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Antonio Pappano - Rossini: Petite Messe
Martha Argerich - Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from Lugano, 2012
Giovanni Antonini - Bellini: Norma
Carolin Widmann - Violin and Orchestra
Ilan Volkov - Stravinsky: Complete Music for Piano and Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 "Leningrad"
Rachel Podger & Brecon Baroque: Bach: Double & Triple Concertos
Alan Feinberg - Basically Bull
Edward Gardner - Britten: Piano Concerto; Violin Concerto
Martin Baker - MacMillan: Tenebrae Responsories
David Garrett - Music

Recent Classical Music additions to the library
Daniel Harding - Bartok: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Kuniko Kato - Cantus
Rafal Blechacz - Chopin: Polonaises
Vladimire Ashkenazy, Mats Lidstrom & Zsolt-Tihamer Visontay - Rachmaninov: Piano Trios
Hj Lim - Ravel & Scriabin
The 5 Browns - The Rite Of Spring
Nicola Benedetti - The Violin

2014 ordering has begun. Here are the first titles for classical music.

Xiayin Wang - American Piano Concertos
Simone Dinnerstein - Bach: Inventions & Sinfonias BWV 772-801
Daniil Trifonov - The Carnegie Recital
Alisa Wilerstein - Dvorak
Frederick Hodges & Richard Dowling - Gershwin for Two Pianos
Benedictines of Mary Queen of Apostles - Lent at Ephesus
Ildar Abdrazakov - Power Players: Russian Arias for Bass
Hilary Hahn & Cory Smythe - In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores

March 2014 Additions to Classical Music

Gil Shaham - 1930s Violin Concertos, Vol. 1
Steven Isserlis & Robert Levin - Beethoven: Cello Sonatas
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2
Andrea Bocelli - Love In Portofino
Gianandrea Noseda - Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5
Sean Chen - 14th Van Cliburn Competition - Crystal: Chen
Olga Perctyatko - Arabesque

Latest Additions To The Classical Music Collection:

Steven Isserlis - Dvorak: Cello Concertos
Various - Essential Tavener
Forte - Forte
Tasmin Little - The Lark Ascending
Various - Luminance: Solo and Duo Works for Flute and Piano
Marina Rebeka - Mozart Arias
Jennifer Koh & Shai Wosner - Signs, Games + Messages
Vladimir Lande - Weinberg: Symphony No. 12; The Golden Key-Ballet Suite No. 4
Ilya Gringolts - Paganini: 24 Caprices for Solo Violin
Jonathan & Charlotte - Perhaps Love
Yuja Wang - Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3/Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
Yoshiki - Yoshiki Classical

New titles added to the Classical Music collection:

Anne Akiko Meyers - The Four Seasons: The Vivaldi Album
Claudio Abbado & Martha Argerich - Mozart: Piano Concerto Nos. 25 & 20
Jenny Lin - Stravinsky: Solo Piano Works
Tenebrae Choir - Russian Treasures
Tianwa Yang & Markus Hadulla - Sarasate: Works for Violin & Piano Music, Vol. 4
Mitsuko Uchida - Schumann: G Minor Sonata/Waldzenen/Gesange Der Frehe
Julian Lloyd Weber & Jiaxin Lloyd Weber - A Tale of Two Cellos
Yundi - Beethoven: Emperor; Schumann: Fantasy
Valentina Lisitsa - Chasing Pianos: The Piano Music of Michael Nyman
Ingrid Fliter - Chopin: Piano Concertos
Andre De Ridder - Dessner: St Carolyn by the Sea; Greenwood: Suite from 'There Will Be Blood'
Yanni - Inspirato
Vasily Petrenko - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14
Sir Andrew Davis & Jennifer Pike - Sibelius: Violin Concerto; Karelia Suite
Kronos Quartet - A Thousand Thoughts

Latest titles added to the Classical Music collection:

Daniel Barenboim - Elgar: Symphony No. 2
Noel Edison - I Saw Eternity
Stephen Hough - In The Night
Stephen Layton & Polyphony - Jenkins: Motels
Anonymous 4 - Lang: Love Fail
Yoonie Han - Love And Longing
Khatia Buriatishvili - Motherland
John Butt & Dunedin Consort - Mozart: Requiem
Piers Lane & Goldner String Quartet - Pierne: Piano Quartet; Vierne: String Quartet In D Minor
Voces8 & Les Inventions - The Purcell Collection
Christina Pluhar - Purcell: Music For A While
Vittorio Grigolo - The Romantic Hero
Jonas Kaufmann - Schubert: Winterreise
Magnificat & Philip Cave - The Tudors At Prayer
The Sixteen & Harry Christophers - The Voice Of The Turtle Dove
Edward Gardner & Tasmin Little - Walton: Symphony No. 1, Violin Concerto

