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Musica Nova: Harmonie Des Nations 1500 - 1700 cover
PARABOSCO / GABRIELI / DOWLAND / MARINI / CHARPENTIER & others
Musica Nova: Harmonie Des Nations 1500 - 1700
Jordi Savall, Hesperion XXI
This new recoding by Jordi Savall and his ensemble Hespèrion XXI enables us to discover the best pieces...
$35.00
Digressions cover
BARTOK / J. S. BACH / LIN / SCHUMANN
Digressions
Tony Chen Lin (piano)
Life seems to be an endless stream of unforeseen digressions; it is often difficult to distinguish them...
$30.00

New Zealand releases on Rattle

Helix / Kartsigar / Songs for Simon cover
JOHN PSATHAS
Helix / Kartsigar / Songs for Simon
Donald Nicolson / New Zealand String Quartet / NZ Trio / John Psathas $30.00
Landscape Preludes cover
BODY / CRESSWELL / FARR / PSATHAS / BODY / etc
Landscape Preludes
Henry Wong Doe (piano) $30.00
Passing By cover
JACK BODY
Passing By
NZTrio, Stephen de Pledge, Stroma New Music Ensemble, Kronos Quartet $30.00
Inland: New Zealand composers cover
DOUGLAS LILBURN / KENNETH YOUNG / MIKE NOCK / GAO PING / etc
Inland: New Zealand composers
Michael Houstoun (piano) $42.00
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Warner Classical Masters

Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand' cover
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Christine Brewer, Soile Isokoski, Juliane Banse, Birgit Remmert, Jon Villars, etc / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle $15.00
Elgar: Enigma Variations (with Holst - The Planets) cover
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Enigma Variations (with Holst - The Planets)
London Symphony Orchestra / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult $15.00
Haydn: Cello Concertos 1 and 2 cover
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Cello Concertos 1 and 2
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) / Academy St Martins in the Fields $15.00
Orff: Carmina Burana cover
CARL ORFF
Orff: Carmina Burana
Thomas Allen, Sheila Armstrong, Gerald English / London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn $15.00
» Classic recordings at a great price!

New boxed sets from Warner

Haydn: Complete Piano Sonatas cover
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Complete Piano Sonatas
Rudolf Buchbinder (piano) $55.00
The King's Singers: Madrigals & Songs from the Renaissance cover
THE KING'S SINGERS
The King's Singers: Madrigals & Songs from the Renaissance
The King's Singers with The Consorte of Musicke, Anthony Rooley & Tragicomedia $55.00
Tchaikovsky: Complete Piano Works cover
PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Complete Piano Works
Viktoria Postnikova (piano) / Orchestras conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky $50.00
Christa Ludwig: The Complete Recitals on Warner Classics cover
SCHUBERT / BRAHMS / MAHLER / GLUCK / REGER / etc
Christa Ludwig: The Complete Recitals on Warner Classics
Christa Ludwig (mezzo) with Walter Berry (bass-baritone) Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Geoffrey Parsons, Gerald Moore, Leonard Bernstein (pianos) $63.00
» Great recordings imported from Germany.

New Releases from Harmonia Mundi

Bartok: Piano Concerto No 3 / Concerto For Orchestra cover
BÉLA BARTÓK
Bartok: Piano Concerto No 3 / Concerto For Orchestra
Javier Perianes (piano), Münchner Philharmoniker, Pablo Heras-Casado $35.00
Haydn: Piano Sonatas [Nos 32, 40, 49, 50] cover
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Sonatas [Nos 32, 40, 49, 50]
Paul Lewis (piano) $35.00
Schubert / Chopin / Liszt / Stravinsky: Four Pianos - Four Pieces cover
SCHUBERT / CHOPIN / LISZT / STRAVINSKY
Schubert / Chopin / Liszt / Stravinsky: Four Pianos - Four Pieces
Alexander Melnikov (pianos) $35.00
Perpetual Night cover
JOHNSON / LAWES / COPRARIO / BLOW / PURCELL / JACKSON / etc
Perpetual Night
Lucile Richardot, Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé $35.00

