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All Classical Titles On Sale For Independence Day!

For the first time ever all 62,728 classical titles at HBDirect are on sale! You can also click here for details on how you can get a Free CD with your order. Both offers are only valid through Monday at Midnight so don't miss it!

Weber Symphonies on BIS

"Jean-Jacques Kantorow inspires the splendid Tapiola Sinfonietta to performances here which fairly crackle with electricity... Sonically, the music is presented in sharply-focussed immediacy which allows every nuance of the brilliant playing and unanimity of ensemble to come across... with such committed performances as these it is pure pleasure." -SA-CD.net

New on BIS

Mark Wigglesworth conducts Shostakovich: Symphony no 4

Remembrance: Schoenberg, Bernstein, Bloch with Neschling

Miklós Spányi plays CPE Bach Keyboard Concertos, Vol. 17

Songs of Lennox Berkeley

"Allows the listener a delicious opportunity to reflect on the long career of Sir Lennox and the astonishing artists with whom he mixed throughout his life... the album is beautifully presented and recorded with [Chando's] characteristic clarity and depth of field, all of which really captures the enjoyment of these artists in their performances." -MusicalCriticism.com

Just Released From Chandos

Monteverdi Series Vol 3 - Sweet Torment / I Fagiolini

Smetana: Orchestral Works Vol 2 / Noseda, BBC PO

Rota: Symphony no 1 & 2 / Conti, Filarmonica '900

Discover Zemlinksy's Lieder

The rediscovery of the music of Zemlinsky over the past 30 years has been one of the great success stories of 20th-century music. With performances by Anne Sofie von Otter, Barbara Bonney and more, this 2CD set contains a substantial number of Zemlinsky's Lieder, from the early Op.2 up to the late songs from his period of exile in the US in the late 1930s.

$6.49 Each From Brilliant Classics

Bach Family Motets / Brown, Clare College Choir

Gilardino: Transcendentia (Studies for Guitar) / Porqueddu

Rutter: Gloria; Bernstein: Chichester Psalms / Brown

A Rare Soprano in a Rare Opera

Few recordings exist of the sensational artistry of Spanish soprano Angeles Gulin (1939-2002), whose enormous, dark voice was said to have set the crystal chandeliers rattling at La Fenice in Venice.