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Sei Concerti
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April showers bring new delights at harmonia mundi. Emmanuelle Bertrand lets the cello speak in her wide-ranging selection of solo works on Le Violoncelle Parle (p.3), while Andreas Staier enlists the support of the Freiburger Barockorchester in solving the musical riddles of CPE Bach’s Keyboard Concertos (p.4). New on Hyperion, Marc-André Hamelin presents a major Liszt recital (p.6) featuring the B Minor Sonata. For his second disc of the month, Hamelin is supported by Ilan Volkov and the RundfunkSinfonieorchester Berlin in a brilliant recording of piano concertos by Reger and Strauss (p.7). Hyperion stalwart Graham Johnson offers the second volume in his traversal of the complete songs (p.10), this time teamed with soprano Christine Schäfer. On LSO Live, Valery Gergiev debuts three Debussy favorites (p.12) with the London Symphony Orchestra, and presents the third volume of his Shostakovich cycle with the Mariinsky Orchestra (p.13).
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Shostakovich: Preludes & Fugues Alexander Melnikov harmonia mundi • HMC 902019
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“Melnikov brings out the pieces’ personalities better than anyone I’ve heard... [His] polyphonic clarity is superior as well…And his playing never lacks color, either — his command of shading is enviable... If I had to, I’d sell any other set I had to buy this one.”
“[Gergiev] affirms his versatility with compelling interpretations of three Ravel staples. His Daphnis et Chloe is voluble and vividly colored. While the conductor never overlooks the smallest wonder of Ravel’s nonpareil orchestration, Gergiev’s reading is boldly assertive, and this is a ballet — danceable.”
COMING NEXT MONTH Joel Frederiksen sings music from the Great Awakening
The Rose of Sharon Joel Frederiksen, Ensemble Phoenix harmonia mundi • HMC 902085
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Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe, Bolero, Pavane
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On The Rose of Sharon, vocalist Joel Frederiksen is accompanied by the Ensemble Phoenix in a program of rarely heard American church music from the 18th and 19th centuries. The focus is on a religious movement called the ‘Great Awakening’ and the disc includes songs of the Quakers, Shakers and the Moravian Brethren. The release takes its name from a passage in the Song of Solomon that was set by William Billings in his 1778 book, “The Singing Master’s Assistant.” Billings is widely considered to be the “father of American choral music.”
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Virtuoso music for solo cello harmonia harmoniamundi mundi
Le violoncelle parle CASSADÓ Suite for Solo Cello BRITTEN Suite No.3 for Solo Cello AMOYEL Itinérance KODALY Sonata for Solo Cello
Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) harmonia mundi • HMC 902078
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IMPORT On Le violoncelle parle (the Cello Speaks), Emmanuelle Bertrand performs a wide-ranging selection of compositions for solo cello. The works Bertrand has chosen speak to the idioms of each of the specific composers’ cultural and musical backgrounds. Featured are Spaniard Gaspar Cassadó’s Suite for Solo Cello, British composer Benjamin Britten’s Suite No.3 for Solo Cello as well as Frenchman Pierre Amoyel’s Itinérance and Hungarian Zoltán Kodály’s Sonata for Solo Cello. In Bertrand’s hands, the cello truly ‘speaks’ and takes us beyond geographical boundaries and straight to the heart of the language of cultural inspiration.
Also available
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Grieg: Cello Sonata
harmonia mundi • HMC 901986 (794881869121)
“An attractive disc, well played and recorded...”
— INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
April 2011
“Her technique is so assured, her grasp of the music so thoroughly thought out, and her sense of a work’s shape so consummate and tasteful...”