Warner The Home of Opera - New

Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (Complete Opera recorded in 1958) cover
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (Complete Opera recorded in 1958)
Rosanna Carteri, Luigi Alva, Giuseppe Taddei, Rolando Panerai / Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Tullio Serafin $20.00
Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Complete Opera recorded in 1967) cover
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Complete Opera recorded in 1967)
Renata Scotto, Carlo Bergonzi, Anna di Stasio, Rolando Panerai / Rome Opera, Sir John Barbirolli $20.00
Lalo: Le roi d'Ys (Complete Opera recorded in 1957) cover
EDOUARD LALO
Lalo: Le roi d'Ys (Complete Opera recorded in 1957)
Janine Micheau, Rita Gorr, Henri Legay, Jean Borthayre / Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion française, André Cluytens $20.00
Delibes: Lakme (Complete Opera recorded in 1971) cover
LEO DELIBES
Delibes: Lakme (Complete Opera recorded in 1971)
Mady Mesple, Charles Burles, Roger Soyer / Opera-Comique / Alain Lombard $20.00

The Year of Debussy!

Debussy Centenary Discoveries cover
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy Centenary Discoveries
Jean-Pierre Armengaud (piano), Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Natalie Pérez (soprano), Olivier Chauzu (piano), Ensemble Les Essenti'elles $40.00
Impressions: The Sound of Debussy cover
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Impressions: The Sound of Debussy
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Jean-Pierre Armengaud, Michel Beroff, Renaud Capucon, Philippe Cassard, Aldo Ciccolini, Andres Cluytens, Natalie Dessay, etc $25.00
Debussy: La Mer / Images cover
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: La Mer / Images
Orchestre National de France, Emmanuel Krivine $25.00
Debussy: Sonatas & Trio cover
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Sonatas & Trio
Renaud Capucon (violin) Gérard Caussé (viola) Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp) Edgar Moreau (cello) Bertrand Chamayou (piano) $25.00

Sony Classical Masters

Brahms: Symphonuies Nos 3 & 4 cover
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphonuies Nos 3 & 4
NDR Sinfonieorchester, Günter Wand $12.00
Grieg / Schumann: Piano Concertos (Rec 1989) cover
EDWARD GRIEG / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Grieg / Schumann: Piano Concertos (Rec 1989)
Murray Perahia (piano) / Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis $12.00
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies cover
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta $12.00
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Night on a Bare Mountain / Scherzo in B flat / etc cover
MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Night on a Bare Mountain / Scherzo in B flat / etc
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini & Claudio Abbado $12.00
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Recent Boxed Sets

Leonard Bernstein Remastered cover
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Leonard Bernstein Remastered
Isaac Stern (violin) Philippe Entremont (piano) Andre Watts (piano) / Various orchestras, Leonard Bernstein $225.00
Jacqueline du Pre: The Great Recordings cover
ELGAR / DVORAK / MONN / HAYDN / BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / etc
Jacqueline du Pre: The Great Recordings
Jacqueline du Pré (cello), with Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Daniel Barenboim (piano) and many others $120.00
John Williams Conductor cover
WILLIAMS / MORRICONE / BONFA / PREVIN / BERNSTEIN / LEGRAND / etc
John Williams Conductor
Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell (violins) Yo Yo Ma (cello) / Pittsburg Symphjony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, John Williams $166.00
Christa Ludwig: The Complete Recitals on Warner Classics cover
SCHUBERT / BRAHMS / MAHLER / GLUCK / REGER / etc
Christa Ludwig: The Complete Recitals on Warner Classics
Christa Ludwig (mezzo) with Walter Berry (bass-baritone) Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Geoffrey Parsons, Gerald Moore, Leonard Bernstein (pianos) $63.00