harmonia mundi usa NEW RELEASES
NOVEMBER 9, 2010
Mark Padmore Kristian Bezuidenhout
SCHUMANN Dichterliebe
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NEW RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS Singers dominate harmonia mundi's priority titles for November. First up is the solo début by countertenor Bejun Mehta. A protégé of René Jacobs, Mehta sings arias by Handel on his new release entitled Ombra cara (p.3). Next up, star tenor Mark Padmore is joined by the extraordinary fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout in a disc featuring lieder by Schumann (p.5). Also on harmonia mundi, clarinetist Jon Manasse returns, accompanied once again by pianist Jon Nakamatsu, with a disc of American music for clarinet featuring works by Bernstein and Gershwin (p.4). With The Celtic Viol II, Alia Vox offers a welcome follow-up to Jordi Savall's acclaimed performances of music of the British isles (p.8). Channel Classics offers key releases from two of its top artists. The Netherlands Bach Ensemble performs Bach's Magnificat (p.10) and Iván Fischer leads the Budapest Festival Orchestra in symphonies by Beethoven (p.11). New on DVD this month is John Eliot Gardiner's eagerly awaited Carmen, with Anna Caterina Antonacci in the title role (p.18). Fresh off its Gramophone Record of the Year award, Hyperion continues their 30th anniversary celebrations with three very special releases. Angela Hewitt plays Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze (p.21), Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne play Schubert (p.23) and the inexhaustible Romantic Piano Concerto Series hits volume 52 (p.24). Last but not least, one of today's most in-demand conductors, Valery Gergiev, is featured in LSO Live's new recording of orchestral music by Ravel (p.28).
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IN THE PRESS World Village honored with the WOMEX Top Label Award World Village has been honored with the WOMEX TOP LABEL AWARD for 2010. The award honors the top-20 chart-topping music label of the year. Created as a joint project with the World Music Charts Europe, the selection is made using the charts of over 50 radio broadcasters from 25 countries.
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Shostakovich: Symphonies 2 & 11 Valery Gergiev Mariinsky • MAR 0507
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Gergiev conducts Shostakovich The second release in Valery Gergiev’s Shostakovich cycle features symphonies 2 and 11. The first release in the series featured symphonies 1 and 15 and was nominated for two grammy® awards. Once again, Gergiev conducts works from opposite ends of Shostakovich’s career and draws definitive performances from the Mariinsky Orchestra and Chorus.
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Bejun Mehta sings aria for Senesino harmonia harmoniamundi mundi
HANDEL Ombra cara
Bejun Mehta (counter-tenor), Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs harmonia mundi • HMC 902077
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“A ballsy, risk-taking singer, he flings coloratura about like weaponry and pushes himself to his limits in his quest for musical and dramatic expression. You are conscious of being in the presence of greatness.” — THE GUARDIAN
November 2010
Includes Bonus DVD - All Zones/ 15 minutes/ 16:9 Format If Handel’s arias enjoy such success today, perhaps it is because they lie at the intersection between past and present, light and shadow. In his first recital for harmonia mundi, Bejun Mehta has performs selections from the repertoire of the famous castrato Senesino. From shadow (“Ombra cara”) to light (“Sento la gioia”), this album re-introduces Mehta’s prodigious talents as a solo artist. Also included is a bonus DVD with interviews and video of the recording sessions. Mehta made his first record in 1983 for Delos when he was a boy soprano. Upon hearing that CD, Leonard Bernstein was moved to comment, “It is hard to believe the richness and maturity of musical understanding in this adolescent boy.” He was also honored by the magazine Stereo Review as the Debut Recording Artist of the Year. After his voice changed, the multi-talented Mehta excelled both as a cellist and a producer, winning a 1997 GRAMMY® award for his work on Janos Starker’s final recording of the Bach Cello Suites. Mehta again took up singing in 1998, inspired by countertenor David Daniels, and has now become one of the most sought-after countertenors of his generation.
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American chamber music for clarinet harmonia frémeaux mundi
BERNSTEIN Clarinet Sonata GERSHWIN 3 Preludes, I Got Rhythm NOVACEK 4 Rags for 2 Jons D’RIVERA The Cape Cod Files
Jon Manasse (clarinet), Jon Nakamatsu (piano) harmonia mundi • HMU 907508
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Acclaimed duo partners Jon Manasse and Jon Nakamatsu turn their attention to American composers in this jazz-inflected program of music for clarinet and piano. Bernstein’s sonata was his first published work. It is a stylish blend of neo-classical formalism and Bernstein’s keen understanding of popular sensibilities. Gershwin is represented here in two arrangements by James Cohn, first of the evergreen Preludes for piano, followed by a transcription of the iconic song I Got Rhythm from the musical Girl Crazy as the disc’s encore. Also featured are two world premiere recordings - John Novacek’s 4 Rags for 2 Jons, a modern take on the style made popular by Scott Joplin, and jazz clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera’s The Cape Cod Files, written in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Cape Cod Chamber Music festival, of which Jon Manasse and Jon Nakamatsu are Artistic Co-Directors.
“Jon Manasse’s beautiful legato and Jon Nakamatsu’s incisive pianism are a delight.”
November 2010
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Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas Op.120
harmonia mundi • HMU 907430 (093046743024)
“Their fluent performances have a flowing charm and grace.” — SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
— THE SUNDAY TIMES
Padmore and Bezuidenhout partner in Schumann harmonia harmoniamundi mundi
SCHUMANN Dichterliebe, Liederkreis LACHNER 5 Songs from Sängerfahrt Op.33
Mark Padmore (tenor), Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) harmonia mundi • HMU 907521
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“[Bezuidenhout is] a vigorously intelligent musician, well equipped with the technique to back up some extraordinary new ideas about old music.” — BOSTON GLOBE
A nearly unbroken string of critically acclaimed recordings and a burgeoning stage career have put tenor Mark Padmore at the top of critics’ lists around the world. His rich, elegant and powerful voice, enhanced by a rare musical intelligence, drives these deeply probing performances of two favorite song cycles by Robert Schumann. His partner here is up-and-coming fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout, whose equally sharp musical mind and staggering virtuosity provide the perfect accompaniment to these masterpieces of the Romantic era. Also included are five songs from Sängerfahrt by Franz Lachner based upon poetry by Heine.