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Staier plays CPE Bach concertos harmonia frémeaux mundi
CPE BACH Keyboard Concertos Nos.1-6, Per il cembalo concertato
Andreas Staier (harpsichord), Freiburger Barockorchester Petra Müllejans harmonia mundi • HMC 902083
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IMPORT The Sei concerti per il cembalo concertato were the outcome of a period of intensive work between 1770 and 1772 shortly after Carl Philipp Emanuel arrived in Hamburg. Introducing one of his most exciting recording ventures, Andreas Staier explains the incredible diversity in unity of these works, “whose arrangement is not linear, but concentric. One has the impression that Bach wanted to set a series of musical riddles which constantly force the audience to take a critical distance from its own listening.” Staier is joined by the Freiburger Barockorchester in this fascinating disc of keyboard concertos.
“Staier is unquestionably one of the most probing and thoughtful of musicians around today.” — GRAMOPHONE
April 2011
Also available Bach: Goldberg Variations
harmonia mundi • HMC 902058 (794881950324)
“Personal, interesting, and gripping... This is a full-blooded performance.” — EARLY MUSIC AMERICA
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Music of 2 countries and 4 seasons Price Code: A19 (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)
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VIVALDI The Four Seasons PIAZZOLLA Verano porteño, Otoño porteño, Invierno porteño, Primavera porteña
David Grimal (violin), Les Dissonances Aparté • AP 011
IMPORT The spirit of Les Dissonances is one of bringing together disparate worlds. The ensemble, which varies in size according to repertoire, plays without a conductor and highlights contemporary and past composers with absolute freedom in its choice of programs. Such autonomy enables the musicians to fulfill their first objective, which is to reach new audiences that might have been intimidated by classical music in the past, and enable them to see the major works of the repertoire in a different light. On this new CD, leader David Grimal mixes Vivaldi and Piazzolla in a fascinating program of music with similar themes.
Shostakovich’s most personal compositions
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SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets Nos.8 & 9; Two Pieces for String Quartet
Quatuor Byron Aparté • AP 012
April 2011
IMPORT The debut recording from the Quatuor Byron is entirely devoted to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. The famous eighth quartet is a quasi-autobiographical work that evokes the composer’s struggle against the Soviet regime. The String Quartet No.9 and the Two Pieces for String Quartet, lesser known, are rich with the signature emotional characteristics of Shostakovich’s style — pain and suffering mixed with equal doses of sardonic humor.
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Celebrate Easter with the Netherlands Bach Society channel frémeaux classics
JS BACH St. Ma hew Passion
Amaryllis Dieltiens (soprano), Siri Thornhill (soprano), Tim Mead (boy soprano), Ma hew White (boy soprano), Charles Daniels (tenor), Julian Podger (tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass), Sebastian Noack (bass), Kampen Boys Choir, Netherlands Bach Society, Jos van Veldhoven Channel Classics • CCS SA 32511
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3 CDs for the Price of 2 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Following on the Netherlands Bach Society’s successful boxed sets of JS Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, St. John Passion and B minor Mass in deluxe, collector’s edition packages, Channel Classics presents a new and very special release of J.S. Bach’s beloved St. Matthew Passion. Once again, the project is a collaboration with the Catharijne Convent Museum of Utrecht, which holds the largest collection of liturgical art in the Netherlands. Selections from the museum’s masterpieces accompany the set in a richly illustrated book, allowing the listener to experience the Passion both in music and images. Channel’s Hybrid SACD recording is a stunning multi-channel audio experience, which is heard to particularly great effect in the double chorus and double orchestra sections of the work.
“The choral performances are first rate — vibrant, exciting and involved, with crisp, clear articulation and bright yet full-bodied tone.” — CLASSICSTODAY.COM
April 2011
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Bach: St. John Passion
Channel Classics • CCS SA 31309 (723385313090)
“Enormous care and effort has clearly gone into the production, and this is also reflected in the superlative recording quality. Strongly recommended.” — INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
Marc-André Hamelin plays Liszt hyperion
LISZT Piano Sonata in B Minor, Fantasy and Fugue on the theme B-A-C-H, Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude, Venezia e Napoli
Marc-André Hamelin (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67760
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IMPORT Hyperion presents a major Liszt recital from one of today’s most admired recording artists. The Piano Sonata in B minor is undoubtedly one of the peaks of the repertoire and recordings are suitably copious. However, when an artist of Marc-André Hamelin’s virtuoso pedigree wishes to tackle it, no excuse need be made for an additional version. The recital opens with a lesser-known masterwork, the Fantasy and Fugue on B-A-C-H, and for light relief there is Liszt’s scintillating supplement to his Italian Année de Pèlerinage, the three pieces of Venezia e Napoli. The emotional core of the disc is Liszt’s intensely spiritual Bénédiction du Dieu dans la solitude.
