MAY 2012 NEW RELEASES
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Treading on hallowed ground, tenor Mark Padmore triumphs in a stunning album featuring Britten’s haunting Serenade and Finzi’s Dies Natalis (p.11) for harmonia mundi. Pianist Andreas Staier’s latest fascinating musicological project features Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations coupled with music written by other composers to the same theme (p.10). Also from harmonia mundi, the Jerusalem Quartet is joined by pianist Alexander Melnikov for Schumann’s Piano Quartet and Piano Quintet (p.13) and Joel Frederiksen brings an Elizabethan flavor to the music of cult favorite Nick Drake on Requiem for a Pink Moon (p.12). Soprano Rosemary Joshua is accompanied by Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques on Harmonia Sacra - an album of sacred songs by Henry Purcell for Aparté (p.4). Hyperion’s key releases for the month include pianist Steven Osborne’s Beethoven Bagatelles (p.15) and the debut of violinist Chloë Hanslip in concertos by Vieuxtemps (p.16). Other highlights of the month include Gianandrea Noseda’s Britten War Requiem for LSO Live (p.19) and Dennis Russell Davies’ debut of the Symphony No.9 by Philip Glass on Orange Mountain (p.22). On the non-classical front, Jazz Village’s second release features soul-jazz singer Sandra Nkaké’s Nothing For Granted (p.27) and World Village artists Bratsch are back with a new album entitled Urban Bratsch (p.29).
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“ The young pianist Joseph Moog’s scintillating virtuosity and knack for uncovering inner voices positively delights.” — CLASSICS TODAY
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More Haydn from Marc-André Hamelin Haydn wrote around sixty keyboard sonatas and this selection of eleven focuses on those from the 1770s, including the great C minor sonata from the composer’s ‘Sturm und Drang’ period, with its dynamic contrasts and virtuoso demands. In all these fascinating, idiosyncratic works, MarcAndré Hamelin wears his renowned virtuosity lightly, while playing with understated wit and the elegant, immaculate musicianship that has come to define one of the greatest pianists of our time. “Hamelin’s gift for making light of complex textures... is here harnessed to music of classical clarity and economy. It is without doubt one of his finest achievements....” — CLASSIC FM MAGAZINE
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Baroque music from France and Italy Price Code: A19 (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)
Christophe Rousset (harpsichord) Ambronay • AMY 032
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MARCHAND Pièces de clavecin Books I & II RAMEAU Suite de pièces de clavecin Book I
IMPORT Today, French Baroque composer and keyboard virtuoso Louis Marchand is perhaps best known for failing to take up J.S. Bach on his challenge to a musical ‘duel.’ Unfortunately, this colorful legend has overshadowed Marchand’s ample gifts as a composer of organ and harpsichord music. Writing in the ‘old fashioned’ style of d’Anglebert, he employs a profusion of ornaments that enrich the sustaining power of the sound. In contrast, the music of Rameau is always deliberately clear, favoring transparency over bombastic effects. Christophe Rousset, performing on a rare Donzelague harpsichord, explores the connections and contrasts between these two giants of the period.
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PORPORA Vespro per la Festivita dell’Assunta
Le Parlement de Musique, La Maîtrise de Bretagne, Martin Gester Ambronay • AMY 030
May 2012
IMPORT Porpora’s 1744 Vespro per la Festivita dell’Assunta was first performed in Venice at the Ospedaletto, one of four orphanages for girls that specialized in music. The most famous of the four was the Pietà, where Vivaldi taught violin. The music is conceived in the early Classical style as developed during the 1720s by Porpora and his rivals, Leonardo Vinci and Johann Adolph Hasse. For Porpora, the work was likely pivotal in his transformation from fashionable opera composer to revered maestro di cappella and teacher. For several years now, Le Parlement de Musique has been exploring the concertante repertoire of the Venetian ospedali.
