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harmonia mundi travels to Spain in May, bringing listeners the gift of Manuel Blasco de Nebra’s strikingly beautiful Piano Sonatas played by fellow Andalusian Javier Perianes (p.3). The label also offers the highly anticipated second volume of Richard Egarr’s Bach Well-Tempered Clavier (p.4) and the first volume of violinist Isabelle Faust’s traversal of the Sonatas & Partitas Vol.1 (p.5). Chopin is also a focus on harmonia mundi with two releases from Van Cliburn gold medalists: Nobuyuki Tsujii’s Piano Concerto (p.6) and Olga Kern’s Piano Sonatas (p.7). Other priorities include Mozart symphonies with René Jacobs (p.8) and more Baltic choral music from Paul Hillier and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir (p.9). Hyperion has two big winners in May, with Steven Osborne’s Beethoven Sonatas (p.17) and the debut release by BBC New Generation Artist Viviane Hagner in volume 8 of the Romantic Violin Concerto series (p.19). Three more classical priority titles round out the month — a moving choral collection entitled Mandorla featuring Gloriae Dei Cantores (p.16), Valery Gergiev’s searing performance of the Rachmaninov Symphony No.2 for LSO Live (p.23), and an all-Dvorák disc with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra featuring the Requiem and Symphony No.8 (p.25). In non-classical releases, World Village priorities include Epica by tango artist Liliana Barrios (p.28), alCANTARaMANUEL by flamenco star Mayte Martín (p.29), Cuban son group Sierra Maestra’s Sonando Ya (p.31) and the enchanting, cross-cultural album Nkolo by Lokua Kanza (p.33).
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IN THE PRESS Gershwin by Grofé wins a CHOC de Classica In the May issue of Classica magazine, the distinguished Harmonie Ensemble and director Steven Richman received a CHOC award for their April harmonia mundi release, Gershwin By Grofé.
Márta Sebestyén earns a BBC Magazine World Choice Márta Sebestyén’s stunning I Can See The Gates Of Heaven, which marks her return to her folk music roots, has been named a World Choice in the April issue of BBC Music Magazine.
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COMING NEXT MONTH Melnikov plays Shostakovich Shostakovich’s twenty-four preludes and fugues have become so closely associated with Tatiana Nikolaeva, considered by some to be their ‘official interpreter,’ that many critics have concluded her approach is ‘the only way to perform them’ without looking more deeply into the matter. Yet this collection is brimming with fascinating answers for anyone who takes the trouble to ask the right questions. Alexander Melnikov has started from scratch and come up with his own, eminently musical solutions.
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Piano music from Andalusia harmonia mundi
BLASCO DE NEBRA Piano Sonatas Nos.1-6
Javier Perianes (piano) harmonia mundi • HMC 902046
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Javier Perianes invites us to discover the keyboard works of a composer who, like himself, was a native of . The heir to Scarlatti in many respects, the Hispano-Neapolitan composer Manuel Blasco de Nebra (1750-1784) combined the musical flavors of his own natural heritage with the popular forms of the day. The sonatas and pastorales presented on this disc shed light on the multiple facets of Blasco de Nebra’s creative genius, alas cut short all too soon: he died at the age of just thirty-four.
“A pianist of such sensitivity and sensibility that he is already one of the greatest of his generation.” — BUFFALO NEWS
Also available Schubert: Impromptus, D899
“Perianes shows remarkable commitment to this music.”
“Some of the most selflessly probing performances of this composer since the legendary Sviatoslav Richter.”
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— AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
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— PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
May 2010
Mompou: Musica callada
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Richard Egarr completes his WTC set harmonia mundi
BACH Well-Tempered Clavier — Vol.2 Richard Egarr (harpsichord) harmonia mundi • HMU 907433
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In Book I (1722) of his Well-Tempered Clavier, J.S. Bach set off on an unprecedented passage through all the tonalities available to him on the keyboard. Using the tuning which research suggests Bach himself advocated, Richard Egarr completes his acclaimed project with this inspired reading of Book II, where Bach (after a decade-long genesis) revisits his ambitious scheme to produce another monumental collection.
“No one can doubt that Egarr loves and understands Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. His technique and musical instincts can’t be faulted.” — THE ABSOLUTE SOUND
May 2010
Also available Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier — Vol.1
harmonia mundi • HMU 907431 (093046743123)
“Richard Egarr makes his instrument sing with theatrical gusto.” — LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Isabelle Faust plays Bach Isabelle Faust (violin) harmonia mundi • HMC 902059
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BACH Sonatas & Partitas — Vol.1
Price Code: A19 (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)
Isabelle Faust has gone back to the original manuscript sources to offer us her versions of these iconic masterpieces of the violin repertoire. In Bach’s time, music for solo instruments was still little explored territory, and his Sonatas and Partitas immediately established themselves as a benchmark, technically challenging and brimming with creativity.
Advance review
“Faust is fast making her name as the Bach violinist of our time... The musicianship is so selfless and sylph-like that you can’t help glorying in Bach’s artless invention and inspiration. Outstanding.” — FINANCIAL TIMES
“A refreshingly devil-may-care attitude that even Mephistopheles would admire.” - STRINGS MAGAZINE
Also available harmonia mundi • HMC 902025 (794881923922)
“Scintillating performances.”
May 2010
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas
— LOS ANGELES TIMES 5
Nobuyuki Tsujii: International sensation harmonia mundi
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No.1, Etudes Op.10
Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano), Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, James Conlon harmonia mundi • HMU 907547
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“Tsujii is a real virtuoso, but he knows how to get beyond that and into the heart of the music.” — INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
Gold medalist at the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Nobuyuki Tsujii is heard here in an all-Chopin program taken from his competition performances. Blind since birth, Tsujii has become a worldwide sensation. His official Van Cliburn disc (HMU 907505) has sold well over 100,000 copies, and Tsujii’s fans in his home country are both legion and passionate to the extreme. Discover the magic!