“The finest, most musical British tenor around today.”
Also available harmonia mundi • HMU 907519 (093046751920)
“Moving and enlightening... singer and pianist form a sympathetic union of distinct individuals.” — GRAMOPHONE
Mozart: Keyboard Music Vol.1
harmonia mundi • HMU 907497 (093046749729)
“Likely to set a new benchmark.” — INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
November 2010
Schubert: Die schone Mullerin
— THE GUARDIAN
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New in the Philippe Herreweghe Bach Edition BACH Magnificat BWV243a, Cantate Mit Fried und Freud, Christmas Cantatas, Magnificat BWV243
BACH Advent Cantatas BWV36, 61, & 62, Christmas Cantatas BWV57, 91, 110, 121, 122 & 133
Excerpted from HMC 901326 (3149025044372) & HMC 901781 (794881719129) Available, & HMC901659 (794881441822) Deleted March 2009
Remains Available as HMC 901605 (794881399222), HMC 901594 (794881358328) & HMC 901781 (794881719129)
Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe harmonia mundi • HML 5908369
Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe harmonia mundi • HML 5908360
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BACH Cantata for Alto, Cantata for Bass, German Cantatas before Bach
BACH Mass in B minor, Motets
Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe harmonia mundi • HML 5908366
Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe harmonia mundi • HML 5908372
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Previously Available as HMC 90164 (794881417025) Deleted July 2010, HMC 901365 (093046136529) Deleted March 1999 & HMC 901703 (794881611126) Deleted September 2005
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Philippe Herreweghe is widely considered to be one of the foremost Bach interpreters of our time. These four deluxe CD-Book collections are the latest releases in harmonia mundi’s complete Herreweghe Bach Edition. These sets feature key works such as the B-minor Mass, the Magnificat and the Motets, as well as a wide selection of Cantatas. 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.
Focus on Alexandre Tharaud Price Code: 3A09 (3 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $29.98)
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Alexandre Tharaud (piano) harmonia mundi • HMX 2908379
This prestige set brings together the three Baroque music recordings made by Alexandre Tharaud for harmonia mundi between 2001 and 2007. At a time when most recordings of Rameau, Bach and Couperin are played on period instruments, the French pianist has masterfully absorbed the numerous discoveries made in the field of period performance practice over the last thirty years, while simultaneously making these time-hallowed works sound genuinely contemporary. This is a trilogy which has already enjoyed unparalleled success.
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Baroque RAMEAU Nouvelles Suites COUPERIN Tic Toc Choc BACH Italian Concertos
Explore the history of classical music
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Early Music From Ancient Times to the Renaissance
Various Artists harmonia mundi • HMX 2918163
10 CDs for the price of 5
November 2010
Previously Available as HMX 2908163 (794881786428) Deleted March 2008 Originally issued as part of the Century series in 2005, this specially-priced set features the best artists on the harmonia mundi label performing a diverse selection of music before 1600. With ten discs offering more than twelve hours of glorious music, this set is a unique guide to these fascinating musical periods. Each CD is accompanied by a detailed booklet dealing with the musical, historical and geographical contexts of the works performed, closely linked with key elements from the visual arts of the appropriate period. From the ancient world to 1600: the pleasure of discovery is complete, for eyes and ears alike.
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Jordi Savall plays Celtic music The Celtic Viol Vol.2
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Jordi Savall (viola da gamba), Andrew Lawrence-King (harp), Frank McGuire (bodhran) Alia Vox • AVSA 9878
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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD The Celtic Viol Vol.2 follows a critically acclaimed first volume, but is far from being merely its continuation. Thanks to the use of different types of viol (treble and lyra) and the particularly inspired rhythms coming from Frank McGuire on bodhran (an Irish frame drum), Jordi Savall enriches his vision of this fascinating repertoire. Andrew Lawrence-King again offers a perfect counterpoint on Irish harp and psaltery. The album is organized in seven sets that enable us to discover many sides of a repertoire Jordi Savall explores with the steadiest hand.
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November 2010
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“Savall’s passion and virtuosity have allowed him to shake the dust off pieces of music that have long since passed into the dark world of museums and academies. Channeled through his viol, ancient songs come to life with a vitality and energy that make them sound as if they were written yesterday.”
The Celtic Viol
Alia Vox • AVSA 9865 (7619986398655)
“Ravishingly beautiful and deeply poetic… a thought provoking recording.” — GRAMOPHONE
A fresh take on Dido Price Code: A19 (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)
La Nouvelle Menestrandie, Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alarcón Ambronay • AMY 022
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PURCELL Dido and Aeneas
Leonardo García Alarcón, a rising star of a new generation of authentic music performers, brings a unique passion and innocent freshness to Dido’s eternal tragedy. Leading a group of young singers and a small, tight-knit instrumental ensemble, Alarcón employs spirited tempi and uncluttered musical textures to maintain the music’s inexorable flow and emotional intensity.
Rachel Podger’s Mozart Price Code: A21 (Suggested Retail Price: $21.98)
Rachel Podger (violin), Gary Cooper (fortepiano) Channel Classics • CCS SA 23606
SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Previously Available as CCS SA 20067 (723385200673) Deleted October 2010 This disc replaces the catalog-CD version released in 2006. As with the previous releases in Rachel Podger’s Mozart sonata series, volume three includes works from the composer’s early, middle and late periods to provide a balanced survey of Mozart’s stylistic changes in the genre. Podger is accompanied by fortepianist Gary Cooper.
