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Street Date: February 8, 2011
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February's highlights on the harmonia mundi label include J.L. Bach’s Trauermusik performed by the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (p.3), Johannes Brahms’ Piano Sonatas played by Alexander Melnikov (p.4), the Jerusalem Quartet’s Mozart’s String Quartets (p.6) and the auspicious debut of award-winning soprano Elizabeth Watts in an album of J.S. Bach’s Cantatas & Arias (p.5). On Channel Classics, Dejan Lazic joins the Australian Chamber Orchestra in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 (p.11), while Hyperion offers a new release in their popular Romantic Violin Concerto series (p.19) and Allegri’s Miserere & the Music of Rome featuring The Cardinall’s Musick (p.20). With a new disc featuring Symphony No. 5, LSO Live moves closer to completion of their Mahler cycle with the London Symphony Orchestra led by Valery Gergiev’s (p.23). Orange Mountain returns to the operas of Philip Glass, offering the world première of Kepler with the Landestheater Linz (p.25). Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony offer two new SACDs featuring Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 and Piano Concerto No.4 (p.29) and Ives’ Concord Symphony and Copland’s Organ Symphony (p.30). In non-classical releases, GRAMMY® winning World Village recording artist Mamadou Diabate is back with Courage, an album featuring contemporary music for kora (p.37).
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“Iván Fischer’s direction is in the Toscanini class in its clarity and verve.”
“Polenzani is evidently a tenor of the finest quality… He sings with warmth, intelligence and conviction, matching the superb playing of his pianist Julius Drake."
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Slovenic Art Songs Bernarda Fink, Marcus Fink harmonia mundi • HMC 902065
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Liszt: The Complete Songs Vol. 1
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Bernarda and Marcus Fink sing ‘Slovenic Art Songs’ Closely associated with the folklore of the Balkans, the musical tradition of Slovenia also has a Romantic branch born at the confluence of the Alps and the Adriatic, between Austria and Italy. Very attached to their origins (their parents are Slovenian), Bernarda and Marcos Fink have selected the most representative songs and duets of a style which, around the turn of the 20th century, combined the poetic rigor of the great European musical centers – the influence of the lied is obvious – with the expression of its own identity.
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A fascinating Bach discovery harmonia harmoniamundi mundi
J.L. BACH Trauermusik
Anna Prohaska (soprano), Ivonne Fuchs (alto), Maximilian Schmi (tenor), Andreas Wolf (bass) RIAS-Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Hans-Christoph Rademann harmonia mundi • HMC 902080
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“In no other group is such a... high level of individual virtuosity fused into such a powerful communal sound.” — NEWSDAY
Trauermusik is the most ambitious composition left by Johann Ludwig Bach, known as the “Meiningen Bach,” who belonged to a branch of the family separated from Johann Sebastian’s since the 16th century. Its genesis was rather unusual. Johann Ludwig had composed his cantatas to texts by his patron, Duke Ernst Ludwig, and was therefore commissioned to set the poem that the duke had written for his own funeral, in November 1724. Written five years before the St. Matthew Passion, this score already requires two choirs and a large array of instruments and must have utilized every musician in the court.
Also available harmonia mundi • HMC 902072 (794881967629)
“Bernhard Forck and the orchestra balance the various emotions with skill… performances are splendid.” — GRAMOPHONE
January 2011
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
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Melnikov explores early Brahms harmonia frémeaux mundi
BRAHMS Piano Sonatas Nos.1 & 2, Scherzo Op.4 Alexander Melnikov (piano) harmonia mundi • HMC 902086
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“His playing, on its own terms, is so virtuosic and secure that you surrender to it immediately.”
Johannes Brahms was just 19 years old in 1852-53 when he wrote the first two piano sonatas he deemed worthy of publication. In these extended four-movement compositions he built on the heritage of Beethoven. The fact that Brahms had produced a pair of masterpieces was immediately recognized by his mentor Robert Schumann, who eased his young colleague’s way into the future with his celebrated article ‘New Paths’ of 1853. Fresh off his huge success with Shostakovich’s Preludes, Alexander Melnikov shows his keen insight into these works by the young Brahms.
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February 2011
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Shostakovich: Preludes & Fugues
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“Melnikov unlocks the poetry, mysticism, violence and virtuosity in these pieces.” — THE WASHINGTON POST
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J.S. BACH
Cantatas & Arias
Elizabeth Wa s (soprano) English Concert, Harry Bicket harmonia mundi • HMU 807550
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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Winner of the 2006 Kathleen Ferrier Award and the 2007 Cardiff Song Prize, soprano Elizabeth Watts makes her harmonia mundi début in a luminous programme of Bach cantatas and arias, deftly supported by The English Concert led by Harry Bicket.
“Elizabeth Watts is clearly one of the brightest new talents.” — THE INDEPENDENT
February 2011
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The Jerusalem Quartet turns to Mozart MOZART
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String Quartets K.157, K.458 & ‘The Hunt’ K.589 Jerusalem Quartet harmonia mundi • HMC 902076
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“A commanding group: virtuosic and stylish.” — INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW After two widely acclaimed Haydn releases, the Jerusalem Quartet now logically turns to an exploration of Mozart and three distinct periods in his creative life. Haydn is not totally absent from this recording, since the central quartet belongs to the glorious group of six which Mozart, now firmly established in Vienna, dedicated to his elder in 1785. Twelve years earlier, the teenage composer was still amusing himself with the Sammartinian model in the third of his ‘Milanese’ Quartets. And four years after the ‘Haydn’ set, Mozart abandoned the divertimento style once and for all, presenting in the second of the ‘Prussian’ Quartets a score that radically renewed the practice of chamber music.