“Marc-André Hamelin’s technical mastery is legendary.” — INTERNATIONAL PIANO
Also available Hyperion • CDA 66874 (034571168746)
“These are musically and technically dazzling readings...” — HI-FI NEWS
Liszt: Paganini Studies
Hyperion • CDA 67370 (034571173702)
“A brilliantly successful recital.”
April 2011
Liszt: Marc-André Hamelin Plays Liszt
— BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE 7
Hamelin plays Romantic concertos frémeaux hyperion
Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.53 REGER Piano Concerto in F minor, Op.114 STRAUSS Burleske in D minor
Marc-André Hamelin (piano), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Ilan Volkov Hyperion • CDA 67635
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IMPORT The Reger Piano Concerto has a formidable reputation — dense, harmonically complex and with far too many notes for the average pianist. Who better then to decipher it than Marc-André Hamelin? In his hands, this rarely recorded behemoth reveals both passion and a lyricism so often lost in lesser performances. He is wonderfully partnered by Ilan Volkov and the RundfunkSinfonieorchester Berlin, who share the pianist’s desire to elucidate an often misunderstood work. While the Reger concerto comes from the end of his career, the Strauss Burleske is a product of that composer’s prodigious youth. This ebullient work has long been a Hamelin ‘party-piece,’ and he plays it with an unmatched brilliance that surely captures the essence of this humorous music and will have listeners on the edges of their seats.
“One of the most adventurous and certainly the most courageous pianists of recent times.” — INTERNATIONAL PIANO QUARTERLY
April 2011
Also available Reger: Piano Music
Hyperion • CDA 66996 (034571169965)
“I have never heard Reger played with greater imagination or persuasive eloquence.” — CLASSIC FM MAGAZINE
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Modern music from Poland Price Code: A19 (2 CDs for the Price of 1, Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)
Royal String Quartet Hyperion • CDA 67812
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GÓRECKI String Quartets Nos.1-3
2 CDs for the Price of 1 IMPORT Henryk Górecki’s intriguing String Quartets, all commissions from the Kronos Quartet, signified a new creative phase in his music. The stark contrasts that had been at the heart of Górecki’s compositional thinking in the 1950s and 1960s reemerged in his chamber music of the mid 1980s and are prevalent in these works. Fans of Górecki will be familiar with the compositional devices employed such as open fifths, sustained rocking motifs, and the juxtaposition of dissonance and consonance. In these distinctive quartets both Beethoven and Szymanowski’s well-documented influences on the composer are apparent as well as his fascination with the folk cultures of Southern Poland, with the frequent incorporation of folk derived themes. The Royal String Quartet, renowned for the championing of music from their homeland, display an astonishing range of color, finesse and attack in these intelligent interpretations.
Jonathan Harvey’s unique choral blend
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HARVEY The Angels, Ashes Dance Back, Marahi, The Summer Cloud’s Awakening
Latvian Radio Choir, James Wood Hyperion • CDA 67835
April 2011
IMPORT Jonathan Harvey is Britain’s foremost composer of electronic music and he has developed a complex and personal musical language for which he is globally recognized. His catalogue of works explores unique sound worlds and imaginative ensembles. The works on this disc, composed within seven years of each other during one of the most productive periods of Harvey’s career, demonstrate the stylistic range of his choral writing, including his unique approach to the combination of live performance and electronic sound and his innate sympathy for the voice. The Latvian Radio Choir have been labeled the creators of a new choral paradigm — a testament to their diverse range of voices and skillful performances of challenging experimental works. On this disc, the group makes their Hyperion debut with thrilling performances of some of Harvey’s choral masterworks.
