New From the Sasmor Collection

Orchestral Music

The Cleveland Orchestra – 75th Anniversary, 1918-1993 (10-disc set; Sokoloff, Rodzinski, Leinsdorf, Szell, Boulez, Maazel, von Dohnányi, conductors) – CD 8488

The Philadelphia Orchestra – The Centennial Collection: Historic Broadcasts and Recordings 1917-1998 (12-disc set) – CD 8490

• Volumes I-III – Music Directors (Stokowski, Ormandy, Muti, Sawallisch)
• Volume IV – Guest Conductors (Reiner, Tennstedt, Scherchen, Walter, Munch, Kertész, Toscanini)
• Volume V – Composers as Conductors (Kodäly, Stravinsky, Thomson, Copland)
• Volume VI – Singers – (Sills, Sutherland, Corelli, Maynor, London, Anderson, Rothenberger, Fischer-Dieskau, Nilsson)
• Volume VII – Instrumentalists – (Hofmann, Kapell, Richter, Rabin, Heifetz, Kogan, Du Pré)

Vienna Philharmonic 150th Anniversary Edition

• Volume I – Haydn – Symphonie No. 102 / Ravel – Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Leonard Bernstein, cond.) – CD 8500 v.1
• Volume II – Schönberg – Pelleas und Melisande / Strauss – Tod und Verklärung (Karl Böhm, cond.) – CD 8500 v.2
• Volume III – Brahms – Symphony No. 2 / Beethoven – Leonore III & Grosse Fuge in B flat major (Wilhelm Furtwängler, cond.) – CD 8500 v.3
• Volume IV – Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 (Wilhelm Furtwängler, cond.) – CD 8500 v.4
• Volume V – Bruckner- Symphony No. 9 (Herbert von Karajan, cond.) – CD 8500 v.5
• Volume VI – Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 / Schubert – Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished” (Otto Klemperer, cond.) – CD 8500 v.6
• Volume VII – Schubert – Symphony No. 9 / Schmidt – Variations on a Hussar’s Song (Hans Knappertsbusch, cond.) – CD 8500 v.7
• Volume VIII – Beethoven – Missa Solemnis / Stravinsky – Pulcinella-Suite / Dukas – L’Apprenti Sorcier (Clemens Krauss, cond.) – CD 8500 v.8
• Volume IX – Bruckner- Symphony No. 5 (Carl Schuricht, cond.) – CD 8500 v.9
• Volume X – Wagner – Der Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude to Act I / Strauss – Sinfonia domestica & Till Eulenspigels lustige Streiche (Richard Strauss, cond.) – CD 8500 v.10
• Volume XI – Mozart – Symphony No. 38 / Mahler – Symphony No. 4 (Bruno Walter, cond.) – CD 8500 v.11

Opera

Richard Wagner – Der Ring des Nibelungen: Bayreuth 1956 (Hans Knappertsbuch, cond.) – CD 8960

W.A. Mozart – Le Nozze Di Figaro (Ochester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Karl Böhm, cond.) – CD 9047

W.A. Mozart – Don Giovanni (Ochestra of the National Theater, Prague, Karl Böhm, cond.) – CD 9046

W.A. Mozart – Cosi Fan Tutte (Weiner Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm, cond.) – CD 9045

Piano Music

Vladimir Horowitz - The Complete Masterworks Recordings

• Volume I – The Studio Recordings 1962-1963 (Chopin, Rachmaninov, Schumann, Liszt, and others) – CD 8498 v.1
• Volume II – The Celebrated Scarlatti Recordings – CD 8498 v. 2
• Volume III – The Historic Return: Carnegie Hall 1965 · The 1966 Concerts (Bach, Schumann, Scriabin, Chopin, Moszkowski, and others) – CD 8498 v.3
• Volume IV – The Legendary 1968 TV Concert (Chopin, Scarlatti, Schumann, Scriabin, Horowitz) – CD 8498 v.4
• Volume V – A Baroque and Classical Recital (Clementi, Bach, Scarlatti, Haydn, Beethoven) – CD 8498 v.5
• Volume VI – Horowitz Performs Beethoven (Sonatas Nos. 14, 21, and 23) – CD 8498 v.6
• Volume VII – Early Romantics (Chopin and Schumann) – CD 8498 v.7
• Volume VIII – The Romantic and Impressionist Era (Schubert, Liszt, Debussy, Mendelssohn) – CD 8498 v. 8
• Volume IX – Late Russian Romantics (Scriabin, Medtner, Rachmaninov) – CD 8498 v.9