February 2011
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Haydn: String Quartets
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“An absolute triumph.” — BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
Master-classes on film
Rene Jacobs, Singer & Teacher — A Film by Claude Mouriéras Private Music Lessons / Les leçons particulières de musique Vol.1
Hermann Baumann, Horn Master & Teacher — A Film by Heinz Peter Schwerfel Private Music Lessons / Les leçons particulières de musique Vol.4 Hermann Baumann harmonia mundi • HMD 9909033
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Sco Ross, Playing & Teaching — A Film by Jacques Renard Private Music Lessons / Les leçons particulières de musique Vol.2
Pierre-Yves Artaud, Flute Master & Teacher — A Film by Roger Kahane Private Music Lessons / Les leçons particulières de musique Vol.5 Pierre-Yves Artaud harmonia mundi • HMD 9909034
René Jacobs harmonia mundi • HMD 9909030
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Sco Ross harmonia mundi • HMD 9909031
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Yvonne Loriod, Pianist & Teacher — A Film by François Manceaux Private Music Lessons / Les leçons particulières de musique Vol.3 Yvonne Loriod harmonia mundi • HMD 9909032
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Anner Bylsma, Cellist & Teacher — A Film by François Manceaux Private Music Lessons / Les leçons particulières de musique Vol.6
Anner Bylsma harmonia mundi • HMD 9909035
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February 2011
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The new DVD series from harmonia mundi entitled Leçons particulières de musique (private music lessons) features some of the greatest musicians of our time offering their guidance to music students. The films are edited by François Manceaux & Olivier Bernager and produced in partnership with Arte & France Musique. The first releases in the 12 disc series feature countertenor René Jacobs, harpsichordist Scott Ross, pianist Yvonne Loriod, horn player Hermann Baumann, flautist Pierre-Yves Artaud and cellist Anner Bylsma.
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In the composer’s studio frémeaux albion
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No.6, The Wasps Overture IRELAND Prelude — The Forgo en Rite, Symphonic Rhapsody — Mai-Dun Transcriptions for Piano Duo Alan Rowlands (piano), Adrian Sims (piano) Albion • ALBCD 011
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Vaughan Williams valued the opinions of close friends on his new works, even if he did not always follow the advice given. In the early years, it was to his first wife Adeline as well as to fellow composers George Butterworth and Gustav Holst that he would turn. Later, the circle of advisers widened, to include Sir Arthur Bliss, Gerald Finzi and Herbert Howells, the conductors Sir John Barbirolli, Sir Adrian Boult and Sir Malcolm Sargent. These lucky few were invited to ‘play-throughs’ of Vaughan Williams’ new works. Such first hearings were arranged for piano, or two pianos. Vaughan Williams sketches for the Sixth Symphony and Michael Mullinar’s two-piano arrangement with various interpolations by the composer can be found in the British Library. Alan Rowlands edited the two-piano arrangement for this recording making use of the final orchestral published version to fill in any gaps. Joined here by Adrian Sims, Rowlands helps us hear for the first time what a ‘play-through’ actually sounded like. The program is rounded out with a selection of Ireland transcriptions.
February 2011
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Vaughan Williams: Folk Songs of the Four Seasons Albion • ALBCD 010 (5060158190102)
“[For] anyone who treasures the composer’s music, or who simply loves beautiful songs and choral pieces.” — FANFARE
The definitive Marais anthology alia vox
MARAIS Pieces for Viol Selections from the Five Books (1686, 1701, 1711, 1717 & 1725)
Jordi Savall (viola da gamba), Hopkinson Smith (lute), Christophe Coin (cello), Anne Gallet (harpsichord), Ton Koopman (harpsichord) Alia Vox • AVSA 9872
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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Between 1975 and 1983, Jordi Savall recorded five albums featuring the most beautiful pieces from each of the five Books of Pieces for the Viol composed by Marin Marais between 1686 and 1725. A silence of nearly 250 years came to an end. A repertoire — and even better, an instrument — returned from oblivion. The memory of a composer had never been so tightly linked to the performing art of a musician. Thirtyfive years after the beginning of this history-making enterprise, the five original Astrée albums are now offered with remastered sound that fully rewards the genius of both Marin Marais and Jordi Savall. Luxuriously documented — as always with Alia Vox — this anthology is a musthave for any Baroque music lover.
Also available Alia Vox • AVSA 9851 (7619986398518)
“No modern artist has done more on behalf of French Baroque composer Marin Marais than Jordi Savall.” — THE STAR-LEDGER
February 2011
Marais: Sui e d’un Gout Etranger
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Rousset plays Bach aparté
Bach Fantasy
J.S. BACH
Keyboard Works
Christophe Rousset (harpsichord) Aparté • AP 010
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As harpsichordist, conductor and musical director of the ensemble Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset is one of today’s finest interpreters of Baroque music. His first recording for Aparté, devoted to Louis Couperin, was received most enthusiastically by public and critics alike, and collected many distinctions in the international press. This new disc features a selection of both little-known works and standards by the great J.S. Bach. Rousset plays these pieces on the Ruckers harpsichord of Neuchâtel, one of the finest in the world.
The great Alfred Cortot apr
The Late Recordings Vol.4 Alfred Cortot (piano) APR • APR 5574
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APR’s fourth volume of Alfred Cortot completes their survey of post-war recordings that the pianist made for EMI in the UK. These are the first of his recordings on the then-new medium of magnetic tape. Tape gave the artist new freedom, as he was not restricted to the length of a 78rpm side for each take, and Cortot tackled much of his ‘big’ repertoire again. Sadly, by this time his failing health meant that many works remained unissued as they did not meet the standards of his earlier magnificent versions, however some old warhorses did stand the test of time.
Lazic takes a fresh look at Beethoven BEETHOVEN
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Piano Concerto No.4, Sonatas Nos.14 & 31
Dejan Lazic (piano), Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Togne i Channel Classics • CCS SA 30511
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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD For his latest fascinating project, pianist Dejan Lazic once again finds new musical connections and explores the composer’s creative process in a new disc of works by Beethoven. Working with the Australian Chamber Orchestra directed by Richard Tognetti, Lazic combines elements of the familiar version of the fourth concerto with a newly discovered chamber version for piano and string quintet. In Beethoven’s time it was customary that the soloist, who was often a composer as well, improvised the cadenzas, so Lazic offers his own versions here. In the liner notes, Lazic explains how Romantic irony, a term coined by poet Friedrich Schlegel, links the two sonatas to the piano concerto.