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Hyperion’s Brahms Song Series continues hyperion
BRAHMS The Complete Songs, Vol.2
Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano) Hyperion • CDJ 33122
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“In years to come, the Graham Johnson song editions will be valued like the Arden Shakespeare and other classics editions of our literature.” — GRAMOPHONE
IMPORT Following on his iconic Hyperion projects focused on the complete songs of Schubert and Schumann, Graham Johnson’s latest enterprise traverses the complete songs of Brahms. He is joined here on the second volume in the series by the wonderful soprano Christine Schäfer, whose contribution to the Schumann song series won a Gramophone Award. Each volume in the series takes us on a journey through Brahms’s career, from youthful settings to songs of maturity. This volume includes a selection of delightful Mädchenlieder and concludes with a handful of Brahms’s intimate folksong settings. Discerningly partnered by Graham Johnson, Christine Schäfer is in perfect voice. She sings with a pure, luminous tone, crystal clear diction and eloquent phrasing, making this a superb recital in its own right. As part of the wider survey of the complete songs of Brahms, it will take an essential place in any Lieder-lover’s collection.
April 2011
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Brahms: The Complete Songs, Vol.1 Hyperion • CDJ 33121 (034571131214)
“Angelika Kirchschlager and Graham Johnson’s interpretations make these a thrilling experience.” — AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
Hyperion Helios Series reissues
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IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 66943 (034571153230) Deleted October 2007
IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 66934 (034571169347) Deleted February 2009 GOMBERT Missa Tempore paschali, Motets Henry’s Eight, Jonathan Brown Hyperion • CDH 55323
DVORÁK Violin Sonata, Sonatina, Four Romantic Pieces, Ballad, No urno
Anthony Marwood (violin), Susan Tomes (piano) Hyperion • CDH 55365
Sacred choral music of André Campra
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CAMPRA Messe de Requiem, In convertendo, Agnus Dei
Robert Getchell (counter-tenor), Jean-François Novelli (tenor), Marc Labonne e (tenor), Orchestre des Musiques Anciennes et à Venir, Les Pages & les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Olivier Schneebeli K617 • K 617224
April 2011
IMPORT André Campra (1660-1744) is considered to be one of the major figures in the French music revival. Known primarily for his operas, this program focuses on his Requiem which is an unjustly neglected masterpiece of the sacred repertoire. Here the piece is accompanied by one of his important motets, In convertendo. This music helped pave the way for French composers such as Gabriel Fauré and Maurice Duruflé. K617 has brought together a talented group of performers for this disc, led by conductor Olivier Schneebeli. The result is a benchmark recording.
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Debussy favorites from Gergiev and the LSO frémeaux lso live
DEBUSSY La mer, Jeux, Prélude à l’après midi d’un faune London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev LSO Live • LSO 0692
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CONCERT REVIEW “Virtuoso attention to detail and stylistic élan were on show from the start in a pungent performance of Debussy’s three orchestral sketches, La Mer.” — THE TIMES
IMPORT • SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Valery Gergiev has been performing Debussy’s music regularly with the LSO since he became Principal Conductor in 2007. For his latest LSO Live release, he presents his first recordings of three Debussy favorites, including a sensational performance of La mer. Widely considered one of the twentieth century’s most innovative and influential composers, Debussy was a “musical impressionist,” although it was a term he disliked. Despite running to little over ten minutes in duration, the sublime Prélude à l’aprèsmidi d’un faune is regarded as one of the most important and revolutionary of musical works. La mer was completed ten years later whilst Debussy was living in England and is a spectacular orchestral showpiece. Jeux, one of Debussy’s final orchestral works, was written for Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes.