Artur Rubenstein – The Chopin Collection (11-disc set) - CD 8494

Folk Song

Alhambra - The Art of Judeo-Spanish Song (Jewish Folk Song) - CD 8963

Alhambra - Performs Judeo-Spanish Songs(Jewish Folk Song) - CD 8962

Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret – Chants d’Auvergne (Kiri te Kanawa, soprano; English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate, cond.; French Folk Song) – CD 8961

New Arrivals: December 20-26

Musical Theater & Light Opera

On the 20th Century – Book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, music by Cy Coleman (Original Broadway Cast) – CD 5083

Leader of the Pack – Book by Anne Beatts, music and lyrics by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, and Phil Spector (Original Broadway Cast) – CD 5070

Victor Herbert – Mlle. Modiste (The Ohio Light Opera) – CD 5065

Anthony Brandt – The Birth of Something; The Dragon and the Undying; Creely Songs – CD 5064

Jazz

Bill Evans - Conversations with Myself – CD 5084

Herbie Hancock – Mwandishi – CD 5082

Herbie Hancock - Crossings - CD 5081

Pop/Rock

The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds – CD 5079

20th Century & Contemporary Music

David Rakowski - Études, Vol. 3 (Amy Briggs, piano) – CD 5069

Frederic Rzewski – The People United Will Never Be Defeated! – CD 5078

Carson Cooman – The Revelations of Divine Love (Metaphors from Sea and Sky) – CD 5066

Mark O’Connor – String Quartets Nos. 2 & 3 – CD 5085

Christian Sinding – Music for Piano (Jerome Lowenthal, piano) – CD 5075

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen – Kronos Plays Holmgreen (Kronos Quartet; Danish National Symphony Orchestra) – CD 5080

Miguel del Aguila - Salón Buenos Aires (Camerata San Antonio) – CD 5074

Dana Suesse – Jazz Nocturne: The Collected Piano Music of Dana Suesse (Sara Davis Buechner, piano) – CD 5072

Gustavino/Williams/Piazzolla/Ugarte/Aguirre/Lasala/Ginastera – Esperanza: Sounds of Hope (Rosa Antonelli, piano) – CD 5067

Major Composers

J.S. Bach – Les Chorales de Leipzig / Deux Preludes et Fugues (Antoine Bouchard, organist) – CD 5086

J.S. Bach – Grandes Œuvres Pour Orgue (Jean-Patrice Brosse, organist) – CD 5087

Johannes Brahms – The Brahms Trios, Vol. 2 (Kalichstein-Larendo-Robinson Trio) – CD 5071

Modest Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition / Songs and Dances of Death / Golitsyn Train / Solemn March (The USSR Symphony Orchestra, Evgeni Svetlanov, cond.) – CD 5076

P.I. Tchaikovsky – Suite from “Swan Lake” / Suite from “Nutcracker” (The USSR Symphony Orchestra, Evgeni Svetlanov, cond.) – CD 5077

Gustav Holst / Benjamin Britten – The Planets, Op. 32 / The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi, cond.) – CD 5073

Antonín Dvořák – Piano Concerto in G Minor, Op. 33 / Poetic Tone-Pictures, Op. 85 (Vassily Primakov, piano; Odense Symphony Orchestra, Justin Brown, cond.) – CD 5068

New this week from the Sasmor Collection

This week’s arrivals are heavy on symphony and violin collections. Of particular interest are complete symphony collections of Beethoven (twice!), Dvorak, and Bruckner, and two large sets featuring the violinist, Yehudi Menuhin.

