The Music Pages | January 2008


	Cat. No.: 478 0034 Barcode: 0028947800347 Label: Decca 2CD Release Date: 26 January			GEORGES PRÊTRE \| VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA New Year’s Concert 2008 ARTISTS Vienna Philharmonic Georges Prêtre TRACK LISTING Johann Strauss II: Napoleon-Marsch, op. 156 Josef Strauss: Dorfschwalben aus Österreich. Walzer,op.164 Josef Strauss: Laxenburger Polka, op. 60 Johann Strauss: I Pariser Walzer Johann Strauss: I Versailler Galopp Johann Strauss: II Orpheus-Quadrille, op. 236 Joseph Hellmesberger jr.: Kleiner Anzeiger. Galopp, op. 4 Johann Strauss II: Ouvertüre zu "Indigo und die vierzig Räuber" Johann Strauss II: Freuet euch des Lebens. Walzer, op. 340 Johann Strauss II: Bluette. Polka francaise, op. 271 Johann Strauss II: Tritsch-Tratsch. Polka schnell, op. 214 Joseph Lanner: Hofball-Tänze. Walzer, op. 161 Josef Strauss: Die Libelle. Polka mazur, op. 204 Johann Strauss: II Russischer Marsch, op. 426 Johann Strauss: II Die Pariserin. Polka francaise, op. 238 Johann Strauss: I Chineser-Galopp, op. 20 Johann Strauss: II Kaiser-Walzer, op. 437 Johann Strauss: II Die Bajadere. Polka schnell, op. 351 Encores: Josef Strauss: Sport-Polka. Polka schnell, op. 170 Johann Strauss II: An der schönen blauen Donau, op. 314 Johann Strauss I: Radetzkymarsch, op. 228 LIVE BROADCAST OF 2008 NEW YEAR’S CONCERT IN VIENNA ON SBS-TV The New Year’s Concert in Vienna has been a glorious tradition year on year for over six decades. A best-selling classical event year on year, the concert has unique global appeal. It is broadcast on TV and radio to over 50 countries, and is viewed by tens of millions of people all over the world. The 2008 New Year’s Day Concert will be conducted by the eminent conductor Georges Prêtre for the first time. Prêtre is the first French conductor to receive this honour. The concert programme for 1st January 2008 will be the customary collection of Strauss delights, but this time with a French theme. The concert will open with Napoleon March op.156 by Johann Strauss II, performed for the first time in a New Year’s Concert. Other French novelties include the waltz Paris by the elder Johann Strauss, composed in 1838 for his Paris concerts, and the Versailles Galop. Also performed for the first time are the Orpheus Quadrille, which was greeted with thunderous applause at its first performance in April 1860, and the Laxenburg Polka by Josef Strauss. The traditional encores the Blue Danube Waltz and Radetzky March, will be joined by the Sport Polka, as a nod to the European Football Championship in Vienna in 2008. The year’s second great sporting event, the Summer Olympics in Beijing, is saluted by the orchestra earlier in the programme with an early work of the elder Johann Strauss, his exotically coloured Chinese Galop. George Prêtre has a special association with the Wiener Philharmoniker dating back to 1966. He is one of the few French Artists to have received the highest decorations both in France and abroad: Commander of the French Légion d’honneur and the Austrian Cross for Services Rendered to Science and the Arts. He also became Honorary Member of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna - the highest decoration an artist can obtain in Vienna. The concert will be broadcast live on SBS-TV and the CD & DVD will then be promoted on that network. