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Cat. No.: 477 8167 |
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Various Artists
TRACK LISTING Click here to view track listing This unique collection of 55 CDs (477 8167) forms Deutsche Grammophon’s major release in its 111th-anniversary celebrations. The limited-edition box-set gathers together many landmark recordings – from the past to the present. Most of them appear complete, as originally programmed, in their original cover-art – and several include additional material. The Collector’s Edition is a purposely wide-ranging anthology of great Deutsche Grammophon artists, from Claudio Abbado to Krystian Zimerman, and great music, from Monteverdi to Pärt. While no collection that surveys 111 years of recordings can be complete on 55 discs, this wide-ranging set constitutes a musical library in miniature, as it celebrates the art of music and the genius of musical interpretation – from the record company that made it all possible.
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Cat. No.: 477 8168 |
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Various Artists
TRACK LISTING Click here to view track listing In tandem with The Collector’s Edition, 111 Classic Tracks (477 8168, on 6 CDs) offers a single track from each of the 51 principal artists featured there, plus 60 more from artists who have contributed to Deutsche Grammophon’s 111-year history, right up to the present day. The roster runs from Caruso and Richard Strauss at the beginnings of recording history to recent arrivals Alice Sara Ott and Yuja Wang. |
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Cat. No.: 477 8562 |
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Various Artists
TRACK LISTING Click here to view track listing This new, large format book, State of the Art presents the first full-length history of the legendary yellow label. With unprecedented access to Deutsche Grammophon‘s archives and interviews with artists, historians, producers, and engineers, it is a treasure trove of memorabilia, stories, and photographs that are assembled in this lavish book recounting 111 years of DG‘s recordings. |
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Cat. No.: 478 0336 |
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Luciano Pavarotti
TRACK LISTING Adeste Fideles (O come, all ye faithful) - Pavarotti
A generously-filled album starring The Three Tenors in a selection of festive favourites and other religious songs.
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Cat. No.: 270 9882 |
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Katherine Jenkins
TRACK LISTING 1. Time To Say Goodbye
The world's favourite mezzo-soprano finally receives the best-of treatment with this collection of her most cherished recordings. From the crossovers of Cohen's 'Hallelujah' to the straight operatic conventions of Puccini's 'O Mio Babbino Caro', Jenkins proves that she is nothing if not versatile. Her lengthy career has also seen such highlights as a version of 'Time To Say Goodbye' (originally made famous by AndreaBocelli and Sarah Brightman) and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Music Of The Night', from his 'Phantom Of The Opera' musical. Throughout this collection, it is Jenkins' maturity beyond her years that impresses most in performance.
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Cat. No.: 476 3682 |
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Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
TRACK LISTING CD1
CD2
The sound of Christmas is the sound of singing: let this exquisite 2CD compilation set the atmosphere for you this festive season! Beautiful music includes traditional carols as well as contemporary favourites. Whether you are looking for a heart-warming and uplifting listening experience, or an elegant background to a celebratory meal, this is the Yuletide must-have!
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Cat. No.: 476 3685 |
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Aled Jones treble
TRACK LISTING 1 MENDELSSOHN Hear My Prayer*
On 3 May 1983, Hefina Orwig Evans of Bangor wrote a letter to the Welsh label Sain, singing the praises of a 12-year-old boy soprano who was the lead soloist with the Bangor Cathedral Choir. She had just returned from a service where Aled had sung Hear My Prayer with the choir, and she said, ‘It would be a such a tragedy were his voice to break without a record of it.’ That letter started the recording career of one of the best treble singers the world has ever seen. Sain released his first album, Diolch â Chân, in 1983, and his second, Ave Maria, in 1984, and a single, Too Young to Know, in 1985. A third album was also recorded, but it could not be released due to the terms of Aled’s signing with Virgin. however, when the time elapsed, half the third album was released on CD with the Ave Maria CD album, and now the time has come to release the other ‘lost’ tracks, including the only full version of Hear My Prayer recorded by Aled.
