EMI Virgin Classics: August 5th Releases

EMI & VIRGIN CLASSICS AUGUST 5th RELEASES - COMPLETE

GREAT CONDUCTORS OF THE 20TH CENTURY series (2CDs midprice)

Eduard VAN BEINUM with Concertgebouw Schubert: Sym 3, Brahms: Sym 2, Nicolai: Merry Wives Ov, Strauss: Don Juan, Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Elgar: Cockaigne Ov (w/LPO) EMI CLASSICS 75941

Rudolf KEMPE Brahms: Tragic Ov (w/BPO), Bruckner: Sym 4 (Munich PO), Beethoven Eroica (RPO), Wolf: Italian Ser (Munich PO), Ravel: Daphnis & Chloe 2 (Munich PO), J. Strauss II: Leichtes Blue (VPO) EMI CLASSICS 75950

Dimitri MITROPOULOS with NY Phil Mahler: Sym 6, Debussy: La Mer, R. Strauss: Dance of 7 Veils EMI CLASSICS 75471

Evgeny MRAVINSKY with Leningrad PO Bruckner: Sym 7, Haydn: Sym 88, Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini, Glazunov: Sym 5 EMI CLASSICS 75953

George SZELL with Cleveland Orch Auber: Fra Diavolo Ov, Dvorak: Sym 8, Debussy: La Mer (w/WDR), Delius: Irmilin Ov, Rossini: L'Italiana Ov, Tchaikovsky: Sym 5 (WDR), Wagner: Meistersinger Ov (NY Phil), J. Strauss II: Delirien Waltz EMI CLASSICS 75962

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'A Quiet Thing' David Daniels [countertenor], Craig Ogden [guitar] Lieder/songs by Bellini, Faure, Foster, Bernstein, Arlen, Kander, Dowland, Purcell, Bach, Martini, Schubert, Wilder & McGlohan. VIRGIN CLASSICS 45601

Haydn: String Qts op.32/3, op.77/1 & 2 Hoffstetter: Serenade from String Qt 5 Alban Berg Qt EMI CLASSICS 57541

Sacred Classics (2CDs reissue) Choral works by Handel, Faure, Vivaldi, Bach, Brahms, Rossini, Mozart, Schubert, Verdi, others Various artists EMI CLASSICS 69107

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 26-Les Adieux, 29-Hammerklavier, Bagatelles, op.119 Stephen Kovacevich [piano] EMI CLASSICS 57520

Be aware that they're probably all copy-protected and won't play in many CD players.

So much for all those Stephen Kovacevich fans waiting for rips of his latest Beethoven!

Temper, temper

Well, this may come as 'news', but you should know that EMI in May of this year released Sonatas Nos. 26 'Les Adiuex' & 29 'Hammerklavier' on 5575202. I presume that it is not yet out in North America. The two releases mentioned above were released in May, 2001 and November 2000.

Tom Deacon

It would have helped if I had read the ORIGINAL post from Gene Frazier, of course. Not an obvious thing for a newbie to the way this group's mechanicals function.

To put it another way, thank you for posting this information, but please can Gene make it explicit that these are US release listings.

I can understand the tendency to consider the 'major' record companies guilty unless proven innocent (and even so, probably still guilty anyway). But then, years of experience and exasperation have left their mark.

At least the cd with

Haydn: String Qts op.32/3, op.77/1 & 2 Hoffstetter: Serenade from String Qt 5 Alban Berg Qt

is copy-protected.

I normally tag these new releases posts with a 'for U.S.' somewhere in the header. My apologies for neglecting to do so this time - especially considering that it was, after all, EMI!

Tom Deacon