April 2011
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Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe, Bolero & Pavane
LSO Live • LSO 0693 (822231169321)
“Gergiev’s fantastic conducting job here brings out the color and dynamics while highlighting every small detail.” — AUDIOPHILE AUDITION
Gergiev’s Shostakovich cycle continues mariinsky
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos.3 & 10
Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev Mariinsky • MAR 0511
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“The firebrand Russian conductor Valery Gergiev has risen to classical music’s equivalent of a rock star, as much for his swagger and rugged style as the drama he frames around his performances.”
IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD For the third release in his Shostakovich symphony cycle, Valery Gergiev again couples two works from different stages in the composer’s career. Although Shostakovich’s symphonies are usually highly programmatic, the third and tenth symphonies are among his most enigmatic works. The third was first performed in January 1930, its final movement setting a text by Semyon Isaakovich Kirsanov praising May Day and the revolution. Shostakovich stated that the work, “expresses the spirit of peaceful reconstruction,” yet much of the music is dark and somber in tone. The tenth is one of his most popular and frequently heard works. First performed in December 1953, the great Russian soprano Galina Vishnevskaya claimed that the symphony was, “a composer’s testament of misery, forever damning a tyrant.”
— HERALD TRIBUNE
Also available Mariinsky • MAR 0507 (822231850724)
“Performed here with total conviction... a tense and involving performance, distinguished by the terrifying sound of the St Petersburg winds.” — THE FINANCIAL TIMES
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 15 Mariinsky • MAR 0502 (822231850229)
“The performances show the conductor at his feverish, insightful best.”
— THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
April 2011
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 11
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Works for violin solo by Bach & Reger JS BACH Sonata No.1, Partitas Nos.1 & 2 REGER Preludes & Fugues Nos.1, 2 & 4 Sayaka Shoji (violin) Mirare • MIR 128
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Special Price IMPORT A great but still somewhat neglected composer, Max Reger was an unconditional admirer of Johann Sebastian Bach. Reger’s works for unaccompanied violin, the Preludes and Fugues, are inspired by the Sonatas and Partitas written by his illustrious idol. Here the two sets of works strike up a dialogue as if between mirror images, right down their respective Chaconnes. Violinist Sayaka Shoji performs brilliantly on the fascinating disc of musical comparisons from Mirare.
Two sides of Brahms’ chamber music BRAHMS Piano Quintet, Zwei Gesänge Op.91
April 2011
Andrea Hill (mezzo-soprano), Modigliani Quartet, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (piano) Mirare • MIR 130
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IMPORT Written twenty years apart, these gems of chamber music by Johannes Brahms present two captivating faces of a complicated romantic composer. Mezzo-soprano Andrea Hill sings the intimate and poignantly nostalgic Zwei Gesänge for mezzo, viola and piano and the Modigliani Quartet is joined by pianist Jean-Frédéric Neuburger in the crowd-pleasing Piano Quintet, a work of almost symphonic texture and intensity.
Prize-winning pianist Adam Laloum plays Brahms Price Code: A21 (Suggested Retail Price: $21.98)
Adam Laloum (piano) Mirare • MIR 131
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BRAHMS Variations on an Original Theme, Klavierstücke Op.76, Rhapsodies Op.79, Intermezzi Op.117
IMPORT From the age of 20 onward, Johannes Brahms never ceased writing music for the piano. The selection of works performed here on this new Mirare disc by French pianist Adam Laloum range from the poetic to the nostalgic and as a group, take on the characteristics of a personal journal. The 22-year-old Laloum was the winner of the 2009 Clara Haskil Competition and has been hailed by US critics as “a pianist to watch for.”