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Cat. No.: 476 3686 |
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Justine Clarke
TRACK LISTING CD1
There is no finer introduction to classical music than these iconic works for children, featuring first-rate music for orchestra with an accompanying narration. ABC Kids celebrities Justine, Jay and Georgie bring their acting skills and great sense of fun to the stories of Babar the Elephant, Sebastian the Fox, Peter and the Wolf, and Nick Enright’s Carnival of the Animals. New recordings from the TSO and ASO bring out all the colour and excitement of this highly characterful and descriptive music. You’ll recognise the tunes – relish the opportunity to introduce a new generation of young listeners to this captivating experience! |
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Cat. No.: 476 3689 |
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Jonathon Welch, director
TRACK LISTING 1 By the Waters of Babylon 2 Let’s Get Loud 3 Voices from Inside 4 Fix You 5 Time After Time 6 Gates of Tarrengower 7 Rock Those Blues Away 8 I Wanna See Rainbows 9 Breakaway 10 Go Figure 11 I'm Coming Out The driving force behind the Choir of Hard Knocks, Jonathon Welch, takes on a new challenge – ‘Voices from Inside’. Jailbirds, a gripping documentary, follows Jonathon inside an Australian women’s prison where he forms a choir, offering new possibilities of hope, inspiration and consolation through music. The experience is transforming for many of the participants; you will be confronted and moved by their lives and their struggles. CD includes a new work by Kasey Chambers, written with the Choir.
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Cat. No.: 476 3690 |
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Featuring fine Australian performers including Cantillation, Gondwana Voices and Yvonne Kenny
TRACK LISTING 1 GAUNTLETT Once in Royal David’s City
From families gathered around the Christmas tree, to soldiers emerging from the trenches to face each other across No Man’s Land, Christmas has a special power to bring people together. Music is at the very heart of this miracle, reaching into our memories and touching our lives with warmth and wonder. The music on this album has been chosen to celebrate the peace of Christmas. Some of the tracks are familiar Christmas carols; some, from times and places far removed from our daily lives, recall ancient traditions that can refresh us amidst the bustle of festive preparations. Some are bubbling with delight; some are gentle with calm, others are rich with joy. But in every work, the Christmas message rings out: Peace on earth.
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Cat. No.: 476 3557 |
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Treorchy Welsh Male Voice Choir
TRACK LISTING 1 With a Voice of Singing
All the fun and flair of a top Welsh choir is captured in these live recordings from the 2009 Australian tour by the Treorchy Male Choir. Relive the magic, or experience what you missed!
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Cat. No.: 476 3658 |
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Various artists including:
TRACK LISTING All Works by Nigel Westlake
Nigel Westlake is the Australian composer behind the music of many well-known films, including Babe and Antarctica. Shimmering Light brings together some of his most appealling and evocative music, beautifully performed. Royalties will go to the Smugglers of Light Foundation, dedicated to developing and mentoring indigenous talent through music and film: a project dear to Nigel’s heart.
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Cat. No.: 477 8554 |
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Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone
TRACK LISTING BOITO: "Sono lo spirito che nega" from Mefistofele WEILL: " Die Moritat von Mackie Messer" from Die Dreigroschenoper
Bryn Terfel, a gentle man in real life, recruits a gang of “bad boy” characters from opera and musicals to serenade us with tunes from the sinister side of the bass clef. Thoroughly convincing as villains you would not want to meet alone in the dark, Bryn Terfel wields a full, wide ranging bass-baritone ever in service to dramatic instincts rare in any era. Bad Boys delivers an original concept sure to seduce the media, wow the classical crowd and exert powerful mass appeal. No singer morphs from Don Giovanni to Mack the Knife to Sweeney Todd with Terfel’s devilish ease – Bad Boys is a delightful box of mixed (dark) musical bonbons.
