MUSIC FOR EMPEROR CHARLES V Label: COVIELLO CLASSICS 20701 Our Price: $19.00 Quantity in Basket: none
ANONYM/PETRUCCI AUS ‘ODHECATON” (1503): Dit le Bourgignon; CANCIONERO DE UPPSALA: Verbum caro factum est; Ay luna que reluzes; ANONYM (ca. 1470): L’Homme Armé; ANONYM (ca. 1520): Tourdion; MICHAEL PRATORIUS (1571 – 1621): Pavane d’Espaigne; FRANCISCO DE LA TORRE (ca. 1500): Danza Alta; LUIS DE NARVAEZ (1490 – 1547): Diferencias sobre “Mille regretz”; TILMAN SUSATO (1500 – 1562): Pavana “La Battaglia”; THOINOT ARBEAU (1520 – 1595): Belle qui tiens ma vie; CANCIONERO DE PALACIO (ca. 1500): L’amor, dona, ch’io te porto; LUIS DE MILAN (1500 – 1561): Pavana y Galliarda; PHILIPPE DE VERDELOT (ca. 1480 – 1545): Italia mia; CANCIONERO DE LA COLUMBINA (ca. 1510): Propignan de Melyor; FRANCISCO GUERRERO (1528 – 1599): Gloria from the mass “Simile est regnum caelorum”; Hombres, Victoria!; HIRONYMUS PARABOSCO (1524 – 1557): Da pacem, Domine; LIBER USUALIS: Antiophon Requiem aeternam; ANTONIO DE CABEZON (1510 – 1566): Si par souffrir; LUDWIG SENFL (1486 – 1543): Non moriar; JOHANN WALTHER (1496 – 1570): Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott; JOSQUIN DESPREZ (1450 – 1521): In te, domine, speravi; ANONYM (ca. 1500): Adoramoste, Senor Matthias Gerchen, bass Capella De La Torre: Katharina Bäuml, shawms & Dulcian; Birgit Bahr, shawms, dulcian, recorder; Detlef Reimers, sackbut; Annette Hils, bass dulcian & recorder; Nora Thiele, percussion; Sebastian Knebel, organ & regal Music played an important role in the life of Kaiser Karl V. (1500-1558) - his court orchestra was considered to be one of the best of its time. Karl ruled an almost worldwide realm from Spain, including colonies in America, as well as the culturally important Flanders. The emphasis of this new recording is on ceremonial wind music, which was popular, particularly in Spain, at spiritual and secular events alike. However, the program also describes the Kaiser's biography. From the Flemish music of his youth to an anonymous requiem from the year of his death, fifty exciting years of music history are studied. The Cappella de la Torre provides a colorful interpretation of the music of Spain's golden years on their unusual sounding double reed instruments.
	SCHUBERT; SHOSTAKOVICH Label: COVIELLO CLASSICS 30201 Our Price: $19.00 Quantity in Basket: none
FRANZ SCHUBERT: String Quartet in D minor, D 810 "Death and the Maiden" DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a Salzburg Chamber Soloists/Lavard Skou-Larsen Founded in 1991, the Salzburg Chamber Soloists brought together a group of soloists who wanted to perform orchestral chamber music with the freedom of soloists. They toured North America their first year, South America the next, and have since been heard in most of the world's leading concert halls. One of their members, Lena Neudauer, won the 2003 International Mozart Violin Competition.
