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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 April 2008

• An Italian Sojourn (Trio Settecento)
• Arie De Bravura (Diana Damrau)
• Carestini, the Story of a Castrato (Philippe Jaroussky)
• Concerto for Solo Piano, op. 39 nos. 8-10 (Charles-Valentin Alkan)
• Die Schone Mullerin (Franz Schubert)
• Double Concerto Clarinet Quintet (Johannes Brahms)
• Italian Opera Arias: Verdi, Bellini, Donizetti (Natalie Dessay)
• Lieder (Richard Strauss)
• Lute Songs (John Dowland)
• Songs (Samuel Barber)
• Songs (Lorraine Hunt Lieberson)
• String Quartet no. 4, op. 37 "Verklarte Nacht" op. 4 (Arnold Schoenberg)
• Styx (Giia Kancheli)
• Tribulatio et Angustia Four- & Five-Part Motets (Nicolas Gombert)

Added since February 2008

• 2006 Neujahrskonzert: 2006 New Year's Concert (Wiener Philharmoniker)
• American Orchestral Works (Grant Park Symphony Orchestra)
• American Songs (Patrice, Michaels)
• American Virtuosa Tribure to Maud Powell (Rachel Barton Pine)
• Amor Sacro Mottetti (Antonio Vivaldi)
• Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (Paul Dukas)
• As Steals the Morn--Arias & Scenes for Tenor (George Frideric Handel)
• Asturiana (Kim Kashkahian)
• Ballad for Edvard Grieg (Edvard Grieg)
• Browns in Blue (5 Browns)
• Cello Concerto (Elgar Edward)
• Complete Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin Volume 4 (Amadeus Wolfgand Mozart)
• Complete Works for Violin and Piano (Johannes Brahms)
• Concerto no. 5 "Emperor" Piano Sonata no. 28 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
• Double Concerto St. Paul's Suite; Brook Green Suite (Gustav Holst)
• Duets (Anna Netrebko)
• Floridante (George Frideric Handel)
• Four Episodes Two Poems, Concertino, Suite Modale (Ernest Bloch)
• Goldberg Variations (Johann Sebastian Bach)
• Handel Arias (George Frideric Handel)
• Hansel & Gretel (Englebert Humperdinck)
• Helsinki Recital (Karita Mattila)
• Il Duello Amoroso (George Frideric Handel)
• Italian Songs for Tenor and Piano (Lawrence Brownlee)
• Jardim Abandonado (Sergio Assad)
• Josephs Legende (Richard Strauss)
• Kate Royal (Kate Royal)
• Kossuth The Wooden Prince (Bela Bartok)
• La Quinta Essentia (Huelgas Ensemble)
• Mahler 5 (Gustav Mahler)
• Maria (Cecilia Bartoli)
• Melodies Russes Russian Songs (Ekaterina Sementchuk)
• Missa O Pulchritudo (Gian Carlo Menotti)
• Mozart Piano Trios (Amadeus Wolfgang Mozart)
• Music for Compline (Stile Antico)
• Music from the Sistine Chapel (Sixteen)
• Neujahrskonzert 2007 New Year's Concert 2007 (Wiener Philharmoniker)
• The Never Ending Waltz (Cincinnati Pops Orchestra)
• New Impossibilities (Yo-Yo Ma)
• Nocturne (Frederic Chopin)
• Norwegian Dances Ballade; Slatter: Suite for Orchestra (Edvard Grieg)
• Nuits D'ete (Hector Berlioz)
• Oceana (Osvaldo Golijov)
• Opus Ultimum Schwanengesang (Heinrich Schutz)
• Piano Concerto No. 2 Cello Concerto (Ned Rorem)
• Piano Concertos (Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky)
• Piano Quintet Clarinet Quintet (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor)
• Piano Quintets (Robert Schumann)
• Piano Sonatas (Joseph Haydn)
• Piano Trio in B Flat Major, K502 Piano Trio in E Major, K542 Piano Trio in G Major, K564 (Amadeus Wolfgang Mozart)
• Piano Trios 1 & 2 (Franz Schubert)
• Polish Spirit (Nigel Kennedy)
• The Red Violin Concerto Violin Sonata (John Corigliano)
• Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, and Orchestra in E Flat; K 362 Rondo for Violin and Orchestra in C, K 373: Concertone for 2 Violins and Orchestra in C, K 190 (Amadeus Wolfgang Mozart)
• Sonatas & Partitas for Violin Solo, BMV 1001-1006 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
• The String Sextets Die Streichsextette Les Sextours a Cordes (Johannes Brahms)
• Surprise (Measha Bruggergosman)
• Symphony No. 1, op. 55 Sonata for Organ, op. 28 (Edward Elgar)
• Thesee (Jean Baptiste Lully)
• Tic, Toc, Choc Alexandre Tharaud joue Couperin (Francois Couperin)
• Tout un Monde Lointain 3 Strophes Sur le Nam de Sacher L'arbre des songes (Henri Dutilleux)
• Twenty-Four Negro Melodies opus 59 (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor)
• Two-part Inventions, Partita No.2, Three-Part Inventions (Johann Sebastian Bach)
• Viola Concertos (Lawrence Power)
• Violin Concertos (Lisa Batiashvili)

