Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Jewels in July - Sale Highlights From HBDirect

The twelve labels that are currently on sale at HBDirect have some great new releases that we had to share with you! In addition to the titles here, you can visit our sales page or click any logo in this newsletter to browse a label's complete catalog.

Romantic Piano 48 "There are few pianists who can dust off this repertoire and give it sparkle such as can Howard Shelley, a veteran of more than half a dozen previous releases in the series, and that's exactly what he does here in a disc made up entirely of first recordings... A worthy addition to the series" -MusicalCriticism.com
Released Today & Just $8.99
Songs of Scotland / McLaughlin, Martineau
18th Century Keyboard Concertos / Paul Nicholson
The Spirits of England & France, Vol. 2 / Gothic Voices
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Complete Brahms Own the most distinguished Brahms Edition that will likely ever be produced! Not only does it feature amazing works but it also includes some of Deutsche Grammophon's greatest recordings. The set is presented in a handsome cube with a lid, and the CDs are in individual card sleeves.
New From DG!
Bellini: Norma / Levine, Sills, Verrett, Plishka
Verdi - Great Operas from La Scala - 21 CDs for $50.98
Verdi: Falstaff / Levine/Met, Horne, Freni, Bonney (DVD)
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Rosetti Concertos "This is truly enjoyable music that can withstand focused listening but also serves well as - dare I say it - background music... Everything - music, performances, sound - about this Rosetti disc is compelling." -FanFare Magazine
$5.99 on Arte Nova
Schumann: The Violin Sonatas / Beikircher, Koehlen
Chopin: Sonatas, Waltzes, Nocturne / Ricardo Castro
Brahms: Sonata, Waltzes, Scherzo / Matthias Kirschnereit
The Arte Nova Catalog

Sale Highlights
Four DVD Labels on Sale!
Fricsay - Remembering Ferenc Fricsay, Music Transfigured
Arena Di Verona: Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Aida
Dvorak: Rusalka / Conlon/Paris Opera, Fleming, Diadkova
More DVDs on Sale

BBC Legends
Cherkassky Plays Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann, Tchaikovsky
Brahms, Schubert: Lieder / Fischer-Dieskau, Richter, Britten
Beethoven, Dvorák: Violin Concertos / Suk, Sargent
All BBC Legends on Sale!

Hungaroton on Sale
Bartók: Solo Piano Vol 3 - For Children / Kocsis
Le Menu de Saint-Philibert: 6 Cantatas
Crusell: Clarinet Quartets / Laszlo Horváth, Dumas String Trio
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New From Oehms Classics
Fauré, Ravel, Hersant: Piano Trios with Trio Cérès
Corelli à la Mode / Stefan Temmingh, Olga Watts
Pianist Benjamin Moser plays Prokofiev & Rachmaninov
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New on Urania
Stravinsky: L'Oiseau de Feu, Apollon musagète
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Piano Concerto in G, etc / Toscanini, Benny Goodman
Ravel, Hindemith, Stravinsky, Dukas / Guido Cantelli
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Music & Arts
Bach & his Forerunners - Couperin, Frescobaldi, Gabrieli / Colin Tilney
A treasury of Russian Romantic Piano / Nadejda Vlaeva
Mozart: Piano Concerto no 10, 14 & 23 / Grante, Sieberer
The Music & Arts Catalog

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