‘GRAMOPHONE’ AWARDS ISSUE 2009.
GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNERS FOR 2009
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Baroque Instrumental |
Purcell |
Fantasias;
Fretwork |
Harmonia
Mundi HMU
907502 |
£11.99 |
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Baroque Vocal |
Handel |
Coronation
Anthems; the Sixteen/ Christophers |
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£11.99 |
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Chamber |
Ravel/ Debussy/ Faure |
String Quartets;
Ebene Quartet |
Virgin 519
0452 |
£11.99 |
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Choral |
Elgar |
Dream of Gerontius; Coote/ |
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£16.99 |
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Concerto |
Britten |
Piano Concerto;
Osborne/ BBC SSO/ Volkov |
Hyperion CDA
67625 |
£11.99 |
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Contemporary |
“NMC Songbook” |
Various |
NMC D150 (4 CDs) |
£27.99 |
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DVD |
Wagner |
“The |
Decca 074
3264 |
£59.99 |
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Early Music |
“Song of Songs” |
Guerrero/ Palestrina/
etc; Stile Antico |
Harmonia
Mundi HMU
807489 (SACD) |
£10.99 |
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Historic Archive |
Berlioz |
The Trojans; Thebom/ Vickers/ ROH/ Kubelik |
Testament
SBT4 1443 (4 CDs) |
£39.99 |
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Historic Reissue |
“Composers in Person”; |
Various |
EMI 217 5752
(22 CDs) |
£49.99 |
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Instrumental |
Debussy |
Etudes/ Images; Bavouzet |
Chandos CHAN 10497 |
£11.99 |
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Opera |
Puccini |
Madama Butterfly; Gheorghiu/
Kaufmann/ Pappano |
EMI 264 1872
(2 CDs) |
£13.99 |
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Orchestral |
Tchaikovsky |
Manfred
Symphony; RLPO/ Petrenko |
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£4.99 |
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Recital |
Martinu |
Julietta Fragments; Kozena/
Czech |
Supraphon SU 39942 |
£11.99 |
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Solo Vocal |
Schumann |
Dichterliebe; Finley/ Drake |
Hyperion CDA
67676 |
£11.99 |
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Editor’s Choice |
Beethoven |
Diaballi Variations/ etc; Kovacevich |
ONYX 4035 |
£11.99 |
GRAMOPHONE DISC
OF THE MONTH
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“Unknown Britten” |
(Les
Illuminations/ In Memoriam Dennis Brain/ etc); Various |
NMCD 140 |
£10.99 |
EDITOR’S CHOICE
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BEETHOVEN |
Symphonies 2
& 6; Royal Flemish Philharmonic/ Herreweghe |
Pentatone PTC 5186 314 (SACD) |
£12.99 |
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FOERSTER/ MARTINU/ NOVAK |
Cello Concertos;
Jiri Barta |
Supraphon SU 39892 |
£11.99 |
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Jonas Kauffman CO/Abbado |
sings Wagner,
Schubert & Beethoven; Mahler |
Decca 478
1463 |
£12.99 |
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“Melodia”; |
Carmina Chamber Choir/ Ingolfsson |
Smekkleysa SMK 56 |
£12.99 |
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REGER/BACH |
Suites for
Viola; Tabea Zimmermann |
Myrios MYR 003 (SACD) |
£12.99 |
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“Sacred Hearts & Secret Music” |
(Palestrina/
etc); Musica Secreta/
Celestial Sirens |
Divine Arts
DDA 25077 |
£11.99 |
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TERRADELLAS |
Artaserse; Soloists/Royal Chamber opera
Company/Otero |
RCOC Records
RCOC 0800.3 (3 CDs) |
£24.99 |
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“Verismo” |
(Puccini/ Leoncavallo/ Mascagni/ etc);
Renee Fleming |
Decca 478
1533 |
£12.99 |
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VIVALDI |
“The French
Connection”; La Serenissima/ |
Avie AV 2178 |
£12.99 |
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DVD MESSIAEN |
Saint Francis d’Asisse; cond Metzmacher (Amsterdam 2008) |
Opus Arte OA
1007D (3 DVDs) |
£34.99 |
OUR PICK OF THE
MONTH’S NEW RELEASES
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Ballet Music;
BBC Philharmonic/ Gamba |
Chandos CHAN 10550 |
£11.99 |
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BACH |
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Soli
Deo Gloria
SDG 707 (2 CDs) |
£15.99 |
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BACH |
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BIS SACD 1721/22 (3 SACDs) |
£24.99 |
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BACH |
Partitas 1, 5
& 6; |
Sony 88697 443612 |
£12.99 |
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BACH |
Partitas 1-6; Andras Schiff |
ECM 476 6991
(2 CDs) |
£17.99 |
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BACH |
Sonatas &
Partitas for Solo Violin; Ibragimova |