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MOZART Violin Sonatas Vol.3
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Christmas music by Bach and his contemporaries channel frémeaux classics
BACH Magnificat, BWV243, Cantata “Unser Mund sei voll Lachens,” BWV110 D.J. SWEELINCK Hoe schoon lichtet de morghen ster VERRIJT Currite, pastores SCHEIN Jesulein, mein Jesulein J.M. BACH Ehre sei Go in der Höhe Dorothee Mields, Johanne e Zomer (sopranos), William Towers (alto), Charles Daniels (tenor), Stephan MacLeod (bass), Netherlands Bach Society, Jos van Veldhoven Channel Classics • CCS SA 32010
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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD All the music on this new SACD from the Netherlands Bach Society is associated with the festival of Christmas. Bach wrote the cantata Unser Mund sei voll Lachens for morning service on Christmas Day 1725, and the first version of the Magnificat for Christmas Day 1723, seven months after the Leipzig town council appointed him cantor of the Thomaskirche. It would hardly be exaggerating to say that Bach thus presented his visiting card to his new employer. According to the Bach scholar Christoph Wolff, the work is his, “first really large-scale and complex piece of church music.” Christmas was not the only occasion to sing the Magnificat text, however, for it was also a standard part of the vespers liturgy. This may explain why Bach made a second version, heard here, some years later. For this recording, in keeping with the tradition of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Jos van Veldhoven has interspersed Bach’s Magnificat with other Christmas-themed music from the period.
November 2010
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Handel: Music for the Peace of Utrecht
Channel Classics • CCS SA 29610 (723385296102)
“The Netherlands Bach Society is a crackerjack ensemble of tremendous quality and digs into these pieces with relish. Channel’s surround sound is simply brilliant, and I can’t imagine anyone being disappointed by this recording.” — AUDIOPHILE AUDITION
“Here is an artist whose musicality transcends technical difficulties and takes you straight to the heart of the music.” — ENJOY THE MUSIC
Iván Fischer’s Beethoven cycle begins channel classics
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos.4 & 6
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer Channel Classics • CCS SA 30710
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“Very few conductors can match Fischer’s extraordinary ability to search out and illuminate the most subtle and transient details of scoring, tempi and dynamics without sacrificing dramatic momentum and impact.” — ENJOY THE MUSIC
SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Iván Fischer leads the Budapest Festival Orchestra in the first release of a new Beethoven symphony cycle for Channel Classics. The fourth and sixth are two fundamentally different symphonies - both works explore feelings from an entirely different point of view. The fourth is about human feelings and moods - obsession, love, happiness, fun and wit. The sixth is about feelings that nature awakens in us - calmness, meditation and thankfulness. The creative process in making these recordings was quite open. Fischer discovered that the fourth sounds better with natural horns and trumpets, and for the Pastorale, he used a unique seating arrangement with the winds scattered among the strings. The intent was to have each soloist surrounded by musicians playing the flow of Beethoven’s nature music. After the storm, when we hear the first tentative call of the clarinet, answered by the horn from a different mountain, as it were, Fischer found it appropriate to use a solo violin, which is gradually joined by the whole orchestra.
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“Mandatory listening for anyone interested in Dvorák and the best of his modern interpreters.” — GRAMOPHONE
November 2010
Dvorák: Symphony No.7
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dutton
New releases on Du on Epoch GIBBS Oboe Concerto SCOTT Concerto for Oboe & String Orchestra WRIGHT Concerto for Oboe & String Orchestra PEHKONEN Amor Vincit Omnia for Oboe d’amore & Strings
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Jonathan Small (oboe), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Martin Yates Du on Laboratories • CDLX 7249
Jonathan Small’s eloquent performances with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic of Armstrong Gibbs’s charming oboe concerto, and the recently rediscovered concerto by Cyril Scott, both works written for Léon Goossens, re-launch two lovely scores on Dutton Epoch. Complemented by Christopher Wright’s gripping concerto and Elis Pekhonen’s exquisite Amor Vincit Omnia for oboe d’amore and strings, it makes for another endlessly enjoyable and varied program from Dutton Epoch. All are world premiere recordings.
Sonatas Arranged by Lionel Tertis DELIUS Violin Sonatas Nos.2 & 3 IRELAND Cello Sonata, Violin Sonata No.2
Roger Chase (viola), Michiko Otaki (piano) Du on Laboratories • CDLX 7250
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On this release, Roger Chase plays the celebrated Montagnana viola, which Lionel Tertis used at the height of his career. Here Chase presents four of Tertis’ own arrangements. The Delius second and third violin sonatas, together with John Ireland’s cello sonata and second violin sonata (this CD marks the world premiere recording of Tertis’ arrangement of Ireland’s second violin sonata), make a revelatory program of viola sonatas, the plangent sound of the instrument bringing a new vision to these works.
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Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Sco ish National Orchestra, George Vass Du on Laboratories • CDLX 7251
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HOLBROOKE Symphony No.4, Cello Concerto, The Pit and the Pendulum Fantasie for Orchestra, Pandora
Enthusiasts have been requesting recordings of the orchestral music of Joseph Holbrooke for many years. Their prayers are answered by Dutton Epoch’s recording shared between the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. Soloist Raphael Wallfisch gives a singing performance of the delightful cello concerto, while the fourth symphony, the vivid tone poem The Pit and the Pendulum and the waltz Pandora, a charming encore from a 1920 ballet score, represent Holbrooke at his tuneful best. All are world premiere recordings, vividly played by the two orchestras.
