Allegro Classical Distribution

		Pavarotti Passion, Vol. II Luciano Pavarotti Opera d’Oro Born in Modena, a small town in northern Italy, Luciano Pavarotti (1935–2007) was the son of a baker and amateur tenor. He grew up surrounded by his father’s recordings of the day’s leading opera singers—including Giuseppe Di Stefano, Jan Kiepura, and Enrico Caruso—and he went on to become one of the most popular vocalists of all time. This collection features favorite arias from classic operas, including L’elisir d’amore, I Pagliacci, Luisa Miller, Don Giovanni, and Martha. Retailers order here Consumers order here
		Schubert Schubert’s Echo American String Quartet NSS Music NSS Music welcomes the American String Quartet, one of today’s foremost international string ensembles, to the label! This classical CD holds a special appeal for chamber music lovers and music students alike, for it presents three works never before recorded together. Celebrating its 35th anniversary this 2010/11 season, the quartet’s passionate, masterful performances invite you to hear these incredible works anew. Retailers order here Consumers order here
		ASIA Purer than Purest Pure BBC Singers Summit Records Daniel Asia recently won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for composition, and has been the recipient of many competitive grants and fellowships in music including a Meet The Composer/ Reader's Digest Consortium Commission, United Kingdom Fulbright Arts Award Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, four NEA Composers Grants, a M. B. Rockefeller Grant, and many more. Britain's foremost professional chamber choir, the BBC Singers, was founded in 1924. As a vital resource in the BBC's music output, the BBC Singers hold a unique position in British musical life. Performing everything from Byrd and Birtwistle to Tallis and Takemitsu, the versatility of this 24-voice ensemble is second to none. Retailers order here Consumers order here
		ANTHEIL Ballet Mécanique Maurice Peress Nimbus MusicMasters George Antheil's avant-garde signature piece created riots in Paris at the Theatre Champs Elysees in June 1926, and the following April at New York's Carnegie Hall. Even though it was the focus of one of the most written about events in 20th century American music history, it was not to be heard again for 62 years, until American conductor and musicologist Maurice Peress searched out the original score and restaged the 1927 concert in the very same Carnegie Hall on July 12, 1989. This world premiere recording now makes it possible to hear the original, which contained Antheil's most advanced ideas: futurist, machine-age, ragtime inspired music of a complexity beyond human playing capabilities and a conception beyond most music composed in 1925. Retailers order here Consumers order here
		WAGNER Götterdämmerung Hallé Orchestra Hallé With this set, Hallé releases the live recordings of their universally acclaimed performance of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung. This recording was made live at sold-out concerts, which were the showpiece of the Hallé’s 2009 artistic season. The atmosphere at the concerts was electric, the critics unanimous in their praise, and the audiences ecstatic. Without doubt, this was one of the most exciting musical events ever to have been staged in The Bridgewater Hall. Retailers order here Consumers order here
		BACH Bach-Bukowski II: Walking and Living Through This William van Ekeren Etcetera Now An extraordinary mixture of piano and singing through which Bach‘s baroque music and Bukowski’s hard-driven lines sound simultaneously! Willem van Ekeren formed several bands as a teenager, and as the years passed he found himself drawn more and more to classical piano. In 1994 he chanced upon the book The Last Night of the Earth Poems by Charles Bukowski, and he immediately fell in love with it. In 1997, while reading it for the third time, he was struck by the fact that “You know and I know and thee know” was the ultimate text for the F minor prelude of Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier. The next day at the piano he started to combine the two pieces, and the results are presented on this excellent disc. Retailers order here Consumers order here
		BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet Walter Boeykens Evil Penguin Records It is only fitting that at the beginning of his life’s autumn, Boeykens wanted to record the Clarinet Quintet, the masterpiece that Brahms wrote after he had (re)discovered the clarinet late in his own life. The result is a deeply moving registration by a truly great artist. The full extent of Boeykens’ importance becomes obvious when watching the bonus DVD that accompanies the recording (a key passage is Boeykens’ work with Pierre Boulez while premiering the latter’s composition Domaines). Retailers order here Consumers order here
		PROKOFIEV Romeo & Juliet Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Masterworks Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet has inspired important works from a variety of composers. Berlioz made a dramatic symphony out of it, Gounod an opera, Tchaikovsky an enormously successful fantasy-overture, and Bernstein the gloriously updated West Side Story version. When Prokofiev turned to the play in 1934, it was with a view to create a new ballet for the Leningrad Kirov Theatre. Yuri Simonov made his debut with the Western operatic company conducting Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and made his British concert debut conducting three concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra. Since then he has given numerous concerts with the LSO, and conducted a Tchaikovsky cycle with them at the Barbican Hall. Retailers order here Consumers order here
		J.S. BACH Brandenburg Concertos Apollo’s Fire Avie Records Apollo’s Fire, the baroque orchestra founded in 1992 by award-winning harpsichordist and conductor Jeannette Sorrell, launches a major new association with Avie! This two-CD Bach set takes the ever-popular Brandenburg Concertos and uniquely couples them with two Harpsichord Concertos, one of which is also presented in a reconstruction for violin. Retailers order here Consumers order here
		CAGE Melodies and Harmonies Klaus Lang & Annelie Gahl Col legno John Cage’s two cycles Six Melodies (1950) and Thirteen Harmonies (1985), interwoven by Klaus Lang and Annelie Gahl. Retailers order here Consumers order here