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Offers are for a limited period only.
Please check individual offers for expiry dates.

 

HYPERION LABEL BIG OFFER
Our latest BIG offer. Full price Hyperion discs, right across the catalogue, included. It is arguably "Britain's Brightest label".
Offer expires 30 September 2008.

SHOSTAKOVICH
Cello Concertos, Muller-Schott

Daniel Muller-Schott cements his reputation with this "highly recommended" CD of Shostakovich Cello Concertos.

LEGENDARY WAGNER
Mastersingers conducted by
Reginald Goodall

First time ever for this 4cd set on Chandos label's "Opera In English" series. The massive success of this performance was the catalyst that set in motion Sir Peter Moores's recordings of operas in English.

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
conducts Serenade To Music

Albion Records is dedicated to recording rare 20th century English classical music, concentrating on Ralph Vaughan Williams. Each of the CDs contains world première recordings.

ANDREAS SCHOLL
Crystal Tears

John Dowland's lute songs form the basis of another flawless performance from Andreas Scholl.
With limited edition bonus DVD.

MARTINU
Violin Concerto Isabelle Faust

Martinu is at last enjoying his fair share of the limelight and the near ideal interpretation of the second Violin Concerto will enhance both his and Isabelle Faust's reputations.

LSO Live
The latest Sir Colin Davis CD is of Tippett's Child Of Our Time plus the first symphony from Valery Gergiev's acclaimed Mahler cycle.
Each CD/SACD release on offer for a limited time.

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER &
SIMON KEENLYSIDE
My Heart Alone

"...a lusciously recorded twirl through familiar European operetta territory, with duets and arias from six composers, Lehár and Emmerich Kálmán predominating"(Geoff Brown, The Times)
Only £10.99 for a limited period only.

NAXOS New Release Offer
Some of the recent releases, Alwyn orchestra music conductd by David Lloyd Jones, a British clarinet recital and still including "Naxos CD of The Month", Dvorak Symphony 9 with Marin Alsop.
Initial Offer Only £4.99 each.

ROYAL BALLET ON DVD
Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. This production from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden was filmed in 1982. Designs by the late Leslie Hurry, the classic Swan Lake choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov has further contributions by Frederick Ashton and Rudolf Nureyev.

RSK Entertainment offers
One of our most interesting pages of priorities and recommendations. New releases from Linn, Zig-Zag plus other labels such as Supraphon and NMC.

GLYNDEBOURNE OPERA ON CD
Lond awaited launch of the Glyndebourne label on CD. Legendary recordings now available to all and we celebrate by having the two new releases on special offer.

Coda Distribution Offer
Many critically recommended discs distributed by Coda. New additions from Capriccio, Symphonica, ABC Classics, MDG, Somm, Cyprien Katsaris, Carus, Etcetera, Oehms and many others. All on special offer.

Universal Classics Labels Offer
DG Originals, Decca Originals, Archiv Al Fresco, L'Oiseau Lyreand now with added DG Grand Prix. Five mid price labels with more releases added to the special offer.
Beware! titles removed after offer period ends.

Universal Classics DVDs
Latest issues on Universal DVDs. Includes four historically and musically significant films from the BBC archives of works and performances by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, and a wonderful new Arabella with Renee Fleming.
Offer Prices for a limited period only.

SIMONE KERMES
Kraus La Primavera

On this new SACD the exceptional young soprano Simone Kermes performs four cantatas, fascinating solo dramas en miniature.
Limited Offer £10.99.

ONDINE FULL TO MID OFFER
Full price Ondine label reduced to just £8.49 for single CDs.
Best of all it applies to most of the label.
Offer expires 23 August 2008.

JUAN DIEGO FLOREZ
Bel Canto Spectacular

A celebration of THE Bel Canto tenor of our times. "I’m proud that I’m singing here with great singers, great colleagues — great friends.”
Limited Edition CD with bonus DVD.

