Monthly Offers

(only while stock lasts)

Dear friends of classical music,

here you find a selection of special offers that are updated every month.
All releases featured as an Offer of the Month Selection are always SALE PRICED!

The following CDs represent a fine selection from the world of classical music for a special price.

________________________________________

Haydn, Joseph (Komp)
Die Schöpfung

Doppel-CD
The "Creation" counts as an extraordinary oratorio of Haydn that was received with great acclaim already by his contemporaries. Following the instrumental prelude, the history of creation links the numerous musical highlights of this...
Händel, Georg Friedrich (Komp)
Concerti Grossi op. 6 Nos. 1-4

Compact Disc
In one regard Händel exceeds all other masters of the European music history: he wrote his great works for a broad audience and still did not abandon his strong and impressing personal style. The Concerti Grossi op. 6 count as one of the...
Händel, Georg Friedrich (Komp)
Concerti Grossi op. 6 Nos. 5-8

Compact Disc
In one regard Händel exceeds all other masters of the European music history: he wrote his great works for a broad audience and still did not abandon his strong and impressing personal style. The Concerti Grossi op. 6 count as one of the...
Händel, Georg Friedrich (Komp)
Concerti Grossi op. 6 Nos. 9-12

Compact Disc
In one regard Händel exceeds all other masters of the European music history: he wrote his great works for a broad audience and still did not abandon his strong and impressing personal style. The Concerti Grossi op. 6 count as one of the...
Händel, Georg Friedrich (Komp)
Händel Highlights

Doppel-CD
The most popular pieces from Georg Friedrich Händels greatest works:

* Fireworks music
* Water music
* Concerti Grossi
* The Messiah
* Concerts for Organ
* Sonatas...
Vivaldi, Antonio (Komp)
Die vier Jahreszeiten

Compact Disc
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
“…interesting and attractive… Hänssler's sound is admirably vivid and attractive.” - Fanfare

"Much here is interesting and attractive…Haenssler's sound is admirably vivid and attractive" - Fanfare...
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (Komp)
Violin Concertos

Compact Disc
Listen to two fantastic concertos for violin and orchestra conducted by Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. The first Concert is the well known and very famous concert in E-Minor op.64 from Mendelssohn...
Bach, Johann Sebastian (Komp)
Bach Highlights

Doppel-CD
This CD presents the most brilliant highlights of the work of Johann Sebastian Bach. Enjoy the unique compositions and take a valuably minute of relaxation with Bach´s piano concertos, oboe concertos, orchestral suites, Brandenburg...
Rilling, Helmuth (Dirigent)
Halleluja

Compact Disc
The most beautiful works for choir of Bach, Beethoven, Händel, Mendelssohn Bartholdy and many more.

Artists: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Frankfurter Kantorei, Prager Philharmonischer Chor, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart...
Amadeus Guitar Duo (Ensemble)
Amadeus Guitar Duo play...

Compact Disc
AMADEUS GUITAR DUO PLAY BACH/BUSONI, DODGSON, DOMENICONI and ZENAMON

Beginning with an amazing transcription of a transcription (Busoni's piano arrangement of the Bach Chaconne), the Amadeus Duo offers a sample of the programming that...
Kavanagh, Dale (Solist)
Lyrical and Virtuosic Guitar Music

Compact Disc
LYRICAL AND VIRTUOSIC GUITAR MUSIC: Works by Berkeley, Cooperman, Rodrigo, Villa-Lobos and Zenamon.

Previously released, here's a guitar recital that deserves a second hearing! In addition to Berkeley's modestly titled “Sonatina”...
Bach, Johann Sebastian (Komp)
Harpsichord Music by the Young J.S.Bach (Volume 102)

Compact Disc
Harpsichord Music By The Young J.S Bach, I

The harpsichord pieces on this CD are all to be found in two manuscripts, the so-called Möller Manuscript and Andreas Bach Book. These two manuscripts were compiled at the beginning of the...
Bach, Johann Sebastian (Komp)
Harpsichord Music (II) by the Young J.S.Bach (Volume 103)

Doppel-CD
Harpsichord Music by the Young J.S. Bach, II

"A great number of single Suites, Toccatas and Fugues ... have great and varying merit, but are youthful works." With these words the Bach biographer Johann Nikolaus Forkel ca. 1800 concisely...
Haydn, Joseph
Konzerte für Klavier und Orchester

Compact Disc
Joseph Haydn
Piano Concertos
Piano Concertos Hob. XVIII: 3 in F Major; Piano Concerto Hob. XVIII: 4 in G Major; Piano Concerto Hob. XVIII: 11 D Major.
Gerrit Zitterbart, Piano; Schlierbach Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Fey.

