comasco) (2009-10-07_2009-10-08&2009-)....continue...

Schoenberg: Pierre Lunaire / Pierre Boulez, Ensemble Intercontemporian; Christine Schafer

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2012-12-11

Works: Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21; Herzgewächse, song for soprano, celesta, harp & harmonium, Op. 20; Ode to Napoleon, Op. 41
Performers: Cambreling, Frederique; Nagano, Hideki; Schafer, Christine; Vassilakis, Dimitri
Conductors: Boulez, Pierre
Ensemble: Members of the Ensemble InterContemporain

The 20th century inspired music that was provocative and challenging - music that in many ways we are still corning to terms with. The ideas...continue...

Flute & Harp - works by Jongen, Rota, Piazzolla. Bandi, Ermacora

1 CD / Gallo / 2012-12-11

Works: Joseph Jongen: Danse Lente, for flute & harp, Op. 56bis; Nino Rota: Sonata for flute & harp; Arthur Honegger: Romance, for flute & piano in G minor, H. 211; Ravi Shankar: L'Aube Enchantée (based...
Performers: Bandi, Isabelle; Ermacora, Laure

The two performers on this recording have chosen a varied program, concentrating on Swiss composers. Isabelle Bandi and Laure Ermacora founded their duo in 202...continue...
Recording information: Studio Stéréolith (CH-Prangins) (2010)....continue...

Christmas Fantasies / Valerie Milot, harp; Antione Bareil, violin

1 CD / Analekta / 2012-11-27

Works: Lewis Redner: O Little Town of Bethlehem; English Traditional: Greensleeves, folk song; Scarborough Fair; Franz Gruber: Silent Night; Antoine Bareil: Trois jours avant Noël, for violin & harp; E...
Performers: Bareil, Antoine; Milot, Valerie [Harp]

Recording information: Église St-Augustin, Saint-Augustin de Mirabel, Québec, (10/2010/04/2011)....continue...