Recreation

New Titles November 2012 (arrived in October) Audio and Video

CDs

Classical

Conductus. 1 : music & poetry from thirteenth-century France.
"The poems are about life, death, salvation and, naturally, the frail virtues of women… Three tenors - John Potter, Christopher O'Gorman and Rogers Covey-Crump - deliver these explorations with unerring skill and conviction." The Observer, 16th September 2012
Friedrich der Grosse, 1712-2012 : music for the Berlin court = a la cour de Frederic le Grand.
Giselle : highlights, Adolphe Adam.
Highlights from the ballet. Features Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.
Cantatas. 51, BWV 195, 192, 157, 120a, J.S. Bach.
Hana Blazikova (soprano), Christoph Genz (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass), Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki.
Sonatas & partitas BWV 1001-1003, J.S. Bach.
Featuring Isabelle Faust, violin.
An American romantic, Samuel Barber.
"The performance is a triumph, superbly well sung by Company Voices, a professional chamber choir that forms one part of the choral ensemble Conspirare." International Record Review, September 2012
Carmen, Bizet.
Featuring Magdalena Kozena, Jonas Kaufmann.
Messa ; Stabat Mater, Bononcini.
Featuring Concerto Italiano, Sara Min gardo and others in a superb piece of early choral music.
Quintets, op. 34 & op.115, Brahms.
Tokyo String Quartet, Jon Manasse (clarinet) and Jon Nakamatsu (pinao).
The songs of Johannes Brahms. Volume 4.
Featuring bass-baritone Robert Holl: "Holl's voice, reminiscent of Fischer-Dieskau's but rather more of a real bass… is rich, true and resonant. He uses it simply, without self-conscious artifice, and the result is some very beautiful singing. Johnson's accompaniment is always skilled and perceptive… This disc, while the whole recital has notable integrity and quality, would be worth having for [the Four Serious Songs] alone." (International Record Review)
A ceremony of carols ; Saint Nicolas, Benjamin Britten.
Opera fantaisie, Emmanuel Ceysson.
A series of transcriptions from popular opera arias recorded at the Temple Manin in Paris featuring harpist Emmanuel Ceysson.
Arias for Guadagni, Handel … [et al.]
Gramophone Awards WINNER 2012: Recital "Through his effortless line, countertenor Iestyn Davies revivifies Guadagni's Orphic powers… Whether drawing out sustained notes or knitting together filigreed colouratura, he is a paragon of gallant taste: poised, cool, elegant… Jonathan Cohen and his ensemble Arcangelo capture the rapid, unexpected twists of the younger Bach's radical imagination… this [is] a refreshingly ambitious and superbly realised recording." (BBC Music)
Children's corner ; Suite bergamasque ; Danse ; Deux arabesques ; Pour le piano ; Masques ; L'isle joyeuse ; La plus que lente, Claude Debussy.
Featuring pianist Angela
A Mass of life ; Prelude and idyll, Delius.
"Alan Opie, who has the lion's share of the solo music in the work, is almost Wotan-like in his performances… Andrew Kennedy, Catherine Wyn-Rogers and Janice Watson also offer fine lyrical interpretations of their solo parts… This is a must for any Delius Liebhaber and… a marvellous starting point for anyone new to Delius's unique but compelling art." Gramophone Magazine: Editor's Choice - July 2012
Romantique, Elina Garanca.
Featuring Mezzo Elina Garanca who presents an imaginary portrait gallery of some of opera's most passionate and seductive heroines, complete with cameo appearances by a couple of their male admirers as well.
Chopin, Liszt, Ravel.
Featuring pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. "One of the most individual things about this stunning debut by Benjamin Grosvenor is his pervasive sense of balance and his unerring blend of Classical restraint and Romantic ardour…" - Five Stars BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
Arias for Marietta Marcolini - Rossini's first muse.
Ann Hallenberg, mezzo.
Royal Handel, Handel
A 2 CD set featuring various performers.
Piano sonatas. Vol. 4, Haydn.
Featuring pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
Choral works, Imogen Holst.