	EIGHT SEASONS Label: COVIELLO CLASSICS 30202 Our Price: $19.00 Quantity in Basket: none
ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678 - 1741): Le Quattro Stagioni ASTOR PIAZZOLLA (1921 - 1992): Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas Salzburg Chamber Soloists; Lavard Skou-Larsen, violin & direction In 1991, the violinist Lavard Skou-Larsen and a handful of colleagues decided to form an unusual ensemble. The aim of this ensemble was to perform orchestral chamber music with the freedom of soloists. Skou-Larsen combed Europa and the rest of the world until he had a group of first class musicians. Their inspiration was the unforgettable Sandor Vegh, whose charisma had influenced many members of the ensemble considerably. In only its first year of existence, the orchestra toured the United States and Canada. Thanks to the success of the tour, invitations followed to numerous concerts with such celebrities as Boris Belkin, Mischa Maisky, Michel Dalberto, Rudolfo Bonucci, Jean-Bernard Pommier and Alexander Lonquich. From 1992 to 1995, Boris Belkin was Artistic Director of the ensemble. During his tenure, the orchestra released two CDs of Mozarts work. In 1993 the first big tour of South America took place. Another success was the ensembles participation in “La Folle Journee Mozart” in Nantes, France in February 1995. In the same year, the orchestra completed to second tour of South America, returning with the critics prize for the best foreign orchestra to have performed at the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aries, that season. Since then, the orchestra has performed in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Philharmonie, Berlin, the Konzerthaus, Vienna, the Theatre des Champs Elysees, Paris and the Tonhalle, Zurich. The Salzburg Chamber Soloists are regular guests at various festivals, including the “Academia Chigiana”, Siena, the Mozart Festival, Würzburg and the Kulturtage Salzburg. In 2001, the orchestra was invited to Lebanon to perform the final concert of the “Baalbeck” festival. In January 2002, the orchestra toured Germany and Austria together with the actress Senta Berger, performing the “8 seasons” and music from Antonio Vivaldi and Astor Piazzolla.
	ANTON BRUCKNER (1824 – 1896): Symphony No. 7 in E major Label: COVIELLO CLASSICS 30405 Our Price: $19.00 Quantity in Basket: none
Aachen Symphony Orchestra/Marcus R. Bosch The premiere of his seventh symphony in 1884 marked a turning point in Anton Bruckner's career. Before, he had been recognized as a fantastic organist and composer of church music, receiving a professorship for organ, basso continuo and counterpoint at the Vienna Conservatoire in 1868- but had never been taken seriously with his monumental orchestral works. The seventh signified the breakthrough as a symphonist for the 60 year old, and his first recognized success nationwide. As mentioned above this CD comes with a free additional disc which, when used with a DVD player and home cinema system, demonstrates the imposing acoustics of the Aachen St. Nicholaus church. (CD + Bonus DVD)
	SKETCHES OF GREECE - SONGS FOR MEZZO SOPRANO AND PIANO Label: COVIELLO CLASSICS 40613 Our Price: $19.00 Quantity in Basket: none
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797 - 1828): Fragment of “Die Götter Griechenlands” D 677 (1819); Atys D 585 (1817); Memnon, Op. 6,1 D 541 (1817); Iphigenia, Op. 98,3 D 673 (3rd Ver.1817) ; Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren, Op. 65,1 D 360 (1816); CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862 - 1918): Trois Chansons de Bilitis (Pierre Louÿs) (1897/98): La Flûte de Pan; La Chevelure; Le Tombeau des NaiadesCHRISTIAN JOST (*1963): KOMA (Lyrical Scene after Sappho) (2002); ARGHYRIS KOUNADIS (*1924): Apó tá "Schédia giá éna kalokaíri" (1949-50)(four songs after Giorgios Seferis) Stella Doufexis, mezzo soprano; Axel Bauni, piano For centuries the Greek antiquity has held a strong fascination: As a romanticized ideal, it has inspired artists of many different origins to poems and compositions. It was not until much later that people realized that the Greek cultural tradition did not end with the ancient world. This new recording with the famous soprano Stella Doufexis deals with the diversity that images of Greece portray in the art songs of different nations and historical eras, from Schubert's Central European romanticism to Debussy and Ravel all the way to Greek composers of the 20th century. The singer herself, having Greek roots, says about this project: "It seemed thrilling to view Greece from the outside. How is Greece perceived? Is it limited to Syrtaki and the romanticized image of antiquity or is there more to see?" In a perfect interplay of Stella Doufexis and Axel Bauni, the answer can clearly be heard.