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Cat. No.: 478 2213 |
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Hayley Westenra, vocals
TRACK LISTING The Little Road To Bethlehem
This month Universal Music Australia will release a magical collection of Christmas songs from the 22 year old singing phenomenon that is Hayley Westenra. The album combines some of the best loved and most familiar seasonal carols such as ‘Silent Night’ and ‘Coventry Carol’ with popular Christmas songs ‘Little Drummer Boy’ and ‘Sleigh Ride’, as well as tracks Hayley has written herself ( ‘Peace Shall Come’, ‘All With You’ and ‘Christmas Morning’). The variety of the song choices perfectly showcases the versatility of Hayley’s angelic voice and her ability to not only perform in a beautiful, classical way (‘Corpus Christi Carol’) but also in a considerably more “pop” style (‘Peace Shall Come’). Hayley released her first album Pure at the age of 16 and it was soon on the way to becoming the fastest-selling debut album from a classical artist, and reached the Top 10 of the pop charts in 11 countries. Her albums have sold more than four million copies worldwide to date. Pure was certified by the official UK chart compilers as the best selling classical album of the 21st Century. Coinciding with the release of Christmas Magic Hayley will embark on an eight date tour of some of England’s most beautiful Cathedrals and Abbeys, providing a perfect evening of seasonal entertainment in the lead up to Christmas. Hayley can’t wait to get into the festive spirit and says: 'A Christmas album and a tour to go with it has been a goal of mine for a long time. There is something magical about the music and the time of year when the days grow short and the festive spirit starts to captivate us, and to be performing in such beautiful venues will make these concerts even more special. ' True to form, Hayley has once again produced an irresistible record which is guaranteed to make everyone’s Christmas that little bit more magical.
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Cat. No.: 477 6606 |
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Giuliano Carmignola, violin
TRACK LISTING DALL’OGLIO: Violin Concerto in C major NARDINI: Violin Concerto in G major
Never change a winning team! Giuliano Carmignola and Andrea Marcon’s Venice Baroque Orchestra discover an almost forgotten repertoire of the Italian violin concerto, bridging the gap between Baroque and Classical styles in the mid 18th century. In this period Italian violin virtuosos were becoming known all over Europe, giving concerts to great acclaim and starting to establish a new type of travelling virtuoso and composer that would achieve mythical status in the following century.
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Cat. No.: 477 8570 |
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Martha Argerich, piano
TRACK LISTING Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, Op. 56b Two of the world’s legendary pianists join forces in a virtuoso recital program. The concert will be taped live at the Salzburg Festival and includes the Schubert Rondo in A, D951 which has never been recorded by the artists before. “Martha Argerich is arguably the most mercurial of all great pianists today, capable of being compellingly inspiring” - International Record Review “An extraordinary pianist” - New York Times “Any new Freire recording is virtually self-recommending” - Dallas Morning News |
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Cat. No.: 477 8365 |
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Magdalena Kožená, mezzo-soprano
TRACK LISTING RYBA: Three Pastorellas
In every country where Christmas is celebrated, traditions have grown up that give the festival a specifically local colour. In the Czech-speaking lands, one such tradition has been part of Christmas for over 200 years: church performances of the Czech Christmas Mass by Jakub Jan Ryba, also known as “Hej, mist?e” (“Hey, master”), from its opening, exclamatory phrase. Ryba was born in 1765 in P?eštice, a small town in Bohemia, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Ryba was among the earliest Czech composers to use his native tongue in his works rather than German, the official language, and he played an important role in promoting the idea of Czech nationalism in music. The mass, dating from 1796, can thus be seen as part of a Europe-wide attempt to cast aside the modes and manners of the ancien régime in favour of Enlightenment ideals. Its use of a vernacular text has undoubtedly contributed to its undying popularity in what is now the Czech Republic. Magdalena Kožená, who made this recording of the mass in 1998, at a relatively early stage in her career, grew up with Ryba’s music. As she recalls: “This mass is an important