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 475 9379 Barcode: 0028947593799 Label: Decca 2CD Release Date: 12 January			VARIOUS ARTISTS \| Puccini Gold ARTISTS Various TRACK LISTING CD1 [1] Nessun Dorma (Turandot) / Luciano Pavarotti [2] Vissi d’arte (Tosca) / Montserrat Caballé [3] Donna non vidi mai (Manon Lescaut) / Carlo Bergonzi [4] Un bel di (Madama Butterfly) / Mirella Freni [5] O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicci) / Renée Fleming [6] Recondita armonia (Tosca) / José Carreras [7] Vogliatemi bene (Madama Butterfly) / Tebaldi/Bergonzi [8] Humming Chorus (Madama Butterfly) VPO/Karajan [9] Firenze e come un altro fiorito Roberto Alagna [10] Tra voi belle (Manon Lescaut) / Luciano Pavarotti [11] O Mimi tu piu non torni / Pavarotti/Panerai [12] E lucevan le stelle (Tosca) / Placido Domingo [13] Chi il bel sogno di Doretta / Renée Fleming [14] Senza Mamma / Joan Sutherland [15] O soave Fanciulla / Netrebko/ Villazón CD 2 [1] Che gelida manina (La Boheme) / Jonas Kaufmann [2] Si , mi chiamano Mimi (La Boheme) / Angela Gheorghiu [3] Ch’ella mi creda libero (La Fanciulla del West) / Placido Domingo [4] Flower Duet (Madama Butterfly) / Freni/Ludwig [5] Quando me’n vo (La Boheme) / Anna Netrebko [6] Intermezzo (Manon Lescaut) / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly [7] In quelle trine morbide (Manon Lescaut) / Kiri te Kanawa [8] Addio fiorito asil (Madama Butterfly) / Andrea Bocelli [9] Signore ascolta (Turandot) / Montserrat Caballé [10] Non piangere Liu (Turandot) / Giuseppe di Stefano [11] No pazzo son (Manon Lescaut) / Luciano Pavarotti [12]Crisantemi / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly [13] Dovunque al mondo (Madam Butterfly) / Luciano Pavarotti [14] Tu che di gel sei cinta (Turandot) / Montserrat Caballé [15] Nessun Dorma (Turandot) / Pavarotti/Domingo/Carreras To start the composers' 150th Anniversary celebration in 2008 in style - the definitive collection of his most popular arias sung by the world's greatest singers! Pavarotti, Domingo, Netrebko, Fleming, Carreras, Caballe, Bocelli, Villazon, Alagana, Gheorghiu, Freni, Sutherland and more - a matchless collection of outstanding vocalists from the incomparable Universal Classics catalogue! Puccini's irresistible melodies are known and loved throughout the world and familiar to millions through their extensive use on stage and screen. Included here are the hit arias "O mio babbino caro" ("A Room with a View") "Nessun Dorma" (World Cup 1990) and "Che gelida manina" ("Moonstruck"). This album includes both the celebrated solo Pavarotti and Three Tenors versions of "Nessun Dorma". RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 475 9966 Barcode: 0028947599661 Label: Decca CD Release Date: 12 January			JONAS KAUFMAN \| Romantic Arias ARTIST WEBSITE: www.jonas-kaufmann.com ARTISTS Jonas Kaufman Prague Philharmonic Marco Armilatto TRACK LISTING 1. Puccini “Che gelida manina” from La Bohème 2. Bizet “La fleur que tu m’avais jetée” from Carmen 3. Flotow “Martha: Ach, so fromm” from Martha 4. Puccini “E lucevan le stelle” from Tosca 5. Verdi “Lo l’ho perduta… Io la vidi, a suo sorriso” from Don Carlos (Aria from Italian four act version) 6. Weber “Nein! Länger trag’ ich nicht… Durch die Wälder, durch die Augen” from Der Freischütz 7. Verdi “Lunge da lei… De miei bollenti spiriti …O mio rimorso” from La Traviata (with Jana Sibera - soprano) 8. Massenet “Je suis seul… Ah! Fuyez, douce image” from Manon 9. Verdi “Ella mi fu rapita…Parmi veder le” from Rigoletto 10. Gounod “Quel trouble inconnu me pénètre?...Salut! Demeure chaste et pure” from Faust 11. Wagner “Morgendlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein” from Die Meistersinger 12. Berlioz “Invocation à la nature” from Damnation of Faust 13. Massenet “Pourquoi me réveiller” from Werther "One of the most important, and versatile, singers of our age" The Times Jonas Kaufmann is without question the most versatile tenor of his generation, and his current repertoire includes an astonishing range of opera roles from Mozart to Wagner. He is also a celebrated Lieder interpreter, equally at home on the concert platform. His Decca Debut album celebrates a luscious range of Romantic opera arias, showcasing the astonishing diversity of his voice. Jonas Kaufmann has made stunning debuts in many of the world's leading opera houses in recent seasons. For example, to fabulous acclaim he appeared as Alfredo in La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera - "smoothly burnished, beautifully focused... and always disarmingly musical" New York Magazine. He was Don Jose in the 2007 new production of Carmen at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden - "superb" The Guardian. Romantic Arias includes opera favourites by the Italian giants Verdi and Puccini, by French greats Berlioz and Bizet, and by Wagner, the epitome of German Romanticism. Kaufmann responds to each composer with seductive ease. 