LORRAINE HUNT LIEBERSON
Lieberson At Emmanuel

This beautiful collection of Bach and Handel is a celebration of one of the most important artistic collaborations in music; that of Ms. Lieberson and Emmanuel Music Director Craig Smith

HEROLD
La Fille Mal Gardee on DVD

Sir Frederick Ashton’s version for The Royal Ballet, which premiered in 1960, is widely regarded as the “traditional” version and has become a much celebrated classic of the ballet repertory.
Only £19.49 for a limited time.

CHANDOS FULL PRICE OFFER
The Chandos full price catalogue is all on offer this month. Take a look at the list which includes just about every Chandos release.
Offer expires 30 August 2008.

OPERA ON DVD OFFER
Decca, Deutsche Grammophon and Philips selected full and mid price DVDs at greatly reduced prices.
Offer expires 16 August 2008.

OPERA ON CD OFFER
Decca, Deutsche Grammophon and Philips selected full and mid price CDs at greatly reduced prices.
Offer expires 16 August 2008.

EMI GREAT RECORDINGS OF THE CENTURY
EMI's award winning mid price reissue label has selected titles on offer. The page now has added "Great Artists Of The Century" label as well. From only £5.49 each.
Offer expires 23 August 2008.

EMI BUNDLE OF BUDGETS
Great EMI recordings from only £4.49. Labels include Classics For Pleasure, British Composers and EMI Encore.
Offer expires 23 August 2008.

TWO OF THE TWOFERS
EMI again, this time with their "twofers" series of great reissue 2cd sets on Gemini and Virgin Veritas. Only £5.99 for each 2cd set.
Offer expires 23 August 2008.

HYPERION
New Releases only £9.79 each under our big summer offer

We've now added Handel's Dettingen Te Deum sung by the Trinity College Cambridge Choir - 'A magnificent Te Deum … Great singing with sprightly playing from the Academy' (Observer). Also previous titles still only £9.79 each.

FIESTA! Gustavo Dudamel
Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra Of Venezuela

Fresh from the triumph of their 2007 Prom appearance, this is the album everyone has been waiting for! Gustavo Dudamel and his Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela have stunned audiences worldwide with their explosive Latin-American showpieces; now they bring this repertoire into the recording studio.

LUCKY DIPPERY
Various offers from Decca, DG, Philips and EMI combined on one offer page. Have a dip!
Offer expires 16 August 2008.

HARRY CHRISTOPHERS & SIXTEEN
Padilla "Streams Of Tears"

A disc dedicated to a master of the ‘New World’, Padilla of ‘New Spain’ - the country we now call Mexico. The music of this period is as varied as it is distinctive, with a harmonic richness and colour that is found nowhere else and who better to interpret than Harry Christophers and the Sixteen.

METRONOME DISTRIBUTION
These are some of my favourite pages. A glorious selection of titles from the many labels that are picked up by Tim Smithies of Metronome Distribution.
Limited offer time for titles on this page.

TONY PALMER DVDs
Two more or the legendary filmogropher Tony Palmer's films now on DVD. Puccini and Handel biopics with top classical performers.

Box Set Offers across most labels
Our regularly updated list of special offers on most of the recent and recommended box sets.
Offer expires 31 July 2008.

VERDI Complete Songs
Verdi’s songs, recorded in 1989, are sung by soprano Renata Scotto and basso Paolo Washington, accompanied by the pianist Vincenzo Scalera.

BACH Cantatas
John Eliot Gardiner

SDG’s spring 2008 release combines Cantatas for the Fifth Sunday after Easter with those written for the Sunday after Ascension Day. Gardiner's Bach cycle is in a "class of its own" and has indeed "made history".

MOZART Don Giovanni
Jacobs

Rene Jacobs whose award winning recent recordings of Mozart operas are some of the best ever CD issues, conducts this DVD release of a 2006 performance from Innsbruck.