	WORLD POETRY IN RUSSIAN MUSIC - WORKS FOR BARITONE & PIANO Label: COVIELLO CLASSICS 50605 Our Price: $19.00 Quantity in Basket: none
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906 - 1975): Suite to Words by Michelangelo, Op. 145 DMITRI KABALEVSKY (1904 - 1987): Four Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 52 VALERY GAVRILIN (1939 - 1999): Four Heine-Songs Frieder Anders, baritone; Stella Goldberg, piano Three 20th century Russian composers were inspired to great compositions by world literature from varying eras. Shostakovich's Michelangelo Suite contains almost confessional autobiographical traits: fundamental phenomena of human existence such as love, creation, death and immortality are thematicised. Dimitri Kabalevsky's very Russian interpretation of William Shakespeare’s Sonnets is no less impressive. Valerij Gaweillin's music based on Heinrich Heine's "Book of Songs" completes this demanding literary trilogy with the baritone Frieder Anders and the pianist Stella Goldberg- the performance have a fascinating authenticity through being sung in the original languages.
	VOLKER BLUMENTHALER (*1951) Label: COVIELLO CLASSICS 60403 Our Price: $38.00 Quantity in Basket: none
Glasnacht - Nachtstücke, für Sopran, Flöte, Cello, Gitarre und Schlag
	HARIOLF SCHLICHTIG - CATCH UP - VIOLA & PERCUSSION Label: COVIELLO CLASSICS 60404 Our Price: $19.00 Quantity in Basket: none
Departure; Delay; Roundabout; Tickling Strings; More Time; A-F sharp; Breath; Let It Go; Fingerfood; Catch Up; So Far Hariolf Schlichtig, viola; Paul Fuchs, percussion Violist Hariolf Schlichtig is known as chamber musician, soloist and teacher. He studied with Max Rostal and Sandor Vegh and has been member of the Cherubini Quartet for 19 years. He appeared as soloist with the Cologne Philharmonie and performs chamber music with Tabea Zimmermann, Andras Schiff, Heinz Holliger, the Alban Berg Quartet, the Ensemble Villa Musica, and more. In 2003 he played in the world premiere of the Viola Concerto of Herbert Callhoff under the direction of Christoph Poppen. His CDs were honored with Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, Echo Klassik, and Diapason d’Or. He worked together with various contemporary composers, among others Aribert Reimann, Siegfried Matthus and Gyoergy Kurtag and premiered some of theier music. Since 2001 he is developing his own music together with the sculptor and musician Paul Fuchs. After six years of work as blacksmith and artisan, Paul Fuchs studied Sculpture at the Academy for Fine Arts in Munich. Since 1967 he has invented music instruments and tone sculptures. Together with Limpe Fuchs he developed the group Anima Musica and since then initiated many projects and music happenings in combination with plastic arts. 1971-1975 Friedrich Gulda was member of the group. Together with Albert Mangelsdorff, Barre Phillips, Zoro Babel and others he organized concerts in many European cities. In 1996 he participated in the international Klangkunst Festival “Sonambiente” in Berlin with a 28 meters tone sculpture at the Pariser Platz and a concert in the parochial church. Work with Hariolf Schlichtig began in the year 2001 at the international Music Festival “Was hören wir” in Hoefgen-Kaditzsch.