'With his full, warm voice rich in russet and ebony colours, he sings Italian and French with as much aplomb as he does his native German...' The Telegraph RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 475 9385 Barcode: 0028947593850 Label: Decca 15CD Release Date: 12 January			RENATA TEBALDI \| CARLO BERGONZI \| MARIO DEL MONACO Puccini Great Opera Collection ARTISTS Renata Tebaldi Carlo Bergonzi Mario Del Monaco TRACK LISTING CD 1 & 2 Manon Lescaut Manon Lescaut - Renata Tebaldi Il cavaliere Renato des Grieux - Mario Del Monaco Lescaut - Mario Boriello Geronte di Ravoir - Fernando Corena Edmondo - Piero de Palma CD 3 & 4 La Bohème Mimì - Renata Tebaldi Rodolfo - Carlo Bergonzi Musetta - Gianna d'Angelo Marcello - Ettore Bastianini Schaunard - Renato Cesari Colline - Cesare Siepi Benoit - Fernando Corena Alcindoro - Fernando Corena Parpignol - Piero de Palma CD 5 & 6 Tosca Floria Tosca - Renata Tebaldi Mario Cavaradossi - Mario del Monaco Il barone Scarpia - George London Cesare Angelotti - Silvio Maionica Il sagrestano - Fernando Corena CD 7 & 8 Madama Butterfly Madama Butterfly (Cio-Cio-San) - Renata Tebaldi B.F. Pinkerton - Carlo Bergonzi Goro Angelo Mercuriali Suzuki - Fiorenza Cossotto Sharpless - Enzo Sordello CD 9 & 10 La fanciulla del West Minnie - Renata Tebaldi Dick Johnson - Mario del Monaco Jack Rance - Cornell Macneil Nick - Piero di Palma Ashby - Silvio Maionica CD 11 & 12 Turandot Turandot - Inge Borkh Liù - Renata Tebaldi Calaf - Mario del Monaco Timur - Bicola Zaccaria Ping - Fernando Corena Pang - Mario Carlin Pong - Renato Ercolani Altoum - Gaetano Fanelli Un mandarino - Ezio Giordano CD 13, 14 & 15 Il Trittico Il tabarro Michele - Robert Merrill Giorgetta - Renata Tebaldi Luigi - Mario del Monaco Suor Angelica Suor Angelica - Renata Tebaldi La zia Principessa - Giulietta Simionato Gianni Schicchi Gianni Schicchi - Fernando Corena Lauretta - Renata Tebaldi Orchestra e coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma Orchestra e coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Il Trittico) Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (Manon Lescaut, Tosca) Tullio Serafin (La Bohème, Madama Butterfly) Franco Capuana (La fanciulla del West) Alberto Erede (Turandot) Lamberto Gardelli (Il Trittico) To celebrate the composer's 150th Anniversary in 2008 - the definitive collection of his most popular operas in classic performances! Decca’s recordings of Puccini’s operas rank among the very finest ever committed to disc. This legacy was started in 1951 when Renata Tebaldi made her first recording of Madama Butterfly and throughout the rest of the 1950s Tebaldi recorded Puccini’s other major operas; at the end of the 1950s new stereo versions were made of Madama Butterfly and La Bohème. Tebaldi was cast alongside such distinguished colleagues as Carlo Bergonzi and Mario del Monaco and acclaimed opera maestri at the helm of these recordings include Francesco Molinari–Pradelli and Tullio Serafin. This collection of the great Puccini operas includes the stereo versions of Butterfly and Bohème and is the ideal collection of some of the world’s most popular and enduring operas in acclaimed recordings that have been an integral part of Decca’s legendary opera catalogue for the past fifty years. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 476 6209 Barcode: 0028947662099 Label: ABC Classics 8CD Release Date: 12 January			VARIOUS ARTISTS \| The Classic 100 (Re-issue) ARTISTS Various TRACK LISTING VOL. I - CD1 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Clarinet Concerto in A major, KV622 – II. Adagio 6’22 RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 ‘Choral’ – IV. Allegro assai – excerpt (Ode to Joy) LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 ‘Emperor’ – II. Adagio un poco mosso LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 – III. Rondo LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 ‘Pastoral’ – V. Allegretto GEORGES BIZET Au fond du temple saint (In the Depths of the Temple) from Les Pêcheurs de Perles (The Pearl Fishers) GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Messiah, HWV56 – ‘Hallelujah’ GREGORIO ALLEGRI Miserere (excerpt) RICHARD STRAUSS Four Last Songs – I. Frühling (Spring) VOL. I - CD2 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Jesus bleibet meine Freude (Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring) from Cantata No. 147, BWV147 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH St Matthew Passion, BWV 244 – Erbarme dich (Have mercy) SERGEI RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 – I. Moderato MAX BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 – I. Prelude (Allegro moderato) GABRIEL FAURÉ Requiem, Op. 48 – VII. In paradisum ANTONIO VIVALDI The Four Seasons – Spring, RV269: I. Allegro FRANZ SCHUBERT Nocturne in E-flat major, D897 FRANZ SCHUBERT Quintet for piano and strings in A major, D667 ‘Trout’ – III. Scherzo (Presto) & Trio EDWARD ELGAR Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 – I. Adagio – Moderato JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Cello Suite No. 1, BWV1007 – I. Prelude JOAQUÍN RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez – I. Allegro con spirito JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, BWV1048 – I. Allegro VOL. I - CD3 JOHANN PACHELBEL Canon from Canon and Gigue in D major EDWARD ELGAR Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 ‘Enigma’ – Variation No. 9 ‘Nimrod’ RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (excerpt) WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, KV488 – II. Adagio LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 ‘Moonlight’ – I. Adagio sostenuto FRANZ SCHUBERT String Quintet in C major, D956 – II. Adagio (excerpt) JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Mass in B minor, BWV232 – Christe eleison PIETRO MASCAGNI Cavalleria rusticana – Intermezzo WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K467 ‘Elvira Madigan’ – II. Andante WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Requiem, KV626 – Lacrimosa GIACOMO PUCCINI La bohème – ‘Che gelida manina’ JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV1043 – II. Largo ma non tanto SAMUEL BARBER Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 VOL. I - CD4 GIUSEPPE VERDI Va, pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) from Nabucco GIACOMO PUCCINI Madama Butterfly – ‘Un bel dì, vedremo’ (One Fine Day) JULES MASSENET Méditation from Thaïs LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 ‘Eroica’ – III. Scherzo FRANZ SCHUBERT An die Musik (To Music), D547 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 – I. Allegro con brio GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor – IV. Adagietto GIUSEPPE VERDI Messa da Requiem – Dies irae CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 ‘Organ’ – IIb. Maestoso – Allegro CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK Che farò senza Euridice (What shall I do without Eurydice) from Orfeo ed Euridice RICHARD WAGNER Liebestod (Love-Death) from Tristan und Isolde WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Serenade in G major, KV525 ‘Eine kleine Nachtmusik’ – I. Allegro GUSTAV HOLST The Planets – I. Mars CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS