Weekend deals at $4.99 during Naxos and Chandos Sale!

Naxos and Chandos Sale!
Through Monday at midnight, all Naxos and Chandos titles are on sale! Leading the way is our Deal of the Weekend, at $4.99 (44% off!) - violinist Philippe Quint playing music of John Corigliano and Virgil Thomson. Also at $4.99, on Naxos, are two more new releases, Thomas Stacy's recording of music for oboe d'amore by Bach and Telemann, and Dvorak's New World Symphony led by Marin Alsop.

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The Oboe d'Amore Takes a Solo Turn
Thomas Stacy, english hornist with the NY Philharmonic, says of his new recording of music by Bach and Telemann for oboe d'amore, "Part of the exciting charm of hearing this new disc is that one can experience a sound that you don't hear everyday, the oboe d'amore...Its plaintive, peaceful timbre is used splendidly by these well known Baroque composers." $8.99 $4.99
Read H&B's exclusive interview with Thomas Stacy
More rarely-heard solo winds on Naxos
Fuchs: Eventide / Stacy (English Horn)
Crumb: Echoes 1 (Alto Flute)
Hartley: Sonata for Baritone Saxophone
Janacek: Youth (Bass Clarinet)
Hickey: Granfaloon (Bassoon)

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Lambert & Berners Make Historic Team
"Chandos has been doing great things in the film score re-recording world over recent years, especially in the case of British composers of the Golden Age." - Music from the Movies
More new releases from Chandos
Debussy: Piano Music Vol. 3 / Bavouzet
Dove:Siren Song / Guittart
Ireland: Chamber Works
Leighton Orchestral Works Vol. 1 / Hickox, Scott
Nobuya Sugawa plays music for saxophone

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Five Ladies with the Red Violin
Violinist Philippe Quint presents a new recording of music by two great American composers, Virgil Thomson and John Corigliano. It includes the former's Five Ladies, and the latter's Red Violin Caprices, and is on sale for $4.99! "I just heard Philippe Quint's new recording of my Red Violin Caprices and he was absolutely amazing." - John Corigliano
New Naxos releases of American music
Copland: Tender Land, Piano Concerto, etc.
Ives: Three Orchestral Sets
James Cohn: Symphonies 2 and 7
Leroy Anderson: Orchestral Music Vol. 2
Wind Band Classics - American Tapestry

Debut From Alsop & Baltimore Only $4.99!

The Final Days of Our May Sale
Marin Alsop's newest release hits stores today and you can get it from H&B for just $4.99! We're adding it on to our May sale which already includes the complete catalogs of ten labels, plus all DVDs from DG, Decca and Philips. Act fast though - our May sale ends Saturday at Midnight!

Don't Forget! Our sale on all early music will end Tonight at Midnight!

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Alsop's Debut With The Baltimore SO
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 - $8.99 $4.99 - Save 44%
"The New World Symphony is for me, above all, a journey — Dvorak's journey to America, getting to know its people. But more importantly, it's Dvorak's own spiritual and emotional journey: from his intense longing for his beloved Bohemia to the thrill of the "new world" and its varied peoples, to thoughts of going home." -Marin Alsop
More Dvorak on Sale Through Saturday
Dvorak: Rusalka / Hickox, Barker
Dvorak, Herbert: Cello Concertos / Kreger
Dvorak: Legends / van Doeselaar & Jordans
Dvorak: Requiem; Brahms / Mertens, Hagel
Dvorak: Piano Trios 1-4 / Borodin Trio

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Opera in English: Cosi Fan Tutte
"The English version... is very fine, natural and well-fitted to the music... Charles Mackerras leads the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Geoffrey Mitchell Choir in a sparkling, deliciously perky reading of the score" -All Music Guide
Recent Releases on Chandos
John Ireland: Chamber Works
Leighton - Orchestral Works Vol 1 / Hickox
The Film Music of Constant Lambert & Lord Berners

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Rawsthorne's Practical Cats
"Rawsthorne is equally impressive in every incarnation in these performances. With swagger and panache, Lloyd-Jones leads the Liverpool musicians in a dryly demotic Street Corner Overture, a drolly ironic Ballet Suite, a brilliantly rousing Coronation Overture, and a wild and witty Practical Cats." - All Music Guide
New Releases from Dutton
Famous Mendelssohn Recordings / Dorfmann
The Griller Quartet Plays Arthur Bliss
Richard Strauss Conducts Der Rosenkavalier
Coates: Sound and Vision, etc / Wilson, Allen
Dunhill: Symphony Op 48, Arnell: Lord Byron / Yates
Bridge: Songs & Chamber Music / London Bridge Ens.

Sackbuts, Crumhorns & Galliards - A Weekend Sale

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If It's Before Baroque It's On Sale!
This weekend you can purchase the complete works of Thomas Tallis on 10 Brilliant CDs and save 32%! In addition, you'll find savings on all titles from the Medieval and Renaissance periods. And this long Memorial Day weekend calls for a long sale - this one will run until Tuesday at Midnight!