Boris Berezovsky plays Romantic favorites
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BRAHMS Piano Concerto No.2, Variations on a Theme of Paganini Op.35, Hungarian Dances Nos.1, 2 & 4
Boris Berezovsky (piano), Orchestre Philharmonique de l’Oural, Dmitri Liss Mirare • MIR 132
April 2011
IMPORT Acclaimed pianist Boris Berezovsky, joined here by the Orchestre Philharmonique de l’Oural led by Dmitri Liss, revels in Johannes Brahms’ exhilarating second piano concerto — a sweeping epic combining Classical nobility and Romantic fire. With the same joy and virtuosity, Berezovsky’s performances of the Variations on a Theme of Paganini and the Hungarian Dances prove once again that Brahms was one of the last great masters of the Romantic piano.
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The legendary Borodin Quartet frémeaux onyx
HAYDN String Quartets Op.33 — “Russian” Borodin Quartet Onyx Classics • ONYX 4069
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IMPORT For their third Onyx Classics release, the great Borodin Quartet play Haydn’s six String Quartets of Op.33, nicknamed the “Russian” quartets. Written between 1778 and 1781, they represent an important and influential shift in style from the flamboyant Op.20 set written nearly ten years earlier. Intimate and subtle, these groundbreaking quartets are the lightest and most humorous of all his mature quartets.
April 2011
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60th Anniversary
Onyx • ONYX 4002 (880040400226)
“Still going strong, the Borodins remain at the forefront of the quartet circuit.” — GRAMOPHONE
Borodin: String Quartet No.1
Onyx • ONYX 4051 (880040405122)
“This is a fine program, beautifully played and recorded with clarity.” — AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
Glass’ Kepler now on DVD orange mountain
GLASS Kepler
Soloists & Chorus of the Landestheater Linz, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Dennis Russell Davies Orange Mountain • OMM 5004
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DOMESTIC All Zones / 120 Minutes / In German & Latin with English & German Subtitles Recently released on CD, Orange Mountain Music’s recording of Philip Glass’ opera Kepler is now available on DVD. The opera was filmed by Austrian Broadcasting in 2009 and broadcast on Austrian and German television in 2010. The DVD presents the full opera, filmed in HD, sung in German and Latin with German, Latin and English subtitles. The opera explores the life of scientist Johannes Kepler, continuing Glass’ interest in scientists following operas on Einstein and Galileo. Performed by Landestheater Linz with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz under Dennis Russell Davies, Kepler is a refreshing return to large-scale symphonic writing for the opera house.
Also available Orange Mountain • OMM 0071 (801837007121)
“There’s a strong sense of the composer, now in his 70s… with more cumulative impact than ever, in this impassioned performance led by conductor Dennis Russell Davies.” — THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
April 2011
Glass: Kepler
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Piano music of Kabalevsky KABALEVSKY Piano Sonatas Nos.1-3
Christoph Deluze (piano) Praga • PRD 250279
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IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD The Preludes and Sonatas of Dmitri Kabalevsky are amongst the best piano works of the forties, and deserve a place on concert programs alongside better-known works by composers such as Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Pianist Christoph Deluze has become well known for his interpretations of Kabalevsky, and here he performs the three Piano Sonatas. The first is reminiscent of Scriabin, and the second and the third are ‘war pieces’ filled with highly virtuosic passages. Deluze’s performances confirm their impressive stature, intense lyricism and rhythmic vigor.
Czech Chamber music on SACD FOERSTER Piano Trio No.2 NOVÁK Piano Trio No.2 JANÁCEK Pohádka FIBICH Piano Trio in F Minor
April 2011
Kinsky Trio Prague Praga • PRD 250280
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IMPORT • SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD An original program of post-Smetana chamber music, this release places works by Janácek alongside those of his contemporary competitors. These composers dominated the Czech music scene up until the last world war. With aesthetics ranging from naturalism and spiritual fidelity (Fibich) to the compositional ethic of Dvorák (Foerster), to uncompromising patriotism (Novák), they form a sharp contrast to the storyteller of Pohádka, whose centennial is commemorated here. The Kinsky Trio Prague makes all the right musical connections on this fascinating SACD of Czech music.
