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New Classical CDs at Madison Public Library

NOTE: this list includes recent purchases made only by Madison Public Library.  For more, and more up to date selections, see a list of all new CDs added to LINKcat in the last month.

Added since June 2010

Late Victorians (Mark Adamo)

The tempest (Thomas Ades)

Tevot ; Violin concerto ; Three studies from Couperin ; Dances from Powder her face (Thomas Ades)

Trio sonatas, BWV 1027-1029, 525 & 527 (Johann Sebastian Bach)

The well-tempered clavier (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Sinfonia per orchestra, op. 63 Italia : op. 11 (Alfredo Casella)

Argerich plays Chopin (Frederic Chopin)

Journal intime (Frederic Chopin)

Late masterpieces (Frederic Chopin)

The piano concertos (Frederic Chopin)

The crown of India (Edward Elgar)

Concerto for violin and orchestra in B minor, op. 61 (Edward Elgar)

Intimate letters (Emerson String Quartet)

Trio sonatas Op. 2 & Op. 5 (George Frideric Handel)

Choral works (Herbert Howells)

Northern lights ; Cheremissian fantasy ; Kalevala suite (Uuno Klami)

Graffiti (2009) ; Seht die Sonne : (2007) (Magnus Lindberg)

Symphony no. 4 (Gustav Mahler)

Symphony no. 8 ; Adagio from Symphony no. 10 (Gustav Mahler)

Three fragments from the opera Juliette (Bohuslav Martinu)

Trois melodies ; Harawi (Olivier Messiaen)

Hommage a Chopin (Jonathan Plowright)

Sinfonia concertante / Mozart ; Violin concerti 1 & 4 / Haydn (Rachel Podger)

Choral music (Einojuhani Rautavaara)

Colbran, the muse (Gioacchino Rossini)

L'amour de loin (Kaija Saariaho)

Complete music for piano four-hands (Erik Satie)

Heliopolis (Franz Schubert)

Dichterliebe (Robert Schumann)

String quartet in A major, op. 41, no. 3 ; Piano quintet in E flat major, op. 44 (Robert Schumann)

The nose (Dmitrii Shostakovich)

Vivaldi's cello (Antonio Vivaldi)

Luminosity and other choral works (James Whitbourn)

Orchestral works (Yehudi Wyner)

Added since April 2010

• Salzburg (Martha Argerich)
• Brandenburg Concertos; Orchestral Suites (Johann Sebastian Bach)
• Violin and Voice (Johann Sebastian Bach)
• Four Orchestral Suites (Johann Sebastian Bach)
• Sacrificium (Cecelia Bartoli)
• At Home With Friends (Joshua Bell)
• Before Life & After (Benjamin Britten)
• Coloraturas (Diana Damrau)
• The Melody of Rhythm: Triple Concerto & Music for Trio (Bela Fleck)
• Verisimo (Renee Fleming)
• Tragediennes. 2: From Rameau to Berlioz (Veronique Gens)
• Organ Concertos, op. 7 (George Frideric Handel)
• Alcina (George Frideric Handel)
• Italian Arias (Joseph Hayden)
• American Voices, Volume 2: Sonatas (Mark Hetzler)
• The Tempest (Lee Hoiby)
• The Little Match Girl Passion (David Lang)
• Diminuito (Rolf Lislevand)
• Lieder (Gustav Mahler)
• Piano Trios: Op. 49 & Op. 66 (Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy)
• Pictures at an Exhibition (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
• Complete Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin, Volume 6 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
• The Complete Fantazias (Henry Purcell)
• The Complete Violin Concertos (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
• Piano Trios (Sergei Rachmaninoff)
• The Celtic Viol: Air and Dances (Jordi Savall)
• String Quintet; String Quartets in G & D minor; Death and the Maiden (Franz Schubert)
• Sonata, op. 78; Impromptus, op. 142 (Franz Schubert)
• Winterreise (Franz Schubert)
• Never Far Away: Music (Bright Sheng)
• Messa da Requiem (Giuseppe Verdi)