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FOULDS Keltic Overture, Keltic Suite, Sicilian Aubade, Isles of Greece, Holiday Sketches, An Arabian Night, Suite Fantastique
BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp Du on Laboratories • CDLX 7252
Dutton Epoch’s pioneering recording of the BBC Concert Orchestra directed by Ronald Corp in several once popular works by John Foulds is a delightful discovery for admirers of this composer’s serious music and light music buffs alike. Most of this catchy and engaging selection has never previously been recorded, and includes three substantial orchestral suites as well such entrancing numbers as the oriental nocturne An Arabian Night, the miniature tone poem The Isles of Greece and the delightful Sicilian Aubade. Includes world premiere recordings and a first CD recording. November 2010
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Bu erworth world premieres harmonia frémeaux dutton mundi
BUTTERWORTH Symphony No.5, Three Nocturnes, The Quiet Tarn, The Green Wind, Coruscations, Gigues
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Royal Sco ish National Orchestra, Arthur Bu erworth Du on Laboratories • CDLX 7253
Following the success of Arthur Butterworth’s first recording for Dutton Epoch (CDLX 7212) this month brings the composer’s gripping direction of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in further selections from his orchestral music. The music on this disc was written over an almost fifty-year span. Butterworth is the musical poet of the north, and as the ‘English Sibelius’ he occupies a special place in the repertoire. The shorter pieces here are quite varied in their sound-world, from the bleak grandeur of the Nocturnes to the warmth of The Green Wind. All are world premiere recordings.
Budget-priced historic reissues
November 2010
BOCCHERINI Cello Concerto in B flat major BRUCH Kol Nidrei ELGAR Cello Concerto DVORÁK Songs my mother taught me RIMSKY-KORSAKOV The flight of the bumblebee MENDELSSOHN Song without words Op.109 HAYDN Minuet
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Pablo Casals (cello), London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Landon Ronald, Sir Adrian Boult, Blas Net (piano) Du on Laboratories • CDVS 1913
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto CHOPIN Piano Concerto No.2 RAVEL Piano Concerto for the Le Hand
Alfred Cortot (piano), Paris Conservatory Orchestra, Charles Munch, Sir John Barbirolli Du on Laboratories • CDVS 1914
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RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos Nos.2 & 3
Sergei Rachmaninov (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski Du on Laboratories • CDVS 1915
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto DVORÁK Violin Concerto WIENIAWSKI Légende BACH Double Violin Concerto BWV1043 Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Paris Conservatory Orchestra, George Enescu Du on Laboratories • CDVS 1916
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Favourite Music of Eric Coates COATES The Merrymakers Overture, At the Dance, The Man from the Sea, Oxford Street March, The Three Bears, By the Sleepy Lagoon, Queen Elizabeth March GILBERT & SULLIVAN Overtures to The Mikado, The Yeomen of the Guard, Iolanthe, Ruddigore London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras Du on Vocalion • CDVS 1964
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Budget-priced historic reissues
Live Studio Broadcasts BRIAN Dr. Merryheart Overture, Symphonies Nos.9 & 11
London Symphony Orchestra, Harry Newston, Norman Del Mar Du on Laboratories • CDBP 9798
Broadcast & Concert Performances IRELAND Piano solos, Sacred and Profane, Sonata in G minor for Cello & Piano, The Land of Lost Content, Fantasy Sonata for Clarinet & Piano, Hawthorn time, I have twelve oxen, The trellis John Ireland (piano), Peter Pears (tenor), Antoni Sala (cello), Frederick Thurston (clarinet) Du on Laboratories • CDBP 9799
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Kulenkampff Plays Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Bach & Schumann TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto BACH Suite No.3 SCHUMANN
Abendlied Op.85 No.12 Georg Kulenkampff (violin), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt Du on Laboratories • CDBP 9800
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SIBELIUS Symphony No.5, String Quartet Op.56
Griller Quartet, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Erik Tuxen Du on Laboratories • CDBP 9801
Stokowski Conducts Bach, Tchaikovsky & Dvorák BACH Toccata and Fugue in D minor TCHAIKOVSKY Nutcracker Suite DVORÁK Symphony No.9
Leopold Stokowski Du on Laboratories • CDBP 9803
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Kulenkampff Plays Mozart, Spohr & Bruch MOZART Violin Concerto No.5 SPOHR Violin Concerto No.8 BRUCH Violin Concerto No.1
Georg Kulenkampff (violin), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth Du on Laboratories • CDBP 9804
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Antonacci sings Carmen fra frémeaux musica
BIZET Carmen
Anna Caterina Antonacci (soprano), Annie Gill (soprano), Anne-Catherine Gillet (soprano), Francis Dudziak (tenor), Vincent Ordonneau (tenor), Andrew Richards (tenor), Ma hew Brook (baritone), Nicolas Cavallier (bass-baritone), Riccardo Novaro (bass) Monteverdi Choir, Maitrise des Hauts de Seine, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Sir John Eliot Gardiner FRA Musica • FRA 004
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Price Code 2A21 (2DVD Set, Suggested Retail Price $43.98) All Zones; 191 minutes including bonus material New from the enterprising new DVD label FRA Musica, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, leads the period-instrument Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique and an all star cast topped by the amazing Anna Caterina Antonacci in a staging of Bizet’s beloved opera Carmen that had critics raving. Antonacci’s extraordinary vocal timbre and superb acting skills have enabled her to perform a vast and varied repertoire in the world’s most important theatres. She made her Covent Garden debut in a new production of Carmen in 2008 with Antonio Pappano and recently performed a selection of Canteloube’s Chants d’Auvergne at the BBC Proms. Probably the most Francophile of English conductors, John Eliot Gardiner returned to the Opéra Comique in Paris for this much-acclaimed production last year. It was broadcast live to fifty theatres in France and Switzerland and also recorded for television. This followed an exciting collaboration that began with Chabrier’s opera bouffe L’Etoile, which opened the new theatre at the Opéra Comique in December 2007. DVD bonuses include the return to the Opéra comique and interviews with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Jérôme Deschamps & Agnès Terrier.