piece for Czech people. Every little church does its own amateur performance on Christmas Eve. It’s a national phenomenon: everybody wants to take part; you don’t need to be a singer. Naturally I sang it when I was growing up. In Central European countries during the Soviet era, Christmas had a special magic. Of course we got presents, and music was important, but this was also when we got bananas, oranges, things which we couldn’t buy every day. We often made presents instead of buying them, then gave them out early on Christmas Eve before going to church at midnight, where we would sing Ryba’s Mass.” Ryba also composed many liturgical masses, in Czech or Latin or both. One of them was published under Joseph Haydn’s name, and it would not to be fanciful to see Ryba as a kind of rustic Haydn: his other works include seven requiems as well as songs, singspiels, symphonies, concertos and string quartets. Most of his compositions now lie neglected, but the Christmas Mass has earned its survival by virtue of its innocence and directness. As Magdalena Kožená concedes, those very qualities pose problems for the classically trained singer: “The Christmas Mass is almost like a play; in fact it’s sometimes performed semi-staged, or even in a puppet theatre. It has a harmonic simplicity that is disarming, and there is a special charm about a performance by amateurs, people who are singing for the joy of it. Trained singers would lose that charm if they approached it like Verdi or Wagner. You have to keep it simple, not using vibrato, singing it as if it was a folksong.” There are moments in the mass that seem to be distant echoes of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, a work with which Ryba was almost certainly familiar: it had its Prague premiere in March 1792. Yet if we look too hard for Mozartian grace and profundity in Ryba’s mass, we are likely to be disappointed. Instead we should take it for what it is, a religious work that wears its reverence lightly, and which prizes immediacy above all. Although the movements of the Mass have the traditional Latin names (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Benedictus, Agnus Dei), the work is not strictly speaking a mass. Rather, it is a miniature sacred drama, its narrative made up of a sequence of so-called pastorellas. These were pieces written specifically for Christmas performance, deriving much of their style from folk music and often using folk instruments including bagpipes and hurdy-gurdy. The very opening finds the organ playing in emulation of a hurdy-gurdy; elsewhere the broad humour of opera buffa shines through, lending an earthy quality to the musical celebration. The work consists of a succession of solos, duets and ensembles telling the story of Czech shepherds called upon to witness the child Saviour’s divine presence in a manger in Bethlehem: or is it in some remote Bohemian village? The music’s flavour suggests the latter. As a preface to the Czech Christmas Mass, Magdalena Kožená sings three free-standing pastorellas, each blessed with the same wide-eyed wonder that suffuses the longer work. For Kožená, these pieces are poignant reminders of her younger self: “I had just finished my studies, and it was a lovely period of my life. I was simply going round the country singing in beautiful castles and churches – including the one where we recorded this CD. We didn’t have much access to the wider period instrument movement then; we were making our own discoveries, making the music in the moment. It gave me my own basis of knowledge and experience. One of the things I enjoy about working with period instrument groups like Capella Regia Musicalis is rediscovering that same joy in simply making music.” |
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Cat. No.: 478 1522 |
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Cecilia Bartoli
TRACK LISTING NICOLA PORPORA (1686-1768) The ‘Sacrificium’ project will tell the story of the castrati in all its complexity; its beauty, glamour, controversy and cruelty. The album focuses on the Neapolitan school, which produced superstar castrati including Farinelli and Caffarelli. ‘The age of the castrati’ inspired some of the most virtuosic repertoire ever written for the human voice; elaborate coloratura showpieces and beautiful slow arias, written for the extraordinary vocal abilities of the leading castrati. Following the international success of Opera Proibita, Cecilia Bartoli uncovers more lost jewels of baroque music, with an album almost entirely composed of World Premiere recordings. For the first time since their record-breaking Vivaldi Album, Cecilia Bartoli is reunited with leading Italian period instrument ensemble Il Giardino Armonico and their director Giovanni Antonini. |
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