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Savall Rebuilds Medieval Dances
The music on this recording survives thanks only to the grandest of all thirteenth-century songbooks, the 'Chansonnier du Roi' (c. 1270-1320). These "royal dances and estampies" have all been reconstructed in full by Jordi Savall and are recorded here together for the first time, in vibrantly colorful performances by Hesperion XXI.
All Medieval Albums On Sale!
Remembrance - Danilevski/Syntagma
Miracles of Compostela - Codex Calixtinus / Anonymous 4
Tristan et Iseult / Cohen, von Ramm, Azéma, Ledriot, Boston Camerata - $5.99
Scattered Rhymes - Machaut, Dufay, Bryars / Hillier, Orlando Consort

Save 32% on The HBDirect Weekend Deal
Tallis: Complete Works (10 CDs) - $48.49 $32.99
This fine complete set makes all music by Thomas Tallis easily accessible. The eight singers of Chapelle du Roi have dedicated themselves to religious Renaissance music for some thirteen years now and their performances have been praised by audiences and critics alike.
More Choral Albums on Sale This Weekend
Monte: Missa Ultimi miei sospiri, / Il Cinquecento
Ockeghem: Missa Cuiusvis Toni / Kandel
The Feast of the Ascension at Westminster Abbey / O'Donnell, Quinney

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Dowland's Collected Works $89.98 $59.98
Save 33% on this acclaimed 12 CD box of Dowland's collected works featuring Anthony Rooley directing the Consort of Musicke. The set contains all of John Dowland's music. "...this box cannot be recommended too highly." -The Penguin Guide
New Instrumental Albums On Sale
Music for Solo Viola da Gamba / Sarah Cunningham
The Troubador & the Nun - Hildegard, Dowland, Hume
The Trio Sonata in 17th Century Germany - Kerll, Biber, Buxtehude

Decca & DG on Sale - Four Days Only

DG & Decca Weekend Sale
With names like Placido Domingo, Hilary Hahn, Rolando Villazon, Magdalena Kozena and Anne Sofie von Otter, this weekend sale is full of superlative artistry. In addition to saving 33% on Placido Domingo's newest album, you'll find savings on our entire collection from DG, Decca and Philips! Act now though, this sale will end Monday at Midnight!

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The HBDirect Deal of the Weekend
Placido Domingo: Pasión Española - $17.98 $11.98
This is one of Placido Domingo's most personal albums to date, as he performs coplas, the traditional popular songs of Hispanic origin with which he grew up. Domingo has made a personal selection of coplas - he describes them as "mini operas" -and recorded them in Madrid with the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid and Miguel Roa.
Recent Vocal Releases on Sale This Weekend
Boldemann, Gefors, Hillborg / Nagano, Von Otter
Ponchielli: Cielo e mar / Rolando Villazon
Ah! mio cor - Handel Arias / Magdalena Kozena

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Bluebeard's First Time on DVD
"Solti's conducting and the playing of the London Philharmonic are mightily impressive. Vigilantly full and deep, mysterious and grand, the score emerges viscerally as it should... You won't be bored." -Classics Today
More DVDs On Sale
Brahms: A German Requiem / Karajan
Jessye Norman: A Portrait
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore / Pavarotti
Karajan In Concert: Performance and Documentary

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Hahn Tackles Schoenberg & Sibelius
"Her heart is really with Sibelius, and the passionate way she embraces his melodies reveals an essentially Romantic and emotional approach to the music... While Hahn's playing seems quite vigorous and at times rough edged in the first work, her bowing [on the Sibelius] is much smoother and sweetly lyrical." -All Music Guide
More Violin Albums From DG!
Tavener, Vaughan Williams/ Benedetti
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto / Hope

Remasters Featured in May Sale!

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May Sale Highlights!
This month you can find great historical recordings on sale from labels like Guild, Dutton, Testament, and Profil, as well as DVDs from Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, and Philips, and all titles from six more great labels!

Weekend Sale Ends Tonight!
All Harmonia Mundi and Hyperion titles are on sale through midnight tonight! Our Deal of the Weekend, for $13.99 (over 30% off) is Fretwork's recording of Jewish Music for viols, "Birds on Fire"!

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Barbirolli & NY Phil. Live '37-'43
"In every way, these performances show that Barbirolli was his own man and his own musician... a man and a musician not one less bit worthy as Toscanini." - All Music Guide
Other recent releases from Guild
Stokowski: Wagner, Tchaikovsky, etc.
Stokowski: Brahms, MacDowell, etc.
Nunes, Kelterborn piano works / Wong

Famous Mendelssohn on Dutton
Penguin Guide calls Dutton "the supreme magician of CD re-mastering." A new release of recordings from the 1930s and '40s of two symphonies and a piano concerto of Mendelssohn is proof.
More New Releases from Dutton
Nikisch conducts Beethoven
Griller Quartet plays Arthur Bliss
Songs from Sunny Italy / Merrill, Peerce
Dunhill Symphony, Arnell / Yates
Chisholm Symphony, Hold, Fogg / Yates

