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10 NEW TITLES are now available in Encore, our flagship budget series, bringing the total number of titles in the series to 265. All are carefully selected from the rich EMI archive and the new titles feature internationally renowned artists of the finest calibre including Maria Callas, Busch Quartet, Itzhak Pearlman, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Birgit Nilsson, Arthur Rubinstien and André Previn.

PALESTRINA Missa 'Assumpta est Maria' Magnificat Septimi Toni Motets Choir of Clare College, Cambridge Timothy Brown Dog and Trumpet version: 50999 208120 2 7 Angel version: 50999 208280 2 8 Palestrina's Mass 'Assumpta est Maria' marks the feast of the Assumption, the celebration of the Blessed Virgin Mary's ascent into heaven prescribed in the Catholic calendar for 15 August. Clare College Choir's Palestrina programme concludes with the Magnificat Septimi Toni, a sublime example of the composer's 35 Magnificat settings.


PROKOFIEV Symphony-Concerto Cello Sonata Han-Na Chang London Symphony Orchestra Antonio Pappano Dog and Trumpet version: 50999 208119 2 1 Angel version: 50999 208279 2 2 Han-Na Chang first came across the music of Prokofiev when she was just eight years old and longed to play this concerto. 'For me the Symphony- Concerto is one of the greatest cello concertos ever written and definitely one of the most important,' she says. Her partner on this album, Antonio Pappano, is renowned for his boundless energy and the freshness and enthusiasm he brings to all his musical collaborations. The coupling of Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto and Cello Sonata was awarded the Best Concerto Recording of the Year in 2003 by the ECHO Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, the Cannes Classical Award, and the Caecilia Prize.


STRAUSS Eine Alpensinfonie BRUCKNER Te Deum Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester The London Philharmonic Franz Welser-Möst Dog and Trumpet version: 50999 208117 2 3 Angel version: 50999 208277 2 4 Richard Strauss's Alpine Symphony (1911-14), with its unmistakable evocations of waterfalls, cowbells, and storms and mists, describes in 22 sections a 24-hour period on a mountain as viewed from the composer's study window in Garmisch. Bruckner's Te Deum (the Latin hymn of thanksgiving to God) was composed and revised between 1881-4, and although it represents the most immediate declaration of Bruckner's unshakeable faith, it wasn't originally intended for religious service. Franz Welser-Möst is music director of the Cleveland Orchestra. In September 2002, he began his initial five-year tenure with the orchestra, and only nine months later his contract was extended through to the 2011/12 season.


SONG RECITAL Brahms Fâuré Finzi Ireland Schubert Jonathan Lemalu Roger Vignoles Dog and Trumpet version: 50999 208123 2 4 Angel version: 50999 208285 2 3 Jonathan Lemalu, a New Zealand-born Samoan, is at the forefront of today's younger generation of singers. His first recording with Roger Vignoles presented here, was released in 2002 to great critical acclaim and won the 2002 Gramophone Debut Disc of the Year award.


PROKOFIEV Violin Concertos 1 & 2 Sonata for 2 Violins Itzhak Pearlman Pinchas Zuckerman BBC Symphony Orchestra Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Dog and Trumpet version: 50999 208118 2 2 Angel version: 50999 208278 2 3 Born in Israel in 1945, Itzhak Perlman completed his initial training at the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. His recorded repertoire for EMI Classics is vast, and includes violin concertos by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruch, Dvorák, Glazunov, and Goldmark. Perlman's long term friend and colleague, Pinchas Zukerman, has recorded over 100 albums, of which 21 have been nominated for Grammy Awards, including the disc of violin duos from which this winning account of the Prokofiev sonata has been extracted.


BACH Magnificat VIVALDI Gloria Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus and Orchestra Sir Neville Marriner Dog and Trumpet version: 50999 208125 2 2 Angel version: 50999 208287 2 1 Sir Neville Marriner, the most prolific classical recording artist in history, founded the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in 1959, which quickly established itself as one of the world's leading chamber orchestras. Sir Neville tours regularly with the Academy to the Far East, South America, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Italy and Austria. He has twice been honoured for services to music in the UK, as well as Germany, France and Sweden. Sir Neville has created a huge discography for EMI and many of his recordings can still be found in the current catalogue.


CHORAL EVENSONG Live from King's College, Cambridge Choir of King's College, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury Dog and Trumpet version: 50999 208116 2 4 Angel version: 50999 208275 2 6 This recording, made in July 1991, was primarily set down during Choral Evensong in the ornate chapel of King's College, Cambridge. The presence of a 300-strong congregation, summoned to worship by a solitary bell, and the matchless atmosphere of a sunny summer's afternoon in King's Chapel, helped intensify the mood of reverent contemplation and sense of occasion captured by EMI's recording team.


BERNSTEIN Serenade BARBER Violiln Concerto FOSS Three American Pieces Itzhak Pearlman Boston Symphony Orchestra Seiji Ozawa Dog and Trumpet version: 50999 208124 2 3 Angel version: 50999 208286 2 2 Born in 1935 in Shenyang, China, Seiji Ozawa graduated from Tokyo's Toho School of Music. In 1959 he won first prize at the International Competition of Orchestral Conductors, and after Charles Munch invited him to attend the Tanglewood Music Center, Ozawa won the Koussevitzky Prize in 1960. While working with Herbert von Karajan in Berlin, he came to the attention of Leonard Bernstein, who appointed him assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic for the 1961-2 season. Ozawa conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the first time in 1964, at Tanglewood, and began his tenure as music director in 1973, a position he held until 2002. In 1992 Ozawa co-founded the Saito Kinen Orchestra in Matsumoto, Japan, in memory of his teacher at Tokyo's Toho School of Music, Hideo Saito. Since 2002, he has been music director of the Vienna State Opera.


FRANCK Violin Sonata SAINT-SAËNS Violin Sonata No.1 RAVEL Violin Sonata Sarah Chang Lars Vogt Dog and Trumpet version: 50999 208122 2 5 Angel version: 50999 208283 2 5 An exclusive EMI artist, Sarah Chang was born in Philadelphia to Korean parents. She began her violin studies aged four and promptly enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music, where she studied with Dorothy DeLay. Since then she has established a highly distinguished career as one of the leading artists of her generation.


JANÁČEK String Quartets 1 'Kreutzer Sonata' 2 'Intimate Letters' DVOŘÁK Piano Quintet - Dumka Alan Berg Quartett Elisabeth Leonskaja Dog and Trumpet version: 50999 208121 2 6 Angel version: 50999 208282 2 6 For over 30 years the Alban Berg Quartett have performed regularly in music capitals and major festivals throughout the world. They have their own concert series at the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Royal Festival Hall London, the Opera Zurich, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the Philharmonie in Cologne and at the Alte Oper Frankfurt.




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