May 2010
Also available 13th Van Cliburn Competition — Gold Medal
harmonia mundi • HMU 907505 (093046750527)
“It is easy to understand why Tsuji’s playing sent him to the top in this competition.” — FANFARE
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Olga Kern’s powerful Chopin harminia mundi harmonia mundi
CHOPIN Piano Sonatas Nos.2 & 3
Olga Kern (piano) harmonia mundi • HMU 907464
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Frederic Chopin’s Piano Sonatas No.2 (“Funeral March”) and No.3 are the product of the composer’s maturity and are rich with boundless invention. Here they receive incandescent performances by the 2001 Cliburn Competition gold medalist Olga Kern.
“Kern’s musicality radiates off the stage and saturates the hall, and it is joyously alive, immediately communicative, fragrantly sensual, and almost visual in its intensity. What ever it is — call it star quality — music likes Kern the way the camera liked Garbo.” — THE WASHINGTON POST
Also available harmonia mundi • HMU 907402 (093046740221)
“One of the finest versions of the Chopin since Cliburn recorded it with Ormandy.”
May 2010
Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1
— DEMOCRAT & CHRONICLE 7
Returning the drama to Mozart’s symphonies harmonia mundi
MOZART Symphonies Nos.39 & 40
Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs harmonia mundi • HMC 901959
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After a decade immersed in the great Mozart operas (to universal critical acclaim) René Jacobs returns to the late symphonies, leading the outstanding Freiburger Barockorchester. As with his previous recordings, his unique, operatic approach to classical-period symphonies brings new life to these scores, particularly in terms of phrasing and clarity of texture. Jacobs says of his approach to this music, “A lot of people think period instrument performance means everything fast. I stick very much to the drama and the delivery of speech. I know that, say, Mozart’s own tempi were faster than what is now usual, but, on the other hand, there are also moments when time must stand still.”
“There is simply one word for Jacobs’ musical direction — enchanting.” — THE INDEPENDENT
May 2010
Also available Haydn: Symphonies Nos.91 & 92
harmonia mundi • HMX 2961849 (794881912025)
“Played with a sense of joy and carefree intensity.” — GRAMOPHONE
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Hillier returns to the Baltic repertoire harmonia mundi
Baltic Runes
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier harmonia mundi • HMU 807485
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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Paul Hillier leads the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir in a program tracing the BaltoFinnic folksong tradition through the works of Jean Sibelius, Cyrillus Kreek, Erik Bergman and Veljo Tormis. Hillier’s previous forays into this repertoire (his three-volume Baltic Voices series) have been met with the highest critical acclaim. Hillier was also recently awarded a GRAMMY® for his recording of David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion.
“The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir is one of the great chamber choirs at work today.” — INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
Also available harmonia mundi • HMU 907311 (093046731120)
“Magnificent...” — CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Baltic Voices Vol.2 harmonia mundi • HMU 907331 (093046733124)
“Extraordinary...” — CLASSICS TODAY
Baltic Voices Vol.3 harmonia mundi • HMU 907391 (093046739126)
May 2010
Baltic Voices Vol.1
“Luminous...
— CLASSIC FM
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Herreweghe’s Bach in limited-edition CD-Books BACH St. John Passion
Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe harmonia mundi • HML 5908351
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BACH Easter Oratorio
Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe harmonia mundi • HML 5908354
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Price Code: 3A09 (3 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $29.98) From HMC 901513 (794881313228), 901479 (3149025059635) & 901791 (794881704620)
BACH Cantatas — Vol.1
May 2010
Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe harmonia mundi • HML 5908357
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BACH Cantatas — Vol.2
Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe harmonia mundi • HML 5908363
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BACH St. Ma hew Passion
Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe harmonia mundi • HML 5908376
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Philippe Herreweghe is widely considered to be one of the foremost Bach interpreters of our time. These five deluxe CD-Book collections are the first releases in harmonia mundi’s complete Herreweghe Bach Edition. The first installment covers two volumes of the most famous Cantatas, the St. Matthew and St. John Passions and the Easter Oratorio. Available at a very special low price and featuring packaging and liner-notes on a par with the best that harmonia mundi offers, these sets are a rare bargain and a must-have for collectors.
Piano legend Edwin Fischer
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Price Code: 2A14 (3 CDs for the Price of 2, Suggested Retail Price: $29.98)
Edwin Fischer (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edwin Fischer Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Lawrance Collingwood, Josef Krips APR • APR 7303
Along with Schnabel, in the first half of the 20th century Edwin Fischer was generally regarded as the greatest interpreter of the Germanic classics. This was the period when recording came of age and many first recorded performances, still thought amongst the greatest even today, were set down by Fischer. Supreme among them were the first complete recording of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier and the Mozart concertos presented here as a budget priced 3CD set. Also included are most of Fisher’s solo recordings of Mozart and his only recording of a Haydn concerto.
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MOZART Piano Concertos — The Complete 78-rpm Studio Recordings
Du on continues their Ma hews cycle Price Code: A22 (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jac van Steen Du on Laboratories • CDLX 7234
May 2010
Dutton’s second volume of David Matthews’ symphonies presents the second and sixth, among the most engaging symphonies of our time. “A glorious sixth,” said The Times after the Prom premiere in 2007. Incorporating Vaughan Williams’ hymn tune “Down Ampney,” it continues the British tradition in memorable and lyrical style. As the Sunday Times critic wrote, “It is indubitably a work to listen to again.” It is coupled with the involving second symphony, a large-scale single movement whose lyricism contrasts with the exciting writing for percussion in an exuberant central episode.