The storied rebirth of Mahler’s 10th symphony testament
MAHLER Symphony No.10 (Deryck Cooke Performing Version)
Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Bertholt Goldschmidt Testament • SBT3 1457
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IMPORT In the course of preparing the booklet for the BBC’s celebrations of Mahler’s centenary in 1960, Deryck Cooke felt that he needed to do more than simply describe the unfinished state of the Tenth Symphony. Most of Mahler’s sketches had been published by 1924, and Cooke discovered to his surprise that detailed study revealed much more than the incomplete and fragmentary work he had believed it to be. The BBC agreed to include the tenth in its complete cycle of the symphonies in the form of a detailed illustrated talk. The event, preserved on this recording, took place on December 19, 1960. Nearly all of the symphony was performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra under Berthold Goldschmidt. The critical reaction was positive, but Mahler’s widow, who had given her blessing to the idea, banned all future performances without having heard any of the music. Eventually persuaded to listen to a tape of the broadcast, she was so moved by hearing it that she rescinded the ban. The first complete performance, heard here, took place on August 13, 1964 at the BBC Proms with Berthold Goldschmidt conducting the London Symphony Orchestra.
Recently released Testament • SBT2 1456 (749677145620)
“Several other live Klemperer Mahler Seconds are extant. None, however, catches so memorably the unbridled force of Klemperer’s commitment to the symphony and to the man who wrote it.” — GRAMOPHONE
April 2011
Mahler: Symphony No.2
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WORLD A meeting of Arabic and Persian masters accords croisés
Ivresses/Rapture — The Rite of Khayyam
Alireza Ghorbani, Dorsaf Hamdani Accords Croisés • AC 142
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IMPORT • File in: World Music / Iran Accords Croisés presents Rapture — a disc that brings together Iranian singer Alireza Ghorbani and Tunisian singer Dorsaf Hamdani for the first time. It presents a unique dialogue between the Arabic and Persian worlds. The Rubaiyat, written by poet and Persian philosopher Omar Khayyam, is filled with mysticism. Nourished by the Sufi philosophy, it concerns an existential questioning about mankind, the enjoyment of living and the relation of men with the Creator. Khayyam’s verses describe a lover in search of the mysterious and forbidden secrets of life.
April 2011
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Songs of Rebirth — Tribute to Rumi
Accords Croisés • AC 122(794881880621)
“Ghorbani is a master of the tahrir, the coloratura style of Persian chant, and when he uses it, the effect is spine-chilling.” — SONGLINES
WORLD Kar Kar: the first superstar of Malian music Je chanterai pour toi
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Boubacar Traoré Lusafrica • 562472
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Boubacar Traoré Lusafrica • 562482
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File in: World Music / Mali Boubacar Traoré is a passionate musician who distills emotions and dreams with simplicity and precision. His powerful voice sings his country’s history. The hope and despair of the Malian people, their love and expectations, all told through striking melodies inspired from the Kassonke Malian tradition. Boubacar’s fame took root in the 1950s and ever since the singer has been traveling the world and spreading his particular brand of blues. His inimitable style — warmhearted as well as wistful — can be clearly heard on these essential reissues.
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April 2011
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WORLD ocora
Traditional music recordings from Ocora
Girija Devi
Girija Devi Ocora • C 561056
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Batuque and Finaçon Nha Mita Pereira Ocora • C 561151
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Uganda — Music of the Baganda People Various Artists Ocora • C 561161
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April 2011
IMPORT File in: World Music / Uganda New from Ocora this month are three albums of traditional music from India, Cape Verde and Uganda. The esteemed north Indian singer Girija Devi is featured in a live recording of a concert given in Paris in 1992. Born in 1929, Devi is a specialist in classical and light classical thumri. The popularity of Cape Verdean music has grown exponentially thanks to great artists such as Cesaria Evora. Through the vocals of Nha Mita Pereira, a legend of batuque tradition, the very soul of Cape Verde is exposed. Finally, a collection of music of the Baganda people, Uganda’s main ethnic group features selections including dances, religious invocations and secular songs.