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Sacred music by Purcell aparté
PURCELL Harmonia Sacra
Rosemary Joshua (soprano), Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset Aparté • AP 027
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IMPORT Purcell was not just a creature of the theatre — his genius with the human voice also extended to sacred and secular songs. Among his least well-known works, many of Purcell’s sacred songs remained in manuscript and known only to a select few. It is possible that they were intended solely for an elite audience at court. Published by Henry Playford, Harmonia Sacra was a two-volume anthology of devotional song containing compositions by Purcell and several of his contemporaries. The settings here are scored for small forces — one to two voices, accompanied by continuo. The emotional range, however, is huge. This disc, featuring soprano Rosemary Joshua supported by Christophe Rousset and members of Les Talens Lyriques, presents a selection of sixteen of Purcell’s solo songs interspersed with his works for harpsichord played by Christophe Rousset.
praise for Rosemary Joshua “ A brilliant lyric voice and vibrant stage presence... This wonderful artist goes from strength to strength and she has an awesome arsenal of technical skills at her command.” — OPERA TODAY
May 2012
Also available Arias for Anna De Amicis
Aparte • AP 021 (3149028005820)
“Teodora Gheorghiu certainly has the requisite glittering coloratura technique...” — GRAMOPHONE
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Up-and-coming soloists Price Code: A19 (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)
Shirley Brill (clarinet), National Radio Orchestra of Romania, Adrian Morar Aparté • AP 024
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FRANÇAIX Clarinet Concerto, Theme and Variations PROKOFIEV Sonata Op.94
IMPORT Clarinetist Shirley Brill studied with Sabine Meyer at the Musikhochschule Lübeck and with Richard Stoltzman at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Her career was launched with a performance as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. She has since performed around the world, both as a soloist and with pianist Jonathan Aner as part of the Brillaner Duo, playing in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall and the Beethoven-Haus. On her first recording for Aparté (and her first with an orchestra), Brill presents a selection of fine but rarely recorded works. Its release is intended to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Jean Françaix (1912-1997).
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Rick Stotijn (double bass), Christiane Stotijn (mezzo-soprano), Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson Channel Classics • CCS SA 32612
May 2012
IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Although rarely heard in the concert hall, Giovanni Bottesini’s compositions for double bass are staples of the instrument’s repertoire. This disc of favorite works by Bottesini features Rick Stotijn, making his debut on Channel Classics. Stotijn is currently leader of the double basses in the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and the Swedish Radio Orchestra. The disc also features the bass player’s sister mezzo-soprano Christiane Stotijn, and orchestral support from his friends in the Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
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BOTTESINI Capriccio di Bravura, Grand Duo Concertant, Grande Allegro di Concerto, Duo Concertant, Une Bouche Aimée, Tutto Che Il Mondo serra
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British Light Music Premieres Vol.6
Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland, BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth Dutton • CDLX 7283
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IMPORT The sixth volume in Dutton’s British Light Music Premieres ranges from Anthony Hedges’ bustling evocation of market day at the Yorkshire town of Beverley to John Fox’s powerful Portrait of Diana from 1997. Also featured are folk-inspired works by Welsh composers Alun Hoddinott and Mansel Thomas, Philip Lane’s Lyric Dances and a potpourri of show tunes by Richard Addinsell and Noel Gay from 1926. Rounding out the disc are David Morgan’s charming Music for Children and Carey Blyton’s Cinque Port suite and El Tango Ultimo. Featured artists include the Royal Ballet Sinfonia conducted by Gavin Sutherland and the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth.
English music for cello SAINSBURY Cello Concerto Op.27 FOULDS Cello Concerto Op.17
May 2012
Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Martin Yates Dutton • CDLX 7284
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IMPORT This disc features cello concertos by Lionel Sainsbury and John Foulds. The Foulds is a youthful essay in a melodious late-Romantic idiom. The work has long been requested by Foulds enthusiasts after Raphael Wallfisch had revived it in a broadcast over twenty years ago. The concerto by Sainsbury features an unabashedly tonal and opulent melodic language, recalling the neo-romantic idiom of composers such as William Walton and Samuel Barber. On this recording, cellist Raphael Wallfisch is joined by conductor Martin Yates leading the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra for the Foulds (a world premiere) and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for the Sainsbury, which was recorded in the presence of the composer.