The Swan from Carnival of the Animals VOL. II - CD1 SERGEI RACHMANINOV Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 – Variation 18 ANTONÍN DVORÁK Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 ‘From the New World’ – II. Largo (excerpt) GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Largo (Ombra mai fù) from Serse (Xerxes) WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART The Magic Flute, KV620 – ‘Pa-Pa-Pa-Papagena’ ANTONÍN DVORÁK Song to the Moon from Rusalka, Op. 114 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Goldberg Variations, BWV988 – Aria WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Ave verum corpus in D major, KV618 SERGEY PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 – Dance of the Knights (Montagues and Capulets) EDWARD ELGAR Pomp and Circumstance March in D major, Op. 39 No. 1 BEDRICH SMETANA Má vlast (My Country) – Vltava (The Moldau) PYOTR IL’YICH TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture, Op. 49 GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No. 2 in C minor ‘Resurrection’ – ‘O glaube, mein Herz’ (Finale – excerpt) VOL. II - CD2 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH 63 Cantata No. 78, BWV78 ‘Jesu, der du meine Seele’ – ‘Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten’ (We hasten with faint but eager steps) HENRY LITOLFF Scherzo from Concerto Symphonique No. 4 in D minor, Op. 102 EDWARD ELGAR Sea Pictures, Op. 37 – ‘In Haven (Capri)’ Attr. GIULIO CACCINI arr. Daniel Walker Ave Maria WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART The Marriage of Figaro, KV492 – ‘Non più andrai’ EDVARD GRIEG Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 – I. Allegro molto moderato LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Piano Trio No. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 97 ‘Archduke’ – IV. Allegro moderato – Presto JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Christmas Oratorio, BWV248 – Sinfonia FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 – II. Romance (Larghetto) JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Chaconne from Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004 GEORGE GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue VOL. II - CD3 PYOTR IL’YICH TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 – I. Allegro non troppo e maestoso (excerpt) GIUSEPPE VERDI La traviata – Brindisi GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major ‘Symphony of a Thousand’ – ‘Gerettet ist das edle Glied’ (The precious part of our spirit host has been set free) FRANZ SCHUBERT Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat major, D899 GIACOMO PUCCINI O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 – II. Allegretto MAURICE RAVEL Boléro (excerpt) ERIK SATIE Gymnopédies – No. 1 CARL ORFF Carmina burana – ‘O Fortuna’ WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Clarinet Quintet in A major, KV581 – II. Larghetto WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Soave sia il vento (Let the wind be gentle) from Così fan tutte, KV588 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’ – II. Adagio cantabile LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 – II. Andante con moto JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier – Prelude in C major, BWV846 VOL. II - CD4 FELIX MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 – III. Allegro molto vivace JEAN SIBELIUS Finlandia, Op. 26 PYOTR IL’YICH TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 – III. Allegro vivacissimo HENRY PURCELL Thy hand Belinda...When I am laid in earth (Dido’s Lament) from Dido and Aeneas CLAUDE DEBUSSY Clair de lune from Suite bergamasque TOMASO ALBINONI arr. Giazotto/Motzing Adagio in G minor GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Zadok the Priest, HWV258 from Coronation Anthems WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, KV466 – II. Romanze IGOR STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring – Part I (Adoration of the Earth): Introduction EDVARD GRIEG Morning from Peer Gynt – Suite No. 1, Op. 46 ARAM KHACHATURIAN Spartacus – Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia GABRIEL FAURÉ Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 The original collection which started the Classic 100 phenomenon is back. Since its run-away success in 2002 the Classic 100 concept has grown ever more popular, with box sets of the Classic 100 Piano, the Classic 100 Opera, the Classic 100 Mozart and the Classic 100 Concerto also being best-sellers. This reissue of the Classic 100 8CD box set features selected new recordings to reignite the love of your favourite pieces. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 174 0835 Barcode: 0602517408357 Label: UCJ CD Release Date: 26 Jan			FRON CHOIR \| Voices of the Valley – Encore ARTISTS Fron Male Voice Choir TRACK LISTING Yesterday Can't Help Falling In Love (With You) Battle Hymn Of The Republic (Glory, Glory Hallelujah) Bridge Over Troubled Water Williams: Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer Amazing Grace Exodus Ar Lan Y Mor How Great Thou Art Speed Your Journey (Chorus of The Hebrew Slaves) Suo Gan We'll Keep A Welcome Panis Anjelicus The Rhythm Of Life The second album from The Fron Male Voice Choir - called Voices Of The Valley - Encore is expected to repeat the chart success of last year’s debut. Voices Of The Valley became both the fastest-selling classical album ever, and the best-selling classical album of 2006. This new album presents a carefully-selected mix of popular classics such as ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ and Paul McCartney’s ‘Yesterday’ alongside traditional favourites ‘Amazing Grace’ and ‘Panis Angelicus’ Choir History Froncysyllte (pronounced vron-cuss-ulth tay) is a small village at the eastern entrance to the Vale of Llangollen. Set in beautiful countryside in the Northeast corner of Wales it would be "just another village" if Thomas Telford had not built his famous aqueduct to carry the Llangollen Canal across the River Dee. Thousands of visitors come each year to marvel at his engineering skills and the groundbreaking work of the local iron foundries 200 years ago that made the project possible. In 1946 the people of Llangollen (which is 4 miles down the road) as a gesture to International Peace, decided to ask former enemies, to come together in the friendly competitive atmosphere of a traditional Welsh Eisteddfod. Invitations went out for 1947 and the Llangollen International, Musical Eisteddfod was born. Europe was in the grip of ruin. No one was sure if anyone would come. But they did come, and have been coming ever since. To compete in the Male Voice Competition at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod the Choir needed 60 voices so Wilfred Jones, the leader of the Froncysyllte Youth Club, persuaded the young men of the village to join. He was so successful that the 1947 Fron Choir had the youngest membership of any Welsh Male Voice Choir - a tradition of youth that has continued to this day. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 476 6342 Barcode: 0028947663423 Label: ABC Classics CD Release Date: 12 January			TASMANIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA \| Cantilena ARTISTS Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Richard Mills, conductor David Porcelijn, conductor Ola Rudner, conductor TRACK LISTING GRAEME KOEHNE: Santa Ana Freeway from Tivoli Dances GRAEME KOEHNE: Galop from Tivoli Dances ROSS EDWARDS: Ritmico from Veni Creator Spiritus PETER SCULTHORPE: Port Arthur: In memoriam DON KAY: Interlude – Land of Moinee from Tasmania Symphony – The Legend of Moinee ROSS EDWARDS: First Maninya from Guitar Concerto ELENA KATS-CHERNIN: Green Leaf from Wild Swans