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“Lazic’s profound understanding of Brahms makes this disc a startling success... dazzlingly well played... fascinating and musically rewarding.” — GRAMOPHONE
February 2011
Brahms/Lazic: Piano Concerto No.3
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Elegant Vivaldi concertos eloquentia frémeaux
VIVALDI The Four Seasons
Grazia Raimondi (violin), Musici Aurei, Luigi Piovano Eloquentia • EL 1023
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Cellist Luigi Piovano leads his chamber orchestra Music Aurei in a recording of what is undoubtedly Vivaldi’s most famous composition, The Four Seasons. The soloist in all four concertos is the orchestra’s leader, Grazia Raimondi, and her performance is a blend of period instrument techniques and modern instrument richness. Eloquentia’s unique packaging brings an added degree of elegance to the production.
February 2011
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Bach: Cello Suites
Eloquentia • EL 1021 (3760107400215)
“He maintains the dance characteristics by not overindulging in unnecessary rubato and tempo fluctuations. His tempo choices are brisk...” — ALLMUSIC
Vivaldi: Violin Concertos
Eloquentia • EL 0815 (3760107400154)
“A release of great importance and even greater eloquence, urgently recommended... particularly to those devoted to the composer’s works.” — FANFARE
Janácek’s tragic love story Price Code: A29 (Suggested Retail Price: $29.98) All Zones / 108 minutes / Bonus Material 24 Minutes
Karita Matilla (soprano), Oleg Bryjak (bass), Miroslav Dvorsky (tenor), Dalia Schaechter (contralto) Coro y Orquesta del Teatro Real, Jirí Belohlávek FRA Musica • FRA 003
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JANÁCEK Katia Kabanova
This production of Katia Kabanova, recorded at Madrid’s Te a t r o R e a l i n December 2008, received universal acclaim from the Spanish critics. Much of the credit goes to the stunning beauty of Robert Carsen’s theatrical production, the magnificent direction and a bold and powerfully poetic stage design. All the action takes place on a huge expanse of water, filled with the reflections of extraordinarily graceful images shaped by exquisite lighting. The cast, dominated by the remarkable Finnish soprano Karita Mattila, is the perfect match for Janacek’s masterpiece. The rare talent of conductor Jirí Belohlávek provides a musical direction that brings out every element of the story — all the passion, subtlety, fragility and drama. Mattila’s performance embodies all the intensity needed to portray Katia the dreamer at the beginning of the opera and the tormented Katia at its close.
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“Beautifully done... it’s hard to imagine a better present-day case.” — BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
February 2011
Gounod: Mireille
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Celebrating the Israel Philharmonic
70th Anniversary — Essential Recordings
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta Helicon • 02.9614
40 — Live Recordings 1963-2006
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta Helicon • 02.9625
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As one of the world’s foremost orchestras, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is a source of attraction for great conductors and soloists from all over the world. These two specially-priced sets explore the wealth of musical success that has been the hallmark of this world class orchestra. On the set 70th Anniversary — Essential Recordings, the listener is treated to a representative selection of some of the orchestra’s best recordings from of the last 50 years. 40 — Live Recordings 1963-2006 features a selection of concert performances that exemplify the orchestra’s connection with their audiences. The list of guest soloists and conductors runs the gamut of some of the finest musicians ever to grace the stage.
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• Sir Georg Solti • Leonard Bernstein • Schlomo Mintz • Daniel Barenboim • Janos Starker • Carlo Maria Giulini
FEATURED ARTISTS ◆ • Itzhak Perlman • Pinchas Zuckerman • Lorin Maazel • Kurt Masur • Julius Katchen • Radu Lupu • Yefim Bronfman
• Alicia De Larrocha • Isaac Stern • Mstislav Rostropovich • Yehudi Menuhin • Lyn Harrell • Mischa Maisky
Mehta & Masur conduct
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SCHUBERT Symphony No.9
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Originally released on the Decca label, this disc features Maestro Zubin Mehta leading the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in recordings made in the seventies. They stand out for their brightness and orchestral brilliance, with performances reminiscent of Sir Georg Solti’s approach to the music of these immortal Austrian composers.
MOZART Symphony No.38
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta Helicon • 02.9631
Newly recorded with Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, these powerful and insightful interpretations exemplify the superb work of this mature and experienced 70 year old conductor. Strauss’ postromantic Also sprach Zarathustra is a particular favorite of Maestro Mehta, and this reading stands with the best.
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DVORÁK Symphony No.9 STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta Helicon • 02.9632
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TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No.6 HAYDN Symphony No.88
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Kurt Masur Helicon • 02.9633
February 2011
A special chemistry exists between Kurt Masur and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Maestro Masur holds the lifetime title of Honorary Guest Conductor, and this was a unique opportunity to record Masur and the IPO in concert together. On this disc, the orchestra gives the octogenarian maestro a warm welcome and he responds in kind.
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Spohr series continues SPOHR
Symphonies Nos.8 & 10
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Howard Shelley Hyperion • CDA 67802
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Howard Shelley’s fascinating discs of Spohr symphonies with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana have reignited interest in a composer who was once the most important in Europe. Spohr’s eighth symphony is one of the composer’s more conservative experiments in the form. The tenth is the composer’s final symphony and remained unpublished — languishing in the former Prussian State Library in Berlin — until 2006. This is the penultimate volume of a series which as a whole is an important historical document of musical taste.
Entartete Musik SCHULHOFF
Sonatas Nos.1 & 2, Suite for violin and piano, Sonata for solo violin
February 2011
Tanja Becker-Bender (violin), Markus Becker (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67833
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The German violinist Tanja Becker-Bender burst onto the recording scene with a dazzling set of Paganini’s Caprices that thrilled the critics. She appears here in her second disc for Hyperion accompanied by her compatriot, Markus Becker. Erwin Schulhoff was a jazz enthusiast, sometime Dadaist, surrealist and committed communist. However, Schulhoff was a more complex and wide-ranging musician than any neat tags suggest. His music for violin is often outrageously virtuosic and never less than fascinating.
