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EMI ENCORE

EMI are using the new Encore label to market prime back catalogue material by their major artists at Naxos-type prices. Releases will be available in the UK, Germany and France but the Internet will render world-wide availablility. We have not seen these yet but understand they will carry the old HMV Dog and Trumpet logo and carry detailed notes. Later in the year there will be a relaunch of the Classics for Pleasure label as well.

There will be 50 Encore releases in the launch batch for August 2001. There will be two further releases in 2001/2002 each of 10 titles. The range will build to well over 200 titles.

Titles

BACH

Violin Concertos in E, G minor & A minor, Concerto in D minor for two violins

Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman

English Chamber Orchestra

Daniel Barenboim

BEETHOVEN

Piano Concertos Nos.4 & 5

Christian Zacharias

Staatskapelle Dresden

Hans Vonk

BEETHOVEN

Triple Concerto & Piano Concerto No.3

Christian Zacharias, Ulf Hoelscher, Heinrich Schiff

Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur

Staatskapelle Dresden, Hans Vonk

ITALIAN OPERA ARIAS

Bellini & Verdi

Montserrat Caballé

BRAHMS

Violin Concerto

MOZART

Sinfonia Concertante, K.364

David Oistrakh

Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Otto Klemperer

Igor Oistrakh, Berliner Philharmoniker

BRAHMS

Violin Sonatas Nos.1-3

Anne-Sophie Mutter, Alexis Weissenberg

CHARPENTIER

Te Deum

Messe de Minuit pour Noël

Lott, Harrhy, Brett, Partridge, Roberts

Choir of King's College, Cambridge

Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Philip Ledger

Engish Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

DEBUSSY

Trois Nocturnes

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Printemps

La Mer

Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse

Michel Plasson

FAURÉ

Requiem

Cantique de Jean Racine

Ballade

Norma Burrowes, Brian Rayner-Cook

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Louis Frémaux

GERSHWIN

"I got rhythm - Gershwin for 2 Pianos"

Katia & Marielle Labèque

GOUNOD * First release on CD

St Cecilia Mass

Petite Symphonie for wind instruments

Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire

Henriette Puig-Roget, Jean-Claude Hartemann

Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli

GRIEG

Piano Concerto

RACHMANINOV

Piano Concerto No.2

Georges Cziffra

Budapest Symphony Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra

Gyorgy Cziffra, Jnr.

GRIEG

Peer Gynt - Suites Nos.1 & 2, Symphonic Dances

ALFVÉN

Swedish Rhapsody No.1

JÄRNEFELT

Praeludium

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Paavo Berglund

HANDEL

Messiah - highlights

Kathleen Battle, Florence Quivar, John Aler, Samuel Ramey

Toronto Mendelssohn Choir

Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Davis

HAYDN & VIVALDI

Cello Concertos

Lynn Harrell

Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner

English Chamber Orchestra, Pinchas Zukerman

LALO

Symphonie espagnole

SARASATE

Zigeunerweisen

MASSENET

Thaïs - Méditation

Anne-Sophie Mutter

Orchestre National de France, Seiji Ozawa

Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

LEHÁR

Waltzes

Wiener Johann Strauss Orchester

Willi Boskovsky

LISZT

Piano Concerto Nos .1 & 2

Totentanz, Paraphrase on the 'Dies irae'

Hungarian Fantasy in F

Georges Cziffra

Orchestre de Paris

Gyorgy Cziffra, Jnr.