Orchestral Music

Antonin Dvorak – The Complete Symphonies (Royal Scottish Orchestra; Neeme Järvi, cond.) – CD 8501

Anton Bruckner – 9 Symphonien (Berliner Philharmonic; Herbert von Karajan, cond.) – CD8496

Ludwin van Beethoven – 9 Sinfonien (The London Classical Players; Roger Norrington, cond.) – CD 8463

Ludwin van Beethoven – 9 Symphonies (Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, cond.) – CD 8462

Johannes Brahms – Symphonies Nos. 1-4 (SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra; Sergiu Celibidache, cond.) – CD 8480

New York Philharmonic: The Historic Broadcasts 1923 to 1987 (10-disc set) – CD 8467

Kurt Masur at the New York Philharmonic (10-disc set) – CD 8482

Original Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra (6-disc set, ballets) – CD 8477

Violin

80th Birthday Edition; Yehudi Menuhin, violin (6-disc set) – CD 8469

Menuhin Edition; Yehudi Menuhin, violin (5-disc set) - CD 8499

26 Danish Violin Concertos; Kai Laursen, violin (10-disc set) – CD8485

Eugène Ysaÿe – Six Sonatas for Violin Solo, op. 27; Gideon Kremer, violin – CD 6255

String Quartets

W.A. Mozart – The Quartets Dedicated to Haydn (Quatour Mosaïques) – CD 8487

Dimitri Shostakovich – The String Quartets (Brodsky Quartet) – CD 8479

Piano

Ludwin van Beethoven – Piano Sonatas; Alfred Schnabel, piano (8-disc set) – CD 8492

W.A. Mozart – Piano Concertos; Mitsuko Uchida, piano (9-disc set; English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate, cond.) – CD 8459

Opera

W.A. Mozart – Die Zauberflöte / Die Entführung aus dem Serail / Der Schauspieldirektor (Berliner Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm, cond.) – CD 8491

Kirsten Flagstad Edition – CD 8481

Miscellaneous

Antonin Dvorák – String Quartets – The Prague String Quartet – CD 8478

Karel Ancerl conducts the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra – CD 8470

Highlights from 50 Years Holland Festival – CD 8475

Disc 1 – Great Opera Singers

Disc 2 – Great Singers in Recital

Disc 3 – Music by 20th Century International Composers

Disc 4 – Music by 20th Century Dutch Composers

Disc 5 – Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with guest conductors

Franz Schubert – String Quartets – The Melos Quartet – CD 8472

Puccini – La Bohème – CD 8378

Anton Bruckner – Symphonien – CD 6171

Roberto Alagna – Popular Arias for Tenor – CD 7987

Howard Hanson – Complete Symphonies – New York Chamber Symphony & Seattle Symphony – CD 8493

Great Pianists of the 20th Century

Artur Rubinstein – Chopin - CD 8637

Sviatoslav Richter – Liszt, Moussorgsky, Prokofiev, Schubert - CD 8638

Sergei Rachmaninoff – Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Schumann –               CD 8639

Maurizio Pollini – Chopin, Debussy, Liszt, Schumann, Stravinsky – CD 8640

Mikhail Pletnev – Tchaikovsky – CD 8641

Murray Perahia – Beethoven, Grieg, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Scarlatti – CD 8642

Arturo Bendetti Michelangeli – Debussy, Galuppi, Scarlatti, Ravel - CD 8643

Dinu Lipatti – Bach, Chopin, Grieg, Ravel, Schubert, Schumann – CD 8644

Josef & Rosina Lhévinne – Chopin, Mozart, Schumann – CD 8645

Alicia de Larrocha – Albéniz, Granados, Halffter, Mompou, Soler - CD 8646

Rosalyn Tureck – Bach – CD 8657

Sviatoslav Richter – Rachmaninoff, Schuman, Scriabin – CD 8658

Whilhelm Kempff – Beethoven, Brahms, Fauré, Mozart, Schubert – CD 8659

Byron Janis – Liszt, Prokofiev, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky -          CD 8660