"The music on this disc shows the high craftsmanship by which she sets store, but also a voice of her own, honest, unpretentious, fresh, a touch eccentric and very English, as she herself was… They all receive admirable committed performances." (International Record Review)
Stephen Hough's French album., Stephen Hough.
"His latest album recital is among the most enjoyable. "A sort of musical dessert trolley," he calls it - a trolley where you want to eat everything in sight… The Fauré selections best display Hough's connoisseur's touch… The lighter French spirit surfaces in Hough's own arrangements of Délibes and Massenet, delivered with delicious wit and grace." (The Times)
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson : a tribute.
"Handel's popular "Angels, ever bright and fair" from Theodora and "Scherza infida" from Ariodante remind us of her musical intelligence and vitality… The final tracks on each disc, Dido's Lament and "Bist du bei mir" from the Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach, are almost unbearably moving in their characteristic simplicity and intensity. She is much missed." (The Observer)
Lieux retrouves, Liszt, Janacek, Faure, Kurtag, Ades.
Steven Isserlis, piano, and Thomas Ades, cello. "This blissfully unhackneyed and brilliantly executed recital takes memory in all its facets as its theme… the recording throughout gives the players all the space and atmosphere they need to characterise the varied moods and textures of an unusually rewarding programme." Gramophone Disc of the Month - Awards Issue 2012
Four sonatas, Charles Ives.
"When a star such as Hilary Hahn takes on the Ives violin-and-piano sonatas it has to be special… she and Lisitsa, accurately balanced, are completely efficient in every way. They understand the Ives idiom saturated with hymn-tunes; they swing with the best of them; and their performances are as convincing as anything on offer." (Gramophone Award Finalist 2012: Chamber)
Opera arias, Gluck, Haydn, Mozart.
Marie-Nicole Lemieux's new recital, recorded with leading North American classical and baroque orchestra Les Violons du Roy, is devoted to the first decades of classical opera era.
Quays., Various composers
This new one from New Zealand label Atoll Records has Luca Manghi on flute performing mainly unrecorded 20th c. Italian and 21st c. NZ pieces.
Violin concertos ; the Hebrides, Felix Mendelssohn.
Featuring violinist Alina Ibragimova and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Serenity : the beauty of Arvo Part., Arvo Part
The music I love, Rachel Podger
Impressive work from violinist Rachel Podger and Holland Baroque Society.
Complete piano concertos, Rachmaninov.
With pianist Leif Ove Andsnes.
Melodies, Ravel.
Featuring Nora Gubisch: "It is a long, long time since anyone delved into Ravel's songs as persuasively as Gubisch and her regular accompanist. The French mezzo-soprano has a full, voluptuous voice, but the key to her artistry lies in the idiomatic touch she brings to the music, based on her understanding of the texts and the difference it makes to the musical line… An outstanding recital." (Financial Times)
Violin sonatas ; Five pieces for violin and piano, Respighi.
Superb violin work by Tanja Becker-Bender.
Concertina, Anthony Ritchie; dance, Daniel Belton.
Complete symphonies, Schubert.
Featuring Les Musiciens du Louvre under conductor Marc Minkowski.
Quartet, D 804 'Rosamunde' ; Quartet, D 810 'Der Tod und das Madchen', Schubert.
Featuring the Doric Quartet. "The Dorics have enormous flair for this kind of music, getting comfortably under the skin of music written by Schubert when he was about the same as their average age and displaying a similar degree of maturity and insight" (Gramophone)
Humoreske ; Studien fur den Pedalflugel ; Gesange der Fruhe, Schumann.
Featuring pianist Piotr Anderszewski. BBC Music Magazine Awards 2012 - DISC OF THE YEAR & INSTRUMENTAL Award Winner
Liederkreis opp. 24 & 39, Schumann.
Gerald Finley, baritone, and Julius Drake, piano.
Violin concertos ; Phantasie, Schumann.
Featuring Anthoyn Marwood and the Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
The bartered bride, Smetana.
Recorded 2011 at the Barbican.
A summer's tale ; Prague, Josef Suk.
Performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

