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Gramophone Winners 2021

Britten: Peter Grimes (complete opera) cover
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Peter Grimes (complete opera)
Stuart Skelton; Erin Wall; Roderick Williams; Susan Bickley; Hanna Husáhr / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
GRAMOPHONE Award WINNER 2021 - Opera
GRAMOPHONE Award WINNER 2021 - Recording of the Year

'The burly...
$60.00
Elgar & Beach: Piano Quintets cover
EDWARD ELGAR / AMY BEACH
Elgar & Beach: Piano Quintets
Takács Quartet, Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
GRAMOPHONE Award WINNER 2021 - Chamber
BBC Music Award Nomination 2021 - Chamber

Amy Beach's piano...
$30.00

Gramophone Winners & Finalists

Pickard: The Gardener of Aleppo cover
JOHN PICKARD
Pickard: The Gardener of Aleppo
Nash Ensemble, Martyn Brabbins (conductor) $35.00
Josquin: Missa Hercules Dux Ferrarie, Missa D'ung aultre amer & Missa Faysant regretz cover
JOSQUIN DES PRES
Josquin: Missa Hercules Dux Ferrarie, Missa D'ung aultre amer & Missa Faysant regretz
The Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips $30.00
Sean Shibe: Bach cover
J. S. BACH
Sean Shibe: Bach
Sean Shibe (guitar) $35.00
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier - Book II [excerpts] cover
J. S. BACH
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier - Book II [excerpts]
Piotr Anderszewski (piano) $30.00
Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2 cover
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2
Alina Ibragimova (violin), State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia 'Evgeny Svetlanov', Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) $30.00
Schmidt - Complete Symphonies cover
FRANZ SCHMIDT
Schmidt - Complete Symphonies
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi $40.00
Fatma Said - El Nour cover
SERRANO / de FALLA / RAVEL / BERLIOZ / LORCA / etc
Fatma Said - El Nour
Fatma Said (soprano), with Rafael Aguirre (guitar) Malcolm Martineau (piano) & others $30.00
Ludovic Tézier: Verdi cover
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Ludovic Tézier: Verdi
Ludovic Tézier (baritone) / Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Frédéric Chaslin $30.00
Elgar: Violin concerto / Violin Sonata cover
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Violin concerto / Violin Sonata
Renaud Capuçon (violin), Stephen Hough (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle $30.00
Biber: Requiem cover
HEINRICH IGNAZ FRANZ von BIBER
Biber: Requiem
Freiburger Barockconsort, Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier $35.00
Rossini: Amici e Rivali cover
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Amici e Rivali
Michael Spyres (tenor), Lawrence Brownlee (tenor), I Virtuosi Italiani, Corrado Rovaris, with Tara Erraught (mezzo-soprano) $30.00
Chanson d'Amour cover
FAURÉ / POULENC / RAVEL / DEBUSSY
Chanson d'Amour
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Alexandre Tharaud (piano) $30.00
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BBC Music November Picks

'Strings attached' the Voice of Kannel cover
MACHAUT / BYRD / DOWLAND / FRESCOBALDI etc
'Strings attached' the Voice of Kannel
Anna-Liisa Eller (kannels & psaltery) $35.00
Mozart: Violin Concertos 3 & 4 cover
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Violin Concertos 3 & 4
Francesa Dego (violin), Francesca Leonardi (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Roger Norrington (conductor) $30.00
Michael Spyres - BariTenor cover
MOZART / MEHUL / OFFENBACH / LEONCAVALLO / LEHAR / WAGNER / RAVEL / etc
Michael Spyres - BariTenor
Michael Spyres (baritone/tenor) / Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, Marko Letonja, Choeur d'hommes de l'Opéra national du Rhine $30.00
Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa cover
ARVO PART
Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa
Renaud Capucon (violin/conductor) / Orchestre de chambre de Lausanne, with Guillaume Bellom (piano) $30.00