Concert Suite ELENA KATS-CHERNIN: Eliza Aria from Wild Swans Concert Suite ELENA KATS-CHERNIN: Brothers from Wild Swans Concert Suite PETER SCULTHORPE: Night-Song ELENA KATS-CHERNIN: Second movement from Piano Concerto No. 2 MALCOLM WILLIAMSON: Prelude, Cuban Dances and Waltz Song from Our Man in Havana MALCOLM WILLIAMSON: Serenade from Our Man in Havana RICHARD MEALE: Cantilena pacifica The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra has long been a champion of Australian music, and the Orchestra’s groundbreaking Australian Composer Series on ABC Classics, with eleven CDs already released and more in the pipeline, has showcased the richness of our musical tradition. Celebrating the success of this program, Cantilena offers a selection of highlights from the Australian Composer Series, as well as five tracks never before released. Includes music by Peter Sculthorpe, Ross Edwards, Graeme Koehne and Elena Kats-Chernin’s Eliza Aria, which recently shot up the UK charts, downloaded by over 50,000 people after featuring in an advertising campaign for banking giant Lloyds TSB. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 476 6297 Barcode: 0028947662976 Label: ABC Classics 5CD Release Date: 12 January			TAMARA ANNA CISLOWSKA \| The Tamara Anna Cislowska Collection ARTISTS Tamara Anna Cislowska Piano TRACK LISTING The Enchanted Isle - Australian Piano Music CD1 LINDLEY EVANS Lavender Time ALFRED HILL One Came Fluting LINDLEY EVANS Fragrance FRANK HUTCHENS Two Little Birds LINDLEY EVANS Lullaby ROY AGNEW Rabbit Hill FRANK HUTCHENS Sunday Morning FRANK HUTCHENS The Enchanted Isle MIRIAM HYDE The Fountain ROY AGNEW Sleeping Child ALFRED HILL Doves ALFRED HILL The Poet Dreams ALFRED HILL Valse Triste FRANK HUTCHENS Cinderella FRANK HUTCHENS Fairy Ships ROY AGNEW Fairy Dell ROY AGNEW Starry Night ROY AGNEW A Country Lane ARTHUR BENJAMIN A Song with a Sad Ending FRANK HUTCHENS The Island ALFRED HILL Dancing Faun FRANK HUTCHENS Weeping Mist FRANK HUTCHENS Minuet PERCY GRAINGER Irish Tune from County Derry CD2 PERCY GRAINGER The Gum-Suckers’ March MIRRIE HILL The Leafy Lanes of Kent PERCY GRAINGER Colonial Song FRANK HUTCHENS At the Bathing Pool ROY AGNEW An Autumn Morning ROY AGNEW Toccata LINDLEY EVANS Vignette LINDLEY EVANS Merrythought FRANK HUTCHENS By the River LINDLEY EVANS Rhapsody FRANK HUTCHENS Evening ROY AGNEW A Child’s Dream ROY AGNEW Trains PERCY GRAINGER The Sussex Mummers’ Christmas Carol ALFRED HILL Come Again Summer ROY AGNEW Before Dawn ROY AGNEW Dance of the Wild Men The Persian Hours ERIK SATIE Gymnopédie No. 1 ERIK SATIE Gnossienne No. 1 JOSEPH SCHWANTNER Veiled Autumn CHARLES KOECHLIN Evening Song from The Persian Hours ERIK SATIE Gnossienne No. 3 ERIK SATIE Gnossienne No. 5 ALAN HOVHANESS Vision of a Starry Night from Sonanta Ananda CHARLES KOECHLIN Dawn Serenade from The Persian Hours HENRYK GÓRECKI Intermezzo ALAN HOVHANESS Mystic Flute CHARLES KOECHLIN The Hills at Sunset from The Persian Hours ERIK SATIE Gymnopédie No. 2 LUCIANO BERIO Water Piano CHARLES KOECHLIN In View of the City from The Persian Hours ERIK SATIE Chorale No. 10 ALAN HOVHANESS Andante from Sonata Ananda ERIK SATIE Gymnopédie No. 3 CHARLES KOECHLIN Rest before Departure from The Persian Hours DAVID CHESWORTH Apparent Heavenly Movement ARVO PÄRT Für Alina The Ghost Ship - Virtuoso and Romantic Piano Music CD1 MODEST MUSSORGSKY arr. RACHMANINOFF Hopak from Sorochintsï Fair PYOTR IL’YICH TCHAIKOVSKY October: Autumn Song from The Seasons MILY ALEXEYEVICH BALAKIREV The Lark SERGEI RACHMANINOFF Elegy, Op. 3 No. 1 ALEKSANDR SKRYABIN Mazurka, Op. 25 No. 3 ALEKSANDR SKRYABIN Prelude, Op. 11 No. 13 ALEKSANDR SKRYABIN Prelude, Op. 11 No. 4 ALEKSANDR SKRYABIN Prelude, Op. 11 No. 5 JOSEF LEVINE Humoresque ALEKSANDR SKRYABIN Etude, Op. 2 No. 1 SERGEI RACHMANINOFF Prelude, Op. 3 No. 2 ALEKSANDR SKRYABIN Prelude, Op. 16 No. 5 ALEKSANDR SKRYABIN Prelude, Op. 16 No. 4 PYOTR IL’YICH TCHAIKOVSKY Nocturne, Op. 10 No. 1 ALEKSANDR SKRYABIN Poem, Op. 32 No. 1 ALEKSANDR SKRYABIN Poem, Op. 32 No. 2 SERGEI RACHMANINOFF Prelude, Op. 23 No. 2 ALEKSANDR SKRYABIN Etude, Op. 42 No. 4 SERGEI RACHMANINOFF Prelude, Op. 32 No. 10 ALEKSANDR SKRYABIN Allegro de concert, Op. 18 VLADIMIR REBIKOV The Musical Snuffbox CD2 CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS arr. LISZT Danse macabre EDVARD GRIEG Elves’ Dance MISCHA LEVITSKI The Enchanted Nymph CARL TAUSIG The Ghost Ship ISIDORE PHILIPP Puck ANTONÍN DVO?