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  024-132
  Mendelssohn Concertos

  Groundbreaking recording unearths new scholarship. Including the 2nd-ever recording of the Double Concerto with winds, brass, and timpani as Mendelssohn wrote and intended! Violinist Ilya Kaler (the only person ever to garnish 1st prizes in the Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, AND Paganini Competitions), rising-star award-winning pianist Rasa Vitkauskaite, and world renowned conductor (and clarinetist) Jonathan Cohler join forces with the outstanding Budapest Ferenc Erkel Chamber Orchestra in riveting performances showcased in the crystal clear, dynamic audiophile engineering of Ongaku Records. The in-depth, 28-page booklet leads us on an engrossing journey through time.

  

  024-131
  Ginastera: Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2

  This digital single features rising star Rasa Vitkauskaite in a “high-voltage performance... a veritable explosion of fierce energy... life-enhancing and full of joie de vivre” (Fanfare).

  
  

  024-130
  Latin Journey

  The world's leading clarinet-piano duo of Jonathan Cohler and Rasa Vitkauskaite brings us a riveting traversal of the music of Latin America for clarinet and piano featuring works by Carlos Guastavino, Arturo Marquez, Paquito D'Rivera, and Alberto Ginastera.

  

  024-129
  Rasa Vitkauskaite Plays Mozart & Beethoven

  The debut concerto CD of rising star Rasa Vitkauskaite featuring two of the greatest of all piano concertos: Mozart's Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466 and Beethoven's Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37!

  

  024-128
  Cohler plays&conducts Mozart

  Virtuoso clarinetist and conductor Jonathan Cohler brings us the second in his "plays and conducts" series featuring a well-chosen selection of some of the greatest works by Mozart in his last 10 years. Including the Clarinet Concerto played on basset clarinet in original style alongside the Symphony No. 35 in D Major and the overtures of Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute all in brand new editions by Cohler, this CD features virtuoso playing all around by both Cohler and the up-and-coming Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra. An absolute must-have for all Mozart lovers.

  

  024-127
  Polonaise brillante (Weber), S. 367

  This digital single features a scintillating performance by Rasa Vitkauskaite of Weber's bravura show piece Polonaise brillante, S. 367 with the renowned Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra.

  

  024-126
  Cohler plays&conducts Weber

  Groundbreaking new audiophile recording by virtuoso clarinetist conductor Jonathan Cohler that follows Weber's original scores based on the most recent research. Hear the Weber Concertino and clarinet concertos as Weber wrote them! And enjoy the audiophile quality sound of the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra under Cohler playing from Weber's actual score that from which he premiered Oberon just weeks before he died.

  

  024-125 American Tribute

  American Tribute celebrates 70 years of American musical life. Jonathan Cohler and Rasa Vitkauskaite, today’s leading clarinet-piano duo, have been hailed around the globe. This CD is dedicated to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.

  

  024-124 Reflections

  In her brilliant debut solo CD, award-winning Lithuanian pianist Rasa Vitkauskaite demonstrates an uncanny depth and breadth of musical understanding coupled with outstanding technique and consummate pianism.

  REST OF CATALOG

  • 024-123 Romanza
  • 024-122 Jonathan Cohler & Claremont Trio
  • 024-121 Rhapsodie Française
  • 024-120 Vento Chiaro
  • 024-119 Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
  • 024-115 The Well-Tempered Clavier II
  • 024-114 Once Upon a Time: Children's Tales for Piano and Narrator
  • 024-113 The Well-Tempered Clavier I
  • 024-112 David Alpher: American Reflections
  • 024-111 Petrouchka and Other Prophecies
  • 024-110 Great Russian Cello Sonatas

  • 024-109 The Six Keyboard Partitas Vol. 2
  • 024-108 The Six Keyboard Partitas Vol. 1
  • 024-107 The Goldberg Variations
  • 024-106 Yoshiko Okada: A French Piano Recital
  • 024-105 Jonathan Cohler: The Clarinet Alone
  • 024-104 Suren Bagratuni, Cello
  • 024-103 Ilya Kaler, Violin
  • 024-102 More Cohler on Clarinet
  • 024-101 Cohler on Clarinet
  • CD733 Moonflowers, Baby!
• Artists

  • WIND INSTRUMENTS

    Jonathan Cohler, clarinet Ken Radnofsky, saxophone James Sommerville, horn Vento Chiaro, woodwind quintet

  • VIOLIN

    Ilya Kaler

  • VIOLA

    Maureen Gallagher Mai Motobuchi

  • CELLO

    Suren Bagratuni Natalia Khoma Myron Lutzke Andrew Mark

  • STRING BASS

    Robert Lynam

  • PIANO

    David Alpher Judith Gordon Randall Hodgkinson Adrian Oetiker Yoshiko Okada Haskell Small Sergey Schepkin Rasa Vitkauskaite Janice Weber

  • PIANO TRIO

    Claremont Trio

  • HARPSICHORD

    Jean Newton

  • VOICE

    Robert Aubry Davis Robert Honeysucker

  • COMPOSER

    David Alpher Haskell Small

  • ORCHESTRA

    Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra Budapest Ferenc Erkel Chamber Orchestra Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra

  • CONDUCTOR

    Jonathan Cohler
• Discographies

  • WIND INSTRUMENTS

    Jonathan Cohler, clarinet Ken Radnofsky, saxophone James Sommerville, horn Vento Chiaro, woodwind quintet

  • VIOLIN

    Ilya Kaler

  • VIOLA

    Maureen Gallagher Mai Motobuchi

  • CELLO

    Suren Bagratuni Natalia Khoma Myron Lutzke Andrew Mark

  • STRING BASS

    Robert Lynam

  • PIANO

    David Alpher Judith Gordon Randall Hodgkinson Adrian Oetiker Yoshiko Okada Haskell Small Sergey Schepkin Rasa Vitkauskaite Janice Weber

  • PIANO TRIO

    Claremont Trio

  • HARPSICHORD

    Jean Newton

  • VOICE

    Robert Aubry Davis Robert Honeysucker

  • COMPOSER

    David Alpher Haskell Small

  • ORCHESTRA

    Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra Budapest Ferenc Erkel Chamber Orchestra Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra

  • CONDUCTOR

    Jonathan Cohler
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  024-133

  Contrasts

  Jonathan Cohler, clarinet
  Ilya Kaler, violin
  Rasa Vitkauskaite, piano
  

  Works by:

  Paul Schoenfield, Aram Khachaturian, Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky, Charles Ives

  ★★★★★
  “Virtuosity, at the highest level.”
  “What a revelation this album has been”
  “Cohler, Kaler and Vitkauskaite are shiveringly effective...”
  “I don’t think anybody could have done it better than these performers”
     —Fanfare

  “Jonathan Cohler has always impressed me as being in the top rank of world class clarinetists... extreme technical difficulties, Cohler surmounts with seeming ease, at all time maintaining poise, an elegant beauty of tone, and the highest degree of musicianship.”
     —Fanfare

  “Rasa Vitkauskaite’s playing sparkles in a seemingly endless whirlwind...”
  “The ‘March’ is brilliantly quirky here with Vitkauskaite tremendously characterful: she is never background, always colorful...”
  “pianist Rasa Vitkauskaite delivers with a real flair”
     —Fanfare

  “The violin part is massively difficult, and Kaler polishes it off with ease...”
  
     —Fanfare

  
  

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  024-132

  Mendelssohn: Vioin Concerto in E Minor, Double Concerto in D Minor, Capriccio Brilliant in B Minor

  Ilya Kaler, violin
  Rasa Vitkauskaite, piano
  Jonathan Cohler, conductor
  Budapest Ferenc Erkel Ch. Orch.
  

  Works by:

  Felix Mendelssohn

  “The soloist, Ilya Kaler, has a rock-solid technique coupled with a real affinity for Mendelssohn’s music... refreshing, illuminating... Vitkauskaite’s legerdemain is glorious; dialogs between violin and piano sparkle... her sense of drama perfectly aligned to Mendelssohn’s... Eleven minutes of pure joy” ★★★★★
     —Fanfare

  “Kaler‘s performance approaches, and perhaps even achieves, the ideal... impeccable... gorgeous tone... Conductor Jonathan Cohler is a sympathetic collaborator, at one with Kaler‘s vision... Vitkauskaite also shines in Capriccio Brillant... Cohler provides sensitive, expert support for his soloists. ★★★★★
     —Fanfare

  
  

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  024-131

  Ginastera: Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2

  Rasa Vitkauskaite, piano
  

  Works by:

  Alberto Ginastera

  “superb... technically brilliant, and always searching, imaginative, and compelling... gorgeous, singing tone... The recorded sound is excellent... virtuoso playing and gorgeous instrumental tone... a complete joy from start to finish. Highest recommendation.”
     —Fanfare

  
  

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  024-130

  Latin Journey

  Jonathan Cohler, clarinet
  Rasa Vitkauskaite, piano
  

  Works by:

  Carlos Guastavino, Arturo Marquez, Paquito D'Rivera, Alberto Ginastera

  
  

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  024-129

  Rasa Vitkauskaite Plays Mozart&Beethoven Concertos

  Rasa Vitkauskaite, piano
  Jonathan Cohler, conductor
  Franz Liszt Ch. Orch.
  Anima Musicae Ch. Orch.
  

  Works by:

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven

  
  

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  024-128

  Cohler plays&conducts Mozart

  Jonathan Cohler, conductor
  Jonathan Cohler, clarinet
  Anima Musicae Ch. Orch.
  

  Works by:

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  
  

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  024-127

  Polonaise brillante (Weber), S. 367

  Rasa Vitkauskaite, piano
  Jonathan Cohler, conductor
  Franz Liszt Ch. Orch.
  

  Works by:

  Franz Liszt

  
  

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  024-126

  Cohler plays&conducts Weber

  Jonathan Cohler, conductor
  Jonathan Cohler, clarinet
  Rasa Vitkauskaite, piano
  Franz Liszt Ch. Orch.
  