Hyperion CDA
67691/2 (2 CDs) |
£24.99 |
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BEETHOVEN |
Complete Piano
Sonatas; Paul Lewis |
Harmonia
Mundi HMX
290 1902/11 (10 CDs) |
£34.99 |
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BRAHMS/ Haydn |
Symphony 1/
Variations/etc; Budapest Festival Orch/ Fischer |
Channel Classics
CCSSA 28309 (SACD) |
£12.99 |
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BRITTEN/ GAY |
The beggar’s
Opera; Randall/ Jones/ Bickley/ etc/ CLS/ Curyn |
Chandos CHAN 10548 (2 CDs) |
£24.99 |
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CLEMENTI |
Piano Sonatas
Volume 4; Howard Shelley |
Hyperion CDA
67738 (2 CDs) |
£11.99 |
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“From the Vaults of |
Conductor;
Martin Baker |
Hyperion CDA
67707 |
£11.99 |
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HANDEL |
“Between Heaven
and Earth”; Sandrine Piau/ Accademia
Bizantina |
Naïve OP
30484 |
£12.99 |
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HANDEL |
Dixit Dominus/ Staffani Stabat Mater; Sixteen/
Christophers |
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£12.99 |
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“Handel in the Playhouse” |
(First
recordings); L’Avventura |
Opella
Nova OMCD 014 |
£12.99 |
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HANDEL |
Ode for the
Birthday of Queen Anne/ etc; Scholl/ etc/ AAM |
Harmonia
Mundi HMC
902041 |
£12.99 |
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HAYDN |
Piano Trios
Volume 2; Florestan trio |
Hyperion CDA
67757 |
£11.99 |
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MAHLER |
Symphony 8/ Adagio
from Sym 10; San Francisco SO/Tilson Thomas |
Avie 821936 00212 (2 SACDs) |
£19.99 |
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MORTELMANS |
Homeric
Symphony/ etc; Royal Flemish Philharmonic/ Brabbins |
Hyperion CDA
67766 |
£11.99 |
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MOZART |
Duo Sonatas Vol 2; Duo Amade |
Chandos CHAN 0764 |
£11.99 |
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PAGANINI |
12 Caprices for
solo violin; Thomas Zehetmair |
ECM 476 3318 |
£11.99 |
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PAGANINI |
12 Caprices for
solo violin; James Ehnes |
ONYX 4044 |
£12.99 |
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SARASATE |
Carmen fantasy/ Song
of the Nightingale/ etc; Gil Shaham/ etc |
Canary Classics
CC 07 |
£12.99 |
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A SCARLATTI |
Davidis pugna et
Victoria; Academia Montis Regalis/
de Marchi |
Hyperion CDA
67714 |
£11.99 |
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SCHOENBERG |
Gurrelieder; Soloists/ Philharmonia/Salonen |
Signum SIGCD 173 (2 SACDs) |
£19.99 |
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SCHUBERT |
Die Schone Mullerin; Gilchrist/Tilbrook |
Orchid Classics
ORC 100006 |
£12.99 |
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SCHUBERT |
Works for violin
& piano Vol 1; Fischer/ Helmchen |
Pentatone PTC 5186 347 (SACD) |
£11.99 |
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SCHUMANN |
Scenes from
Goethe’s Faust; Soloists/ RCOHarnoncourt |
RCO Live
RCO09001 (2 SACDs) |
£15.99 |
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SHOSTAKOVICH |
Symphonies 5
& 9; RLPO/Petrenko |
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£4.99 |
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SIBELIUS |
Symphonies
1-7/Kullervo; LSO/ |
LSO 0191 (4 CDs) |
£18.99 |
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VIVALDI |
Oboe Concertos;
Alfredo Bernadini/Zefiro |
Naïve OP
30409 |
£12.99 |
NEW DVDs
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“Europa
Konzert 2008” |
(Stravinsky/ Bruch/ Beethoven); Repin/BPO/Rattle |
Medici Arts 205 6978 |
£21.99 |
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“Mendelssohn, the Nazis and
Me”; |
Sheila Hayman |
Tony Palmer Films CPVP 020DVD |
£15.99 |
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MUSSORGSKY |
Kovanshchina; Burchuladze/ Kotscherga/ |
Medici Arts 207 2428 |
£21.99 |
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“Ode to Freedom”; |
Beethoven
Symphony 9; Bernstein (Berlin 25/12/1989) |
Medici Arts 207 2039 |
£14.99 |
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PURCELL |
Dido &
Aeneas; Connolly/ Meachem/ OAE/ Hogwood
(ROH 2009) (Also available on Blu Ray, OABD 7049D,
£24.99) |
Opus Arte OA 1018D |
£19.99 |
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SHOSTAKOVICH |
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk; Soloists/ Conlon (Firenze
2008) (Also available on Blu Ray, 101 388, £29.99) |
Arthaus 101 387 (2 DVDs) |
£29.99 |
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“Twin Spirits” |
Robert &
Clara Schumann in words & Music; Sting/ Keenlyside/
etc |
Opus Arte OA 0994D (2 DVDs) |
£19.99 |
(Special
offer prices valid until the end of November 2009 or while stocks last)