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Cat. No.: 478 1528 |
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Jonas Kaufmann, tenor
TRACK LISTING SCHUBERT: Die schöne Müllerin, D.795 Star tenor Jonas Kaufmann takes you on an intimate journey of nature and the soul, in Schubert’s heart-breaking song cycle, “Die schöne Müllerin”, telling the story of a Miller’s love for a girl and her thoughtless gilting of him. |
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Cat. No.: 476 3655 |
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Various Artists
TRACK LISTING CD1
CD2 Whether you’re ironing, cleaning, or just waiting around, life is beautiful with ABC Classic FM! This latest volume presents a gorgeous collection of well-known favourites and delicious surprises, performed by the finest Australian artists. |
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Cat. No.: 476 3623 |
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Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
TRACK LISTING MENDELSSOHN
Plus BONUS DVD This landmark recording from the TSO and their Chief Conductor Sebastian Lang-Lessing is a must-have for all who love sparkling orchestral music that moves the heart. A superbly presented 4-disc set includes all five mature symphonies by Felix Mendelssohn, plus a bonus DVD including footage of the recording sessions and fascinating insights into the music through interviews with the conductor. Mendelssohn’s only ‘choral’ symphony (No.2) features performances from some of Australia’s finest soloists and choral ensembles. This set is a perfect gift for anyone building a serious music collection, or for anyone who loves gorgeous music beautifully played! |
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Cat. No.: 480 2944 |
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André Rieu
TRACK LISTING 1 RODGERS Yvonne Kenny Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’
An uplifting collection of the best-known, best-loved songs of inspiration, featuring some of the world’s great artists performing favourite melodies.
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Cat. No.: 476 3659 |
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Gavin Lockley
TRACK LISTING CD1 Symphony of Australia (Music and lyrics by Gavin Lockley)
CD2 Ballads of the Bush (Music by Gavin Lockley) Composer and performer Gavin Lockley has created an extraordinary work, grand in scope, but with immense warmth and charm – a soundscape of our land, thrillingly brought to life by the Sydney Symphony and a host of Australian classical and folk performers. CD1 is the Symphony of Australia; CD2 presents the more down-to-earth Ballads of the Bush.
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Cat. No.: 532 3084 |
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Various Artists
TRACK LISTING 1 MOZART Symphony No. 40: First movement (Molto allegro) Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti director 2 PUCCINI O My Beloved Father from Gianni Schicchi Dame Joan Hammond soprano, The Hallé Orchestra, Leslie Heward conductor 3 GRIEG Piano Concerto: First movement (Allegro molto moderato) Simon Tedeschi piano, The Queensland Orchestra, Richard Bonynge conductor 4-5 BLISS Morning Heroes: V. Now, Trumpeter, for thy Close Brian Blessed orator, East London Chorus, Harlow Chorus, The Hertfordshire Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Kibblewhite conductor 6 ELGAR Nimrod from Enigma Variations The Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli conductor 7 SAINT-SAËNS Softly Awakes My Heart from Samson and Delilah Marian Anderson mezzo-soprano, Lawrence Collingwood conductor 8 TALLIS O salutaris hostia Magnificat, Philip Cave conductor 9-10 MESSIAEN The Tawny Owl from Catalogue d’oiseaux (Bird Catalogue) with introduction by Peter Cundall Michael Kieran Harvey piano 11 CARMICHAEL/MERCER Lazybones Paul Robeson bass, Ray Noble and His Orchestra 12 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8: Second movement (Allegretto scherzando) Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, David Porcelijn conductor 13 YOUSSEF Un Soupir Eternel Dhafer ben Youssef Maaref oud, vocals, Arve ben Arvid Henriksen trumpet, Eivind ben Svein Aarset guitar, electronics Peter Cundall is best known to Australian audiences through his many years as the warm and knowledgeable host of ABC TV’s Gardening Australia. Less well known is the role music has played in sustaining Peter through some difficult times. ABC Classics is proud to present Peter’s selection of Music That Moves Me. |
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Cat. No.: 271 8509 |
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André Rieu
TRACK LISTING SAINT-SAENS: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
The companion double CD to the book of the same title detailing the story of André Rieu’s youth, the musical family he grew up in, his music studies and above all the success story of his career. It contains 30 tracks, 15 on each CD, one to celebrate each of André’s 30 years on stage, the 30th anniversary being this year, 2009. Also, André turns 60 on 1 October this year, so this is a celebration of this milestone. The CD chronologically traces the path of the book and includes music and musicians that inspired André. CD1 contains music that inspired him as he was growing up, including pivotal moments in his life. CD2 is all André material and includes recordings by both the Johann Strauss Orchestra and the Maastricht Salon Orchestra. There is detailed commentary on all the tracks and why they were chosen. |