Driver plays Balakirev BALAKIREV
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Piano Sonata, Nocturne No.2, Mazurkas Nos.1 & 2, Waltz No.4, The Lark, Scherzo No.1, Polka in F sharp minor
Danny Driver (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67806
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Pianist Danny Driver has garnered overwhelming critical praise — and a Gramophone award nomination — for his previous discs for Hyperion. His authoritative and virtuosic performances of York Bowen and CPE Bach have placed him firmly in the ‘one to watch’ category. For his latest disc, he turns to one of the giants of the Russian piano world. This disc looks beyond the ubiquitous Islamey to some of Balakirev’s most important works — which are curiously underrepresented on disc.
Also available Hyperion • CDA 67786 (034571177861)
“The playing here is dazzling, probing Bach’s fast changing moods with agile intelligence and excitement. Fabulous.” — GRAMOPHONE
February 2011
CPE Bach: Keyboard Sonatas
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Choral riches of the Jacobean era Music from the Reign of King James I
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Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O’Donnell, Robert Quinney (organ) Hyperion • CDA 67858
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Westminster Abbey has been the focus of British royal occasions for centuries, and the early seventeenth century saw the most dazzling musicians of the age writing music for the Court in all its various incarnations. This fascinating disc presents a selection of works from the reign of King James I. The most celebrated name on this disc is that of Orlando Gibbons, and some of his most masterly works are presented on this CD. The most eloquent and emotionally intense music recorded here was most likely never intended for performance in the Abbey, but has a particularly Royal relevance. The moving laments of King David have no place in the liturgy, being neither part of the Ordinary of Psalms and canticles. Their composition seems therefore to have been a response to the death in November 1612 of the Prince of Wales, Prince Henry. These are courtly laments, in which the composers give voice — and perhaps vied to give voice most eloquently — to the grief of the King.
February 2011
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The Feast of St. Peter
Hyperion • CDA 67770 (034571177700)
“The cream of English Cathedral choirs; they turn in their usual excellent and idiomatic performance here.” — AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
English Romantic concertos The Romantic Violin Concerto Vol.10
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CLIFFE
Violin Concerto
D’ERLANGER Violin Concerto
Philippe Graffin (violin), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, David Lloyd-Jones Hyperion • CDA 67838
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Hyperion’s Romantic Violin Concerto series reaches its tenth volume, and turns to two composers based in England, and works by them that have lain hidden for decades. This disc provides a fascinating glimpse of musical history and the shifting fashions of the age which made fame such a fleeting thing for so many composers. Frederic Cliffe had a brief but dazzling career as a composer, but he disappeared as quickly as he had arrived, and his reputation rests on only six works, including his violin concerto. Baron Frédéric d’Erlanger was a banker, born in Paris but with a German father and American mother, who moved to London in his teens. He was also a composer, and although his catalogue of works is not huge, he enjoyed a steady stream of first performances by the most celebrated artists and orchestras of the day. Hyperion is delighted to welcome back Philippe Graffin, whose earlier outing in this series met with great critical success.
“Philippe Graffin is one of the most gifted and well-rounded players you’ll ever hear.” — STRINGS
Also available Hyperion • CDA 67804 (034571178042)
“Shaham delivers a fastidious and vivacious sympathy to the flow of figures, a real acolyte of an otherwise marginal repertory.” — AUDIOPHILE AUDITION
February 2011
Romantic Violin Concerto Vol.9
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Glories of Rome Allegri’s Miserere & the Music of Rome
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ALLEGRI
De lamentatione Jeremiae prophetae, Miserere mei, Deus, Incipit lamentatio Jeremiae prophetae, Gustate et videte
ANERIO
Salve regina
PALESTRINA
Cantantibus organis
The Cardinall’s Musick, Andrew Carwood Hyperion • CDA 67860
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T h e C a r d i n a l l ’s M u s i c k finished 2010 in a blaze of glory, winning the Gramophone Recording of the Year award for the last volume of their Byrd Edition. Their eagerly-awaited next disc features music from late sixteenth-century Rome and ranges from Allegri’s Miserere, surely the best-known and best-loved work of this period, to a rarely-performed or recorded oddity. Seven Roman musicians came together (or were brought together) to write a Mass-setting where they each contributed different sections. The resulting work, the twelve-voice Missa Cantantibus organis, is a tribute both to Cecilia (the patron saint of music) and to Palestrina. The seven composers each take themes found in Palestrina’s motet of the same name and use them as the starting point for their new compositions. Palestrina himself is among the seven, with Giovanni Andrea Dragoni, Ruggiero Giovannelli, Curzio Mancini, Prospero Santini, Francesco Soriano and Annibale Stabile being the other six. All seven composers were prominent maestri in Rome and most appear to have had contact with Palestrina either as choristers or pupils.
February 2011
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Byrd: Infelix ego
Hyperion • CDA 67779 (034571177793)
“The musical imagination of The Cardinall’s Musick does full justice to that of Byrd. The group’s delivery is a sensual delight...” — BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
“The voices of Andrew Carwood and his eight cohorts could probably start a blaze in the Antarctic!” — THE TIMES
A Liszt collector’s dream LISZT
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The Complete Piano Music
Leslie Howard (piano) Hyperion • CDS 44501
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99 CDs for the Price of 30 Complete on 99 CDs, Leslie Howard’s recordings of Liszt’s piano music are among one of the monumental achievements in the history of recorded music. Remarkable as much for its musicological research and scholarly rigor as for Howard’s Herculean piano playing, this survey remains invaluable to serious lovers of Liszt. Every known note of Liszt’s piano music has been recorded and is included here: Leslie Howard’s 57 original volumes plus the further three supplements. The set has been awarded a Guinness World Record for the world’s largest recording series by a solo artist.
PRAISE FOR THE SERIES “Howard is, by general consensus, the finest living exponent of Liszt, and his traversals afford all-enveloping verve and charisma, tremendous daring and a formidable intellectual grasp of the music… his vastly superior performances will continue to carry the day.” “The most adventurous, most consistently realized, and grandest project in recording history.” — FANFARE
February 2011
— BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
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Helios series reissues ARENSKY
Six Caprices, Six Pièces, 24 Characteristic Pieces, Près de la mer ‘Six Equisses’, Quatre Morceaux, Quatre Études Stephen Coombs (piano) Hyperion • CDH 55311
GRECHANINOV Vespers
Holst Singers, Stephen Layton Hyperion • CDH 55352
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GRAINGER Jungle Book
February 2011
Libby Crabtree (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), Polyphony, Stephen Layton Hyperion • CDH 55433
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Anton Arensky’s piano pieces have an easy charm and lyrical breadth of melodic invention. There is a quality that is both nostalgic and surprising, reassuringly familiar yet unconventional in harmonic and melodic construction. This disc was originally released as part of Stephen Coombs’ Russian Piano Portraits series.