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May DVD Sale: All DG, Decca, & Philips
"Gundula Janowitz is near ideal. We can take for granted the gloriously silky voice, negotiating the role's high tessitura with ease but she also paints a convincing portrait on the sceen." - MusicalCriticism.com, on Janowitz' performance in Strauss' Arabella, on sale now!
More new DVD releases on sale:
Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle / Solti (Decca)
Puccini Gold: Most Popular Arias (Decca)
Jessye Norman: A Portrait (Decca)
Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore / Pavarotti (Decca)
Brahms: Requiem / Karajan (DG)
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra / Levine, MET (DG)
Karajan, A Documentary (DG)
Puccini: Specially-priced 3-Opera set (DG)

On Sale For May!

On Sale for May
The historical treasures on Testament, the organ on Priory, the variety on Chandos, and DVDs from Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, and Philips, plus seven more labels, all on sale! There's something for all music lovers to discover this month!

Opera sale ends Tonight!
Don't forget, our sale on over 5,000 opera and opera-related titles, on CD and DVD ends at midnight tonight! Click here to browse these titles!

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A Piano Brahms Would Play
This recording, presented by Modern Times 1800 on Challenge Records, features a Streicher grand piano of 1870, one that is probably very close to to the instrument that in 1868 Brahms received as a present from Streicher.
Recent releases from Challenge Records
Beethoven Quartets / Kuijken Quartet
Otterloo: Symphonietta for Triple Woodwinds
Adieu, naturlic leven mijn / Aventure

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Schubert's Final Mass From Hickox
"An essential purchase for Schubertians...this well-recorded release offers much to delight and suprise anyone less familiar with Schubert's sacred music...a clear front-runner." - Classicalsource.com
More New Releases from Chandos
Bainton: Concerto Fantasia, etc./Daniel
Grainger: Transcriptions for Wind Orchestra
Fasch: Ouverture Grosso in D Major, etc.
Organist Ian Quinn plays Czech music

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May DVD Sale on DG, Decca & Philips!
At $33.98, this specially priced 3-DVD set, on Deutsche Grammophon, of three of Puccini's best-loved operas celebrates his 150th anniversary year, and features performances by Freni, Raimondi, Domingo, Ludwig, and Milnes, and conductors Bartoletti and Karajan.
More Puccini DVDs on Deutsche Grammophon
All DG, Decca and Philips DVDs on sale!
All Deutsche Grammophon DVDs
All Decca DVDs
All Philips DVDs
New DVD Releases
Brahms: German Requiem / Karajan (DG)
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra / Levine, MET (DG)
Wagner: The Flying Dutchman / Sawallisch (DG)
Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle / Solti (Decca)
Strauss: Arabelle / Solti, Janowitz (Decca)
Jessye Norman, A Portrait (Decca)
"Puccini Gold": Favorite Arias (Decca)

Save On All Opera Titles This Weekend!

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All Opera Titles on Sale!
This weekend is all about opera aficionados! At HBDirect.com you'll find discounts on any CD or DVD that has anything to do with opera - solo recitals, fantasies, highlights and of course, complete operas. You can click the logos below for each label's complete opera listing or click here for our complete opera collection. Act now, this sale will end Monday at Midnight!

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Janet Baker In Gluck's Alceste
Dame Janet Baker's performances of Gluck's Alceste in 1981 at the Royal Opera House were part of her meticulously planned farewell to opera. Baker never commercially recorded Alceste so this recording should be of tremendous interest to all her fans.
New Opera CDs on Sale - Just Released!
Wagner: Die Meistersinger / Haitink
Verdi: Un ballo maschera / Downes, Vickers
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo / Stepner, Kelley
Mozart: Così Fan Tutte, K 588 / Mackerras
Sir Thomas Allen - Vol 2
Rolando Villazon: Cielo e mar / Ponchielli, Verdi, Boito, etc
Bizet: Carmen Suite, l'Arlésienne Suites / Minkowski

The H&B Deal of the Weekend
Pizzetti: Murder in the Cathedral - $32.98 $23.99
"The piece will surely gain in recognition after the release of this indispensable new DVD, which makes an excellent case for its reassessment... Nobody with an interest in twentieth-century opera should pass up the opportunity to hear this piece, and even fans of late-nineteenth-century verismo will find much to enjoy." -MusicalCriticism.com
Opera DVDs on Sale from Decca and DG
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore / Pavarotti, Sutherland
Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle / Solti/London PO
"Popular Puccini" - 3 Complete Operas - $33.98

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The Quintessential Nozze Di Figaro
"I just can't remember thinking that an opera production was quite this beautiful before or since this one... Shot in high definition and in surround sound, this is a luxury package and one that should be purchased and treasured by every opera lover." -MusicalCriticism.com
New Opera DVDs on Sale
Donizetti: La Fille du Regiment / Dessay, Florez
Rossini: La Gazza Ladra - Ferrara, Bordogna
Joan Sutherland "Bel Canto Showcase: Firestone"