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Cat. No.: 480 3102 |
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1. TRAD. (arr Rutter): We wish you a merry Christmas
2. BACH: Sheep may safely graze
3. PRAETORIUS: Puer natus in Bethlehem
4. MOZART: Laudate Dominum (from Vesperae solennes de confessore)
5. KIRKPATRICK: Away in a Manger
6. SCHUBERT: Ave Maria (arr. Gamley)
7. BACH: Jesu, joy of man’s desiring
8. TRAD.: In dulci jubilo
9. RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN: Edelweiss
10. Medley: O Tannenbaum / The Little Drummer Boy / Wiegenlied (Brahms)
11. MOZART: Ave verum corpus, KV 618
12. ADAM: O holy night
13. HUMPERDINCK: Evening Prayer (Hänsel und Gretel)
14. WAGNER: Kinderkatechismus
15. MENDELSSOHN (arr. Meyer): Hark, the herald angels sing
16. PRAETORIUS: Es ist ein’ Ros’ entsprungen
17. GRUBER (arr. Meyer): Silent Night
18. LEOPOLD MOZART: Musical Sleigh Ride (German Dance) 19. Every Year anew / Oh how joyfully / Never have the bells sung more sweetly
20. SIECZYNSKI: Wien, Wien nur du allein
A unique Christmas offering – 20-track CD with the first release of Emma Matthews singing “Away in a Manger” and a 2010 calendar with a full tourist’s guide to Vienna, not just at Christmas time, but all year round. Plus the chance to win a trip for two to spend Christmas time in Vienna in 2010. Snowflakes in the air, the crunch of snow beneath your feet, the smell of chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Freezing outside, the warm glow of the fireplace within. The bustle of Christmas markets and the sound of merry carollers in the street. Or the celestial sound of choirs and the healing scent of incense drifting through a little church or mighty cathedral. Imagine all these and you begin to form a picture of Christmas in Vienna. This CD crystallizes just some of those moments in music and song. After the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble wish us a piquant merry Christmas we drift into pastoral music by Bach, with his evocation of sheep grazing in quiet pastures and the majestic sounds of Praetorius’s Christmas Mass celebrating the birth of Christ in Bethlehem. Great opera stars have frequently been attracted to the season and have willingly lent their glorious voices in celebration of the festive season. On this disc we have two of the world’s supreme tenors making a resplendent contribution: Schubert’s Ave Maria from Luciano Pavarotti and José Carreras’s fluid tenor blending with the sound of the Vienna Boys’ Choir for Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring. Think music and think Vienna, and your thoughts immediately conjure up the sound of the Vienna Boys’ Choir and the one orchestra in the world that has retained its unique flavour through the changing fashions of time, the Vienna Philharmonic. They are both represented on the CD, the boys’ choir celebrating Mozart’s unique genius in the simple but memorable Ave Verum Corpus, the orchestra surrounding the wonderful glow of Leontyne Price’s voice in Mendelssohn’s Hark, the herald angels sing (surely one of the best loved of all carols) and Silent Night (Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht). The lyrics of Silent Night were composed by an Austrian priest, Father Josef Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster Franz Xaver Gruber. Leontyne Price performs one of the verses in English and the other in German. Travel a little further afield of Vienna and you reach another of the world’s musical capitals, Salzburg, synonymous as it is with The Sound of Music and, by extension, the Trapp Family Singers. Contributions come from both – Bryn Terfel scaling down his gigantic voice to serenade you with Edelweiss, that beautiful snow flower, and the Trapp Family Singers themselves performing the Praetorius evergreen Es ist ein’ Ros’ entsprungen. If you happen to be in Vienna around Christmas time, you’re almost certain to encounter the best known and best loved of all fairy tale operas, Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel. Performances of it at the Volksoper are attended by young and old, for both music and story are enjoyable by all generations, such is the agelessness of the music. We hear the beautiful Evening Prayer (‘Abends will ich schlafen geh’n’) which brother and sister sing as night descends in the forest, performed by a Dutchman who is now inextricably linked with the heady waltz capital that is Vienna, André Rieu. This disc also showcases two of the finest Australian opera stars, Emma Matthews, who brings us the beautiful lullaby, Away in a Manger, and Rosario La Spina who sings that opera aria disguised as a Christmas song, O holy night. As we near the end of the disc, we enjoy a jolly romp in the sleigh with a contribution from Papa Mozart – Leopold – with his Musical Sleigh Ride, move our clocks forward with a garland of melodies to herald in the New Year and sing a sweet and tender tribute to Vienna, with one of the most touching and beautiful melodies of all, Wien, Wien nur du allein or, as it is also known, Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume (Vienna, city of my dreams). Rudolf Sieczynski, a Viennese composer of Polish origin wrote both words and music, and as Christmas metamorphoses into the New Year and we look back with nostalgia on the year that has been, who better to serenade us with this beautiful song, than the immortal Fritz Wunderlich.