LAMBERT & BERNERS
Film Music

The latest in Chandos's series that blurs the lines between film & classical music. Constant Lambert & Lord Berners are from the golden age of British composers.

4 DVD for £14.99 Offer
Top bargain of no less than 4 DVDs for only £14.99. Features Carlo bergonzi, Raina Kabaivanska, Mirell Freni and Teresa Berganza across 1 DVD each. All in concert with full orchestra. Only available while stocks last.
Limited Quantity Order Early.

BEETHOVEN Sonatas Vol 4
Paul Lewis

Volume 4 of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas is the culmination of Paul Lewis's highly-acclaimed series and has already received an Editor's Choice from Gramophone.

VIVALDI Arie Ritrovate
This new release in Naïve’s acclaimed Vivaldi Edition is dedicated to forgotten opera arias sung by Sonia Prina. Some of these arias were lost in the 18th century and have been found in manuscripts from Vivaldi’s personal collection held in Turin.

TELARC Full and Mid Price Offer
The full range of this award-winning label, renowned for its clear, natural sound, is on offer here including mid price and full price titles.

BEETHOVEN Sym 3, Manze
Andrew Manze conducts Beethoven's "Eroica" symphony plus interesting extras in a disc BBC Music describes as "..not to be missed".

HYPERION HELIOS OFFER
Hyperion's budget range available at just £5.49 per disc.

HILLIARD ENSEMBLE
Follow up to their successful Bach release, the Hilliards excel again in English renaissance music of Tallis, Sheppard and Tye.

ZIG ZAG TERRITOIRES
Celebrate ten years of this exciting French label with the entire catalogue on offer and prices starting as low as £7.99.

BRITTEN ABROAD
Britten's settings of Italian, Russian, French and German, performed here by Susan Gritton, Mark Padmore and Iain Burnside are certainly amongst the most distinctive and very finest examples of his art.

MATTHIAS GOERNE sings Schubert
First in a new Schubert series with one of the greatest interpretors of Lieder, Matthias Goerne. There are plans for around a dozen CDs; this promises to become a benchmark project.

ANNE SOPHIE VON OTTER
Two great releases. The first on DG includes premiere recordings of repertoire from Sweden composed especially for Anne Sophie Von Otter and the second a two CD "Portrait" of Anne's best recordings.

OVERSTOCKS ONLY £2.99
Very limited quantity of overstock titles on top super budget labels such as Naxos and Apex and many more.
Only available while stocks last.

ITZHAK PERLMAN Virtuoso Violinist DVD
Itzhak Perlman is the focus of this DVD from Christohper Nupin. Contains three productions. A portrait of Perlman, some memorable performances and "Jacqueline Du Pre remembered" made esecially for this DVD with Itzhak Perlman.
£17.99 for a limited period.

MAYERLING DVD
The Royal Ballet filmed in 1994. Top names such as Darcey Bussell in Kenneth MacMillan's ground breaking ballet available as part of our Select DVD offer.
Only £10.99 for a limited period.

DEBUSSY Images Trpceski
The fourth essential CD from a genuine keyboard master. Once again Simon Trpceski gets to the heart of a composer's piano compositions.

HM Gold Mid Price Offer
Harmonia Mundi really get it right with this new mid price series. The first 15 releases are all on offer here.
Only £6.99 each while on offer.

HANDEL Alcina
Another major release in the continuing resurreciton of all of Handel's Operas by various labels. This picked up great reviews when staged and reviews of the CD have been stunning.

JON LORD Durham Concerto
Jon Lord's Durham Concerto looks set to become a modern classic along the same lines as Karl Jenkins's "Armed Man". Commisioned to celebrate Durham University's 175th anniversary.
Only £10.99 for a limited period.

Royal Philharmonic CDs -
Reduced to £2.99 each

Series released by the RPO now at clearance price.
Only while stocks last.

Royal Philharmonic SACDs -
Reduced to £3.99 each

For those who prefer SACDs, also now reduced to clear, will also play on CD players.
Only while stocks last.

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