When Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy's recording of the Preludes was first released in 2011, critics reached for the superlatives: 'In his recording of Chopin's 24 Preludes, Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy achieves a fusion of impassioned ardor and classical textual rigor... The best of Schmitt-Leonardy's Chopin adds up to a stimulating and compelling listening journey well worth traveling, even if you've heard these works hundreds of times.' (Jed Distler, Classics Today). 5028421952109 BRLT95210.2 29293230 .00 17.99 .25 BRILLIANT CLASSICS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 01/29/2016 http://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/4/6/3/3063643.jpg 2 GINASTERA / OSTERC / BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRAL WORKS 1 Impressive in our ongoing, very successful Spanish music series, the BBC Philharmonic and it's chief conductor, Juanjo Mena, also explores the works of the Argentinean composer Alberto Ginastera in three orchestral volumes. Not only acknowledged as a leading South-American composer of his day, Ginastera is also seen as one of the heroes of Latin-American music in general, whose enduring source of inspiration was Argentina itself: it's pre-Columbian legacy on the one hand and the vast landscapes of the pampas on the other. 095115188422 CHN10884.2 29293285 .00 22.99 .23 CHANDOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 01/29/2016 http://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/9/3/7/3077393.jpg 3 LULLY / TAFELMUSIK BAROQUE ORCHESTRA / TAURINS BEST OF FRENCH BAROQUE This compilation offers a selection of the best recordings of French baroque repertoire drawn from Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra's own catalogue. The album includes the 2005 JUNO Award-winning, Grammy Award-nominated recording of an orchestral suite from Rameau's epic five-act tragedie en musique Dardanus, originally released on CBC Records. The Tafelmusik Chamber Choir and guest soloists are featured in a 2006 CBC recording of the Grand Motet Dominus regnavit by Mondonville. Two works are drawn from Tafelmusik's genre-defying, globe-trotting, multi-media concert programs: a suite from Lully's Phaeton from the 2009 recording of The Galileo Project, and a suite from Marais' Alcyone from the 2012 recording of House of Dreams. Ms. Lamon and Tafelmusik have earned high marks ... the music's greatness might not be so obvious but for Tafelmusik's fine period style... It will have listeners wondering why this music is not as well-known as works by Bach, Handel and Vivaldi. -The New York Times 880513102923 TFMD1029.2 28992462 .00 13.99 .17 TAFELMUSIK MEDIA COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 10/30/2015 http://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/8/4/9/3019486.jpg 153 BACH,J.S. / TAFELMUSIK BAROQUE ORCHESTRA / TAURINS BEST OF GERMAN BAROQUE - BACH Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra celebrates the genius of J.S. Bach with Best of German Baroque: J.S. Bach. This compilation includes tracks newly recorded in 2015, as well as music from the genre-defying, multi-media concert programs The Galileo Project and House of Dreams, recorded for Tafelmusik Media in 2009 and 2012. The album features instrumental versions of Sheep May Safely Graze and How Brightly Shines the Morning Star specially arranged by Alison Mackay. Also featured is Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 in G Major, and movements from the Sonata for 2 violins in G Major (after BWV 1039), and from the Concerto for 2 violins in D Minor with soloists Jeanne Lamon and Aisslinn Nosky. Best of German Baroque: J.S. Bach showcases the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir and soloists Ann Monoyios, soprano, and Colin Ainsworth, tenor, in selections from Bach's Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191, originally released on CBC Records in 2007 in celebration of the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir's 25th anniversary season. Choir director Ivars Taurins helps the ensemble capture both with energetic thrusts and tight ensemble, while soloists Ann Monoyios and Colin Ainsworth are in sync in the duet on Gloria patri. - Gramophone Magazine 880513102824 TFMD1028.2 28992455 .00 13.99 .18 TAFELMUSIK MEDIA COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 10/30/2015 http://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/8/4/9/3019485.jpg 159 PHILIDOR / LABBE / TREUPEL-FRANCK FIL D'ARGENT FIL D'OR For this second recording devoted to French Baroque music for two solo transverse lutes, Marie-C�line Labb� and Marion Treupel-Franck perform the six suites by Pierre Danican Philidor (1681-1731), pieces taken from the three collections published by the composer in Paris in 1717 and 1718. Written in a highly original style in which one senses the spirit of freedom blowing over Versailles and France during the regency of the Duke dOrl�ans, these short suites, in addition to the principal dances in vogue at the court of Versailles in the early 18th century, each comprise a fugue. A few brunettes by Michel Pignolet de Mont�clair (1667-1737) round out the program. The brunette, a little rustic song with an evocative title, was a musical genre quite popular in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The selection proposed here will enable the listener to discover another facet of the work of Mont�clair, the composer who was the object of the two flautists first recording. 