Added since September 2007

• Blockfloten-werke (Georg Philipp Telemann)
• Cello and Piano Sonatas. Volume 1, Nos. 1, 2, and 3 (Ludvig van Beethoven)
• Concertos for Orchestra (Bartok Lutoslawski)
• Die Schoene Mullerin (Franz Schubert)
• Flute Concertos (Antonio Vivaldi)
• Harpsichord Music from Italy & Spain (Trevor Stephenson)
• Heavenly Love, Earthly Joy Elizabethan Lute Songs (Julian Bream
• Mass in G Minor and Other A Cappella Works (Atlanta Symphony Chamber Chorus)
• Mensa Sonora Biber et ses Contemporains (Masques)
• Partita BWV 828 French Suite BWV 812 (Johann Sebastion Bach)
• Piano Concertos in F Rhapsody in Blue; Cuban Overture (George Gershwin)
• Piano Vortex (Matthew Shipp)
• Prelude and, Liebestod: from Tristan und Isolde (Christine Brewer)
• Russian Nights
• Schubert Ellsworth Snyder, Pianist (Franz Schubert)
• Sonata in G minor, D. 408 Sonata in B flat major, D. 960 (Franz Schubert)
• Stephen Stubbs, Teatro Lirico (Stephen Stubbs)
• Symphonie No. 4 (Johannes Brahms)
• Symphony no. 1 Symphony no 14 (Dmitrii Dmitrievich Shostakovich)
• Symphony no. 5 Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
• Symphony no. 5 Quintet for Strings (Jay Greenberg)
• To Be Sung on the Water (Guiseppe Tartini and Donald Crockett)
• The Two and Three Part Inventions (inventions & sinfonias) (Johann Sebastion Bach)
• Twilight of the Romantics (Orion Ensemble)
• The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op. 34 Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, op 33a (Benjamin Britten)

