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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 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)

Added since June 2009

• 24 Preludes (Sergei Rachmaninoff)
• Cello Concertos (Antonio Vivaldi)
• Circus Maximus; Gazebo Dances (John Corigliano)
• Clarinet Concerto; Cello Concerto (Gerald Finzi)
• Coronation Anthems (George Frideric Handel)
• Instrumental Music (Gioacchino Rossini)
• Quickening; Three Interludes from "The Sacrifice" (James MacMillan)
• Recital at Ravinia (Lorraine Hunt Lieberson)
• Symphonic Transcriptions (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra)
• Tchaikovsky 5; Francesca da Rimini (Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky)

Added since April 2009

• Acis and Galatea (George Frideric Handel)
• Bach (Johann Sebastian Bach)
• Bach Concertos (Johann Sebastian Bach)
• Bel Canto Spectacular (Juan Diego Florez)
• Between Heaven and Earth (A.R. Rahman)
• Complete Songs (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
• Ex Maria Virgine (John Tavener)
• Furore (George Frideric Handel)
• In Principio (Arvo Part)
• Lorraine Hunt Lieberson at Emmanuel
• Mendelssohn (Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy)
• Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan; Three Hallucinations (from Altered States) (John Corigliano)
• Opera & Concert Arias (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
• Piano Concerto (Aaron Copland)
• Piano Sonatas opp. 26, 14 & 28 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
• Piano Trios Nos. 3, 5 & 7 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
• Russian Masterpieces for Cello and Orchestra (Zuill Bailey)
• Scene d'Amore (Soile Isokoski)
• Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings; Les Illuminations; Nocturne (Benjamin Britten)
• La Sonnambula (Vincenzo Bellini)
• Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3: Two Nocturnes; Berceuse; Barcarolle (Frederic Chopin)
• Souvenirs (Anna Netrebko)
• Spotless Rose: Hymns to the Virgin Mary (Phoenix Chorale)
• Symphony in C (Igor Stravinsky)
• Symphony No. 2 in C minor: "Resurrection" (Gustav Mahler)
• Teatro d'Amore (Claudio Monteverdi)
• The Verdi Tenor (Giuseppe Verdi)

Added since Feburary 2009

• 13 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
• Audivi Vocem: Tallis, Tye, Sheppard (Hilliard Ensemble)
• Boldemann, Gefors, Hillborg (Anne Sofie von Otter)
• Complete Works for Cello and Orchestra (Camille Saint-Saens)
• Concertos for Two Violins (Antonio Vivaldi)
• The Copland Collection: Copland Conducts Copland
• Dichterliebe and Other Heine Settings (Robert Schumann)
• Fantasia for the Viols, 1680 (Henry Purcell)
• Four Last Songs: Songs & Arias: Signature Roles at the Met Opera (Richard Strauss)
• Francisco Javier: La Ruta de Oriente
• Hommage a Messiaen (Olivier Messiaen)
• Lamenti
• Lieder (Franz Schubert)
• Lute Music (Melchior Neusidler)
• Mary and Elizabeth at Westminster Abbey: Sisters in Hope of the Resurrection (Westminster Abbey Choir)
• Night Ride and Sunrise; Belshazzar's Feast; Kuolema (Jean Sibelius)
• Notes on Light; Orion; Mirage (Kaija Saariaho)
• Parnasso in Festa (George Frideric Handel)
• The Play of Daniel Ludus Danielis
• Porgy & Bess: 21 September 1952 (George Gershwin)
• Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben / Brahms: 8 Songs, Op. 57
• String Quartets: Ravel, Debussy, Faure (Quatuor Ebene)
• Symphony No. 8 (Krzysztof Penderecki)
• Violin Concertos (Joseph Hayden)

Added since January 2009

• Bach: Violin Concertos / Gubaidulina: In Tempus Praesens
• Bella Napoli: Concerti per Oboe: Scarlatti (Christoph Hartmann)
• Clement: Violin Concerto in D major / Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, op. 61
• Corigliano: The Red Violin Caprices: Violin Sonata / Thomson: Three Portraits; Five Ladies; Eight Portraits
• A Flowering Tree: An Opera in Two Acts (John Adams)
• For a Look or a Touch (Jake Heggie)
• The Grapes of Wrath (Ricky Ian Gordon)
• Hallelujah Junction: A Nonesuch Retrospective (John Adams)
• Imani Winds
• L'Orfeo Favola in Musica (Claudio Monteverdi)
• Mission Road (Chanticleer)
• Olde School (East Village Opera Company)
• Owen Wingrave (Benjamin Britten)
• Piano Concertos 21 & 22 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
• Psyche (Jean Baptiste Lully)
• Sonate a Violino Solo: Aria del Tasso (Giuseppe Tartini)
• Taneyev: Suite de Concert / Rimsky-Korsakov: Fantasy on Russian Themes
• Trumpet Concertos (Alison Balsom)
• Waiting for the Barbarians (Philip Glass)

(last updated February 23, 2010)