4250128514057 RMEE1405.2 28995692 .00 20.99 .20 RAMEE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 10/23/2015 http://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/9/0/0/2960095.jpg 38 BRAHMS / DOUGLAS,BARRY WORKS FOR SOLO PIANO 5 095115187821 CHN10878.2 28995739 .00 22.99 .25 CHANDOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 10/30/2015 http://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/2/4/1/3021428.jpg 87 PEIXUN / ON-YUEN / HONG KONG PHILHARMONIC ORCH FANTASIA ON CANTONESE FOLK THEMES - FIVE PIECES 636943580929 MAP8225809.2 28997504 .00 19.99 .21 MARCO POLO COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 05/08/2015 http://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/9/4/1/3021496.jpg 0 LING / KEK-TJIANG / NAGOYA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA POPULAR CHINESE ORCHESTRAL MUSIC 636943580820 MAP8225808.2 28997481 .00 19.99 .21 MARCO POLO COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 05/08/2015 http://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/0/5/1/3021501.jpg 2 BRAHMS / NORDDEUTSCHER FIGURALCHOR / STRAUBE,JORG SECULAR VOCAL WORKS 2 760623192062 MDGE9471920SACD 29036509 .00 24.99 .22 MDG SUPER-AUDIO CD CLASSICAL CLASSICAL VOCALS 11/20/2015 http://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/1/0/8/3008018.jpg 81 BRAHMS,J. / BUDAPEST FESTIVAL ORCH / FISCHER,IVAN SYMPHONY NO.4 - HUNGARIAN DANCES NOS. 3 7 & 11 The GRAMMY winning combination of Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra follow up on their acclaimed recordings of Brahms's Symphonies Nos.1 & 2 with a benchmark performance of the Symphony No.4. It is coupled here with the Hungarian Dances Nos. 3, 7 & 11, making this another must-have addition to Fischer's definitive Brahms cycle. 723385353157 CHC35315SACD 29038787 .00 21.99 .17 CHANNEL CLASSICS SUPER-AUDIO CD CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 11/13/2015 http://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/8/9/7/3027989.jpg 0 DEVIENNE,F. / MUSICA REALE FLUTE QUARTETS OP.66 NOS.1 & 3 - BASSOON QUARTETS Until about 1960, Francois Devienne was one of the best-kept secrets of French music history. Celebrated in late-eighteenth-century France as a bassoonist, flautist and composer, his legacy was overshadowed by his Austrian contemporaries Haydn and Mozart. Forgotten to time were no less than seven symphonies, nineteen concertos, forty-six trios, sixty-seven sonatas, a dozen comic operas and fifty songs - all composed before the age of forty-three. On this release, the ensemble Musica Reale performs a selection of Devienne's Flute Quartets and Bassoon Quartets. 723385354154 CHC35415SACD 29038794 .00 21.99 .24 CHANNEL CLASSICS SUPER-AUDIO CD CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 11/13/2015 http://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/9/9/7/3027991.jpg 25 AMBAR MUSIC GROUP O VOO DA MOSCA O Voo da Mosca (Flight of the Fly) is a collection of luscious, evocative Latin American dance music stylishly arranged and performed by The Ambar Music Group. The ensemble is a collaboration of three Colombian musicians and a Russian violinist. In addition to classical training, some of the group's members have also been involved in traditional music from a very early age. Their repertory is carefully chosen in a way that allows each member to express their individual personalities, thus offering an original interpretation at each performance. 5060216344041 FIHA41.2 29038831 .00 21.99 .25 FIRST HAND COMPACT DISCS POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC SOUTH AMERICA 11/13/2015 http://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/4/1/8/3028145.jpg 10 SANDS / FONNESAEK / RIEL TAKE ONE Young rising star Christian Sands' first live album under his own name! 717101845323 SYE1038453.2 29039654 .00 20.99 .12 STORYVILLE RECORDS COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 11/06/2015 http://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/5/1/4/3004151.jpg 11 KLEIBERG / THORSEN / MONSEN / WUTTUDAL / GIMSE MEZZOTIINTS - CHAMBER MUSIC BY STALE KLEIBERG Mezzotints demonstrates the continuum of the chamber music oeuvre in the contemporary era with solo and chamber works by internationally acclaimed Norwegian contemporary composer St�le Kleiberg whose broad discography includes the Grammy nominated opera David and Bathsheba, and the widely performed 2004 chorale Requiem included in a Washington D.C. performance commemorating the 9/11 U.S. attacks. The inspired playing of Marianne Thorsen, violin; �yvind Gimse, cello; B�rd Monsen, violin; Ole Wuttudal, viola and J�rgen Larsen, piano bring to life the command, technical mastery and great expressiveness of these scores. 7041888520528 TWOL115BA 29080472 .00 44.99 .28 2-L BLU-RAY AUDIO CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 11/13/2015 http://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/0/9/7/3037901.jpg 6 GRAINGER / PRESIDENT'S OWN U.S. MARINE BAND MUSIC LOVER'S GRAINGER The newest release from Altissimo! Celebrates the music of Percy Grainger, both familiar and unknown, recorded live in 2011 at a concert given in observation of the 50th anniversary of composer death, performed by the President's Own" US Marine Band under Colonel Michael J. Colburn in collaboration with the Choral Arts Society of Washington. The title The Music Lover's Grainger was borrowed from one of Grainger's many unfinished publishing projects, reflecting the world premiere recordings featured on the program. These include a version of "The Lost Lady Found", the final number of Lincolnshire Posy, transcribed for band and chorus, based on Grainger's original setting for chorus and orchestra; the original, unpublished band version of "Spoon River", reconstructed from the recently discovered manuscript parts; and a rarely heard, otherworldly harmonization of the "Londonderry Air", the tune of "Danny Boy", scored for band, chorus, and organ. A significant amateur ethnomusicologist, Grainger drew extensively from folksong, collecting several hundred tunes from the English countryside himself. The repertoire recorded here includes English, Irish, Scottish, American, and Danish influences.