Emil Gilels – Brahms, Chopin, Clementi, Grieg, Schubert, Schumann - CD 8661

Walter Gieseking – Beethoven, Debussy, Mozart, Ravel – CD 8662

Jorge Bolet – Liszt – CD 8663

Claudio Arrau – Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Granados, Liszt, Mozart, Schubert – CD 8664

Martha Argerich – Chopin, Liszt, Schumann – CD 8665

Géza Anda – Bartók, Chopin, Mozart – CD 8666

Stephen Kovacevich – Beethoven - CD 8677

Wilhelm Kempff – Brahms Schumann – CD 8678

Julius Katchen – Brahms, Chopin, Franck, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Rorem –                  CD 8679

Vladimir Horowitz – Schumann – CD 8680

Clara Haskil – Mozart – CD 8681

Clara Haskil – Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann – CD 8687

Ingrid Haebler – Bach, Chopin, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert – CD 8688

Fridrich Gulda – Beethoven, Chopin, Strauss, Weber – CD 8689

Glenn Gould – Byrd, Gibbons, Haydn, Mozart, Prokofiev, Strauss – CD 8690

Emil Gilels – Liszt, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky – CD 8691

Nelson Freire – Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, Mozart, Schumann – CD 8692

Clifford Curzon – Mozart, Schubert – CD 8693

Alfred Cortot – Chopin, Liszt, Ravel, Schumann – CD 8694

Alfred Brendel – Beethoven – CD 8695

Vladimir Ashkenazy – Chopin, Liszt, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Schumann -            CD 8696

Myra Hess – Bach-Hess, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann - CD 8697

Grigory Ginsburg – Beethoven, Liszt, Medtner, Miaskovsky, Tchaikovsky                       CD 8698

Andrei Gavrilov – Bach, Scriabin, Schumann, Prokofiev, Rachamninoff                  CD 8699

Edwin Fischer – Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert – CD 8700

Christoph Eschenbach – Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann            CD 8701

Alfred Cortot – Chopin, Debussy, Franck, Ravel, Saint-Saëns – CD 8702

Shura Cherkassky – Litolff, Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Strauss – CD 8703

Robert Casadesus – Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Fauré, Rameau, Scarlatti               CD 8704

Alfred Brendel – Brahms, Busoni, Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Weber                              CD 8705

Daniel Barenboim – Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Liszt - CD 8706

Piano Music

Piano Artissimo – Piano Music of Our Century – CD 8458

Emil Gilels – Beethoven, Chopin, Medtner, Mozart, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Ravel, Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin, Shostakovich – CD 8471

Wilhelm Kempff – Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas – CD 8474

Sviatoslav Richter plays….

Bach – English Suite, Concerto for Piano, Concerto for 2 Pianos – CD 8981

Beethoven – Sonata Nos. 8 & 23, 8 bagatelles, Choral Fantasy – CD 8982

Schubert – Sonata Nos 16 & 17 – CD 8983

Schumann – Excerpts from ‘Fantasiestücke’ & “Noveletten’, Humoreske                      CD 8984

Schubert – from ‘Moments Musicaux,’ Chopin – Etudes in E Major & E Minor, Franck – Prelude, Choral et Fugue, Bartok – 12 Hungarian Songs – CD 8985

Chopin – Concerto No. 2, Saint-Saëns – Concerto No. 5, Franck – Les Djinns – CD 8986

Rachmaninov – Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 - CD 8987

Rimsky-Korsakov – Concerto, Glazunov – Concerto No. 1, Prokofiev – Concerto No. 1 – CD 8988

Tchaikovsky – Grand Sonata op. 37, Musorgsky – Pictures – CD 8989

Scriabin – 12 Etudes, Sonata No. 6, Myaskovsky – Sonata No. 3, Prokofiev – Sonata No. 7 – CD 8990