EASY LISTENING

Fifty shades of grey : the classical album, music selected by author E.L. James.
Allegedly music inspired by the goings on in the novels.

FILM

Step up 4 : Miami heat : music from the motion picture.

JAZZ

Then again : the anthology, David Sanborn.

POPULAR

Little by little, Tommy Emmanuel.
Two sides : the very best of Mike Oldfield, Mike Oldfield.

ROCK

Burnt weeny sandwich, the Mothers of Invention.
Delayed reaction, Soul Asylum.
Just another band from L.A., The Mothers with Frank Zappa.
Ram, Paul & Linda McCartney.
Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, Frank Zappa & Mothers of Invention.
Lumpy gravy, Frank Zappa.
Chunga's revenge, Frank Zappa.
Freak out!, Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention.
Hot rats, Frank Zappa.
We're only in it for the money, Zappa/Mothers of Invention.
Mondo sex head, Rob Zombie.

WORLD

Putumayo presents African blues.
The rough guide to Celtic women.
The rough guide to Sufi music.
The rough guide to the music of Morocco.

DVDs

FILM

5 fingers, Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
With James Mason, Michael Rennie and Danielle Darrieux.
A letter to three wives, Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
Linda Darnell, Jeanne Crain and Kirk Douglas in a 1949 classic.
A separation, Written and directed by Asghar Farhadi.
Chinese takeaway, Written and directed by Sebastian Borensztein
Argentinian film with Ricardo Darin.
Dark shadows, Directed by Tim Burton.
Helena Bonham Carter, Michelle Pfeiffer and Mr Depp.
Firefox, Produced and directed by Clint Eastwood.
With Clint Eastwood, Warren Clarke and Nigel Hawthorne.
Gallants, Directed by Derek Kwok and Clement Cheng.
Chinese comedy in Cantonese with subtitles.
Goodbye, first love, A film by Mia Hansen-Love.
French film.
J. Edgar, Produced and directed by Clint Eastwood.
With Leonardo Di Caprio, Judi Dench and Naomi Watts.
Remember the night, Directed by Mitchell Leisen.
Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray
The forgiveness of blood, A film by Joshua Marston.
Albanian film about a family vendetta.
The fountain, Directed by Darren Aronofsky.
With Rachel Weisz, Hugh Jackman, Ellen Burstyn and Cliff Curtis.
The source, Directed by Radu Mihaileanu
Two lovers, Directed by James Gray.
Gwyneth Paltrow, Joaquin Phoenix and Isabella Rossellini.
Votes for women, Writer, Gavin Strawhan ; Director, Peter Burger.
N.Z. documentary.
W./E., Directed by Madonna.
Madonna's take on Mrs Simpson and Edward.
Sounder, Directed by Martin Ritt.
Cicely Tyson in adaptation of the classic William H. Armstrong novel.
The woman in black, Directed by James Watkins.
Daniel Radcliffe in an adaptation of the Susan Hill ghost story.
Compulsion, Directed by Richard Fleischer.
With Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman.
Salmon fishing in the Yemen, Directed by Lasse Hallstrom.
Ewan McGregor & Emily Blunt.

MUSIC

Judy, Frank & Dean : once in a lifetime, Produced and directed by Norman Jewison.
Secret world live, Peter Gabriel.

Non-fiction

Mandela : an unauthorized story on Nelson Mandela.
Yes madam, sir, Directed by Megan Doneman.
The magic of steam, Pleasant Point Museum and Railway ; director, Simon Ogston.
The Great Rift : Africa's greatest story.
The truth about lions.
BBC wildlife documentary.
Bears.
Polar bear : spy on the ice.
British motorcycles.
Brutal beauty : the architecture of Sir Miles Warren, Written and directed by Richard Riddiford ; produced by Richard Riddiford and Geoffrey Cawthorn.
Who is Harry Nilsson? : (and why is everybody talkin' about him?), Written and directed by John Scheinfeld.
Shihad, beautiful machine, directed by Sam Peacocke.
Woody Allen : a documentary, Written, directed and produced by Robert B. Weide.
Ballet class : intermediate & advanced.
Hoop dreams, Directed by Steve James.
American documentary about basketball.
Heroes of Rugby League World Cup, Australia 2008.
Mission Everest, Bear Grylls.
2002-2012 : a decade in MotoGP.
Blakey, Director, Mark Albiston
Where rivers flow : the Selwyn Distict, Jennifer Barrer.
Mabo : life of an island man.

TV SERIES

Ain't misbehavin'.
Robson Green, Julia Sawalha and Jim Carter.

Talking Books

Adventure

A foreign country, Charles Cumming.
Hornblower and the Hotspur (Playaway), C.S. Forester.
Jackals' revenge, Iain Gale.
Hawk quest (Playaway), Robert Lyndon.
Master and commander, Patrick O'Brian.
The expats, Chris Pavone.
Dust on the sea, Douglas Reeman.
Raiders from the North, Alex Rutherford.
Fourth Day, Zoe Sharp.
Foreign influence (Playaway), Brad Thor.

FANTASY

Pure, Julianna Baggott.
The desert spear, Peter V. Brett.
The painted man, Peter V. Brett.
A kingdom besieged : Midkemian trilogy 1/ by Raymond E. Feist.
At the gates of darkness, Raymond E. Feist.
Rides a dread legion, Raymond E. Feist.
Dragon haven, Robin Hobb.
Dragon keeper, Robin Hobb.
The inheritance, Robin Hobb [and Megan Lindholm].
A clash of kings, George R.R. Martin.
A clash of kings, George R.R. Martin.
A dance with dragons, George R.R. Martin.
A dance with dragons, George R.R. Martin.
A feast for crows, George R.R. Martin.
A game of thrones, George R.R. Martin.
A game of thrones, George R.R. Martin.
A storm of swords, George R.R. Martin.
A storm of swords, George R.R. Martin.