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MATTHEWS Symphonies No.2 & 6
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Approachable modernity DODGSON Essays for Orchestra Nos.1-5
Royal Sco ish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones Du on Laboratories • CDLX 7236
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Stephen Dodgson is the approachable face of contemporary music. After the success of Dutton’s recording of Dodgson’s String Quartets, the label offers a survey of Dodgson orchestral works that the composer calls Essays for Orchestra. Dodgson’s memorable treatment of the orchestra is exciting and lyrical by turns and is played in fine style by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by David Lloyd-Jones.
Orchestral song cycles ELGAR Sea Pictures, Pageant of Empire, The Pipes of Pan, The River GURNEY Lights Out HURD Shore Leave
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May 2010
Roderick Williams (baritone), BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates Du on Laboratories • CDLX 7243
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Listening to Elgar’s beloved Sea Pictures sung by a male voice will be an eyeopening experience for all Elgarians, making one wonder why it had not been done before. Baritone Roderick Williams is featured in this program of orchestral song cycles, which also features the world premiere recording of Elgar’s songs for Pageant of Empire, Ivor Gurney’s Lights Out and Michael Hurd’s Shore Leave.
Unrecorded Bax Price Code: A22 (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98)
This Dutton Epoch series release features previously Stephen Bell (French horn), unrecorded works by Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Arnold Bax. The strings BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates of the Royal Liverpool Du on Laboratories • CDLX 7244 Philharmonic create a powerful impression in the Variations on the name Gabriel Fauré and the early Symphonic Serenade. These two tuneful works for strings are a delightful addition to the canon of recorded Bax. They are coupled with works by Richard Arnell, Stephen Dodgson and Norman Del Mar.
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English Music for Strings BAX Variations on the name Gabriel Fauré, Symphonic Serenade ARNELL Classical Variations in C DODGSON Essay No.7 DEL MAR Allegro Concertante for horn and string orchestra
English romantic violin concertos
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SAINSBURY Violin Concerto, Op.14 WOOD Violin Concerto in A minor, Adagio from the Violin Concerto in B minor
Lorraine McAslan (violin), BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth, Gavin Sutherland Du on Laboratories • CDLX 7245
May 2010
On this an indispensable program for all lovers of romantic violin concertos, violinist Lorraine McAslan plays gorgeous violin concertos by Haydn Wood and Lionel Sainsbury. Reviewing Dutton Epoch’s earlier recording of York Bowen’s concerto, a critic wrote, “Lorraine McAslan’s warm, patrician tone (which brings to mind that of Heifetz) and caressing manner is all one could ask.” an assessment that critics will likely echo for this tuneful and involving coupling, rewarding discoveries both.
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Roderick Williams sings Ireland IRELAND Orchestral Songs & Miniatures
Roderick Williams (baritone), BBC Concert Orchestra, John Wilson, Martin Yates, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland, Paul Murphy Du on Laboratories • CDLX 7246
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Dutton’s survey of works for voice and orchestra by John Ireland, including the last two unrecorded songs orchestrated by Ireland himself and sung here by Roderick Williams, is filled out with a selection of encores by British composers and two unrecorded orchestral songs by Elgar. The overture by Tranchell, a gorgeous interlude by Walter Collins and tuneful folk dance arrangements by Herbert Murrill are coupled with more substantial fare by Lionel Sainsbury and Elis Pehkonen.
Charming English chamber music COOKE Chamber Music Piano Sonatas Nos.1 & 2, Three Songs of Innocence, Rondo in B flat, Flute Quartet, Nocturnes
May 2010
Melanie Lodge (soprano), Patrick Williams (flute), Lorraine Schulman (clarinet), Jonathan Jaggard (French horn), Warren Zielinski (violin), Morgan Goff (viola), Justin Pearson (cello), Raphael Terroni (piano) Du on Laboratories • CDLX 7247
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This wide-ranging survey of chamber music by British composer Arnold Cooke fills a huge gap in the catalogue. It includes music written over a span of almost thirty years between 1936 and 1965 and features two piano sonatas and two delightful chamber works, the Rondo for horn and piano and the witty Flute Quartet. The program is rounded out by the delightful Songs of Innocence for soprano, clarinet and piano and the haunting Nocturnes, a cycle of five songs for soprano, horn and piano.
Music by Algernon Ashton Price Code: A22 (2 CDs for the Price of 1, Suggested Retail Price: $22.98)
Leslie De’Ath (piano) Du on Laboratories • CDLX 7248
One name that frequently comes up in Anglophile’s enquiries about unrecorded music is that of Algernon Ashton. Dutton now aims to fill this gap in the catalog, starting with the first volume in a series of discs featuring Ashton’s piano music, featuring Canadian pianist Leslie De’Ath. These sonatas probably date from the late nineteenth century but were published in the 1920s, and are the most significant body of piano music by a British composer before Bax.
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ASHTON Complete Piano Sonatas — Vol.1
The complete Rubbra quartets
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RUBBRA String Quartets Nos.1-4
Dante Quartet, Michael Dussek (piano) Du on Laboratories • LXBOX 2010
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May 2010
Reissue of Dutton Epoch CDLX 7114 & CDLX 7123 Edmund Rubbra’s String Quartets span his career, running from 1933 to 1977. The second is possibly the best known, but as a group they make an unmissable pendant to the symphonies. Possibly the most important string quartet cycle by any British composer, these Dutton recordings by the Dante Quartet enjoyed a very positive critical reception when they first appeared and have now been re-packaged as a specially-priced boxed set.