November 2010
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Purcell: Dido & Aeneas
FRA Musica • FRA 001 (3770002003008)
“Under Christie’s consummate hand, it will break your heart.” — OPERA NEWS
The Tallis Scholars’ finest recordings gimell
Sacred Music in the Renaissance Vol.2
Tallis Scholars Gimell • GIMBX 302
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Sacred Music in the Renaissance Vol.3
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Tallis Scholars Gimell • GIMBX 303
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These two boxed sets complete Gimell’s three volume series of The Tallis Scholars’ finest recordings. Grouped by decade, and each set offers over five hours of the award-winning performances that helped establish the sacred vocal music of the Renaissance as one of the great repertoires of western classical music.
TRACK LIST | VOLUME 2
Verdelot Si bona suscepimus Gombert Magnificats 1-8 Browne Salve regina I, Stabat iuxta, Stabat mater, O regina mundi clara, O Maria salvatoris Palestrina Stabat mater, Missa Papae Marcelli, Tu es Petrus Allegri Miserere Josquin Missa Malheur me bat, Missa Fortuna desperata
November 2010
Brumel Missa Et ecce terrae motus, Lamentations Isaac Missa de Apostolis, Tota pulchra es Obrecht Missa Maria zart Ferrabosco Lamentations I Tallis Lamentations I & II White Lamentations Palestrina Lamentations for Holy Saturday de Rore Descendi in hortum meum, Missa Praeter rerum seriem Cardoso Requiem
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The Bells of Christmas
Gloriae Dei Ringers, Richard Pugsley Gloriae Dei Cantores • GDCD 122
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Nothing evokes Christmas like bells – ringing from a church steeple, accompanying a sleigh ride, or adorning evergreens. In this best-selling album, reissued at mid-price just in time for the season, the Christmas spirit is joyfully expressed through beloved carols performed on six-and-a-half octave set of Malmark handbells. The Gloriae Dei Ringers include old favorites in new arrangements, as well as original handbell works.
November 2010
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Hyperion begins a Liszt song series
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LISZT The Complete Songs Vol.1
Ma hew Polenzani (tenor), Julius Drake (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67782
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The start of another Hyperion Lieder series is always cause for celebration. In advance of his bicentenary in 2011, the label turns to a composer whose songs were considered insignificant for well over a century. A regular collaborator with some of Europe’s best singers, Liszt used song as a compositional laboratory in which to experiment with ‘Zukunftsmusik,’ or ‘music of the future.’ A cosmopolitan artist who traveled prodigiously, he chose song texts written both by great poets and amateurs, the latter often aristocrats from Liszt’s glittering social circles. He created songs that changed the very definition of the genre, that are a bridge to such later masters as Wolf and Strauss. This first volume in the series features the American tenor Matthew Polenzani who has been astounding Met opera audiences in recent years. He is accompanied by the curator of the series, Julius Drake.
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SCHUMANN Davidsbündlertänze, Kinderszenen, Sonata No.2
Angela Hewi (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67780
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”The paramount quality of Angela Hewitt’s piano playing is the joy it communicates. Underpinning it there is incontrovertible intellectual rigour; and there are great reserves of wisdom and technical finesse.”
Angela Hewitt has earned a richly deserved reputation for her interpretations of Bach and the Baroque, and something of that characteristic clarity illuminates her Schumann performances. Her first disc of this repertoire was praised for its seemingly effortless but always adventurous interpretation. This second volume, containing some of the composer’s most bewitchingly beautiful music, should be no less lauded.
— THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
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November 2010
— GRAMOPHONE
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Schumann: Humoreske, Sonata
Hyperion • CDA 67618 (034571176185)
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Brilliant new choral music recordings REGER Choral Music
Consortium, Andrew-John Smith Hyperion • CDA 67762
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Although Reger’s music has partly recovered from its once unfashionable reputation, much of this prolific composer’s work still remains underperformed. Hyperion’s new disc from the chamber choir Consortium offers a chance to redress the balance, both by bringing to light an aspect of Reger’s output that has been relatively neglected, and by demonstrating that the important influences on him were not just musical but literary. Like his near contemporaries, Mahler, Strauss, Wolf and Zemlinsky, Reger responded deeply and imaginatively to the German Romantic poetic tradition. The works recorded here set many of the same poets with a sensitivity and intuitive understanding that belie Reger’s reputation for stodgy academicism.
MISKINIS Choral Music
Royal Holloway Choir, Rupert Gough Hyperion • CDA 67818
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November 2010
The Royal Holloway Choir’s debut recording of music by Dubra received a rapturous response from the critics. Now the group offers a second volume of Baltic delights in the sumptuous music of Vytautas Miskinis. His music, while bearing identifiable Lithuanian roots, is a synthesis of different influences. It has an essentially diatonic approach but with much overlaying of harmonies and colored cluster-chords. What makes the music unmistakably Lithuanian is the influence of folk-song genres. The overall effect is luscious, radiant and exotic. This music is passionately performed by these talented young singers and sensitively recorded in a generous church acoustic.
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Lewis and Osborne team up for Schubert harmonia mundi hyperion
SCHUBERT Piano Duets
Steven Osborne (piano), Paul Lewis (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67665
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Schubert is unusual and indeed unique among composers in that some of his greatest works are written for piano duet. He wrote as much music for duet as for solo piano, and it reaches emotional depths that take this genre far away from its domestic origins. The most celebrated of these pieces, the Fantasie in F minor, with its austere yet heartbreaking opening melody and dramatic double fugue, is one of the great piano achievements of the early 19th century. The rest of the works on this disc are much less well known but equally fascinating. Who better to commit these works to disc than two of the brightest stars in the British piano scene, Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne? As well as their individual achievements, they also have a long-standing friendship and performing relationship, which you will hear reflected in their magisterial performances on this marvelous disc.
“Osborne’s musical intelligence and refined virtuosity command respect.” — CLASSICS TODAY
“Lewis is one of those rare pianists who can charge even a single note or momentary pause with drama and significance.
