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Parnassus Records closed our mail-order LP and CD operations on September 30th 2008
We will continue to sell Our Own CDs
You can visit our amazon.com store
Customers can still reach us at parnassus@parnassusrecords.com and at
Box 493, Woodstock NY 12498-0493 USA

our own line of classical historical re-issue and contemporary classical compact discs   Our Own Line Of Historical Re-Issue and Contemporary Classical Compact Discs
Parnassus charged into the overcrowded classical CD market in 1996. As many CDs as the market offers, there are still some needs that we thought weren't being met. So far we have offered:
  • hours of unique early Sviatioslav Richter performances in surprisingly good sound (and more to come)
  • the only recording of 'cello etudes we've ever seen, played by one of the greatest cellists of our time (Janos Starker
  • fine recordings of one of the world's great string quartets (Colorado String Quartet) in standard repertoire (Brahms, Schubert and Mendelssohn)
  • uniquely beautiful performances of Baroque solo cantatas and arias (Carole Bogard)
  • the only recordings of songs by Otto Luening and Robert Starer (some with Starer at the piano) by the excellent soprano Danielle Woerner.
  • our Composers Series starts with Serge Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky in performances never issued on CD before (and mostly never on LP either). It will continue with music of Schlhoff

Our CDs are distributed in the USA by Qualiton Imports , in the UK by Regis Records in Japan by Tobu Land Trading, and in Italy by Fenice . Inquiries about distribution in other territories are invited.
CDs may also be ordered direct from parnassus@parnassusrecords.com .
Please click on the catalog numbers below to see more details and reviews of our CDs


Richter in Leipzig Richter in Leipzig - The Legendary 1963 Recital, in Improved sound   Secure "Buy it!" page HERE (opens new window at www.qualiton.com)
PACD 96032 Long-supressed, this re-issue of the legendary 1963 Leipzig recital features Richter at his incendiary best. The overall sound is improved and the flutter of the original largely gone.

Richter Sviatoslav Richter: Live in the 50's
Parnassus Wins Legal Victory

PACD 96001/2, PACD 96003/4, PACD 96005/6, PACD 96013/14, PACD 96017/8 Richter Live in the 50's - Two CD's in each set. Previously unpublished concert performances by Sviatoslav Richter, all recorded during the 1950's. A total of 10 discs in the complete set. Attached you will find some of the enthusiastic critical reaction to these sets.

Colorado String Quartet: Brahms - Two String Quartets Op. 51 Colorado String Quartet - Two Brahms String Quartets   Secure "Buy it!" page HERE (opens new window at www.qualiton.com)
PACD 96007The first of our Colorado Quartets CDs is a disc of the two Brahms String Quartets, Op. 51, played by the Colorado String Quartet. This recording was made in Holland in 1991 but has never been published before.

Schubert + Mendelssohn : Colorado String Quartet Colorado String Quartet: Schubert & Mendelssohn   Secure "Buy it!" page HERE (opens new window at www.qualiton.com)
PACD96024 The Colorado String Quartet returns to Parnassus with its second CD for the label. These recordings of Schubert's famous "Death and the Maiden" Quartet and Mendelssohn's last String Quartet, Op. 80, were made especially for Parnassus in 1997. the stunning intensity of these performances will impress all listeners, even those who thought the already knew everything the Schubert work has to offer.

Colorado String Quartet: Beethoven String Quartets Opp 59 and 74 Colorado String Quartet: Beethoven   Secure "Buy it!" page HERE (opens new window at www.qualiton.com)
PACD96034/5 The Colorado String Quartet celebrates its 20th anniversary with newly-recorded performances of Beethoven String Quartets. The new recording marks the recorded debut of violist Marka Gustavsson with the Colorado Quartet. These performance include all repeats marked by Beethoven in his scores, extending their playing time so that the four works are on two well-filled discs.

Colorado String Quartet: Beethoven Late Quartets Colorado String Quartet: Beethoven - Late Quartets   Secure "Buy it!" page HERE (opens new window at www.qualiton.com)
PACD96034/5 A 3 CD set (priced as 2 CDs) continues the Colorado Quartet's exploration of Beethoven's Quartets.

Eugene Drucker - Bach: Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas Eugene Drucker - Bach: Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas  Secure "Buy it!" page HERE (opens new window at www.qualiton.com)
PACD96009/10 is a two CD set featuring a founding member of the world-famous Emerson String Quartet. Remastered for this, the first US release of a set originally available in a very limited edition in the UK. This edition contain extensive analytical notes from the artist himself.

Janos Starker: The Road To Cello Playing + Janos Starker "The Road To Cello Playing +"  Secure "Buy it!" page HERE (opens new window at www.qualiton.com)
PACD97008 is a collection of works for unaccompanied cello played by the great master cellist Janos Starker. This disc includes the complete "Road to Cello Playing" a collection of etudes previously issued only on LP, supplemented with concert works by Hindemith, Cassado, and Bernhard Heiden, taken from a broadcast and never before published.

Danielle Woerner Sing Luening and Starer PACD96012 Danielle Woerner "She Walks In Beauty"   Secure "Buy it!" page HERE (opens new window at www.qualiton.com)
PACD96012 Danielle Woerner coached Otto Luening's songs with the composer, and has performened Robert Starer's songs with the composer at the piano. This CD offers 77 minutes of music by these two composers, newly recorded, with some of the Hudson Valley's finest musicians as collaborators and including Starer at the piano, his first commercial recording in nearly 50 years.