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Cat. No.: 478 1533 |
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Renée Fleming, soprano
TRACK LISTING 1. Puccini: “Senza Mamma” from Suor Angelica
Renée Fleming sings opera arias by Puccini and his contemporaries, celebrating the composers of the Verismo style. |
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Cat. No.: 477 8361 |
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Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, bass-baritone
TRACK LISTING HANDEL 14. "Ombra mai fu" from Serse
This is the solo debut of one of the most exciting bass-baritones of today. Ildebrando d’Arcangelo is no stranger to the Yellow Label. He starred alongside with Anna Netrebko in the Figaro Production from Salzburg (released by DG on CD and DVD) and sang his signature role Leporello in a Sir Eliot Gardiner production from Parma (released 1995 on DG/Archiv). Expertly advised by Baroque expert, Francesco Lora, Ildebrando fashions his debut album into a panoramic sweep of Italian Handel arias for bass-baritone. Mixing well-known and rare, lyric with highly virtuosic, Ildebrando’s phenomenal Handel shows the versatility and wide range of Handel’s compositions for bass-baritone and the vocal capacity of the singer to master this programme. Undeniably appealing to all voice and Baroque music lovers, this album will excite music lovers well beyond. |
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Cat. No.: 272 0983 |
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Sting, vocals, guitar, lute, percussion
TRACK LISTING 1. Gabriel's Message
Following the international success of Songs From the Labyrinth, Sting’s new album If on a Winter's Night… presents an arc of songs that conjure the season of spirits, the eerie silences of the snow; days of solitude and reflection for some, a time of re-birth and celebration for many. With traditional music of the British Isles as their starting point, Sting and his guest musicians draw the listener in through a collection of songs, carols, and lullabies spanning the centuries - such as The Snow it Melts the Soonest (traditional Newcastle ballad), Soalin (traditional English “begging” song), Gabriel´s Message (14th century carol), as well as two of Sting's own compositions – Lullaby for an Anxious Child and The Hounds of Winter. Also featured on the album is Hurdy Gurdy Man – a musical reworking and English translation (by Sting) of Der Leiermann from Schubert's classic winter song-cycle, Winterreise. For this exploration of the themes and emotions of winter Sting is joined by friend and long time colleague, guitarist Dominic Miller - and an ensemble of three remarkable musicians from Northern England and Scotland: Kathryn Tickell (fiddle and Northumbrian pipes), Julian Sutton (melodian) and Mary MacMaster (metal string Scottish harp). Additional guest artists include Vincent Ségal (cello), Daniel Hope (violin), Chris Botti (trumpet), Ibrahim Maalouf (trumpet), Stile Antico (vocal ensemble) and the Webb Sisters (vocals). Together they've created an album with a wonderful, warm, and unique ensemble sound - an acoustic meditation on winter.
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Cat. No.: 271 3940 |
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Cat. No.: 478 1521 |
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Cecilia Bartoli
TRACK LISTING PROVISIONAL TRACKLISTING
DELUXE PRODUCT BONUS DISC
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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Cat. No.: 478 1500 |
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Various artists including Luciano Pavarotti, Russell Watson, José Carreras and Renée Fleming.
TRACK LISTING 1. 'O sole mio - Luciano Pavarotti |
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Cat. No.: 474 6812 |
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Mischa Maisky
TRACK LISTING CD1
A rhapsodic journey through some of the cello’s warmest, most rapturous moments. CD1 features music for cello and orchestra and CD2 for cello and piano. Mischa Maisky is a key DG artist and this album, previously available, was a best-seller and is now made available again through popular demand. |
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Cat. No.: 271 5983 |
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Vera Lynn
TRACK LISTING (There'll Be Blue Birds Over) The White Cliffs Of Dover |
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Cat. No.: 480 3154 |
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Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano/conductor
TRACK LISTING PROKOFIEV:
A 6CD package at budget price featuring time-honoured and award-winning recordings of the music of Prokofiev featuring Vladimir Ashkenazy as pianist and conductor, and released to mark the Sydney Symphony’s Prokofiev Festival.
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