Grechaninov has been described as the most representative composer of his generation writing for the Orthodox service. Grechaninov’s setting of the Vespers, which preceded Rachmaninov’s by three years, was composed, premiered and published in 1912. It appears to have lain dormant for some eighty years until it was revived in America for its first performance of modern times in 1995.
This reissue commemorates the 50th anniversary of Grainger’s death in February 1961. Grainger’s Jungle Book cycle was recorded here (for the original Hyperion release) for the first time. The eleven contrasting movements vividly portray the sentiments of Kipling’s poetry and Grainger wrote of the cycle that it was, “composed as a protest against civilization.”
A Mahler cycle like no other MAHLER
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Symphony No.5
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev LSO Live • LSO 0664
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“Gergiev’s febrile intensity lends itself well to the neurotic quality of Mahler’s music.” — THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
SACD Hybrid / Stereo & Multi-channel / DSD The penultimate release in Valery Gergiev’s acclaimed Mahler cycle features the composer’s Symphony No.5, recorded at the Barbican in September 2010. The work marked a new direction in his compositions and a step away from the choral elements of the previous three symphonies. Despite the opening funereal trumpet solo and march, the work was completed during one of the happiest periods of Mahler’s life and the symphony showcases virtuosic orchestral playing, an exquisite love song without words for his wife Alma and a jubilant finale.
Also available LSO Live • LSO 0662 (822231166221)
“Listeners prepared for the journey should strap themselves into their seatbelts now.” — INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
February 2011
Mahler: Symphony No.4
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The mystical Liszt LISZT
Harmonies poétiques et religieuses Brigi e Engerer (piano) Mirare • MIR 084
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Along with the Années de pèlerinage, the Harmonies poétiques et religieuses is the most important cycle Liszt composed for the piano. It reveals his mystical dimension, at once poetic and religious, through reference to the universal poetry of Lamartine. Liszt transposes his verse into music that is glorious yet intimate, tormented yet soothing, served here by the humanist vision of Brigitte Engerer.
Music for cello octet Meditations
Les Violoncelles Français Mirare • MIR 112
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The cello octet is a formation that is now heard only rarely. Yet it harks back to a tradition which was highly esteemed until the early eighteenth century, the practice of forming ensembles of instruments of the same family. Recorder quartets, lute trios and ensembles of hunting horns were for centuries the delight of amateur musicians, to whom they offered an ideal opportunity to express themselves and exchange with each other.
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GLASS Kepler
Soloists & Chorus of the Landestheater Linz, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Dennis Russell Davies Orange Mountain • OMM 0071
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Philip Glass’ opera Kepler in many ways harkens back to Glass’ portrait operas of the early 1980s and continues the composer’s interest in scientists after having also written operas on Einstein and Galileo. The opera premiered at the Landestheater Linz in 2009 and continues the amazing 30 year collaboration between Glass and the conductor Dennis Russell Davies, the music director of both the Landestheater Linz and its orchestra, the Bruckner Orchester. Kepler marks a refreshing return to large scale symphonic writing for the opera house. It is a musical dedication to the life of this great scientist – exploring both his triumphs and his human flaws. As Glass states, “Kepler was a man with his mind in the clouds and his feet in the mud.” Taken from live performances in 2010 during its extensive run in Linz, this is the world premiere recording. It is sung in German and Latin and contains the full libretto with English translation in the deluxe two disc digipack.
“Glass forms such great expanses of minimal topography that each scenic stroke is exciting.” — NEW YORK MAGAZINE
Also available Orange Mountain Music • OMM 0068 (801837006827)
“Simply beautiful: touching and lyrical... Glass’ sense of drama is at its best.” — CLASSICS TODAY
February 2011
Glass: Orphée
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The beauty of a moment in time BIELAWA
Chance Encounter
Susan Narucki (soprano), The Knights Orange Mountain • OMM 7004
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Chance Encounter was co-conceived by world-renowned soprano Susan Narucki and composer Lisa Bielawa, Rome Prize winning composer and long-time member of the Philip Glass Ensemble. The work’s libretto is comprised entirely of utterances that Bielawa overheard over the course of a full year of travel, in transient public spaces around the world. These captured phrases are organized into four song-arias.
Violin sonatas by Glass, Schubert & Ravel Glass Heart
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Violin Sonata
SCHUBERT Sonata Op.162
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Sonate posthume
February 2011
Maria Bachmann (violin), Jon Klibonoff (piano) Orange Mountain • OMM 7006
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Maria Bachmann is heard here in a recital that features the world premiere recording of Philip Glass’ Sonata for Violin and Piano (2008) which was written for her. The recital also includes Schubert’s mighty Sonata in A major, and Ravel’s Sonate posthume. Jon Klibonoff is Bachmann’s accompanist. The duo won the 2010 Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artists award given by the Classical Recording Foundation.
Double bass prodigy Edicson Ruiz Price Code: A19 (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)
HOFFMEISTER
Double Bass Concerto No.1
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Concerto for Double Bass & Orchestra
Edicson Ruiz (double bass),
Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, At the age of only fifteen, Christian Vásquez Edicson Ruiz was awarded Phil.harmonie • PHIL 06008 first prize at the International Society of Bassists’ competition in Indianapolis, making him the youngest winner of all time. Just two years later he was made a member of the Berlin Philharmonic’s double bass section, becoming not only the first Latin American musician to be so honored but also the youngest ever in the history of the orchestra. On this recording, Ruiz plays three well-known concertos for his instrument, accompanied by conductor Christian Vásquez leading the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar.