  Works by:

  Carl Maria von Weber, Franz Liszt

  
  

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  024-125

  American Tribute

  Jonathan Cohler, clarinet
  Rasa Vitkauskaite, piano
  

  Works by:

  Leonard Bernstein, Victor Babin, Robert Muczynski, Simon Sargon, Dana Wilson, Paquito D'Rivera

  
  

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  024-124

  Rasa Vitkauskaite: Reflections

  Rasa Vitkauskaite, piano
  

  Works by:

  Maurice Ravel, Lowell Liebermann, Ludwig van Beethoven, Carlos Guastavino

  
  

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  024-123

  Romanza

  Jonathan Cohler, clarinet
  Rasa Vitkauskaite, piano
  

  Works by:

  Robert Schumann, Sergei Prokofiev, Carlos Guastavino

  
  

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  024-122

  Jonathan Cohler & Claremont Trio

  Jonathan Cohler, clarinet
  Claremont Trio, piano trio
  James Sommerville, horn
  Mai Motobuchi, viola
  

  Works by:

  Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Ernst von Dohnányi

  
  

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  024-121

  Rhapsodie Française

  Jonathan Cohler, clarinet
  Rasa Vitkauskaite, piano
  

  Works by:

  Camille Saint-Saëns, André Messager, Charles-Marie Widor, Ernest Chausson, Henri Rabaud, Claude Debussy, Eugène Bozza, Louis Cahuzac

  
  

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  024-120

  Vento Chiaro

  Vento Chiaro, ww quintet
  

  Works by:

  David Maslanka, Johann Sebastian Bach, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Francis Poulenc, Leonard Bernstein

  
  

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  024-119

  Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time

  Jonathan Cohler, clarinet
  Ilya Kaler, violin
  Andrew Mark, cello
  Janice Weber, piano
  

  Works by:

  Olivier Messiaen

  
  

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  024-115

  The Well-Tempered Clavier II

  Sergey Schepkin, piano
  

  Works by:

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  
  

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  024-114

  Once Upon a Time: Children's Tales for Piano and Narrator

  Haskell Small, piano
  Haskell Small, composer
  Robert Aubry Davis, narrator
  

  Works by:

  Francis Poulenc, Richard Wilson, Soulima Stravinsky, Henry Barraud

  
  

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  024-113

  The Well-Tempered Clavier I

  Sergey Schepkin, piano
  

  Works by:

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  
  

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  024-112

  David Alpher: American Reflections

  David Alpher, piano
  David Alpher, composer
  

  Jonathan Cohler, clarinet ; Maureen Gallagher, viola ; Robert Honeysucker, baritone ; Myron Lutzke, cello ; Robert Lynam, string bass ; Martha Moor, harp ; Jean Newton, harpsichord ; Ken Radnofsky, saxophone
  

  Works by:

  David Alpher

  
  

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  024-111

  Randall Hodgkinson: Petrouchka and Other Prophecies

  Randall Hodgkinson, piano
  

  Works by:

  Igor Stravinsky, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann

  
  

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  024-110

  Great Russian Cello Sonatas

  Suren Bagratuni, cello
  Adrian Oetiker, piano
  

  Works by:

  Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich

  
  

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  024-109

  The Six Keyboard Partitas Vol. 2

  Sergey Schepkin, piano
  

  Works by:

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  
  

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  024-108

  The Six Keyboard Partitas Vol. 1

  Sergey Schepkin, piano
  

  Works by:

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  
  

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  024-107

  The Goldberg Variations

  Sergey Schepkin, piano
  

  Works by:

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  
  

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  024-106

  Yoshiko Okada: A French Piano Recital

  Yoshiko Okada, piano
  

  Works by:

  Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Erik Satie

  
  

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  024-105

  Jonathan Cohler: The Clarinet Alone

  Jonathan Cohler, clarinet
  

  Works by:

  Donald Martino, Egon Wellesz, Olivier Messiaen, Erland von Koch, William O. Smith, Vincent Persichetti, Willson Osborne, Nicolò Paganini

  
  

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  024-104

  Suren Bagratuni, Cello

  Suren Bagratuni, cello
  Natalia Khoma, cello
  

  Works by:

  Adam Khudoyan, George Crumb, Paul Hindemith

  
  

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  024-103

  Ilya Kaler, Violin

  Ilya Kaler, violin
  

  Works by:

  Eugène Ysaÿe, Paul Hindemith, Sergei Prokofiev, Jean Martinon, Vytautas Barkauskas

  
  

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  024-102

  More Cohler on Clarinet

  Jonathan Cohler, clarinet
  Randall Hodgkinson, piano
  

  Works by:

  Johannes Brahms, Francis Poulenc, Robert Schumann, Darius Milhaud, Igor Stravinsky

  
  

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  024-101

  Cohler on Clarinet

  Jonathan Cohler, clarinet
  Judith Gordon, piano
  

  Works by:

  Johannes Brahms, Carl Maria von Weber, Heinrich Joseph Bärmann, Simon Sargon

  
  

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  CD733

  Moonflowers, Baby!

  Jonathan Cohler, clarinet
  Judith Gordon, piano
  

  Works by:

  Paul Hindemith, Arthur Honegger, Jean Françaix, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Darius Milhaud, Eugène Bozza, Meyer Kupferman

  
  

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