Added since August, 2007

• Abendbilder Lieder (Franz Schubert)
• And on Earth, Peace a Chanticleer Mass (Chanticleer)
• Appassionato (Yo-Yo Ma)
• Aria -- Opera Without Words (Jean-Yves Thibaudet)
• Arias (Vivica Genaux)
• Art of the Guitar (Bach)
• Art of the Guitar (David Russell)
• The Bachelar's Delight (Daniel Bacheler)
• Bluebeard's Castle (Bela Bartok)
• Carnival Etudes Symphoniques (Robert Schumann)
• Clear or Cloudy (Gyorgy Ligeti)
• Combattimento (Claudio Monteverdi)
• Concerti & Sinfonie per Archi (Antonio Vivaldi)
• Concertos and Romance (Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy)
• Declarations Music Between the Wars (Pacifica Quartet)
• Double Concerto After Reading Shakespeare (Ned Rorem)
• Dragon Songs (Lang Lang)
• English and Italian Renaissance Madrigals (Hilliard Ensemble)
• The Execution of Stepan Razin (Dmitrii Dmitrievich Shostakovich)
• Extase (Measha Brueggergosman)
• Fantasie Kreisleriana; Arabeske (Robert Schumann)
• Fernando (Handel)
• Gitano (Rolando Villazon)
• Goldberg Variations (Bach)
• Gorecki: String Quartet No.3 (Kronos Quartet)
• Griselda (Antonio Vivaldi)
• Handel Arias (Handel)
• I Let the Music Speak (Benny Andersson)
• Inventions (Renaud Capucon)
• Joshua (Franz Waxman)
• Khrimian Hairig Guitar Concerto; Symphony No. 60 (Alan Hovhaness)
• La Clemenza di Tito (Mozart)
• Leipzig Chorales (Bach)
• Le Sacre du Printemps (Stravinsky)
• Lieder (Johannes Brahms)
• Lieder (Hugo Wolf)
• Lieder Ohne Worte, Songs Without Words (Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy)
• Lighten Our Darkness Music for the Close of Day (Cambridge Singers)
• Mass, K. 427 (Mozart)
• Metamorphosen Piano Quartet C Minor, op.13; Prelude to Capriccio, op.85 (Richard Strauss)
• Music for Oboe and Strings (Marc Fink)
• Music of John Harbison, Vol. 1 (John Harbison)
• Neruda Songs (Peter Lieberson)
• Nocturnes (Chopin)
• Orchestral Music (Carl Nielsen)
• Overtures and Fantasies (Tchaikovsky)
• Piano Quartets (Johannes Brahms)
• Pilgrimage to Santiago (Monteverdi Choir)
• Preludes, Books I and II (Claude Debussy)
• Rilke Songs; the Six Realms; Horn Concerto (Peter Lieberson)
• Russian Album (Anna Netrebko)
• The Secret Mozart Works for Clavichord (Mozart)
• Sonatas (Richard Harwood)
• Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Robert Schumann)
• Songs of a Fairy Tale Princess Harnasie; Love Songs of Hafiz (Karol Szymanowski)
• Stephen Hough's Spanish Album (Stephen Hough)
• Strange Imaginary Animals (Eighth Blackbird)
• String Quartet No.14 in D Minor, D810, "Death and the Maiden"
• String Quartet No.13 in A Minor, D804, "Rosamunde" (Franz Schubert)
• String Quartets (Antonin Dvorak)
• Symphony No. 7 (Gustav Mahler)
• Symphony of Psalms (Stravinsky)
• The Unknown Lover; Songs by Solage and Machaut (Gothic Voices)
• Violin Concerto in D Serenade Melancolique (Tchaikovsky)
• Vivaldi (Antonio Vivaldi)
• The Voyage: an Opera in Three Acts (Philip Glass)
• Women's Lives and Loves; a Liederspiel (Graham Johnson)

Added since May 10, 2007

• Bach and Beyond (Bach)
• Ballet for a Lonely Violinist (Vadim Gluzman)
• Canta Puccini, Leoncavallo y Mascagni (Enrico Caruso)
• Cold Sassy Tree (Carlisle Floyd)
• Complete Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin. Vol. 3 (Mozart)
• Da Pacem (Arvo Part)
• Ecce cor Meum (Paul McCartney)
• Exultate Jubilate (Mozart)
• Heppner, Wagner (Wagner)
• Journey (Leon Fleisher)
• The keyboard concertos. 2 (Bach)
• Motezuma (Vivaldi)
• Piano Sonata in E Flat Minor (Paul Dukas)
• Porgy and Bess (Simon Rattle)
• Radamisto (Handel)
• Reverie (John Stevens)
• Serenada Schizophrana (Danny Elfman)
• Simply (Anne-Sophie Mutter)
• String Quartets with Soprano (Benita Valente)
• Tamerlano (Handel)
• Violin Concerto (Chloe Hanslip)
• Violin Concerto No. 1 (Paganini)
• Violin Concerto No. 1 Konzertstuck ; Romance (Max Bruch)
• Voice of the Violin (Joshua Bell)

(last updated, March, 2008)