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Double Bass Concerto No.1
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SVENDSEN String Octet
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Kocian Quartet, M.Nostitz Quartet Praga • PRD 250274
February 2011
SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Praga offers an original pairing of composers who were compatriots and friends. Although Grieg’s career as a soloist was less successful than Svendsen’s, a century later, the composer of Peer Gynt is universal, whereas Svendsen’s oeuvre is primarily confined to Scandinavian concert halls. This is the first modern recording of his Octet, a youthful score enlivened by its borrowings from folkloric melodies. The Kocian Quartet is joined for this work by the M.Nostitz Quartet.
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Schönberg’s chamber music SCHÖNBERG
String Quartet No.3, Scherzo, Presto, Chamber Symphony
Prazák Quartet, Jaromir Klepac (piano) Praga • PRD 250278
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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Praga presents the fifth volume in their series devoted to Schönberg’s chamber music played by the Prázak Quartet. This release not only features youthful compositions based upon traditional models (the Scherzo and Presto) but also the mature Chamber Symphony and third quartet, both works of supreme melodic density and clarity of counterpoint.
The artistry of Yakov Zak BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No.2
PROKOFIEV
Piano Concerto No.2
February 2011
Yakov Zak (piano), Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, USSR Radio Symphony, Kurt Sanderling Praga • PRD 350054
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Yakov Zak was one of the greatest names in Soviet piano performing and teaching but remained little known abroad. A student of Heinrich Neuhaus, his vast repertoire concentrated on Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin and Brahms. Along with Emil Gilels, Zak was a staunch defender of Prokofiev. Endowed with Olympian technique and a clear, solid sense of form, he remains a model, a humanist whose current discography is amazingly meager. He died of a heart attack in 1976 shortly after a brutal police interrogation.
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Symphony No.5, Piano Concerto No.4
Emmanuel Ax (piano), San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas SFS Media • SFS 0037
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“The San Francisco Symphony could well be currently operating at a level higher than any other American orchestra.” — FANFARE
SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Following closely on the heels of their seven GRAMMY® Award winning Mahler cycle, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony turn to Beethoven with a new recording of two of his most popular works. Emanuel Ax, a frequent collaborator with the orchestra, is featured soloist in the fourth piano concerto. In concert, Ax’s performance of the slow movement was described by the San Francisco Chronicle as, “dark and eloquent.” The program also features Beethoven’s heroic fifth symphony, played here with all the fire and gusto one could hope for.
Also available SFS Media • 60036 (821936001394)
February 2011
Beethoven: Keeping Score
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MTT conducts Ives & Copland IVES
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Organ Symphony
Paul Jacobs (organ), San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas SFS Media • SFS 0038
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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Always staunch supporters of American composers, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony present a fascinating new program of music by Charles Ives and Aaron Copland. Featured works include the Concord Symphony, an orchestral arrangement of Ives’ Piano Sonata No. 2 penned by Henry Brant, and Aaron Copland’s Organ Symphony with Paul Jacobs. Both works show the orchestra to be eloquent and sympathetic interpreters of this repertoire.
February 2011
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Copland: Keeping Score
SFS Media • 60015 (821936001592)
Michelangeli plays Beethoven Price Code: A18 (Suggested Retail Price: $18.98)
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No.5
Arturo Benede i Michelangeli (piano), Orchestra di Torino della RAI, Mario Rossi, Orchestra di Roma della RAI, Massimo Freccia Tahra • TAH 685
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Piano Concerto Op.21
The Emperor concerto was Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli’s signature work. Between 1939 and 1987 he performed it over a hundred times. Over those years his interpretations of the work ranged from shifted from light, brilliant and sensual to stern, essential and metaphysical, but in all cases Michelangeli’s musical insights were peerless. This disc also features Haydn’s delightful piano concerto.
Stern and Hess in recital Price Code: A20 (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98)
SCHUBERT
Violin Sonata No.1
FERGUSON
Violin Sonata No.2
February 2011
BEETHOVEN Both in his memories and in Violin Sonata No.10 conversation Isaac Stern named Myra Isaac Stern (violin), Hess as one of the musicians who had Dame Myra Hess (piano) influenced him the most. The Hess-Stern Testament • SBT 1458 duo mainly performed in New York, Edinburgh (at the Festival) and London. Although the duo was not recorded commercially, we do have this BBC transcription of what turned out to be their last recital, in August 1960 at the fourteenth Edinburgh International Festival (a London appearance scheduled for that October had to be cancelled, owing to the heart attack which hastened the end of Hess’s career). To hear two such great romantic artists together is a special privilege.
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Violin Sonata No.2
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Epic Bruckner from O o Klemperer BRUCKNER Symphony No.7
Wiener Symphoniker, O o Klemperer Testament • SBT 1459
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Reviews of the 1958 concert from which this recording of Bruckner’s seventh symphony was taken bordered on the ecstatic. The Neue Weltpresse’s review hailed Otto Klemperer as, “one of the last great conductors of the Wilhelmine era,” alongside Strauss, Nikisch, Weingartner, Blech, Kleiber and Furtwängler, and praised his handling of the Bruckner as, “song like, full of streaming lyricism and powerfully shaped climaxes. The music sang and flowed in a manner that seemed to relate it to Schubert’s symphonies.”
Chamber music favorites BEETHOVEN
String Quartets Nos.8 & 9
BARTÓK
String Quartets Nos.5 & 6
February 2011
Hungarian Quartet Testament • SBT2 1461
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The second iteration of the Hungarian Quartet featured violinists Sándor Végh and Peter Szervánsky, violist Dénes Koromzay and cellist Vilmos Palotai. The first, led by Imre Waldbauer, was formed in 1910 to play the chamber music of Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály and Leó Weiner, but sadly, no records were made of the ensemble. This Testament disc finds the ‘new’ Hungarian Quartet on top form, playing a program of music by their compatriot Bela Bartók coupled with middle-period Beethoven. The results are breathtaking.