ÁK The Old Castle BED?ICH SMETANA Macbeth and the Witches EDVARD GRIEG Solitary Traveller FRANZ LISZT The Lorelei FRANZ LISZT Funérailles (Funeral) Award-winning Australian pianist Tamara Anna Cislowska has attracted national and international acclaim for her thrilling performances and flawless technique. This 5CD collection showcases both her virtuosity and her expressive talent: The Enchanted Isle (2CD): Australian piano music by Lindley Evans, Alfred Hill, Percy Grainger, Miriam Hyde, Frank Hutchens, Roy Agnew, Arthur Benjamin and Mirrie Hill. A double album of gentle piano gems to transport you to a world of whimsical grace, daydreams and unspoilt contentment. The Ghost Ship (2CD): The beauty and brilliance of the piano – a double CD of virtuoso and Romantic music by Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Liszt, Skryabin, Dvo?ák, Saint-Saëns and many more. The Persian Hours (1CD): Mystical, exotic, visionary, ancient and other-worldly: timeless piano music for the modern world. Features music by Erik Satie, Arvo Pärt, Henryk Górecki, Charles Koechlin, Luciano Berio and many more. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 442 9153 Barcode: 0002894429153 Label: Universal CD Release Date: 12 January			RUFUS WAINWRIGHT \| Yellow Lounge ARTISTS Rufus Wainwright TRACK LISTING Hometown Waltz - Fauré Quartett Tchaikovsky: (Scene 1) Polonaise [Eugene Onegin, Op.24 / Act 3] - Staatskapelle Dresden Beethoven: 2. Szene am Bach: (Andante molto mosso) [Symphony No.6 in F, Op.68 -"Pastoral"] - Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Berlioz: 4. Absence - Anne Sofie von Otter Schubert: 7. Auf dem Flusse [Winterreise, D.911] - Christa Ludwig, James Levine Verdi: 2. Rex tremendae [Messa da Requiem] – Various Artists Haydn: 3. Affettuoso e sostenuto [String Quartet in E flat, HIII No.31, Op.20 No.1] - Hagen Quartett J.S. Bach: 3. Allegro [Brandenburg Concerto No.1 in F, BWV 1046] - Musica Antiqua Köln Rameau: Danse des Sauvages [Les indes galantes / Act 9] - Les Musiciens du Louvre Puccini: Tre sbirri, una carrozza [Tosca / Act 1] – Various Artists Elgar: Theme (Andante) [Variations on an Original Theme, Op.36 "Enigma"] Philharmonia Orchestra Elgar: 1. C.A.E. (L'istesso tempo) [Variations on an Original Theme, Op.36 "Enigma"] - Philharmonia Orchestra Elgar: 7. Troyte (Presto) [Variations on an Original Theme, Op.36 "Enigma"] - Philharmonia Orchestra Ravel: Finale [Piano Concerto for the left hand in D] -Monique Haas Wagner: Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt [Götterdämmerung / Prologue] - Staatskapelle Dresden Schnittke: Quasi una sonata (1987) for violin and chamber orchestra - Gidon Kremer R. Strauss: "Ah! Ich habe deinen Mund geküsst, Jochanaan" [Salome, Op.54 / Scene 4] - Birgit Nilsson Shostakovich: 3. Largo [Symphony No.5 in D minor, Op.47] - Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk - Fauré Quartett The Yellow Lounge series is Classical music in the club. DJs play music from Bach to Schnittke and classical stars from Deutsche Grammophon play live in an engaging club atmosphere. In this volume, pop artist and opera fan, Rufus Wainwright gives us his personal selection of a Yellow Lounge mix. The Fauré Quartet begin and end the compilation with two songs exclusively arranged by Wainwright. Note – Released especially for the Rufus Wainwright tour! RETURN TO THE TOP