PACD96015_6 Chant: The Early Intepreters Gregorian Chant: The Early Intepreters   Secure "Buy it!" page HERE (opens new window at www.qualiton.com)
PACD96015/16More than 2½ hours of chants recorded from 1928 to 1936 in a variety of locations. Most items have never been published before and all are new to CD. Extensive liner notes and texts.

Orchestral  Music of Katherine Hoover PACD96019 Night Skies: The Music of Katherine Hoover  Secure "Buy it!" page HERE (opens new window at www.qualiton.com)
PACD96019 Katherine Hoover is one of America's finest and most successful composers, with performances throughout the U.S. and Europe and nearly two dozen recordings of her music. Yet there has never been an entire LP or CD devoted to her music until now. This disc offers more than an hour of newly-recorded orchestral woks, most done under the composer's supervision. Hoover's accessible yet stimulating music will appeal to any music-lover whose taste travel as far into the 20th century as the music of Bartók, one of Hoover's favourites.

Kokopeli: Katherine Hoover Plays (PACD 96031) Kokopeli: Katherine Hoover Plays   Secure "Buy it!" page HERE (opens new window at www.qualiton.com)
PACD96031 Demonstrating her abilities both as flutist and composer, this CD features Katherine Hoover's title composition as well as her Masks and Winter Spirits. Also includes the "London Diversions" program. Featuring collaborations with Stoddard Lincoln, Don Bailey, Scott Dunn and Victoria Drake.

Carole Bogard Sings Baroque Cantatas and Aris Carole Bogard Sings Baroque Cantatas   Secure "Buy it!" page HERE (opens new window at www.qualiton.com)
PACD96020 Carole Bogard was one of the most widely acclaimed American singers of Baroque (and contemporary!) music. Our first reissue from her Cambridge label recordings includes more than 70 minutes of superb Bach, A. Scarlatti, and Handel.

Carole Bogard: American Songs Carole Bogard: A Collection of American Songs  Secure "Buy it!" page HERE (opens new window at www.qualiton.com)
PACD96021/22 Parnassus is pleased to present a superb collection of American songs, half of them previously unpublished, and in two cases accompanied by the composers. Groups of songs by John Duke and Richard Cumming feature the composers as pianists also David del Tredici makes a rare appearance as a performer. This 2 CD set includes much more and extensive notes and texts.

Carole Bogard: American Songs Carole Bogard: A Century of French Songs   Secure "Buy it!" page HERE (opens new window at www.qualiton.com)
PACD96036/37 Showing her versatility, Carole Bogard moves beyond the Baroque and demonstrates her exquisite command of french chanson. This 2 CD set includes extensive notes and tests.

Prokofiev and Stravinsky - Composers Conduct Prokofiev and Stravinsky - Composers Conduct Secure "Buy it!" page HERE (opens new window at www.qualiton.com)
PACD96023 Prokofiev's only recording as a conductor has been reissued several times in incomplete or poor-sounding transfers. The clarity of this complete transfer will come as a revelation. Stravinsky's only Mexican recording is his rarest, never before reissued.  

Schubert + Mendelssohn : Colorado String Quartet The Stuyvesant Quartet Plays 20th Century Quartets  Secure "Buy it!" page HERE (opens new window at www.qualiton.com)
PACD 96026 The Suyvesant String Quartet was one of the outstanding American chamber ensembles of the 1940s and '50s. This disc is its first appearance on CD. The live performance of the Quincy Porter Quartet has never been published before.

Arthur Grumiaux: The Boston Recordings Arthur Grumiaux: The Boston Recordings  Secure "Buy it!" page HERE (opens new window at www.qualiton.com)
PACD96028 These were Arthur Grumiaux's first LP recordings, made at the time of his first U.S. tour in 1951-2. They reveal a dynamic young artist, even more outgoing and vital than on his superb later LPs. These early Boston recordings are great rarities in their original editions and have never before been reissued.

Kipnis/Kushner - piano, 4 hands "Piano - Four Hands" Igor Kipnis and Karen Kushner  Secure "Buy it!" page HERE (opens new window at www.qualiton.com)
PACD96030 Parnassus Records is proud to offer the debut recording of the Igor Kipnis-Karen Kushner duo, in an extended program of music for piano four hands recorded at concerts and studio broadcasts.

Handel - tamerlano Handel - Tamerlano   Secure "Buy it!" page HERE (opens new window at www.qualiton.com)
PACD96039/40 The first recording ever made of Handel's opera Tamerlano, a nearly-complete version highly acclaimed by critics, is now reissued on the Parnassus label. The three-disc set, running nearly four hours in length, is being offered with complete libretto for the price of two discs..

tom mcdermott - all the keys and then some Tom McDermott - All The Keys And Then Some   Secure "Buy it!" page HERE (opens new window at www.qualiton.com)
PACD96041 Including 38 tracks and clocking in at 72 minutes, the disc is comprised of two suites. "All the Keys" is a cycle of 24 pieces for solo piano in the all the major and minor keys and has elements of klezmer, tango, boogie-woogie, rag, New Orleans R&B, Chopinesque waltz, Brazilian choro and forms not so easily described. "Some Friends of Mine" is a set of 14 portraits of friends from New Orleans and St. Louis, composed for piano or Kurzweil synthesizer.

Future Release Plans

Parnassus CDs are distributed exclusively in the USA by Qualiton. In the UK by Regis Records , in Italy by Fenice and in Japan by Tobu Land Trading. If you cannot find them at your favourite record store, please ask for them and please take a moment to tell us

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