The tuneful music of Edward German Price Code: A22 (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98)
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GERMAN Much Ado about Nothing, The Tempter, Marche Solennelle, Henry VIII, Romeo and Juliet, Coronation March and Hymn
BBC Concert Orchestra, John Wilson Dutton • CDLX 7285
IMPORT John Wilson returns to lead the BBC Concert Orchestra in a third program of orchestral music by Edward German. Most of the works recorded here are either world premiere recordings or first digital recordings. This is repertoire on the stylistic cusp between light music and symphonic fare, and all of it informed by German’s characteristic lyricism and orchestral flair. The program is focused on theatre music — the music with which German came to fame — and includes extended suites from Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and Henry VIII. The Marche Solennelle of 1890 and the 1911 Coronation March and Hymn complete the program.
A new look at a Vaughan Williams favorite
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No.5 WRIGHT Momentum, Violin Concerto
Fenella Humphreys (violin), Christopher Watson (tenor), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Martin Yates Dutton • CDLX 7286
May 2012
IMPORT This disc presents the world premiere recording of Peter Horton’s new edition of Vaughan Williams’ fifth symphony. Horton’s version addresses many of the textural problems left in the published score. Horton explains, “The composer’s notoriously hard-to-read handwriting caused further problems, as the copyist assigned to make a fair copy of the score introduced a large number of mistakes, principally (but not exclusively) in the phrasing and articulation.” The coupling is Christopher Wright’s deeply felt violin concerto, sensitively played by Fenella Humphreys. Wright’s concerto was written in memory of his wife, and looks to Walton for its stylistic roots, especially in the scherzando elements of the middle movement. Tenor Christopher Watson is featured in the work’s final movement.
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Romantic piano concertos CATOIRE Piano Concerto Op.21 SHERWOOD Piano Concerto No.2 in E-flat Major
Hiroaki Takenouchi (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates Dutton • CDLX 7287
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IMPORT Pianist Hiroaki Takenouchi, in his first recording for Dutton, explores piano concertos by Georgy Catoire (1861-1926) and Percy Sherwood (1866-1939), two worthwhile but neglected contemporaries who came to musical maturity in the closing years of the nineteenth century. The music of Catoire, who was part of the circle of Tchaikovsky, Arensky and Lyadov, is gloriously romantic in the Russian tradition. It is remarkable that his heartwarming, lyrical concerto has been recorded only twice. German-born Percy Sherwood was a late romantic composer, who made a significant career as both pianist and composer. His output derives from the late-nineteenth century romantic tradition, a character particularly apparent in the gorgeous slow movement of his second concerto (1932-33).
Orchestral music of Frederic Austin AUSTIN Symphony in E Major, The Sea Venturers Overture, Rhapsody — Spring, Richard II Overture
May 2012
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Northern College of Music Symphony Orchestra, Douglas Bostock, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Ronald Corp Dutton • CDLX 7288
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IMPORT As a coupling for their new recording of Frederic Austin’s romantic overture Richard the Second with Ronald Corp and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Dutton have reissued tracks from three different earlier recordings, all brilliantly remastered, to assemble a remarkable survey of Austin’s orchestral music. Austin’s big-boned Symphony of 1913 almost certainly influenced the young Arnold Bax, while the colorful orchestral tone painting in his overture The Sea Venturers adds yet another vibrant musical sea picture to the repertoire. Both are vividly played by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Douglas Bostock.
The legendary London Mozart Players Price Code: A19 (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)
Louis Kentner (piano), London Mozart Players, Harry Blech First Hand • FHR 15
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Complete HMV Stereo Recordings Vol.2 MOZART Symphony No.36, Piano Concerto No.24, Minuets K568
IMPORT First Hand Records offers a second volume in their series of recordings of the complete HMV stereo recordings made by the London Mozart Players and Harry Blech. This disc includes newly discovered Abbey Road Studio recordings from 1954 and 1956. All tapes were remastered at Abbey Road using original analogue session & masters. The London Mozart Players are the longest established chamber orchestra in the UK. Repertoire featured on this release includes the Symphony No.36, the Piano Concerto No.24 (featuring Louis Kentner at the keyboard) and the twelve Minuets of K568.