MAHLER

Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

Kindertotenlieder

5 Lieder

Christa Ludwig

Philharmonia Orchestra

Sir Adrian Boult, André Vandernoot, Otto Klemperer

MENDELSSOHN

Violin Concertos Nos.1 & 2

Frank Peter Zimmermann

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Gerd Albrecht

MILHAUD

Scaramouche

Le Bal martiniquais

Paris

Le Carnaval d'Aix

Suite française

Suite provençale

Ivaldi, Lee, Béroff, Collard,

Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

Georges Prêtre

MOZART

Piano Concerto Nos.20 & 21

Christian Zacharias

Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

David Zinman

MOZART

Violin Concertos Nos.1 - 3

Rondo, K.373

David Oistrakh

Berliner Philharmoniker

MOZART

Violin Concerto Nos. 4 & 5

Rondo, K.269

Adagio, K.261

David Oistrakh

Berliner Philharmoniker

MOZART

Nozze di Figaro - highlights

Allen, Price, Battle, Hynninen

Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor

Wiener Philharmoniker

Riccardo Muti

MOZART

Die Zauberflöte - highlights

Jerusalem, Popp, Brendel, Bracht, Gruberova, Zednik, Lindner, Knaben

Chor & Sinfonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Bernard Haitink

MOZART

Requiem

Felicity Lott, Della Jones, Keith Lewis, Willard White

London Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra

Franz Welser-Möst

MUSSORGSKY/RAVEL

Pictures at an Exhibition

STRAVINSKY

Le sacre du printemps

Philadelphia Orchestra

Riccardo Muti

ORFF

Carmina Burana

STRAVINSKY * First release on CD

Fireworks, Circus Polka

Popp, Unger, Wolansky, Noble

Wandsworth School Boys' Choir

New Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

RAVEL

Piano Concertos

Pavane pour une Infante défunte

Jeux d'eaux

La valse

Jean-Philippe Collard, Michel Béroff

Orchestre National de France

Lorin Maazel

RAVEL

Daphnis et Chloé

Boléro

City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Orchestra

Simon Rattle

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV

Scheherazade

TCHAIKOVSKY

1812 Overture

Philadelphia Orchestra

Riccardo Muti

ROSSINI

Overtures

Thomas Hampson, Susanne Mentzer

Orchestra dell Toscana

Gianluigi Gelmetti

SAINT-SAËNS

Symphony No.3

Carnival of the Animals

POULENC

Les Animaux modèle

Maurice Duruflé

Aldo Ciccolini, Alexis Weissenberg

Orchestre de l Société des Concerts du Conservatoire

Georges Prêtre

SCHUBERT

Lieder

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore

SCHUMANN

Cello Concerto

Introduktion & Allegro Appassionato

Piano Concerto in A minor

Jacqueline du Pré

New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra

Daniel Barenboim

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

RICHARD STRAUSS

Also sprach Zarathustra

Till Eulenspiegel

Tod und Verklärung

Salomé - Tanz der sieben Schleier

Staatskapelle Dresden

Rudolf Kempe

TCHAIKOVSKY

Piano Concerto No.1 & Violin Concerto

Georges Cziffra

Philharmonia Orchestra, André Vandernoot

Leonid Kogan

Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Constantin Silvestri

TCHAIKOVSKY

Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty & The Nutcracker - excerpts

London Symphony Orchestra

André Previn

VERDI

Aida - highlights

Caballé, Domingo, Cosottto

Ghiaurov, Cappuccilli, Roni

Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

New Philharmonia Orchestra

Riccardo Muti

VERDI

La Traviata - highlights

Sills, Wallis, Sharpe, Lloyd,

Erwen, Gedda, Fiorentini, Panerai

John Alldis Choir

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Aldo Ceccato

VIVALDI

The Four Seasons

Violin Concertos

Itzhak Perlman

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

WAGNER

Orchestral Music from the Ring

Berliner Philharmoniker

Klaus Tennstedt

RUSSIAN ORCHESTRAL SHOWPIECES

Mussorgsky, Borodin & Rimsky-Korsakov

Philharmonia Orchestra

Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire

André Cluytens

HERBERT von KARAJAN

Overtures & Intermezzi

Berliner Philharmoniker

Herbert von Karajan

ITZHAK PERLMAN

Virtuoso Violin

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lawrence Foster

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, André Previn

RENATA SCOTTO * First release on CD

Opera arias (Rossini, Bellini, Puccini, Donizetti, Verdi)

Philharmonia Orchestra, Manno Wolf-Ferrari

Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Sir John Barbirolli

FAVOURITE WALTZES

Various Artists

FAVOURITE ADAGIOS

Various Artists

FAVOURITE CHORUSES

Various Artists

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