	NICOLAUS A. HUBER (*1939) Label: COVIELLO CLASSICS 60606 Our Price: $19.00 Quantity in Basket: none
“Seifenoper” for Ensemble; “Don’t Fence Me In” for Flute, Oboe & Clarinet; “Traummechanik” for Piano & Percussion; “First Play Mozart” for Flute Solo Ensemble Recherche:Martin Fahlenbock, flute; Uwe Möckel, clarinet; Jacqueline Burk, oboe; Lucas Fels, cello; Melise Mellinger, violin; Barbara Maurer, viola; Christian Dierstein, percussion; Klaus nSteffes-Holländer, piano as guest: Ulrich Schneider, double bass In his work, Nicolaus A. Huber manages time and again to show us how closely the intimate and the disturbing lie together. He views the seemingly banal from a disconcerting distance and discovers alarming perspectives. First play Mozart should be understood as an invitation to find new perspectives in Mozart's apparently so well-known music by leaving behind the common way of listening. Don't fence me in also demonstrates ways of breaking out of aesthetic confinement. Dream mechanics, unites the seemingly opposing worlds of dreams and clear functionality, while Soap Opera (OmU) highlights the absurdities of the media world from an ironic viewpoint. In this new recording, the Ensemble Recherche shows us many aspects of Huber's intense, yet fresh and undogmatic music.
	CHRISTIAN JOST (*1963) Label: COVIELLO CLASSICS 60609 Our Price: $19.00 Quantity in Basket: none
“The Five Gates of Fear” Radio Choir Berlin “musikFabik” Simon Halsey, direction Live Recording of the World Premier Concert January 2006 "A journey to the inside of fear" is how Christian Jost described his recently premiered choral opera. Where does fear come from? What are its motives? What are the fears of our time? Mountain accidents, childhood trauma and neurochemical processes are all dealt with on this journey. “Fear” isn't a classical story opera. Individual thoughts emerge and then disappear into the whole; individual characters aren't the emphasis of the work, but instead the collective of the Berlin Radio Choir provides the musical and continual driving force. The opera has five section, or „gates“, each of which views the phenomenon from a different perspective, using varying methods. This recording from the Berlin Ultrasound Festival, conducted by Simon Halsey breaks new ground in choral music, both musically and dramatically.
	ANTON BRUCKNER (1824 – 1896): Symphony No. 8 in C minor Label: COVIELLO CLASSICS 30301 Our Price: $19.00 Quantity in Basket: none
Aachen Symphony Orchestra/Marcus R. Bosch The list of famous conductors who began their careers in Aachen is an impressive one: Fritz Busch, Herbert von Karajan and Wolfgang Sawallisch to name just a few. It seems the symphony orchestra provides an excellent breeding ground for superstars, since another young conductor is beginning to make a name for himself. Marcus R. Bosch is taking the orchestra to a higher level. Even in Bruckner's “difficult” 8th Symphony, the talent of the 33 year old shines through. The sharp breaks in the work, the rises in intensity which abruptly collapse into themselves, aren't levelled off but rather, are acknowledged as a part of the musical character of the work and brought to the fore. Bosch and the Aachener Sinfoniker perform Bruckner's disturbing drama with impressive precision. As mentioned above this CD comes with a free additional disc which, when used with a DVD player and home cinema system, demonstrates the imposing acoustics of the Aachen St. Nicholaus church. (with bomus DVD)
	CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK (1714 – 1787): Ezio, opera seria in tre atti (Prague Version, 1750) Label: COVIELLO CLASSICS 20713 Our Price: $57.00 Quantity in Basket: none
Max Emanuel Cencic; Mariselle Martinez; Matthias Rexroth; Netta Or; Mirko Roschkowski; Andreas Post Neue Düsseldorfer Hofmusik/Andreas Stoehr; Live recording A very little known opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck – written prior to his revolutionary works which led to stirring discussions with the traditionalists in Paris around 1770. Yet in Ezio already, first performed in Prague in 1750, early indications of Gluck’s new dramatic art are recognizable: the characters appear more three-dimensional and conceivable than was customary in the baroque opera; music and plot are closer interlinked. The Neue Düsseldorfer Hofmusik has become renowned for its authentic interpretation of 18th century music – in collaboration with Andreas Stoehr and an ensemble of declared specialist singers like the countertenors Max Emanuel Cencic and Matthias Rexroth, this new recording enables listeners to rediscover Gluck’s very nearly forgotten treasure of early classical opera. (3 CDs)
	THE REFINED EAR Label: COVIELLO CLASSICS 60610 Our Price: $19.00 Quantity in Basket: none
GEORG FRIEDRICH HAAS (*1953): Aus freier Lust...verbunden und De terrae fine SALVATORE SCIARRINO (*1947): 6 Capricci (1976) MANFRED STAHNKE (*1951): Capra (1987) Barbara Lüneburg, violin and viola Barbara Lüneburg, member of “ensemble integrales”, present radical new discoveries in the apparently well known genre of “solo string music” on her latest CD. The soloist will be appearing with the SWR symphony orchestra this year at the Donaueschinger Music Days. In her hands, the violin is transformed into an almost incorporeal chimera- Salvatore Sciarrino's Capricci hush by like ghosts. In Manfred Stahnke's Capra, the instrument is retuned in quarter tones and develops echoes of foreign cultures; in Georg Friedrich Haas, the tonal range of just one octave for violin and viola delivers a complex world of grating micro-intervals. These works from the last 30 years are music for the “refined” ear, broadening the horizon of both performer and listener.