Added since February 2010

• Partitas 1, 5 & 6 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
• Violin Concertos (Ludwig van Beethoven)
• Beethoven's Symphony no. 9 in D minor, op. 125; Choral (Ludwig van Beethoven)
• Complete Works for Piano and Cello (Ludwig van Beethoven)
• La Straniera (Vincenzo Bellini)
• Symphonie Fantastique; La Mort de Cleopatre (Hector Berlioz)
• Mass (Leonard Bernstein)
• Piano Concerto; Diversions; Young Apollo (Benjamin Britten)
• Violin Concertos (Max Bruch)
• Complete Waltzes (Frederic Chopin)
• The Romantic Cello; Cello Sonatas (Natalie Clein)
• Fire and Blood; MotorCity Triptych; Raise the Roof (Michael Daugherty)
• The Hungarian Album (Guarneri Quartet)
• Piano Sonatas. II (Joseph Haydn)
• The Planets, op. 32 (Gustav Holst)
• Sonnett fur Wien: Songs of Erich Korngold (Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
• The Confession of Isobel Gowdie (James MacMillan)
• Complete Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin. Volumes 7 & 8 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
• Utrenja (Krzystof Penderecki)
• Missa Malheur Me Bat; Missa Fortuna Desperata (Josquin des Prez)
• Cello Concerto in E minor, op. 58; Symphony-Concerto in E minor, op. 125 (Sergey Prokofiev)
• Moments Musicaux D. 780; Allegretto D. 915; Impromptus D. 899 (Franz Schubert)
• Complete Etudes for Piano (Aleksandr Nikolayevich Scriabin)
• 24 Preludes & Fugues, op. 87 (Dmitrii Shostakovich)
• Hamlet, op. 67a; Romeo and Juliet (Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky)
• Manfred Symphony; The Voyevoda (Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky)
• Stabat Mater (Theatre of Early Music)
• A German Bouquet (Trio Settecento)
• The Four Seasons (Antonio Vivaldi)

Added since October 2009

• 3 Sonatas K. Anh. 166; Transcriptions for String Quartet by Johann Andre (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
• 6 Solo Sonatas & Partitas (Johann Sebastian Bach)
• Carmen, L'Arlesienne Suites (Georges Bizet)
• Concertos (Bela Bartok)
• Dido & Aeneas (Henry Purcell)
• Doctor Atomic Symphony: Guide to Strange Places (John Adams)
• A Dylan Thomas Trilogy (John Corigliano)
• For David: Music Written for David Russell, Guitar
• Ezio (George Frideric Handel)
• Handel (George Frideric Handel)
• Journey to the New World (Sharon Isbin)
• Medieval English Music: Masters of the 14th and 15th Centuries (Hilliard Ensemble)
• Orlando Furioso (Antonio Vivaldi)
• Overtures from Overture Hall (Madison Symphony Orchestra)
• Piano Concertos 2 & 3 (Sergey Prokofiev)
• A Pocket of Time (Lee Hoiby)
• The Sacred Flame: European Sacred Music of the Renaissance and Baroque Era (Cambridge Singers)
• Songs (Maurice Ravel)
• Songs of Love and Loss (Robert Schumann)
• Spirit of Brazil (Aquarelle Guitar Quartet)
• Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4 (Karol Szymanowski)
• The Violin Sonatas (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Added since August 2009

• Americana Symphony: Variations on Appalachia Waltz (Mark O'Connor)
• The Berlin Recital (Robert Schumann)
• Bright Orb of Harmony (Sixteen)
• Dance Symphony: Symphony No. 1; Short Symphony no. 2 (Aaron Copland)
• La Fida Ninfa (Antonio Vivaldi)
• Floodplain (Kronos Quartet)
• Madama Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini)
• Music for Cello and Piano (Robert Schumann)
• Orlando (George Frideric Handel)
• Ravel (Maurice Ravel)
• Schwanengesang and Songs after Seidl (Franz Schubert)
• Shining Brow (Daron Hagen)
• Sonatas: Hayden, Mozart, Beethoven (Rafal Blechacz)
• Song of Songs (Stile Antico)
• Stephen Hough in Recital (Stephen Hough)
• The Tender Land (Aaron Copland)
• Vivaldi (Antonio Vivaldi)

(last updated June 23, 2010)