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Schubert: Trout Quintet
Hyperion • CDA 67662 (034571176628)
Hyperion • CDA 67527 (034571175270)
— INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
— THE SUNDAY TIMES
“This is an outstanding disc.”
“One of the finest modern Trouts available.”
November 2010
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas
— GRAMOPHONE
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Romantic concertos by Goetz & Wieniawski harmonia frémeaux hyperion mundi
The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.52 GOETZ Piano Concerto WIENIAWSKI Piano Concerto Hamish Milne (piano), BBC Sco ish Symphony Orchestra, Michal Dworzynski Hyperion • CDA 67791
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Hamish Milne makes a welcome return to the Romantic Piano Concerto series with two recherché delights from the nineteenth century. Józef – ‘the other Wieniawski’ – is the brother of the more famous violinist, Henryk. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire and had a wide-ranging and successful performing and composing career. His highly attractive G minor concerto is in the mold of those by Chopin and Liszt, with the piano very much in the foreground. The finale demands a spectacular display of technique, living proof of Wieniawski’s own brand of virtuosity. Goetz’s music, although full of melodic gift and mastery of form, was rarely performed after the end of his short life. His piano concerto proved to be the most successful of his orchestral works played during his lifetime, and was praised by the local press as, “evidence of his outstanding talent, crafted, melodious, fiery and reflective, with a brilliant piano part. It is effective without playing to the gallery, often has quite new combinations of scoring in the orchestral accompaniment, and is, in the best sense of the word, modern.”
IN PRAISE OF HAMISH MILNE
“Quick sympathy and an impeccable technique in the service of an authentic full-blown grand-romantic manner.”
November 2010
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Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.51
Hyperion • CDA 67765 (034571177656)
“The result is enormously impressive —here is very good music, superbly played by these outstanding musicians.” — INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
— THE FINANCIAL TIMES
Gems of baroque chamber music
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VIVALDI The Complete Cello Sonatas
David Watkin (cello), The King’s Consort Hyperion • CDD 22065
2 CDs for the price of 1
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David Watkin’s complete recording of Vivaldi’s Cello Sonatas ranks among the finest ever put to disc. Watkin is accompanied by a adept and colorful mix of continuo instruments including theorbo, archlute and Baroque guitar. His approach to these gems of the Baroque show Watkin to be technically commanding and emotionally in tune as well as stylistically accurate. Hyperion’s recording is among their finest, with clear and rich sonics that allow the music and the performances to breathe.
Helios series reissues LEONINUS Magister Leoninus Sacred Music Vol.2
The Floating City CASTELLO & PICCHI Sonatas, Canzonas & Dances
His Majestys Sagbu s & Corne s Hyperion • CDH 55320
Red Byrd Hyperion • CDH 55338
Previously Available as CDA 67013 (034571170138) Deleted June 2007
Previously Available as CDA 67289 (034571172897) Deleted December 2007
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November 2010
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Spiritual Ravel from Valery Gergiev frémeaux lso live
RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé, Boléro, Pavane pour une infante défunte London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev LSO Live • LSO 0693
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CONCERT REVIEW
“A performance which carried the listener breathlessly into a dance of entirely spiritual dimensions. Both demanding and obtaining a control over his orchestra which only pianists should reasonably expect from their instruments, Gergiev has always aimed high with the LSO. With this concert, they hit the bullseye.” — THE GUARDIAN
November 2010
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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Music for the theatre has always formed a central part of Valery Gergiev’s concert repertoire. Following up on his acclaimed recording of Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet, LSO Live offers a new recording of Ravel’s ballet Daphnis et Chloé. Although he subsequently prepared orchestral suites of the score, the complete work is a magnificent orchestral showpiece in its own right. Ravel described it as a “symphonie choréographique” and it is essentially an extended tone poem. Luscious orchestral colors run throughout the work, portraying the passion of the two protagonists for each other. By contrast, the Pavane pour une infante défunte, composed while Ravel was still a student o f Ga b r i e l Fa u r é , h a rk s back to the simplicity of the eighteenth-century music of Rameau. Boléro, one of his final works, highlights the Spanish influences and passion that pervade so many of his works.
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet
LSO Live • LSO 0682 (822231168225)
“Refined, stylish, and emotionally charged… This is a consistently engaging interpretation that is dynamic exciting, and perfectly symphonic.” — AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
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Great pianists on Mirare Price Code: A21 (Suggested Retail Price: $21.98)
In 1853, three great artists struck up a mutual friendship. Schumann was living out his final years of creativity before sinking into madness. Clara, his virtuoso pianist wife, had already composed more than twenty works of her own. The young Brahms left the northern mists to meet Robert, whom he venerated. The trio of composers influenced each other in many ways, and these connections are explored in Claire Désert’s recital disc for Mirare.
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Abendmusik SCHUMANN Bunte Blä er SCHUMANN-WEICK Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann BRAHMS Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann
Claire Désert (piano) Mirare • MIR 115
CHABRIER Piano works
Emmanuel Strosser (piano) Mirare • MIR 116
Francis Poulenc considered the music of Emmanuel Chabrier to be “an inexhaustible treasure.” Chabrier is one of the most individual composers of the French Romantic school between Berlioz and Debussy. Although known primarily for two of his orchestral works, España and Joyeuse marche, Chabrier’s piano music, though not vast in quantity, is of a uniformly high quality. A fascinating and illuminating selection of these works is played here by French pianist Emmanuel Strosser.
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Claude Pennetier (piano) Mirare • MIR 119
November 2010
In addition to glorious melodies and rich harmonic structures, there are powerful silences in the late sonatas of Schubert. Silences that grip, surprise or reassure, and Jean-Claude Pennetier, who has never allowed Schubert’s works to leave his repertory, knows just how precious those moments are. This new set from Mirare features the sonatas in G and A Major, which are like swan songs where the composer lays bare his soul to the world.
SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas
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Rogé’s Debussy series continues frémeaux onyx
DEBUSSY Piano Works Vol.4
Pascal Rogé (piano) Onyx Classics • ONYX 4056
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Pascal Rogé has established a reputation as the world’s foremost interpreter of the French piano repertoire. His recordings of the music of Erik Satie are unsurpassed after years in the catalogue, and his series for Onyx continues with a fourth volume featuring the twelve Études, considered to be among the composer’s finest masterpieces. Gramophone said of Rogé’s recording of the Preludes, “this disc has all his improvisatory warmth and charm, qualities that can take you to the very heart of the composer’s evanescent world.”
November 2010
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Debussy: Piano Works Vol.1
Onyx Classics • ONYX 4004 (880040400424)
Debussy: Piano Works Vol.2
Onyx Classics • ONYX 4018 (880040401827)
Debussy: Piano Works Vol.3
Onyx Classics • ONYX 4028 (880040402824)
The sultry saxophone Price Code: A21 (Suggested Retail Price: $21.98)
Theodore Kerkezos (saxophone), London Symphony Orchestra, Yuri Simonov Onyx Classics • ONYX 4065
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Légende - Works For Saxophone and Orchestra
Many classical composers have been seduced by the sound and wide range of colors and sonorities the saxophone produces. From Glazunov’s concerto to present day composers, the repertoire has grown to include some fascinating works. This disc gathers together French works with a very Mediterranean feel. The sultry sound of the saxophone is used to tremendous effect in Schmitt’s exotic Légende. Tomasi’s imposing concerto and the vibrant Tableaux de Provence by Paule Maurice will be discoveries for most listeners. Theodore Kerkezos is one of the leading saxophonists of his generation, and a champion of modern music. He is also active in preserving and bringing to a wider audience the repertoire for his instrument – much of which is little known.
Rossini’s ‘lost masterpiece’ Price Code: 2A25 (2 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $51.98)
Carmen Gianna asio (soprano), Patricia Bardon, Rebecca Bo one, Victoria Simmonds (mezzo-sopranos), Bülent Bezdüz, Loïc Félix, Colin Lee (tenors), Graeme Broadbent (bass), Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, David Parry Opera Rara • ORC 42
November 2010
During the years from 1815 to 1822 when his career centered on Naples, Rossini composed a sequence of works for the Teatro San Carlo, which at that time boasted an outstanding orchestra and a company of resident singers that was the leading ensemble available anywhere. A string of masterpieces resulted, including Ermione - which is without doubt one of the composer’s greatest operas, despite it being perhaps the least immediately successful. Ermione was received with incomprehension at its sole performance in 1819 and was never revived in Rossini’s lifetime. Since its first stage revival in Pesaro in 1987, Ermione has been recognized as a lost masterpiece. Set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, the opera’s novelties begin with an overture interrupted by a choral lament of Trojan prisoners. Tension and staggering originality are maintained right to the very end.
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Cantatas by Martín y Soler MARTÍN Y SOLER Il Sogno, La Dora festeggiante
Real Compañía Ópera de Cámara, Juan Bautista Otero RCOC Records • RCOC 1001
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This new CD from the Real Compañía Ópera de Cámara presents two cantatas by the Spanish composer Vicente Martín y Soler - Il Sogno and La Dora festeggiante. Il Sogno, written in 1787, is the only example of collaboration of between Martín y Soler and the great librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. These works are like a small fresco of this period of transformation. La Dora represents the end of a period, in which the Olympic gods serve as a model to human behavior, while Il Sogno, is, deep down, a pre-romantic spiritual work, in which the nymphs are no longer unattainable beings, beings that do not suffer or have human passions but on the contrary, they embody them, they live them in their own skin in spite of being in an idyllic place.
November 2010
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An historic St. Ma hew Passion
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BACH St. Ma hew Passion
Orchestre de l’Opéra de Vienne, Akademie Kammerchor, Hermann Scherchen Tahra • TAH 701
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Of all Bach’s compositions, the St. Matthew Passion is undoubtedly the most ambitious one. It is also a new work, even if this newness doesn’t reside either in a purely formal invention or in the use of revolutionary musical techniques. Although the genius of the cantor of Leipzig pushes the musical processes used to their summit, it is its ingenious layout of the musical matter that is used in all the forms of that period and its roots in the history of our civilization that turn the Saint-Matthew Passion into one of civilization’s most important monuments. What strikes one in the first place in Hermann Scherchen’s interpretation, is the very judicious choice of tempi combined with a sustained characterization of each event in order to highlight the drama’s progression. He achieves this both as an architect and as a goldsmith, giving each character (individual or collective) a right weight and a measure only aimed to serve the general balance. The resulting interpretation is absolutely dramatic.
Exciting contemporary music from Wergo Price Code: A23 (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98)
Ensemble Modern Wergo • WER 6578
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HADDAD Deux Visages
Saed Haddad views good music as needing, in addition to many intangible elements, a balance of physical and metaphysical traits. In the former category, he includes beauty, energy, magic, tension and virtuosity. In the latter category rest elusive concepts: the existential, the intellectual, the transcendental. The compositions presented on this CD belong to two periods of compositional practices. In the first period (2004-06), Haddad aimed to achieve a synthesis of Arabic and Western music, without the usual Western gimmicks, i.e. tourism, exoticism or even “abstraction.” His goal was true existential and transcendental integration, not a juxtaposition or imposition of one tradition on the other. In the latter period (2007-), the ever-questioning composer has been distancing himself from a direct, existential contact with Arabic culture.
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Krönung (coronation)
MusikFabrik Wergo • WER 6855
Price Code: A23 (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98)
November 2010
Wergo’s focus with this new CD entitled Coronation is not on blue blood or kingly power, but in organic processes - the music on this CD sends up its shoots and produces blossoms like crowns. (co)ro(na), by Vykintas Baltakas, springs from a cascade of motivic branchings, its roots in a cycle of works named after the alchemical Ouroboros, a snake that swallows its own tail. Its dragon’s blood, so the legends say, is cinnabar red - like the hue that shines in Cinnabar by Rebecca Saunders. Magnus Lindberg’s Joy expresses itself through its profligacy with spectral harmonies and the resonant snapping of the strings of a demolished piano. Thalleïn by Iannis Xenakis creates sieves that proliferate until they transform into archaic dances, refulgent with the brass tones.