	CHRISTIAN JOST (*1963) – WORKS FOR ORCHESTRA Label: COVIELLO CLASSICS 60716 Our Price: $19.00 Quantity in Basket: none
CocoonSymphonie (Five Gateways of a Journey into the Interior); Astralis – one small step…; The End of the Game Stuttgarter Philharmoniker/Gabriel Feltz Christian Jost, born in Trier in 1963, studied from 1983 to 1989 composition, analysis and conducting in Cologne and San Francisco. He has been awarded several grants, including from the Stiftung Kulturfonds des Deutschen Volkes (Cultural Foundation of the German People) and the Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes Nordrhein Westfalen (Arts and Cultural Foundation of the Land North Rhine-Westphalia). In 1992 Jost attracted attention for the first time with “Magma“, a work commissioned by the orchestra of the State theatre in Darmstadt. During the 1999-2000 season Christian Jost was the first Composer in Residence of the Beethoven Hall in Bonn, for whose orchestra he composed “The End of Game”. In May 2003 Christian Jost received one of the renowned prices by the Ernst von Siemens Stifung and in 2003/04, he is composer in residence of the Staatskapelle Weimar which premiered his “CocoonSymphonie” in December 2003.
	JANACEK; BARTOK Label: COVIELLO CLASSICS 50802 Our Price: $19.00 Quantity in Basket: none
LEOS JANACEK (1854 – 1928): String Quartet No. 1 after Tolstoy “The Kreutzer Sonata”; String Quartet No. 2 “Intimate Letters” BELA BARTOK (1881 – 1945): String Quartet No. 4 (1928) Bennewitz Quartet: Jirí Nemecek, Stepán Jezek, violin; Jirí Pinkas, viola; Stepán Dolezal, cello "You stand behind every note, you, living, forceful, loving ... Oh, it's a work as if carved out of living flesh. I think that I won't write a more profound and a truer one." The passionate lover's declaration of a 73-year-old. Leoš Janácek's second string quartet "Intimate Letters" can scarcely be surpassed in the profundity of its personal expressiveness. He composed his first string quartet a few years earlier and gave it the subtitle "The Kreutzer Sonata," after the novella by Leo Tolstoy. An emotional intensity is steadily built up during the four movements of the quartet. Parallels to the narrative of Tolstoy's tale, which ultimately ends in the catastrophic murder out of jealousy, are clearly recognizable. Critics also spoke of the "fiery glow of human emotions" in Béla Bartók's fourth string quartet. Soon after its establishment at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 1998 Bennewitz Quartet acquired a wide reputation and quickly found its way among the most outstanding chamber music ensembles of Czech musical life. The work of the Quartet was honoured with various awards not only in the Czech Republic, but also in many places abroad. The ensemble regularly participates in various international music festivals and its reputation often attracts prestigious invitations to European venues.