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Bridging the human and the divine gloriae harmonia dei frémeaux cantores mundi
Mandorla MARTIN Mass for Double Choir GRIEG Fire Salmer Op.74 HANSON The Cherubic Hymn
Gloriae Dei Cantores, Elizabeth Pa erson Gloriae Dei Cantores • GDCD 048
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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD The talented American choir Gloriae Dei Cantores offers a selection of music that allows the listener to experience the “mandorla” — a sacred, spiritual space that bridges the human and the divine. Their new Super Audio CD features three visionary works — the Mass for Double Choir by Frank Martin, the Four Psalms by Edvard Grieg, and The Cherubic Hymn by Howard Hanson. These three 20th century composers and their works are tied together not by creed, conviction, nationality (although all three have some roots in Scandinavia and the Netherlands), or style, but by their illuminations of humanity’s need for salvation and their expressions of the intimacy and glory of these sacred encounters between heaven and earth.
“I’ve singled out this marvelous group time and time again… the choir brings a degree of spiritual sincerity and power to their singing that few choirs, professional or amateur can match.” — AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
May 2010
Also available
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Unto Ages of Ages
Gloriae Dei Cantores • GDCD 047 (709887004728)
“Not many Western choruses and their directors are adept at Russian a cappella sacred music, but Gloriae Dei Cantores under Elizabeth Patterson has done the hard work, and it shows.” — FANFARE
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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas— Nos.8, 14, 21 & 25 Steven Osborne (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67662
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Steven Osborne has been performing Beethoven live in concert for many years, always to great acclaim. Now for the first time he has committed these extraordinary performances to disc. It is clear from listening to the opening movement of the Moonlight Sonata that this release will establish him firmly as one of the great Beethoven pianists of today. Performances of such passionate humility, such musical intelligence, such subtlety and yet such instinctive understanding of the music are rare indeed. This disc features three of Beethoven’s most celebrated sonatas and the miniature Op 79.
“He looks inside the music for the basic threads that hold it together, and comes up not with gauze, but with velvet.” — NPR
Also available
May 2010
Rachmaninov: Preludes
Hyperion • CDA 67700 (034571177007)
“Quite simply, the first wholly recommendable traversal of Rachmaninov’s Preludes in modern times.” — GRAMOPHONE
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Czech piano trios hyperion
SMETANA Piano Trio MARTINU Piano Trio No.1 EBEN Piano Trio
Florestan Trio Hyperion • CDA 67730
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The Florestan Trio is one of Britain’s best-loved chamber groups, and its many Hyperion re c o rd i n g s a re ro u t i n e l y a c c l a i m e d a s b e n c h m a rk versions of the repertoire. The three works on this CD cover the complete span of what is usually thought of as the Czech school of composition. Smetana, regarded as the founding father, first showed the way to bring traditional dance and song into the mainstream of European composition, forging a national style. Eben, who died in 2007, was one of the most distinguished composers who carried this line to the present day. But, as these three contrasting pieces demonstrate, Czech composers were subject to very different kinds of influence at different times. Smetana’s trio, an early work, shows more influence from the mainstream giants of the time — particularly Schumann and Liszt — than it does from any ‘folk’ elements. By the time Martinu wrote his first piano trio he was immersed in the exciting cosmopolitan culture of twentieth-century Paris. And Petr Eben took the neoclassicism of Martinu and his contemporaries, and developed his own individual approach to it.
May 2010
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Haydn: Piano Trios Vol.1
Hyperion • CDA 67719 (034571177199)
“The Florestan Trio plays these four works with grace and deep intelligence.” — AUDIOPHILE AUDITION
Haydn: Piano Trios Vol.2
Hyperion • CDA 67757 (034571177571)
“Brilliant ensemble playing by thoughtful and enthusiastic as well as skilled performers.” — INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
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Romantic Violin Concerto — Vol.8 VIEUXTEMPS Violin Concertos No.4 & 5, Fantasia appassionata
Viviane Hagner (violin), Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Martyn Brabbins Hyperion • CDA 67798
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Hyperion’s Romantic Violin Concerto series reaches volume eight, and the music of the Belgian composer Henry Vieuxtemps, himself widely considered the finest violinist in Europe after the death of Paganini. Listening to the repertoire recorded here, he certainly deserves to be ranked among the most important composers for the violin in the mid-nineteenth century. Vieuxtemps never indulged in sheer virtuosity for its own sake; instead in his concertos and chamber works he brought a more classical dimension to the violin repertoire in place of the technically brilliant variations and fantasies on popular operatic themes that were so popular with audiences. The concertos are played here by the young virtuoso Viviane Hagner, a former BBC New Generation artist, acclaimed for her highly intelligent musicality and passionate artistry, in her Hyperion debut.
“The world of the Romantic violin concerto is richer and more varied than many of us think.” — SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Also available Hyperion • CDA 67642 (034571176420)
“These inspiring violin works allow Gingolts to display his tonal palette and command of the statosphere.” — STRINGS MAGAZINE
May 2010
Romantic Violin Concerto — Vol.7
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Shelley’s Clementi CLEMENTI Piano Sonatas — Vol.5
Howard Shelley (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67814
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Howard Shelley’s acclaimed series of the complete Piano Sonatas of Clementi reaches its penultimate volume. In the latter half of the 1790s, when all the sonatas and sonatinas heard in this recording (with the exception of the Sonata Op 46) were published, Clementi apparently devoted his energies mainly to teaching. His pupils included members of well placed families in London who were able to meet his reported fee of one guinea per lesson. He also had among his students aspiring professionals, including J B Cramer, Theresa Jansen, Benoit-August Bertini and John Field. The sonatas heard here, owing to their technical difficulty, appear for the most part to be addressed to such students and other accomplished pianists—and perhaps for Clementi’s own performance in private circles. The sonatinas are clearly intended for less advanced pupils; today they are Clementi’s most wellknown works as countless young pianists are still given them for instruction. Therefore this set should be of particular interest to many of those pupils and their teachers.