Rohan de Saram plays Pfitzner and Mayer
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PFITZNER Cello Concerto in G Major MAYER Prabhanda, Ragamalas
Rohan de Saram (cello), John Mayer (tanpura), Netherlands Radio Orchestra, Bohumil Gregor First Hand • FHR 14
May 2012
IMPORT In 1935, the German composer Hans Pfitzner wrote a rousing cello concerto for Rohan de Saram’s teacher, Gaspar Cassadó. With an abundance of irresistible qualities, the work possesses extraordinary richness and delight. A self-described anti-modernist, Pfitzner’s best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer. This recording, featuring de Saram accompanied by the Netherlands Radio Orchestra led by Bohumil Gregor, marks the work’s first appearance on CD. The concerto is coupled with two Indian influenced chamber works by John Mayer, the Prabhanda for cello and piano and the Ragamalas for cello and tanpura.
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Diabelli’s gift to music history harmonia mundi
BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations
Andreas Staier (fortepiano) harmonia mundi • HMC 902091
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IMPORT In 1819, music publisher and composer Anton Diabelli sent a waltz of his own creation to all the important composers of the Austrian Empire, asking each of them to write a variation on it. His plan was to publish the variations in a patriotic volume called Vaterländischer Künstlerverein and to use the profits to benefit orphans and widows of the Napoleonic Wars. Beethoven chose to write not just a single variation, but a set of thirty-three. His audacious submission, the Diabelli Variations, has since become one of the most revered examples of the genre. On this fascinating disc, pianist Andreas Staier, playing a fortepiano after Conrad Graf, pairs Beethoven’s magnum opus with a selection of the other works based upon Diabelli’s waltz. Here you can discover the very first stirrings of Liszt’s virtuosity (aged eleven), the music of Mozart’s son, variations by Kreutzer, Kalkbrenner and even the great Franz Schubert. This fascinating album sheds welcome new light on both the music and the milieu of Beethoven’s timeless masterpiece.
“One of the world’s best harpsichordists.” — GRAMOPHONE
May 2012
Also available C.P.E. Bach: Keyboard Concertos harmonia mundi • HMC 902083 (794881984626)
“Vivacious and evocative performances...” — SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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Padmore sings Britten and Finzi harmonia mundi
BRITTEN Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Nocturne FINZI Dies Natalis
Mark Padmore (tenor), Stephen Bell (horn), Britten Sinfonia, Jacqueline Shave harmonia mundi • HMU 807552
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Concert reView “ There’s no denying the affinity and rightness of this music under Padmore’s voice. We really were driven ‘almost mad with ecstasy,’ secure in his musical architecture and tonal control.” — THE ARTS DESK
IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Celebrated tenor Mark Padmore and the Britten Sinfonia present a program featuring some of the most beautiful English music for voice and orchestra ever written. The centerpiece is Benjamin Britten’s magical evocation of twilight and nightfall, the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op.31, for which he is joined by the dulcet tones of Stephen Bell on French horn. Completing the disc are Gerald Finzi’s song-cycle Dies Natalis, with its ecstatic mood reflecting a child’s wideeyed wonder at the world, and Britten’s fourth and final orchestral song cycle, the poignant Nocturne, Op.60. Long associated with the great Peter Pears, Padmore makes this music his own in stunning performances that welcome comparison to any singer, past or present.
Also available harmonia mundi • HMU 907443 (093046744328)
“A truly remarkable dramatic experience that’s worth many repeat hearings.”
May 2012
Britten: Before life & after
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Joel Frederiksen sings Nick Drake Requiem for a Pink Moon
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Joel Frederiksen (bass), Ensemble Phoenix Munich harmonia mundi • HMC 902111
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IMPORT Following the success of his 2011 album Rose of Sharon — a celebration of 18th Century American music that landed on Billboard’s classical chart and critics’ year-end lists — the latest project by Joel Frederiksen and the Ensemble Phoenix Munich takes them all the way back in time to... 1972. That was the year the late British troubadour and cult favorite Nick Drake released his third and final album, Pink Moon. Initially, the album garnered a small amount of critical attention, but it was not until decades after Drake’s death that it received widespread public and critical acclaim. Today, the sparse and unadorned tracks of Pink Moon are regarded by many fans and music critics as the greatest efforts of a tragically short career. Drake’s was an art filled with melancholy, a feeling and a concept that unites him with the singersongwriters of the Elizabethan age. Adapting Drake’s melodic guitar lines for Renaissance instruments, Frederiksen sheds new light on these finely crafted songs that speak directly and powerfully to the human condition and offers a fitting tribute to a modern-day Thomas Campion.