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New music from Tunisia’s Amine and Hamza Perpetual Motion
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Amine and Hamza Network • 495134
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IMPORT File in: World Music / Tunisia Amine and Hamza, two brothers from Tunisia, are celebrated worldwide as geniuses on their instruments, the oud and the kanun. After training with the great masters in Tunisia, Morocco and Turkey, they recorded their first albums at the age of 16 and 17 respectively. Five albums have followed since, but Perpetual Motion is surely their masterpiece. In these new works, Arab and western modern classicism meet, leaving ample room for improvisation. This wonderful project is enriched by the singing of Maroua from Tunisia and contributions from virtuoso musicians on flamenco guitar, flute and oriental percussion instruments. April 2011
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JAZZ Passionate jazz from The Cookers Cast the First Stone
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The Cookers Plus Loin • PL 4536
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April 2011
IMPORT File in: Jazz The seasoned jazz soloists collectively known as The Cookers derive their name from “Night of the Cookers” — the recorded trumpet summit between Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard staged at Brooklyn’s Club La Marchal in 1965. The Cookers are a veteran supergroup consisting of George Cables on piano, Billy Harper on tenor saxophone, Billy Hart on drums, Cecil McBee on bass, Eddie Henderson and David Weiss on trumpet and flugelhorn and Craig Handy on flute and alto saxophone. On Cast the First Stone, The Cookers got together with an idea of the sonic approach they wanted to pursue and reached back into their catalogs for vibrant pieces. The resulting album is a unique experience, full of inspiration, moxie and brilliance.
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JAZZ A new force in improvised music Tasty!
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MSG Plus Loin • PL 4537
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IMPORT File in: Jazz Tasty! is the debut release by MSG, a group comprised of inventive Indian-American alto Rudresh Mahanthappa, Indo-Dutch drummer Chander Sardjoe and Irish bass-guitarist Ronan Guilfoyle. The trio first met as part of Ireland’s Kilkenny arts festival in 2005. The trigger was a mutual interest in south Indian music and its compatibilities with contemporary jazz. The result is a group offering one of the freshest new directions in jazz, setting the pace for the new millennium. Each musician brings their unique cultural backgrounds, musical knowledge and experience to the table, making MSG a new ‘flavor enhancer’ to watch in improvised music. April 2011
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Concert Calendar • CLASSICAL April 2011
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Anonymous 4 Kristian Bezuidenhout Richard Egarr James Ehnes
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi harmonia mundi Onyx Classics
Bernarda Fink
harmonia mundi
Daniele Ga i
harmonia mundi
Alban Gerhardt Marc-André Hamelin
Hyperion Hyperion
Angela Hewi Alina Ibragimova Olga Kern
Hyperion Hyperion harmonia mundi
Katia & Marielle Labèque Paul Lewis
KML Records harmonia mundi
London Symphony Orchestra
LSO Live
Jon Manasse, Jon Nakamatsu Robert McDuffie Jon Nakamatsu
harmonia mundi Orange Mountain harmonia mundi
Nash Ensemble Paul O'De e
Onyx Classics harmonia mundi
Ma hew Polenzani Jordi Savall
Hyperion Alia Vox
Silk Road Ensemble Stile Antico
World Village harmonia mundi
Takács Quartet
Hyperion
Tallis Scholars
Gimell
Tokyo String Quartet
harmonia mundi
Nobuyuki Tsujii Karen Vourc’h Shai Wosner
harmonia mundi Aparté Onyx Classics
Joyce Yang
harmonia mundi
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C.J. Chenier
World Village
Kayhan Kalhor Susan McKeown Ana Moura Moutin Reunion Quartet
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Catherine Russell
Septeto Nacional
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Ravi Shankar Silk Road Ensemble Omar Sosa
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Tinariwen
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