Hyperion Classical Piano Ctos

Benda: Piano Concertos cover
GEORG BENDA
Benda: Piano Concertos
Howard Shelley (piano/conductor) / London Mozart Players $30.00
Cramer: Piano Concertos Nos 1, 3 & 6 cover
JOHANN BAPTIST CRAMER
Cramer: Piano Concertos Nos 1, 3 & 6
Howard Shelley (piano/conductor), London Mozart Players $30.00
Dussek: Piano Concertos cover
JAN LADISLAV DUSSEK
Dussek: Piano Concertos
Ulster Orchestra, Howard Shelley (piano & conductor) $30.00
F. X. Mozart / Clementi: Piano Concertos cover
FRANZ XAVER MOZART / MUZIO CLEMENTI
F. X. Mozart / Clementi: Piano Concertos
Howard Shelley (piano/conductor), Sinfonieorchester St Gallen $30.00
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Chandos new & recent

Klebanov: Chamber Works cover
DMITRI LVOVICH KLEBANOV
Klebanov: Chamber Works
ARC Ensemble $30.00
The Polish Violin Vol.2 cover
KAROL SZYMANOWSKI / IRENE POLDOWSKI / GRAZYNA BACEWICZ
The Polish Violin Vol.2
Jennifer Pike (violin) Petr Limonov (piano) $30.00
Elgar: Where Corals Lie - a journey through songs by Elgar cover
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Where Corals Lie - a journey through songs by Elgar
Julia Sitkovetsky (soprano) Christopher Glynn (piano) $30.00
Krzysztof Meisinger - Elogio de la guitarra cover
RODRIGO / LLOBET SOLES / CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO / PIAZZOLLA
Krzysztof Meisinger - Elogio de la guitarra
Krzysztof Meisinger (guitar) $30.00

Marbecks Collectables

MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta / Hindemith: Sinfonie
BELA BARTOK / PAUL HINDEMITH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta / Hindemith: Sinfonie "Mathis der Maler"
Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Herbert von Karajan $20.00
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Faure: Requiem / Pelleas et Melisande / Masques et Bergamasques cover
GABRIEL FAURE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Faure: Requiem / Pelleas et Melisande / Masques et Bergamasques
Suzanne Danco (soprano), Gerald Souzay (tenor) / L'Union Chorale de la tour de Peilz / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande $18.00
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Delius: Fennimore and Gerda (complete opera) cover
FREDERICK DELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Delius: Fennimore and Gerda (complete opera)
Robert Tear (tenor) Brian Rayner Cook (baritone), Hedwig Rummel (Mezzo Soprano) Elisabeth Söderström (Sop) / Danish national radio symphony, Meredith $25.00
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Van Cliburn - Mozart, Barber & Debussy cover
W. A. MOZART / SAMUEL BARBER / CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Van Cliburn - Mozart, Barber & Debussy
Van Cliburn (piano) $25.00
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Beautiful Eloquence Boxed Sets

Beethoven: Complete String Quartets cover
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete String Quartets
Lindsay String Quartet $155.00
Anthony Collins - Complete Decca Recordings cover
SIBELIUS / MOZART / RACHMANINOV / DELIUS / WALTON / ELGAR / etc
Anthony Collins - Complete Decca Recordings
Moura Lympany, Ruggiero Ricci, Friedrich Gulda, Gervase de Peyer, Orchestras conducted by Anthony Collins $195.00
Eileen Joyce: The Complete Studio Recordings cover
BERGMAN / DEBUSSY / LISZT / RACHMANINOV / STRAUSS / MOZART /etc
Eileen Joyce: The Complete Studio Recordings
Eileen Joyce (piano) $55.00
Gillian Weir: A Celebration cover
DUPRÉ / FRANCK / COUPERIN / BRUHNS / BACH / MESSIAEN
Gillian Weir: A Celebration
Gillian Weir (organ) $190.00
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