Great Pianists of the 20th Century

Jorge Bolet – Live at Carnegie Hall – CD 8647

Lyubov Bruk & Mark Taimanov – F or 2 Pianos – CD 8648

Shura Cherkassky – Chopin – CD 8649

Van Cliburn – Rachmaninoff & Tchaikovsky – CD 8650

Leon Fleisher – Copland, Liszt, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Ravel – CD 8651

Walter Gieseking – Beethoven, Chopin, Franck, Mozart, Scriabin – CD 8652

André Previn – Gershwin, Mozart, Poulenc, Shostakovich – CD 8654

Rosalyn Tureck – Bach Partitas – CD 8655

Alexis Weissenberg – Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Prokofiev, Stravinsky – CD 8656

Emil Gilels – Bach, beethoven, Debussy, Mozart, Ravel, Weber - CD 8682

Alfred Brendel – Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann – CD 8683

Wilhelm Backhaus – Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Schubert - CD 8684

Claudio Arrau – Albéniz, Bach, Balakirev, Brahms, Liszt – CD 8685

Martha Argerich – Bach, Liszt, Ravel, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff – CD 8686

Christmas Music

Christmas Gumbo: 14 Spicy New Holiday Songs – CD 5054

Louis Armstrong & Friends – The Christmas Collection -  CD 5055

BB King – The Christmas Collection – CD 5056

A Charlie Brown Christmas – Vince Guaraldi Trio – CD 5057

Soul Christmas - CD 5058

Motown Christmas – CD 5059

A Jazzy Christmas with the Heritage Hall Jazz Band - CD 5050

Reggae Christmas from Studio One – CD 5061

The Ventures’ Christmas Album – CD 5062

James Brown – The Christmas Collection – CD 5063

Vocal Scores

Songbooks

Sammy Cahn Songbook – M1630.18. C22 S256 1986

Rediscovered Gershwin – piano/vocal selections – M1507. G38 R4 1991

Antonio Carlos Jobim – The Best of the Bossa Novas - M1630.18. J61 B4 1966

The Best of Irish Music – M1744. B47 1995

Arias for Tenor – M1507. A733

Musical Theatre

Rock of Ages, a new musical – M1508. R62 2009

Jeff Bowen – Title of Show - M1508. B69 T5 2009

Laurence O’Keefe – Legally Blonde – M1508. O53 L43 2009

Willy Russell – Blood Brothers - M1508. R87 B56 1990

Joshua Schmidt – Adding Mach1in3 – M1508. S364 A3 2009

Andrew Lloyd Webber – Aspects of Love – M1508. L66 A87 1990

The Andrew Lloyd Webber Anthology – M1507. L78 A6 1987

Kurt Weill – Street Scene – M1503. W419 S8 1948

Vocal Collections

The Hugo Wolf Society 1931-1938, The Complete Edition – CD 8476

The EMI Record of Singing – V. 3, 1926-1939: Testament - CD 8465

The Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Songbook – CD 8464

Robert Schumann Lieder – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone - CD 8473

Puccini’s Turandot – Vienna Chorus & Orchestra – CD 8466

Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen – Karl Böhm, cond. – CD 8468

Miscellaneous

Beethoven – The Late Piano Sonatas – Maurizio Pollini – CD 8810

Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No. 5, Sonata No. 8 – Sviatoslav Richter – CD 8808

Schubert – Amadeus Quartet plays “Trout” Quintet & “Death & the Maiden” Quartet – CD 8806

Milhaud – Les Choéphores, Honegger – Symphony No. 5, Roussel – Bacchus et Ariane - CD 8804

Beethoven – Missa Solemnis – Berlin Philharmonic – CD 8811

Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 3 “Scottish” & No. 4 “Italian” – Berlin Philharmonic – CD 8809

Schubert – Symphonies No. 3 & No. 8 “Unfinished” – CD 8807

Schumann – Dichterliebe, Schubert & Beethoven – Lieder – Fritz Wunderlich, tenor – CD 8805

Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte – Berlin Philharmonic – CD 8803

Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra - CD 8802