Stylish period-instrument charm Neapolitan Flute Concertos
Carlo Ipata (flute), Auser Musici Hyperion • CDA 67784
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May 2010
Price Code: A19 (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)
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Auser Musici’s recordings for Hyperion have been praised for their stylish periodinstrument charm and lithe, flexible, elegant sound. They have rediscovered many hidden gems of the Italian baroque repertoire. Works featuring the flute are something of a specialty of the ensemble and their disc of Boccherini Flute Quintets was highly acclaimed. The baroque flute virtuoso Carlo Ipata returns for this latest release. Previously concentrating on music of Tuscan origin, Auser Musici now turns to 18th century Naples. The city at this period was an extraordinarily fecund artistic crucible, with many commissioning opportunities for young composers. The composers recorded here are contemporaries of the great composers such as Porpora who were at the forefront of the achievements of Neapolitan music in the first half of the eighteenth century; and the startling quality of the music demonstrates the richness of the artistic life of the age.
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MOULU Missa Alma redemptoris mater, Missa Missus est Gabriel angelus
Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice Hyperion • CDA 67761
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The Brabant Ensemble and Stephen Rice bring another forgotten Renaissance master to light. Little is known about the life of the composer Pierre Moulu — he joins the long list of Renaissance musicians whose lives are almost entirely masked in shadow. Fortunately, his works have attracted the attention of music historians since the earliest days of the discipline in the late nineteenth century. Like much sixteenth-century polyphony, however, his works have rarely been performed in modern times, and this is the first recording devoted to his music. Moulu’s most celebrated work is the Missa Alma redemptoris mater, an extraordinary piece that can be sung with or without rests, as the polyphony is composed so as to fit together in two combinations. The short version is recorded here along with two movements from the alternative long version. Stephen Rice’s fascinating and scholarly program notes fully explain the techniques involved.
Also available Hyperion • CDA 67696 (034571176963)
“If you gave not discovered the Brabant Ensemble yet, by all means start here.”
May 2010
Phinot: Mass, Motets
— FANFARE 21
frémeaux hyperion tahra
Mid-priced Helios series re-issues PALESTRINA Missa O Rex Gloriae, Missa Viri Galilei Choir of Westminster Cathedral, James O’Donnell Hyperion • CDH 55335
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Previously Available as CDA 66316 (034571163161) Deleted April 2008
“Westminster Cathedral Choir are as intense and fervent as ever.” — BBC RECORD REVIEW
Grand Tour Music from 16th & 17th Century Italy, Spain & Germany His Majestys Sagbu s & Corne s Hyperion • CDH 55344
Aa34571c!%#$ ZP Price Code: A11 (Suggested Retail Price: $11.98)
Previously Available as CDA 66847 (034571168470) Deleted April 2008
“This is everything a grand tour should be: educating, entertaining and enriching. Well worth exploring.”
May 2010
— BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
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The epitome of the Romantic symphony harmonia lso live mundi
RACHMANINOV Symphony No.2
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev LSO Live • LSO 0677
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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD The first release in Valery G e r g i e v ’s R a c h m a n i n o v symphony cycle features a magnificent performance of the Symphony No.2, recorded in September 2008 at the Barbican. This vast work was composed when Rachmaninov was at the pinnacle of his careers as composer, pianist and conductor. Filled with emotion and brimming with beautiful melodies, it is a masterpiece and the epitome of the Romantic symphony. The recording features the complete version of the symphony and will be followed in future years by the first and third symphonies as well as the Symphonic Dances.
Concert review
“A performance of edge-of-the-seat exhilaration.” — THE GUARDIAN
Also available LSO Live • LSO 0682 (822231168225)
“This thrilling live account measures up well against some classics recordings.”
May 2010
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet
— GRAMOPHONE 23
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Works of vibrant faith FRANCK Sept Paroles du Christ sur la Croix GOUNOD Les Sept Paroles de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ sur la Croix Sophie Graf (soprano), Valérie Bonnard (mezzo-soprano), Valerio Contaldo (tenor), Mathias Reusser (tenor), Fabrice Hayoz (baritone), Luc Aeschlimann (cello), Laure Ermacora (harp), Marcelo Giannini (organ), Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne, Michel Corboz Mirare • MIR 106
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In Paris, between 1850 and 1860, two of the greatest composers of the time, César Franck and Charles Gounod, both wrote works to the text of the Seven last words of Christ on the cross. Two opposing temperaments, two violently contrasted works; yet the same vibrant faith shines out of both these two masterpieces. This disc features the world premiere recording of a new transcription for organ and chamber choir by noted César Franck specialist, Joris Lejeune. Lejeune’s ‘distilled’ version, in its use of concertante harp and cello solos, conforms to the forces used by Franck in his motets and offertories.
May 2010
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Cello music of Shostakovich
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SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Sonatas Opp.40 & 147, Adagio & Waltz Michal Kanka (cello), Jaromir Klepác (piano) Praga • PRD 250264
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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD This disc of music for cello and piano by Shostakovich juxtaposes two disparate styles. The tumultuous and virtuoso sonata of Opus 40, still influenced by Tchaikovsky and Miaskovsky, is emblematic of his youth. The second, a transcription of his very last score, the Opus 147 Sonata for viola, is a Winterreise-like journey through the composer’s memories, ending with an homage to Beethoven. This crepuscular work blends in direct musical quotations with parodical, sometimes even derisory, associations. Here, for the first time, it is played on the cello in its original tessitura.