“Frederiksen’s rich, clear bass seems capable of an almost infinite degree of tonal shading. His diction is impeccable, as is his taste.” — INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
May 2012
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The Elfin Knight — Ballads & Dances harmonia mundi • HMC 901983 (794881847723)
“ Not so much song recital as musical storytelling, a forgotten fireside art.”
— LONDON EVENING STANDARD
Rose of Sharon
harmonia mundi • HMC 902085 (794881984923)
“ This one is to treasure, from beginning to end. ” — THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Jerusalem Quartet teams up with Alexander Melnikov harmonia mundi
SCHUMANN Piano Quintet Op.44, Piano Quartet Op.47
Alexander Melnikov (piano), Jerusalem Quartet harmonia mundi • HMC 902122
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IMPORT The Piano Quintet Op.44 and Piano Quartet Op.47 date from a brief period during which Robert Schumann focused his attention intensively on chamber music (between June 1842 and January 1843). These works underline his wish to ‘escape’ from the solo piano, now ‘too restricted’ for his overflowing imagination, as he told Clara. The Piano Quintet, which made a powerful impression on Wagner, is probably one of his most sophisticated works, into which Schumann poured all the creative energy he derived from meticulous
examination of similar works by his predecessors, especially Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Schubert. These performances by the Jerusalem Quartet and pianist Alexander Melnikov focus on the introspective nature of these gems of the Romantic period.
“ Passion, precision, warmth, a gold blend: these are the trademarks of this excellent Israeli string quartet.” — THE TIMES
Also available harmonia mundi • HMC 901899 (794881800629)
“Winning performances... brimming over with poignant melodies and rhythmic zest.” — THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
May 2012
Dvorak: Quartet, Piano Quintet
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Schumann’s inspired chamber music SCHUMANN Adagio and Allegro, Märchenbilder, Fantasiestücke, Märchenerzählungen, Drei Romanzen, Violin Sonata No.1 The Nash Ensemble Hyperion • CDA 67923
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IMPORT Among Schumann’s inspired late chamber works is a collection of music for more unusual instruments, composed in a concentrated flurry of creativity between 1849 and 1853. It is to these exquisite short works that the world-famous Nash Ensemble turns its impeccable collective musicianship. While Schumann modeled his music specifically to the timbres of the instruments he wrote for, he also arranged these pieces for alternative instruments with an eye to maximizing sales. The Nash Ensemble presents the works in their original scoring in what are bound to be definitive performances. The set’s many delights include the fiery and lyrical Märchenbilder (featuring star British viola player Lawrence Power), the Adagio and Allegro for horn and the Märchenerzählungen for clarinet, viola and piano.
The uniquely Irish music of Hamilton Harty HARTY String Quartets Nos.1&2, Piano Quintet
Piers Lane (piano), Goldner String Quartet Hyperion • CDA 67927
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IMPORT Acclaimed pianist Piers Lane and his fellow Australians, the Goldner String Quartet, reprise their highly successful partnership in world-premiere recordings of the two String Quartets and Piano Quintet of Irish composer Hamilton Harty. Harty (1879–1941) was a remarkable, self-taught musician who wrote in a lyrical Romantic idiom, while incorporating a modal astringency and folk-music charm that are reminiscent of Percy Grainger. In particular, the winding, pentatonic melody of the Lento of the quintet and the delightful ‘jig’ of the first movement of the second quartet seem like settings of folkmelodies that have echoed for centuries around the green hills of Ireland. Intriguingly, however, they are entirely Harty’s own invention.