The legendary Van Cliburn BRAHMS
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SCHUMANN Piano Concerto
Van Cliburn (piano), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner Testament • SBT2 1460
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The origins of these live 1960 performances lie inevitably in Van Cliburn’s legendary triumph in Moscow’s inaugural Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in 1958, a time when competitions still mattered. All the reasons and justifications for his fame are present in this recording, made at the height of his career. Cliburn’s playing had an extraordinary nobility and today’s audiences cannot completely comprehend the extraordinary excitement and controversy he caused in his day. His playing is still endlessly discussed in Russia. Sadly, the strains of endless touring, prolonged stays in foreign and alien surroundings, to say nothing of sniping comments by colleagues envious of his fame, took their toll and Cliburn withdrew from the public eye.
Also available Testament • TES SBT 1440 (749677144029)
“Cliburn gives the performance of his life… Whatever that magical, indefinable gift is, Cliburn had it in 1958.” — GRAMOPHONE
Recital
Testament • TES SBT2 1445 (749677144524)
“This is an incredible recital, and I would go so far as to say that if I could only own one Cliburn recording, this would be it!” — AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
February 2011
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1
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L’Amant Jaloux
Magali Léger (soprano), Claire Debono (soprano), Maryline Fallot (soprano), Frédéric Antoun (tenor), Brad Cooper (tenor), Vincent Billier (baritone) Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, Jérémie Rhorer Wahoo • WAH 001
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February 2011
All Zones/ 80 minutes In Grétry’s L’Amant Jaloux, the aesthetic of France in the Age of Enlightenment is revived in a libretto full of wit and subtlety and a remarkably melodic score whose dramatic movement recalls Mozart, who was staying in Paris at the time. Grétry, the Queen’s music director, penned a masterpiece of the genre — a model of demicaractère that balances the registers of comedy and sentiment. The work was included in the repertoire of many European theaters and confirmed Grétry as the greatest French composer of his time. At the end of his life, le chevalier de Saint George conducted an orchestra named Le Cercle de l’Harmonie. As its director in the former Palais BourbonsOrléans, today Palais Royal, he performed major works of his time. Reviving this name in 2005 during the Deauville festival, Jérémie Rhorer, conductor and composer, decided to gather their ideal group of players to perform symphonic and lyrical repertoire from the end of the 18th century. Their identity is strongly linked to masterpieces by Mozart’s and Haydn, but they are also captivated by the French repertoire from the end of Ancien Régime (18th century) to 1830.
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Hindemith the educator Price Code: A23 (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98)
Plöner Musiktag
Dietrich Henschel (baritone), David Reibel (narrator) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Youth Symphony Orchestra of Marzahn-Hellersdorf , Berlin Radio Children’s Choir, Jobst Liebrecht Wergo • WER 6728
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Wergo presents the first recording of Paul Hindemith’s Plöner Musiktag (The Plön Music Day). This educational work has not been heard as a whole since its world premiere in 1932 by the composer himself. It sets a whole day to music in four parts — Morgenmusik, Tafelmusik, Kantate and Abendkonzert — each written for different levels of difficulty and with different instrumentation. Hindemith wrote the work for a four-day stay in a boarding school in Plön, Schleswig-Holstein in June 1932. Renowned baritone Dietrich Henschel and musicians of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra are led here by Jobst Liebrecht.
Celebrating Schumann at 200
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Fleurs du mal
SCHUMANN
Nachtstücke, Gesänge der Frühe
WIDMANN
Toccata, Fleurs du mal
Fabio Romano (piano) Wergo • WER 6808
February 2011
On this new CD from Wergo, composers Robert Schumann and Jörg Widmann take part in a musical dialogue between the modern and the Romantic periods. Pianist Fabio Romano juxtaposes four piano works of the two composers and takes a look at Schumann on his 200th birthday from a somewhat different perspective. Romano was recently hailed by the magazine Fono Forum as “best up-and-coming artist of the year.”
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WORLD Exploring the art of Indian music accords croisés
Hariprasad Chaurasia and the Art of Improvisation
Hariprasad Chaurasia Accords Croisés • AC 136
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February 2011
File in: World / India Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia seems to draws ideas from an inexhaustible source, playing on every contrast, composing his musical discourse with outstanding aesthetic sense and clarity. His extraordinary mastery of improvisation is dazzling to improvisers of all kinds. This CD and book is intended for all keen listeners who wish to learn more about the creative process. It also aims to guide students, scholars, i m p r ov i s e r s , p e r f o r m e r s a n d composers from various backgrounds who endeavor to explore his music in order to enrich their art. Step by step, the improvisations of Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia will lead the way into the different elements of the great musical tradition of northern India.
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GRAMMY® winning master of the kora Courage
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Mamadou Diabate World Village • 468108
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File in: World / Mali On his fifth album, Courage, Mamadou Diabate carves out a new direction. A departure from the traditional melodies on his previous album, these contemporary pieces highlight his versatility as a composer and affirm his place as one of the finest kora players living in the world today. He is accompanied here by a five piece band recorded in Bamako, Mali. His previous solo effort, Douga Mansa, took home a 2009 GRAMMY® Award in the category of Best Traditional World Music.
“This just might be the new contender to the kora throne.” — SONGLINES
Also available World Village • 468082 (713746808228)
“Mamadou operates within the great history of his instrument, a tradition he has studied deeply and mastered to the point where he can exert personal style with ease. A more deft and spontaneous improviser would be hard to find in any tradition.” — AFROPOP.ORG
February 2011
Douga Mansa
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WORLD A rising star from Cape Verde lusafrica
Kreol
Mario Lucio Lusafrica • 024082
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File in: World / Cape Verde About his new album Kreol, Mario Lucio declares, “I have put my feet on three continents, slept in seven countries, worked in ten cities and covered 92,482 kilometers by plane, not to mention travel in boats, adventures in automobiles and crossings in pirogues. Spending more than six hundred hours in the studio, I feel that I’ve found the answer to what was gnawing at me. I have learned that Men are not all the same, they are similar: this similarity is the pattern that distinguishes us from one another.” Among the album’s highlights are duets featuring Milton Nascimento, Pablo Milanes, Cesaria Evora, Toumani Diabaté (Mali), Harry Belafonte and more. The recording was filmed for a television documentary.