Commanding Dvorák from Mariss Jansons harmonia rco live mundi
DVORÁK Requiem, Symphony No. 8
Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano), Mihoko Fujimura (alto), Klaus Florian Vogt (tenor), Thomas Quasthoff (bass), Wiener Singverein, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons RCO Live • RCO 10001
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Price Code: 2A15 (2 SACD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $31.98)
SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Among the activities undertaken by the Vienna Singverein to commemorate its 150th anniversary season was a series of performances of Dvorák’s Requiem with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the direction of Mariss Jansons. On this specially priced 2-SACD release, Jansons, who has a special affinity with Dvorák’s late works, has paired the Requiem with a recording of the Symphony No.8. Of particular note in Jansons’ interpretation of both works here is his amazing attention to detail which is so characteristic of his performances but which in no way impedes the development of extended, overarching climaxes.
“The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Mariss Jansons commands respect.” — INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
Also available RCO Live • RCO 04002 (5425008379678)
“Mariss Jansons leads a finely calibrated, very musical rendition.”
May 2010
Dvorák: Symphony No.9
— CLASSICS TODAY 25
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Historic recordings from Tahra Le Violon en Fete BRAHMS & SIBELIUS Violin Concertos
MOZART Great Mass in C Minor
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ferenc Fricsay Tahra • TAH 690
Nathan Milstein (violin), Bronislaw Gimpel (violin), Luzerner Festspielorchester, Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Eugen Jochum Tahra • TAH 692
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Ferenc Fricsay’s recordings have a significant cult following among classical music devotees. For much of his life, he recorded for the Deutsche Grammophon record label. Fricsay was best known for his interpretations of the music of Mozart and Beethoven, and his recording of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 that featured in the movie A Clockwork Orange. Le Violon en Fete continues Tahra’s series of recordings of historic violinists. The present disc features Nathan Milstein and Bronislaw Gimpel playing concertos by Brahms and Sibelius.
D50rqw9c)^(@!^s Price Code: A18 (Suggested Retail Price: $18.98)
May 2010
wergo
Scelsi’s monumental song cycle
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SCELSI Canti del Capricorno
Michiko Hirayama (voice), Ulrich Krieger (saxophone), Mathias Bauer (double bass), Jürgen Grözinger (percussion), Roland Neffe (percussion) Wergo • WER 6686
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Michiko Hirayama was the sole inspiration for Scelsi’s twenty-part cycle Canti del Capricorno, written between 1962 and 1972. To this day the Japanese singer is a unique performer of this spiritual yet energy-filled work for solo voice, with instrumental accompaniment for certain songs: This is Hirayama’s second recording of the work for Wergo and is the first of the complete version. Accompanied by Jürgen Grözinger and his ensemble, Hirayama claims, at age 82, to have found the “right,” path of interpretation.
Chamber music of Isang Yun Price Code: A23 (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98)
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YUN Concertino, Duo, Intermezzo, Pezzo fantasioso
Stefan Hussong (accordion), Julius Berger (cello), Minguet Quarte Wergo • WER 6716
There is a touch of the exotic in the music of Korean composer Isang Yun, rooted as it is in a fusion between Asian and European musical cultures. Although Yun is best known as a composer of orchestral works and operas, almost fifty chamber music works occupy a central position in his oeuvre. In addition to traditional genres such as the string quartet, he experimented with unusual combinations. His affinity for the accordion, whose capability for sound modulation strongly attracted the composer, is the focus of this disc, which feature the prodigious talents of accordionist Stefan Hussong.
Wergo’s MusikFabrik series Sprechgesänge (Speech Songs)
MusikFabrik, Diego Masson Wergo • WER 6851
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Sichtbare Spuren (Visible Traces)
MusikFabrik, Diego Masson Wergo • WER 6852
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May 2010
The contemporary music ensemble MusikFabrik, led by Diego Masson, is spotlighted in this new series from Wergo. Each release will have a theme and feature a selection of music by various composers to bring the theme to life. On Sprechgesänge (Speech Songs), music by Jonathan Harvey, Beat Furrer, Georges Aperghis and Unsuk Chin stretches instrumental possibilities and allows the players to savors their vocal potential. The theme of Sichtbare Spuren (Visible Traces) — is how visible things can leave audible traces. It features compositions by Rebecca Saunders, Mauro Lanza, Nicolaus Huber and Bernd Alois Zimmerman.
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WORLD
Romantic and reverential tangos
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Epica
Liliana Barrios World Village • 498036
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File In: World / South America / Argentina Epica is a tribute to the brothers Virgilio Exposito (1924-1997) and Homero Exposito (1918-1987), two of the most important creative artists of Argentinean music. The Expósito brothers were born in Zarate, on the banks of Paraná river — a very important city in the development of tango. They created thousands of tango songs, many of them becoming standards. On this new recording, Liliana Barrios covers tango, milonga, candombé and bolero, and she is accompanied by some of the most important Argentinean tango players.
“What’s so great about Barrios is how she can sell the sadness of a woman living in the shadows of an empty bed one moment and then communicate the bursting exuberance of a woman in love with life the next.” — SACRAMENTO BEE
May 2010
Also available Troileana
World Village • 498018 (8427592001055)
“Romantic and reverential… a finely crafted tribute to iconic tango composer Anibal Troilo.” — THE TELEGRAPH
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The complete cantaora
WORLD
alCANTARaMANUEL
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Mayte Martín World Village • 468087
Price Code: A18 (Suggested Retail Price: $18.98)
File In: World / Europe / Spain / Flamenco
“The best female flamenco voice of her generation, undoubtedly; the most complete ‘cantaora’. She sings everything, and she sings everything well. At this rate, this ‘cantaora’ will add her name to the great ones in history.” — LA DISCOGRAFÍA IDEAL DEL FLAMENCO
Also available
On Mayte Martín’s stellar new recording alCANTARaMANUEL, the Barcelona-born singer-composer delves into the poetry of Manuel Alcántara (born 1928, in Málaga, Andalusia). “The idea sprung out of my complete affinity with the lyricism and intimate character of his poems,” she confides, “I chose the ones which touched me the most, allowing each to inhabit the soundscape I felt was natural and appropriate.” Even as Martín’s sensitive musical accompaniments move Alcántara’s imagery into another dimension, her dulce de leche alto, a sinuous instrument that can scorch as well as caress, wrings hidden meanings and searing emotional insights from the texts. Experienced through Martín’s impassioned yet sensitive score and vocals, these are songs of love and remembrance, of fatalistic hope and ecstatic agony, totally Spanish in essence but universal in spirit.