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JAZZ chant du monde
A Gypsy guitar jam session Django et Rein d’Autre - Live at Les Nuit Manouches
Yorgui Loeffler, Steeve Laffont, Raphaël Faÿs Chant du Monde • 2741886
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File In: Jazz After five years of planning and organization, this project debuted at the Alhambra in Paris during the Les Nuits Manouches Festival (Gypsy Nights), on Saturday January 23rd, the exact centenary of Django Reinhardt’s birth. The revival of the craze for Django’s style, now known as Manouche Jazz, has been going steady for a good fifteen years now. The current name can be explained by the fact that its best exponents all come from the Manouche community, including the three brilliant performers heard here, Raphael Fays, Steeve Laffont and Yorgui Loeffler.
November 2010
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Raphaël Fays: Django’s Works
Chant du Monde • 2741872 (794881960620)
Steeve Laffont: Swing for Jess
Chant du Monde • 2741737 (794881928729)
Yorgui Loeffler: Bouncin’ Around Chant du Monde • 2741773 (794881939626)
WORLD Charismatic music from Hassan Erraji world village
Awal Mara
Hassan Erraji World Village • 450007
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November 2010
File In: World / Morocco Hassan Erraji’s stunning new World Village album Awal Mara is a comeback disc of pure excellence. It is sure to re-ignite his army of dedicated admirers around the world as well as recruit new legions of music aficionados about to experience the aural delights and charm of his creations for the first time. The album is packed full of compelling new songs fashioned from Erraji’s immense classical musical knowledge, absorbed into a contemporary music sensibility which has most certainly been given a veritable Yorkshire twist by the highly esteemed personnel involved with the project. Meticulously recorded by the widely respected producer Dave Creffield whose exhaustive list of credits include Kaiser Chiefs and Embrace, the album was actually recorded at the Leeds studio owned by one of the Kaiser Chiefs themselves. The recordings then remained in Yorkshire to be mixed and mastered in Leeds by another highly regarded producer, Carl Rosamond, who has worked with many seminal Leeds bands such as Cud and The Wedding Present. Add to the Erraji recipe an exciting new dynamic young band including the extravagantly gifted rhythm team of Kenny Higgins and Ben Stevens and all the ingredients are there to once again establish Hassan as one of the most important, charismatic, fascinating and influential artists on the world music stage today.
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NOSTALGIA The immortal Mantovani A Song for You
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Mario del Monaco, Mantovani Du on Vocalion • CDLF 8145
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Mantovani Presents His Concert Success
Mantovani Du on Vocalion • CDLF 8147
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November 2010
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File In: Nostalgia Mantovani, now a symbol of the ‘nostalgia’ genre, was selling records by the millions long before the Beatles came on the scene. 1962’s A Song for You is a somewhat unusual entry in his discography, being the only album Mantovani made that featured a vocalist throughout. The vocalist in this instance is someone very special, none other than legendary Italian operatic tenor Mario Del Monaco. The effect of Del Monaco’s voice set against Mantovani’s lush orchestral backgrounds is truly captivating. The album Includes two previously unreleased tracks that were left off the original album. Mantovani Presents His Concert Success (1970) is slightly more typical of Mantovani’s Decca output. But even here there is a slight twist on the tried and tested format - while the individual tracks were studio-recorded, each is preceded by ‘live’ recordings of Mantovani in concert, announcing each piece to his audience, thereby creating the illusion of actually being at a Mantovani gig.
NOSTALGIA Nostalgia greats on Du on frémeaux dutton
Mancini’s Angels; Theme Scene Henry Mancini Du on Vocalion • CDSML 8468
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File In: Nostalgia Henry Mancini really needs no introduction. His music is as much a part of the twentieth century as rock ‘n’ roll, the Lennon and McCartney partnership, jazz and the great American songbook. This Vocalion release compiles two albums from the later part of Mancini’s more than twenty-year association with the RCA Victor label, and both show that he was more than able to ‘get with it’ in the funky 1970s. The disc features a broad selection of popular TV and movie themes.
Movies ‘N’ Me
John Dankworth Du on Vocalion • CDSML 8469
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November 2010
File In: Nostalgia The mercurial talents of the late, great John Dankworth (1927-2010) are celebrated in this Vocalion release. As the title suggests, it was an opportunity for Dankworth to explore his considerable back catalogue of film themes, dressing them in attractive new arrangements that took full advantage of the rhythms and sounds of the 1970s. Of course, being a Dankworth album, the all-important jazz element is to the fore, the music best described as a happy marriage between big band, funk and jazz.
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Melachrino Strings & Orchestra, George Melachrino Du on Vocalion • CDVS 1963
File In: Nostalgia The luxurious, dreamy sounds of George Melachrino are the subject of this disc, which compiles two of the maestro’s albums of the late 1950s. Rendezvous in Rome (1959) is an aural travelogue evoking the sights and sounds of the Italian capital, while Memories of the Ballet and Operetta is a delightful potpourri that sees Melachrino weave his magic on music from famous classical ballets and operettas.
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Violin & Voices
Max Jaffa, Palm Court Orchestra Du on Vocalion • CDVS 1965
File In: Nostalgia Violinist Max Jaffa is well-known for the many radio broadcasts he made with his Palm Court Orchestra, and, of course, for his catalogue of bestselling recordings. Some of these are compiled here, including an album and various EPs as well as a single, all of which are a tribute to Jaffa’s abilities. Also featured is a chorus led by arranger Bill Shepherd, and together they give charming renditions of standard tunes.
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