Beethoven’s glorious ‘trifles’ harmonia mundi hyperion
BEETHOVEN Bagatelles
Steven Osborne (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67879
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“ Osborne’s musical intelligence and refined virtuosity command respect.” — CLASSICS TODAY
IMPORT Following up his highly acclaimed release of Beethoven sonatas, Hyperion’s Gramophone-award-winning pianist Steven Osborne turns his talents to Beethoven’s complete Bagatelles. Though the composer himself referred to these thirty short piano works, which he penned throughout his life, as ‘trifles,’ these are nonetheless trifles from the mind of a genius. In this polished album, Osborne lends his remarkable artistry to everything from the Six Bagatelles of Op 126, which at times occupy the same rarefied spiritual world as the late quartets and were the very last works Beethoven ever wrote for the piano, to the composer’s most famous stand-alone piano piece, the mysterious little A minor Bagatelle known to all the world as Für Elise.
Also available Hyperion • CDA 67662 (034571176628)
“This is pretty remarkable Beethoven playing...”
May 2012
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas
— INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW 15
Chloë Hanslip debuts on Hyperion hyperion
The Romantic Violin Concerto Vol.12 VIEUXTEMPS Violin Concertos Nos.1 & 2, Greeting to America Chloë Hanslip (violin), Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Martyn Brabbins Hyperion • CDA 67878
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IMPORT With this new volume in their ongoing Romantic Violin Concerto series, Hyperion proudly announces a new collaboration with the brilliant young British violinist Chloë Hanslip, the former child prodigy famously signed to Warner Classics at the age of just fourteen. Here, she lends her now-mature talents to the second release in Hyperion’s overview of Vieuxtemps’ Violin Concertos. Henry Vieuxtemps (1820–1881) was a French violin virtuoso who, after the death of Paganini, was widely considered to be the best violinist in Europe. Besides being a brilliant player, he was a remarkably fine composer, as demonstrated in these, his first two concertos. Alongside the memorable violin fireworks, Vieuxtemps here shows a well-argued musical sensibility that straddles both the Classical and Romantic eras as well as the ability to write gorgeous, almost operatic slow movements in the best bel-canto tradition.
“Hanslip’s radiant artistry and phrasal sensitivity is highly seductive.” — BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
May 2012
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Romantic Violin Concerto Vol.11
Hyperion • CDA 67892 (034571178929)
“I have not heard a performance of his Violin Concerto which has excited or moved me as much as this one...” — INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
Choral music of Christopher Tye Price Code: A19 (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)
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TYE Missa Euge bone, Western Wynde Mass, Give almes of thy goods, Christ rising, Peccavimus cum patribus nostris; Nunc dimittis
The Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O’Donnell Hyperion • CDA 67928
IMPORT Christopher Tye flourished as a church musician in England during the mid-sixteenth century. A direct contemporary of Thomas Tallis, he held the prestigious post of Master of Choristers at Ely cathedral and successfully managed to compose music for both Protestant and Catholic services during a politically unstable time. He wrote remarkably individual music, characterized by unpredictable cadences and phrases of often unexpectedly startling beauty. The two major works on this recording are his masterful Missa Euge bone for six voices, and his Western Wynde Mass, probably an early work, and likely written as a complement to John Taverner’s own mass based on this secular English song. The Westminster Abbey Choir directed by James O’Donnell performs these sparsely beautiful a cappella works with their customary freshness and a sense of grandeur.
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James Bowman (counter-tenor), The King’s Consort, Robert King Hyperion • CDH 55370
MACKENZIE Cricket on the Hearth Overture, Twelfth Night, Benedictus, Second Scotch Rhapsody, Coriolanus Incidental Music
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins Hyperion • CDH 55395
May 2012
HANDEL Heroic Arias
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Celebrating the glorious music of Versailles k617
Sacred Music of Versailles
Les Pages & Les Chantres de Versailles, Olivier Schneebeli K617 • K 617234
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IMPORT K617 presents a special collection celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Olivier Schneebeli and Les Pages et les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles. This choir’s unique combination of children’s and adult voices, in the great tradition of the Versailles Chapelle royale, has helped Schneebeli develop the ideal ‘instrument’ to showcase French repertoire of the 17th and the 18th centuries. This exceptional boxed set features sacred masterpieces by the composers of the “Grand Siècle,” from the reign of Henri IV to the end of the reign of Louis XIV. In particular it explores, with the aid of numerous unpublished recordings, the birth of the musical genre most associated with Chapelle royale — the grand motet.