Conductor...
Bruckner, Anton (Komp)
Kurt Sanderling

Compact Disc
Bruckner, Anton: Symphony No. 7 in E Major
SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart
Kurt Sanderling, Conductor

One of the most eagerly anticipated releases in the SWR faszination musik series to date! Pre-release sales have topped 8000...
Rihm, Wolfgang (Komp)
Deus Passus

Doppel-CD
Rihm, Wolfgang: DEUS PASSUS: Passion Fragments after St. Luke
Juliane Banse, Soprano; Iris Vermillion, Mezzo-soprano; Cornelia Kallisch, Alto
Christoph Pregardien, Tenor; Andreas Schmidt, Bass
Gachinger Kantorei,...
Kavanagh, Dale (Interpret)
Reverie

Compact Disc
Dale Kavanagh enjoys a musical challenge; she plays with profound sensitivity, clarity and brilliance. On this CD she has selected Classical-Romantic repertoire in order to demonstrate her flawless technique. At the same time, her choice...
Skrjabin, Alexander (Komp)
Symphony No. 3

Compact Disc
On occasion of Michael Gielen´s 75th anniversary, "faszination musik" and hänssler CLASSIC present a 5-CD-special edition with recordings of the SWR Sinfonieorchesters Baden-Baden und Freiburg. It documents in an impressing way the work...
Berlioz, Hector (Komp) / Reuss, Daniel (Dirigent) / Norrington, Roger (Dirigent)
L'Enfance du Christ

Doppel-CD
Calculated Emotion?

The story of how „L ´Enfance du Christ“ by Hector Berlioz came to be is a strange one. The composition was neither planned nor commissioned by anyone, it grew of its own accord, from the inside out, so to speak....
Ravel, Maurice (Komp) / Messiaen, Olivier (Komp) / Jolivet, André (Komp) / Debus
Musique chorale francaise de

Compact Disc
Claude Debussy, Marice Ravel and André Jolivet each wrote one composition for unaccompanied chorus. Olivier Messiaen produced two. While his motet of 1937 „O Sacrum Convivium“ brings the mystifying static sound heard in his organ works of...
McConnell, Rob (Musiker) / SWR Big Band (Ensemble)
So very Rob

Compact Disc
GRAMMY Nomination 2004!

The Canadian Rob McConnell is a composer, arranger, valve-trombonist and a band leader of world reknown. His sense of humour paired with his supreme musicality, are prominent among the reasons for his great...
Paganini, Niccolò (Komp)
24 Capricci op. 1

Compact Disc
The Paganini Caprices have been the final test of a violinist’s skill since they were first published. They are almost NEVER performed complete, as a set in a LIVE CONCERT PERFORMANCE. This important new recording features the virtuoso...
Goodwin, Paul (Dirigent) / SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart (Chor) / Mainzer Domchor
Four Centuries of Christmas Music

Compact Disc
Here is a highly intelligent collection of reflective and joyous music for the Christmas season! Drawing upon musical inspirations from Praetorius to Britten, the SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern is joined by World Class soloists...
Bruckner, Anton (Komp) / Schuricht, Carl (Dirigent) / Radio-Sinfonieorchester St
Symphony No. 8 C minor & No. 9 D minor (Volume 8)

Doppel-CD
The current series dedicated to the artistry of Carl Schuricht captures many aspects of this most serene of conductors. Among Bruckner interpreters, Schuricht remains without equal. His approach was to let the music speak for itself,...
Scarlatti, Domenico (Komp) / Praetorius, Michael (Komp) / Kavanagh, Dale (Gitarr
Guitar Gala Night

Compact Disc
In 1999 the British Eden Stell Duo and the German-Canadian Amadeus Guitar Duo got together to record a CD with works in honor of the great Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo ("Spanish Night" CD - hänssler CLASSIC 98.349). The recording had...
Volkmann, Robert (Komp) / Grieg, Edvard G. (Komp) / Goetz, Hermann (Komp) / Bruc
Concerto for violin & orchestra No. 1 op. 26 (Volume 9)

Compact Disc
Carl Schuricht's mastery as a conductor was not limited to his interpretations of the standard repertoire. He was always a sensitive and sympathetic accompanist, whether for a solo instrument or the human voice. The present program offers...