Charming music from Brazil iris
Boa Fonte
Conversa Iris • 3002019
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File in: World / Brazil Boa Fonte, featuring the flute and guitar duo Conversa, is like a dialogue between disparate but connected cultures. Its 27 tracks evoke the landscape, natural beauties, dances and songs of this region of Brazil — a country at the crossroads of civilizations. The disc is a special tribute to them indigenous peoples of the Amazon, Brazilian music and the songs of birds in the vast expanse of the rainforest.
WORLD
Discover Argentina’s Maria Volonte Price Code: A22 (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98)
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Maria Volonte Network • 495133
File in: World / Argentina Be it in her hometown Buenos Aires, in Montevido or San Francisco, the halls are full and the audience and critics wild about Maria Volonte’s performances. Her six CDs have received numerous awards including the Carlos Gardel Prize and she was recently nominated for a Latin GRAMMY®. For this comprehensive sampling of her art, Network has combined musical highpoints from her career with exclusive new recordings. Thanks to recent concert appearances Volonte is finally becoming better known in the US and Europe. This disc is the perfect introduction to her rare artistry.
Passionate music from Senegal Naby Iris • 3002011
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Price Code: A19 (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)
February 2011
File in: World / Senegal Naby was the 2009 RFI Discovery Award winner in 2009. His melodic reggae with hints of hip-hop and ragga is also tinged with soul, funk and blues. Naby draws inspiration from his everyday environment. His lyrics speak of the daily lives of young Africans and are rich with a keen wisdom and deep spirituality. Born in Dakar to a Guinean father and a Malian mother, Naby grew up listening to a rich musical mix, his formative influences ranging from Tracy Chapman to his compatriot Omar Pène. Naby declares that for him music is not simply a passion, but a vocation and one to which he is committed heart and soul.
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JAZZ frémeaux frémeaux
Swinging jazz vocals Toi Ma Vie
Les Six Et Demi Frémeaux • FA 531
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File in: Jazz Produced by Yves Chamberland, accompanied by the best musicians on the scene and joined by prominent guests, Les Six Et Demi’s first album was a huge success in Europe. Ten years later, Frémeaux presents their second album, Toi Ma Vie — a set of hard-swinging tracks that feature sparkling adaptations of jazz standards. The group’s six singers possess an accuracy of timbre that is unmatched, and this CD offers the listener to hear the group at the peak of their art.
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February 2011
“When a jazz record demonstrates so obviously that it can easily reach a wide audience without sacrificing inventiveness or swing, it’s a pleasure to be seized at once.” — JAZZMAN
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Blue Note Jazz classics, now on SACD No Room For Squares
Hank Mobley APO • CBNJ 84149 SA
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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD File in: Jazz No Room For Squares is one of the more inventive titles in the Blue Note catalog. This is certainly an apt description for a session that includes the very hip Hank Mobley and accompaniment from the swinging Lee Morgan, creative piano master Andrew Hill, sturdy bassist John Ore and the powerful Philly Joe Jones on drums. Mobley’s confident tenor wail is in full force here, as he and Morgan blow through the all-original program with strong support from the daring rhythm section.
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Maiden Voyage
Herbie Hancock APO • CBNJ 84195 SA
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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD File in: Jazz Probably the best in Herbie Hancock’s series of fine Blue Note albums from the 60s, Maiden Voyage finds him in what is basically the Miles Davis band of the time, with Miles replaced by the young Freddie Hubbard. Hancock has always been a fine composer, but Maiden Voyage contains two classic compositions in particular — the beautiful “Dolphin Dance,” and the atmospheric and popular title track. The whole record is marked with a timeless freshness and sense of creative tension.
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That’s My Desire — Rare Transcription Recordings of the 1950s
Du¦on Vocalion • CDEA 6178
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Paul Whiteman Du¦on Vocalion • CDEA 6182 February 2011
Helmut Zacharias Du¦on Vocalion • CDLK 4425
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Tea Time in Tokyo; Melodies from Famous Films
The Glory that Was Gershwin; Frank Chacksfield plays Irving Berlin Frank Chacksfield Du¦on Vocalion • CDLK 4426
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Classical Encores; Christmas Album
Mantovani Du¦on Vocalion • CDLK 4429
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Try a Li le Tenderness; Candler by Candlelight
Norman Candler Du¦on Vocalion • CDLK 4430
Feuert Los; Spassmacher und Andere Fröhliche Polkas Will Glahé Du¦on Vocalion • CDLK 4434
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El Condor Pasa; L.O.V.E.
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Paul Mauriat Du¦on Vocalion • CDLK 4437
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Ballroom in London; Ballroom in Paris
Kurt Edelhagen Du¦on Vocalion • CDLK 4440
Dancing Percussion; Olympic Hits
Kurt Edelhagen Du¦on Vocalion • CDLK 4443
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Cavallaro with that Latin Beat; Cocktails with Cavallaro Carmen Cavallaro Du¦on Vocalion • CDNJT 5208
Torch with the Blue Flame; Best of ‘Oooo!’
Jackie Gleason Du¦on Vocalion • CDNJT 5213
Stolen Hours; Stringtime
Gordon Jenkins, Richard Jones Du¦on Vocalion • CDVS 1966
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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
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Anonymous 4 Kristian Bezuidenhout Borodin Quartet Cuarteto Casals
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Colin Currie Helmut Deutsch Danny Driver Richard Egarr Valery Gergiev Alban Gerhardt
Onyx Classics harmonia mundi Hyperion harmonia mundi Mariinsky Hyperion
Matthias Goerne Marc-André Hamelin Stephen Hough
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Alina Ibragimova, Cedric Tiberghien Simon Keenlyside Olga Kern
Hyperion Hyperion harmonia mundi
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie Paul Lewis
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London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
LSO Live
Robert McDuffie
Orange Mountain
Alexander Melnikov Jon Nakamatsu
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Orlando Consort Prazák Quartet
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Jordi Savall Takács Quartet
Alia Vox Hyperion
Tokyo String Quartet
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Shai Wosner
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Joyce Yang
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World Village
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Habib Koité Susan McKeown
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Ana Moura Catherine Russell
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Septeto Nacional
World Village
Silk Road Ensemble
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