FICTION

A rural affair (Playaway), Catherine Alliott.
The folks that live on the hill, Kingsley Amis.
The Riverside Villas murder (Playaway), Kingsley Amis.
The importance of being Emma (Playaway), Juliet Archer.
Waiting for sunrise, Clare Morrall.
Waiting for sunrise (Playaway), William Boyd.
Hidden treasures, Fern Britton.
To heaven by water, Justin Cartwright.
Walking back to happiness (Playaway), Lucy Dillon.
The white shadow, Andrea Eames.
The book of Ebenezer Le Page, G.B. Edwards.
A visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan.
Absolution, Patrick Flanery.
Skios, Michael Frayn.
The white lie (Playaway), Andrea Gillies.
It's a battlefield, Graham Greene.
The red house, Mark Haddon.
The descendants, Kaui Hart Hemmings.
Marrying up (Playaway), Wendy Holden.
The uninvited guests, Sadie Jones.
Ulysses, James Joyce.
I've got your number, Sophie Kinsella.
I've got your number (Playaway), Sophie Kinsella.
Various pets alive and dead, Marina Lewycka.
Hell's belles, Paul Magrs.
The land of decoration, Grace McCleen.
So far away : a novel, Meg Mitchell Moore.
The roundabout man, Clare Morrall.
The girl on the cliff (Playaway), Lucinda Riley.
The story of beautiful girl, Rachel Simon.
The light between oceans, M.L. Stedman.
The London embassy, Paul Theroux.
The woman who went to bed for a year, Sue Townsend.
The beginner's goodbye, Anne Tyler.
Skagboys, Irvine Welsh.
Obedience, Jacqueline Yallop.

Historical

The maid (Playaway), Kimberly Cutter.
The somnambulist, Essie Fox.
Spartacus (Playaway) : the gladiator, Ben Kane.
The bleeding land, Giles Kristian.
Bring up the bodies, Hilary Mantel.
The secret life of William Shakespeare, Jude Morgan.
The Winter Palace, Eva Stachniak.

Mystery

A place in the country, Elizabeth Adler.
Blood falls, Tom Bale.
Blood falls (Playaway), Tom Bale.
Dead scared, S.J. Bolton.
The track of sand, Andrea Camilleri.
The lost years, Mary Higgins Clark.
Plugged, Eoin Colfer.
The DROP, Michael Connelly.
All that remains, Patricia Cornwell.
Sorry, Zoran Drvenkar.
Tim Frazer again, Francis Durbridge.
A dark and broken heart, R.J. Ellory.
Fault line, Robert Goddard.
A mortal curiosity (Playaway), Ann Granger.
The betrayal of trust (Playaway), Susan Hill.
Death comes to Pemberley (Playaway), P.D. James.
Dark angel, Mari Jungstedt.
The dead season, Christobel Kent.
Justice Hall, Laurie R. King
The drowning, Camilla Lackberg
The girl who kicked the hornet's nest (Playaway), Stieg Larsson.
The girl who played with fire (Playaway), Stieg Larsson.
The girl with the dragon tattoo (Playaway), Stieg Larsson.
All he saw was the girl (Playaway), Peter Leonard.
Murder club (Playaway), Mark Pearson.
Thorn in my side, Sheila Quigley.
Blood lines, Ruth Rendell.
Bad blood, John Sandford.
Save me, Lisa Scottoline.
The English monster (Playaway), Lloyd Shepherd.
Murder in Mount Holly, Paul Theroux.
Shut your eyes tight (Playaway), John Verdon.
A dark-adapted eye, Barbara Vine.
A lesson in secrets, Jacqueline Winspear.
The mapping of love and death (Playaway), Jacqueline Winspear.
The whispers of nemesis (Playaway), Anne Zouroudi.

Non-fiction

The autobiography of Jack the Ripper (Playaway), James Carnac.
Where have I gone?, Pauline Quirke.
Giving up the ghost, Hilary Mantell.
I, Partridge : we need to talk about Alan, Alan Partridge [with Rob Gibbons … [et al]].
Shadow of the Titanic (Playaway) : the extraordinary stories of those who survived, Andrew Wilson.
A daughter's tale : the memoir of Winston and Clementine Churchill's youngest daughter, Mary Soames.
Elizabeth : her life, our times : a diamond jubilee celebration, Alan Titchmarsh.
The time traveller's guide to Elizabethan England (Playaway), Ian Mortimer.
The Borgias (Playaway), Christopher Hibbert.

Romance

The road not taken, Jackie Braun.
Highland storms, Christina Courtenay.
Spanish aristocrat, forced bride, India Grey.
Rancher's twins, mum needed, Barbara Hannay.
Austin, Linda Lael Miller.
Unfinished portrait, Mary Westmacott.

Saga

The garden party (Playaway), Sarah Challis.
Jasmine nights, Julia Gregson.
My sweet Valentine, Annie Groves.
The house on Willow Street, Cathy Kelly.
Tumbleweeds(MP3), Leila Meacham.

Science Fiction

Planet of the apes, Pierre Boulle.
The deep range, Arthur C. Clarke.

Young Adult Fiction

The secret diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 and 3/4, Sue Townsend.