HBDirect.com Classical & Jazz CDs & DVDs November 2015

Boxed Sets New & Best Selling Box Sets Mercury Living Presence, Volume III The final release, completing the transfer to CD [53 CDs] This landmark release marks the point at which the entire Mercury Living Presence catalog, as remastered by the original recording producers in the 1990s, is available in physical form. In addition, Decca presents 10 albums that have never before been on CD, mixed down, restored and remastered from fragile tapes, to allow the fullest possible appreciation of this landmark label. The booklet includes the detail about the recording, engineers and producers, microphones, tapes, dates and locations. For complete contents details, visit hbdirect.com. (Volume 3) 53 DEC B002275902 $179.98 On Sale (Volume 2) 55 DEC B001831802 $135.98 On Sale (Volume 1) 51 DEC B001653302 $179.98 On Sale The Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra The Complete Sony Recordings [47 CDs] Works: Concertos by Prokofiev, Ravel, Chopin, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, & Mozart Artists: Claudio Abbado/Berlin PO; LSO; Mahler CO; Orch. Mozart . 5 DGG B002250602 $25.98 With this special edition DG pays tribute to an extraordinary musical partnership. The 5-CD box set collects all of the concerto recordings made by pianist Martha Argerich with conductor Claudio Abbado over more than 45 years. 50 Great Arias / Jonas Kaufmann, tenor [4 CDs] “No German tenor since Fritz Wunderlich has such a succulent Italianate tone... Yet Kaufmann is no Wunderlich sound-alike. While his free-ringing high notes have a comparable visceral excitement, his timbre is a notch duskier and more baritonal, with more heft in the middle and lower registers. He is also a scrupulous and sensitive musician...” -The Daily Telegraph CD 1: Romantic Arias CD 2: Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven & Wagner CD 3: Verismo Arias CD 4: Wagner 4 DEC B002153502 $34.98 www.hbdirect.com Works: Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936): Concert Waltz no 1; Symphonies nos 1 - 5 Artists: Vladimir Fedoseyev/Tchaikovsky SO of Moscow Radio. (4 CD) (Brilliant Classics) 4 BLC 94719 $19.99 “Fedoseyev’s performance is fine. The recorded sound is OK. The music shines through, as does the fairly high quality of the orchestra’s playing.” ARG ❦Slatkin Conducts Tchaikovsky Ballets [6 CDs] Beaux Arts Trio - The Complete Philips Recordings This special 60-CD limited edition box set includes the Beaux Arts Trio’s extensive discography on Philips Classics and encompasses almost the entire piano trio literature . The set includes the complete piano trios of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Hummel, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Choping, Tchaikovsky, Arensky, Dvorak, Ravel, Rachmaninov plus piano quartets of Mozart, Schumann, Brahms, Fauré, Dvoark and much more. “Among the world s piano trios, there is none better.” --Time Magazine 60 DEC B002341702 $156.99 On Sale ❦Bruno Walter Conducts Mahler [7 CDs] Works: Mahler: Symphonies nos 1, 2, 4, 5 & 9; Das Lied von der Erde, Lieder Artists: Bruno Walter/Columbia Symphony Orchestra; New York Philharmonic. (7 CD) (Sony) 7 SNYC 88691920102 $21.99 On Sale “This set belongs in the Classical Hall of Fame. If these performances aren’t already a part of your aural museum, this is the perfect opportunity to discover them.” -Fanfare 16 The Living Stereo Collections, Volumes 1 and 2 have remained consistent bestsellers for HBDirect ever since each was released. The stunning quality of the sound makes these recordings an important part of audiophile history. The two 60 CD box sets offer performances by Vladimir Horowitz, Byron Janis, Arthur Rubinstein, Fritz Reiner, Erich Leinsdorf, Arthur Fiedler, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra and many more. (60 CD) (RCA Records) (Volume 1) 60 RCA 887654149725 $118.99 . (Volume 2) 60 SBMG 88843003502 $118.99 ❦Glazunov: Complete Symphonies [4 CDs] Originally released between 1989 and 1998, the recordings of Tafelmusik’s Baroque and Classical repertoire are here being issued together in a single Sony Classical box set. Founded in 1979, the Toronto-based ensemble won the 1996 Echo Klassik (Germany’s highest recording accolade) for “Best Orchestra of the Year” as well as nine Canadian JUNO Awards, “Recording of the Month” in BBC Music Magazine, Gramophone Award nomination and “Editor’s Choice”, and France’s Diapason d’Or and CHOC de Monde de La Musique. Gramophone Magazine named it as “one of the world’s top baroque orchestras.” (47 CD) (Sony / RCA) 47 SBMG 88875030622 $65.99 Argerich & Abb YΈH

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