Some recent additions to the Classical Music collection:

Peter Laul & Gringolts Quartet - Brahms: Complete String Quartets and Piano Quintet
Paul Lewis - Schubert: The Late Piano Sonatas: D784, D958, D959, D960
Amira Willighagen - Amira
Edward Gardner & Tasmin Little - Walton: Symphony No. 1, Violin Concerto
Jonas Kaufmann - Winterreise
Leif Ove Andsnes - The Beethoven Journey: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4
John Adams - City Noir
Voces8 - Eventide

Late August additions to the Classical Music collection are:

Chad Hoopes - Mendelssohn & Adams: Violin Concertos
Richard Reed Parry - Music for Heart and Breath
Various - Red Hot + Bach
Marc-Andre Hamelin - Schumann: Kinderszenen-Waldsczenen; Janacek: On the Overgrown Path I
Benjamin Grosvenor - Dances
Nicola Benedetti - Homecoming: A Scottish Fantasy
Joyce Didonato - Stella Di Napoli

Some recent additions to the Classical Music collection are:

Elina Garanca - Meditation
Time for Three - Time for Three
Jonas Kaufmann - You Mean the World to Me
Cameron Carpenter - If You Could Read My Mind
The Piano Guys - Wonders

Here are some of the latest titles added to the Classical Music collection:

Maya Beiser - Uncovered
Igor Levit - Bach: Partitas BWV 825-830
Anne Akiko Meyers - The American Masters
Placido Domingo - Encanto Del Mar: Mediterranean Songs
Kenneth Kiesler - Milhaud: L'Orestie D'Eschyte
Walter Weller - Prokofiev: Complete Symphonies
Leon Fleisher - All the Things You Are
Robin Ticciati - Berlioz: Les Nuits D'Ete; La Mort de Cleopatre
Ludovic Morlot - Dutilleux: Symphony No. 1; Tout un Monde Lountain; The Shadows of Time
Anna Fateeva - Reincarnations: A Century of American Choral Music

Titles recently added to the Classical Music collection are:

Alison Balsom - Paris
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7
Alexandre Costa - Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No. 3
Anton Bruckner - Bruckner: Symphonies No. 1-9
Anton Marriner - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Sir John Barbirolli - Bax: Tintagel
Renee Fleming - Christmas in New York
Philip Corner - Satie Slowly
Various - Messiaen: Turangalila - Symphonie
Claudio Abbado - Mahler: Symphony No. 3

Also look for reissues for a number of classic recordings.

Recent purchases for the Classical Music collection in the following titles:

Alice Sara Ott & Francesco Tristano - Scandale
Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Pierre Boulez - Selected Works for Orchestra
Veritas - Veritas
Bernard Labadie - Haydn: Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 11
Sascha Goetzel - Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Angela Hewitt - Bach: The Art of Fugue
Neeme Jarvi - Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
Ludovic Morlot - Become Ocean

Ordering for 2015 is now in full swing and some of the new titles added to the Classical Music collection since the new year are:

2Cellos – Celloverse
Jesus Lopez-Cobos – Donizetti: Lucia di Lamermoor
Anna Netrebko – Tchaikovsky: Iolanta
Anonymous 4 – Songs of Hope and Home from the American Civil War
Katherine Jenkins – Home Sweet Home
Sonya Yoncheva – Paris, Mon Amour
Various – Strauss: Neujahrkonzertz
Jonathan Antoine – Tenore

New additions to the Classical music collection include the following titles:

100 Classical Masterworks
Various – Across Pond – Marches
American Forms
Libera – Angels Sing: Libera in America
Jean Rondeau – Bach: Imagine
Helmut C. Jacobs – Beckman & Kargelert: Cloud Poems
Leonard Bernstein – Bizet: Carmen
Rte National Symphony & Jean-Luc Tingaud – Bizet: Roma & Other Orchestral Works
Nelson Freire & Lionel Bringuier – Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2; Ballade No. 4; Berceuse; Polonaise Heroiqu
Jun Qian – East Meets West II: Clarinet Music By Chinese Composers Overseas
Benedictines of Mary Queen of Apostles – Easter at Ephesus
Sir Andrew Davis & Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra – Elgar: King Olaf; The Banner of Saint George
Ute Lemper – Forever – The Love Poems of Pablo Neruda
Bryan Hymel – Heroique – French Opera Arias
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet – New Renaissance
Charles Bruffy – Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil
Kuniko Kato – Xenakis: IX
Herbert Von Karajan – Verdi: Messa Da Requiem
Simone Dinnerstein - Broadway – Lafayette: Ravel, Lasser, Gershwin
Gil Rose & Boston Modern Orchestra Project – Fine: Complete Orchestral Works
Various – Mazzoli: Vespers for a Dark New Age
Teodor Currentzis & Musicaeterna – Rameau: The Sound of Light
Various –The Signal Maker
Various –Haydn: The Complete Masses; Stabat Mater
Royal Concertbouw Orchestra & Vladimir Jurowski – Horizon 6