“Endeavors that are truly successful in bridging two musical worlds are few and far between. This is one.”
May 2010
De fuego y de Agua
KML Recordings • KML 1119 (8033712871196)
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WORLD Masters of the Cuban charanga 70th Anniversary Album
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Orquesta Aragón Lusafrica • 562402
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Price Code: 4A11 (4 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $47.98) File In: World / Caribbean /Cuba Originally founded in 1939 in Cienfuegos (a city in the center of Cuba), Orquesta Aragón is one of the most famous of all charanga bands and a true legend of Cuban music. The group has toured worldwide and can claim rights to having first popularized the cha-chacha. Currently, the group is led by a direct descendant of its founder, Orestes Aragón. Clearly a band for the world, Orquesta Aragón has been enchanting crowds throughout Europe, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the USA. The four discs in this attractive long box set include hours of the kind of classic, Cuban music that has made the group so popular with listeners and dancers alike. In addition, the set’s 24-page booklet tracks the band’s beginnings and line-up changes throughout the years. Fans of the Buena Vista Social Club should make Orquesta Aragón a part of their listening repertoire, and traditional Cuban music aficionados will be putting this set at the top of their want lists.
“The ensemble’s charanga style is timeless...Superb, often understated musicianship.” — CMJ NEW MUSIC REPORT
May 2010
Also available The Lusafrica Years
Lusafrica • 562412 (3567255624124)
“This disc shows that Aragón undoubtedly continue to create cracking sounds.” — SONGLINES
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WORLD Connecting Cuba’s past and present world village
Sonando Ya
Sierra Maestra World Village • 450011
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File In: World / Caribbean /Cuba Sierra Maestra began reviving classic Cuban son decades before the Buena Vista Social Club brought this venerable style, a musical rage in the 1920s, back to the consciousness of American audiences. Living legends of Cuban music, the members of Sierra Maestra create a seamless connection between the golden age of Cuban music and today’s eclectic Cuban scene. Sonando Ya, their new album for World Village, presents works by the new generation of Cuban songwriters. With their classic son line-up of tres, trumpet, bass and percussion, the band’s songs are as varied as ever, blending in colorful flavors such as AfroCuban jazz to spice up the mix.
Advance reviews
“Sierra Maestra are still rock solid.” — THE GUARDIAN
“A move forward from the old Cuban clichés.” — THE INDEPENDENT
“A more fulfilling and enlivening album this, or any other year, would be hard to find.” — DAILY MIRROR
— BBC
April 2010
“This is intoxicatingly rhythmic and gloriously romantic music.”
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WORLD Pan-African grooves lusafrica
Verité d’Afrique
Pierre Akendengué Lusafrica • 562252
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File In: World / Africa / Gabon Verité d’Afrique is the nineteenth album of Pierre Akendengué’s long and distinguished career. Released in Europe in 2008, the album was partly recorded in a shanty town in Libreville, Gabon and the remaining tracks were finished up in Paris, in the Lusafrica studios. While continuing to mine a traditional African vein, Akendengué also branches out in new musical directions, working with Cape Verdean producer Nado Andrade (best known for his role as pianist and musical director to Cesaria Evora), and even delving into reggae. However to please his fans, Akendengué also slips in an old favorite, “Considérable,” amongst his new material. Originally written in 1972, the song’s lyrics about pan-African unity remain as topical as ever.
May 2010
piranha
Nubian Funk
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Egypt Noir Nubian Soul Treasures
Ali Hassan Kuban, Mahmoud Fadl Piranha • PIR 2337
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File In: World / Africa / Egypt In the last decades, Western archeologists unearthed the remains of Nubia — an advanced Black African civilization thousands of years older than Egypt’s. But they could have just as easily discovered the funky echoes of this lost world at certain Cairo hotspots of today. This doubly lost and found culture shows its stuff on Egypt Noir, a collection featuring the icons and innovators of Nubian music. The album brings together decades of Nubian urban song, giving an unprecedented overview of the neglected musical achievements of this unsung people. Piranha’s enhanced CD also offers a visual tour of the great “Orientalist” paintings of the nineteenth century — images reflecting European artists’ sensual vision of Egypt and Nubia.
WORLD A perfect cross-cultural mix Nkolo
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Lokua Kanza World Village • 479043
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“Lokua Kanza has one of the most exceptional voices of Africa. It has a clarity that rings out, calls you from what you’re doing and begs you to sit down and listen.” — BBC
“Lokua Kanza is one of African music’s most creative and gifted voices.” — ROOTSWORLD
May 2010
File In: World / Africa / Congo On his latest album, Nkolo, Congolese singer Lokua Kanza draws on sounds from his father’s village and his native Lingala tongue to give the African Diaspora a musical sense of place. Listening to the album is an unabashedly uplifting experience — the theme of love is ever-present. The title track “Nkolo” translates as “God” and the album is unashamedly spiritual. A devout Christian, Kanza cut his musical teeth aged eight singing in the church in Kinshasha. Kanza, who now lives mainly in Brazil, was known as “the Brazilian” from an early age. The album’s tunes are a mixture of ndombolo [Congolese dance music] and samba, but Kanza also introduces instruments from outside these traditions, such as an ondes Martenot and a cristal Baschet (similar to a glass harmonica). Sung in Lingala, Portuguese and French, Nkolo is the embodiment of a perfect cross-cultural mix, a blend of beautiful melodies and radiant atmospheres. Its aesthetics simply defy categorization, touching at times on unseen spiritual forces.
