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November highlights from EMI and Virgin Classics

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The Nutcracker

Simon Rattle Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker present this brand new recording of Tchaikovsky’s best-loved ballet The Nutcracker. Alongside the standard 2-CD set, a limited luxury edition will be issued comprising the 2-CD recording with 64-page hardback book and online access to a plethora of exclusive digital assets including video interviews and performance footage plus a free 24-hour pass to the BPO Digital Concert Hall .

“The Nutcracker is simply one of the great miracles in music. The orchestration is remarkable and revolutionary and the fountain of melodic adventure almost beggars belief. Some tunes are so famous you even forget that someone had to write them. We fell in love with this music, rehearsing and performing it. We think it is magic.” Simon Rattle a l S o n e w t h i S month

Antonio Pappano

Antonio Pappano Antonio Pappano

Following their award-winning recordings of Verdi’s Requiem and Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Pappano and his Roman Orchestra and Choir are joined by four

Madama Butterfly Madama Butterfly magnificent soloists in this dramatic work sublimely set to music by Rossini.

Xuefei Yang

Xuefei Yang Xuefei Yang

The virtuoso guitarist performs Rodrigo’s beloved Concierto de Aranjuez and a new concerto by Stephen Goss. “Yang’s guitar

Conciertode Conciertode Aranjuez Aranjuez sings as if she had grown up in the shaded courtyards of Andalusia.” The New York Times

Philippe Jaroussky

Philippe Jaroussky Philippe Jaroussky

Continuing his rediscovery of long-forgotten arias for high male voice, Jaroussky performs music by Antonio Caldara, a contemporary of Bach, Handel and Vivaldi. Several of the arias, set to text by Metastasio, have never before been recorded.

David Fray

Following two solo albums and an album of JS Bach Concertos on Virgin Classics, David Fray delves into Mozart with this new recording of Piano Concertos Nos. 22 & 25

Following two Following two solo albums and solo albums and an album of an album of JS Bach Concertos JS Bach Concertos on Virgin Classics, on Virgin Classics, David Fray delves David Fray delves into Mozart with into Mozart with this new recording this new recording of Piano Concertos of Piano Concertos Nos. 22 & 25 Nos. 22 & 25

recorded with the Philharmonia Orchestra recorded with the Philharmonia Orchestra recorded with the Philharmonia Orchestra under the baton of Jaap van Zweden.

Fabio Biondi

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Rolando Villazón and Joyce DiDonato lead a dazzling cast in Vivaldi’s opera Ercole sul’Termodonte, first heard in Rome in 1723 and reconstructed by firstheardin firstheardin Rome in 1723 and Rome in 1723 and reconstructedby reconstructedby

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Biondi from the original libretto, historical scores and his intimate knowledge of the composer.

Plácido Domingo

Plácido Domingo Plácido Domingo

A performance A performance that tookLondon’s that tookLondon’s RoyalOperaHouse RoyalOperaHouse by storm.“[Plácido by storm.“[Plácido Domingo]fillsone Domingo]fillsone of Verdi’sgreat of Verdi’sgreat baritoneroleswith baritoneroleswith physical grandeur and physical grandeur and imposingpresence, imposingpresence, and a voice full of and a voice full of majesticauthority.” majesticauthority.”

A performance that took London’s Royal Opera House by storm. “[Plácido Domingo] fills one of Verdi’s great baritone roles with physical grandeur and imposing presence, and a voice full of majestic authority.” The Daily Telegraph

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