May additions to the Classical music collection are:

The 5 Countertenors – The 5 Countertenors
Mivos Quartet – Haber: Torus
Sonia Wieder-Atherton – Little Girl Blue
The Tenors – Under One Sky
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Christoph Eschenbach – Messiaen: Des Canyons Aux Etoiles Live
Frans Bruggen – Schubert: The Synphonies

Here are the new Classical music titles added to the collection in June. Besides the new titles listed below there were a number of reissues of out of print recordings added from Naxos, Decca and Deutsche Grammaphon.

English Chamber Orchestra & Julian Lloyd Webber – And the Bridge is Love: English Music for Strings
The Monks of Norcia: Benedicta: Marian Chant from Norcia
Riccardo Chailly – Brahms: Serenades
Andrea Bocelli – Icon
Hilary Hahn – Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K.219; Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto No.4 in D Minor, Op. 31
Vilde Frang – Mozart: Violin Concertos 1 & 5; Sinfonia Concertante
Taize – Music of Unity and Peace
Il Divo – A Musical Affair – Live in Japan
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld – Never Were the Way She Was
Brooklyn Art Song Society – New Voices
Roomful of Teeth – Render
Anne Murray & Malcolm Martineau – Brahms & Schumann: Lieder
Andreas Ottensamer – Brahms: The Hungarian Connection
Elizabeth Joy Roe – Britten & Barber: Piano Concertos; Nocturnes
Iain Burnside & Robin Tritschler – Britten & Schubert
The Kronos Quartet & Tanya Tagaq – Charke: Tundra Songs
Nagano & Paul Merkelo – French Trumpet Concertos: Desenclos – Tomasi – Jolivet
Roberto Alagna – My Life is an Opera
Peter Phillips – Part: Tintinnabuli
Sol Gabetta – Prayer
Juilliard Baroque – Couperin: Les Nations
Natalie Dessay – De L’Opera A La Chanson
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra & Jiri Belohlavek – Dvorak: Complete Symphonies & Concertos (box set)
Gyorgy Vashegyl – Rameau: Les Fetes De Polymnie

July additions to the Classical Music collection include:

Chilly Gonzales – Chambers
Various – Classics for Relaxation
Diana Damrau – Fiamma Del Belcanto
Nicholas Phan – A Painted Tale
Various – Piano Quartets: Mahler, Schumann, Brahms
Valentina Lisitsa – Valentina Lisitsa Plays Philip Glass
Rebecca Miller – Bach: Symphonies
Keith Jarrett – Barber & Bartok: Live
Karim Said – Echoes from an Empire
Bruce Burbaker – Glass Piano
Contrapunctus & Owen Rees – In the Midst of Life: Music from Baldwin Partbooks I
Ivan Fischer – Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Gidon Kremer & Kremerata Baltica – New Seasons
Paavo Jarvi – Shostakovich: Cantatas
The Kronos Quartet – Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector
Mahan Esfahani – Time Present and Time Past
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet & Francois-Frederic Guy – Transcriptions for Two Pianist

New titles recently added to the Classical Music collection are:

Andrea Bocelli & Jennifer Wilson – Puccini: Turandot
David Atherton – Birstwistle: Angel Fighter
Claudio Abbado & Orchestra Mozart – Schubert: The Great C Major Symphony
Yo-Yo Ma & Kathryn Stott – Songs from the Arc of Life
Michael Tilson Thomas & San Francisco Symphony – Adams: Absolute Jest, Grand Pianola Music
Lars Vogt – Bach: Goldberg Variations
The Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz – Chant for Peace
Scott Metcalfe – Ludford: Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks Vol. 4
Krystian Zimerman & Berliner Philharmoniker
Mario Lanza – My Italian Soul
Paolo Bordogna – Tutto Buffo
Various – Brahms: The Piano Concertos – Live at Philharmonie Berlin 2014
Michael Riesman – Glass: Einstein on the Beach

Some selections added to the Classical music collection in recent weeks include:

Tarja Turunen – Ave Maria – En Plein Air
Jonas Kauffmann – Nessun Dorma: The Puccini Album
Utah Symphony – Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major Titan Live
Max Richter – From Sleep
Tom Poster – Light and Shadows
Thomas Gould – Live in Riga
Jason Eckhardt – Subject
Yundi – Chopin: The Complete Preludes
Lang Lang – Lang Lang in Paris