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WORLD Ana Moura’s latest now on LP coast company
Leva-me Aos Fados
Ana Moura Coast Company • CTC 2990094
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LIMITED EDITION VINYL File In: World / Europe / Portugal Now available on limited-edition vinyl, Leva-me Aos Fados, Ana Moura’s fourth album, features songs by longtime collaborator Jorge Fernando, who produced and sat in on guitar, plus other noted composers. Moura’s rich, exquisitely bittersweet alto is breathtaking in its womanly, aching vulnerability. She communicates world-weary, indomitable courage spiced with a risqué tang of dark passion that “hurts so good.”
Love songs from Paris
May 2010
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Chansons d’Amour de Paris
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Claire Elzière, Daniel Colin, Dominique Cravic Frémeaux & Associés • FA 520
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File In: World / Europe / France Chanson and “musette” are the typical, eternal music of Paris. Following on their widely-praised release French Café Music, Frémeaux & Associés presents Chansons d’Amour de Paris. This anthology includes beautiful songs by the best songwriters that France has to offer sung by the talented Claire Elzière. One can listen to a whole chapter in the cultural heritage of Paris, with music that is as much a part of the French capital as the Eiffel Tower or the Champs Elysées.
JAZZ
Blue Note Classics now on
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Green Street
Grant Green APO • CBNJ 84071 SA
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Idle Moments
Grant Green APO • CBNJ 84154 SA
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The Tokyo Blues
Horace Silver APO • CBNJ 84110 SA
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May 2010
SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD File In: Jazz APO presents three classic Blue Note jazz albums, carefully transferred to SACD. Green Street was Grant Green’s second Blue Note album as a leader and remains one of the finest albums of his prolific output. Supported by just Ben Tucker’s bass and Dave Bailey’s drums, the guitarist seems inspired by the absence of any other chordal instrument. Unique in Green’s discography for its relaxed, lengthy performances and almost dream-like lyricism, Idle Moments could well be called Ballads for the Ages. Tokyo Blues, a quintessential mid-’60s Blue Note session, is Horace Silver’s tribute to the Japanese people. American jazz has always been wildly popular in Japan, and this album is Silver’s homage to the many fans that he has encountered on various triumphant tours of the island nation.
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JAZZ A vocal tribute to Basie frémeaux
A Basie Vocal Celebration
Claude Tissendier, Michele Hendricks, Marc Thomas Frémeaux & Associés • FA 518
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File In: Jazz Claude Tissendier offers a new reading of the legendary repertoire of Count Basie adapted for voice. This sort of vocal tribute was made immortal by stellar artists such as Ella Fitzgerald and more recently by Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, who appeared all over the world singing exceptional arrangements by Quincy Jones. Claude Tissendier is accompanied here by Michele Hendricks — Jon’s daughter — and Marc Thomas on a truly exceptional album of Basie standards.
The lighter side of Manouche
May 2010
chant du monde
Five Men Swinging
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Les Pommes de ma Douche Chant du Monde • 2741789
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File In: Jazz With five acclaimed albums under their belt, Les Pommes de ma Douche have built a superb career and a golden reputation in the world of Manouche jazz. The group was central to the worldwide revival of “gypsy swing.” On Five Men Swinging, Les Pommes de ma Douche take their inspiration from America. They’ve sought it out in every genre of American music, from Tin Pan Alley (“Lady is a Tramp,” “Night & Day”) to Hollywood (‘Mannix’), via Kansas City (“Taps Miller”). The resulting album of standards is a musical manifesto that might have be called ‘United Swing of America.’
R&B
Sam Cooke, straight from the heart Night Beat
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Sam Cooke APO • CAPP 2709 SA
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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD File In: R & B APO presents Sam Cooke’s most intimate, most soulful and ultimately most personal recording. Originally released in 1963, Night Beat has the feel of a private performance, captured after hours when the audience had gone home and the singer was singing purely for the love of his songs. The performance put forth is simply straight from Cooke’s soul. His selection of songs includes spiritual, bluesy ballads and gospel classics. Cooke owns these songs, making each interpretation all his own. Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound from the original three-track masters, APO’s SACD includes all three channels.
“Pop music has rarely sounded more elegantly silky.” — LOS ANGELES TIMES
“There can be no question that Mr. Cooke’s work from the early 50’s until his death in the early 60’s was unequaled for sheer musicality.” — NEW YORK TIMES
May 2010
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Concert Calendar • CLASSICAL April 2010
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Artist
Label
Date
City
State
Venue
Concerto Köln
harmonia mundi
Colin Currie James Ehnes
Onyx Classics Onyx Classics
Valery Gergiev Matthias Goerne Susan Graham
LSO Live harmonia mundi Onyx Classics
Marc-André Hamelin
Hyperion
Stephen Hough Katia & Marielle Labèque Dejan Lazic
Hyperion KML Records Channel Classics
Nikolai Lugansky
Onyx Classics
Jon Manasse & Jon Nakamatsu Andrew Manze Jon Nakamatsu
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Garrick Ohlsson Maxim Rysanov Jordi Savall
Hyperion Onyx Classics Alia Vox
Peter Serkin Yeol Eum Son Tokyo String Quartet Nobuyuki Tsujii
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Haochen Zhang
harmonia mundi
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City
State
Venue
C.J. Chenier
World Village
Lila Downs
World Village
Shujaat Husain Khan Klezmatics
World Village Piranha
Les Primitifs du Futur
Frémeaux & Associés
Gary Lucas New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
World Village World Village
Omara Portuondo
World Village
Catherine Russell
World Village
Tinariwen
World Village
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