May 2012
la dolce volta
Bach’s magnum opus
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BACH Goldberg Variations
Frédérick Haas (harpsichord) La Dolce Volta • LDV 01
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IMPORT French harpsichordist Frédérick Haas has made a name for himself with an aristocratic, pensive style more attuned to introspection than pyrotechnics. He has a profound knowledge of the inner workings of harpsichords and the secrets of their fine-tuning. Haas owns the spellbindingly beautiful 1751 Henri Hemsch Harpsichord used on this recording of Bach’s immortal Goldberg Variations. Explaining why he chose a French harpsichord for a decidedly German work, Hass explains, “Since the 1751 Hemsch is one of the most beautiful harpsichords in existence and its tone and mechanics are perfect, why not use it here? The interpreter’s role is to make sure his French harpsichord speaks decent German.”
Britten’s powerful War Requiem lso live
BRITTEN War Requiem
Ian Bostridge (tenor), Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Sabina Cvilak (soprano), London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Eltham College Choir, Gianandrea Noseda LSO Live • LSO 0719
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Price Code: 2A17 (2 SACD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $35.98)
“ Noseda’s unashamedly dramatic interpretation held the audience transfixed. An overwhelming evocation of the grief, the waste and the pity of war.” — THE TIMES
“ Noseda marshalled the finest War Requiem that I have heard. He showed total control of Britten’s vast structure.” — THE NEW YORKER
May 2012
Concert reviews
IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD For his first LSO Live recording, Gianandrea Noseda is joined by three of today’s most widely acclaimed singers for a magnificent performance of Benjamin Britten’s choral masterpiece. Premiered 50 years ago, the War Requiem saw its composer unite many of the themes that ran through his music and beliefs. Britten had been commissioned to write a work for the re-dedication of Coventry Cathedral, which had been destroyed during devastating bombing raids on the town during the Second World War. As a young man, Britten had written many choral works based on religious texts before achieving fame as a composer of opera. He was also a pacifist and a conscientious objector during the War. Using the Latin mass of the dead, interspersed with texts by war poet Wilfred Owen, he created a work that both mourned the dead and pleaded the futility of war. Leading the London Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Chorus, Noseda is joined by soloists Ian Bostridge, Simon Keenlyside and Sabina Cvilak.
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Russian piano music on Mirare
PROKOFIEV Toccata Op.11, Ten Pieces Op.12, Sonata No.2, Sarcasms Op.17, Visions Fugitives Op.22
Voyage to Russia
Claire-Marie Le Guay (piano) Mirare • MIR 169
Abdel Rahman El Bacha (piano) Mirare • MIR 165
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition MEDTNER Piano Sonata No.1 TANEYEV Prelude and Fugue
David Kadouch (piano) Mirare • MIR 170
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This trio of discs from Mirare features the talents of three pianists particularly noted for their affinity to the Russian repertoire. Prokofiev specialist Abdel Rahman El Bacha offers a fascinating selection of the composer’s piano works, ranging from the futurist strains of the Toccata Op.11 (1912) to the Visions Fugitives of Op.22 (1917) From Mussorgsky to Scrabin, Claire-Marie Le Guay journeys through the full range of Russian piano music. Embracing both the great Romantic repertory and intimate, lesser-known pieces, this musical portrait reflects the vast Russian landscape. Russian composers have never ceased to celebrate their homeland in the form of tales and legends. In a program centering around Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, pianist David Kadouch assumes the role of storyteller in a selection of musical legends, mythical or imagined, taken from Russia’s long history.
Stravinsky’s works for 2 pianos Price Code: A21 (Suggested Retail Price: $21.98)
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STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring (arr. for piano duo), Petrushka (arr. for piano duo), Five Easy Pieces for Piano Duet, Three Easy Pieces for Piano Duet
Lidija Bizjak (piano), Sanja Bizjak (piano) Mirare • MIR 171
IMPORT Over the course of a few short years, with his ballets Petrushka and The Rite of Spring — premiered by the Ballets Russes in 1911 and 1913, Igor Stravinsky drastically changed the musical world and opened the path to the twentieth century and modern music. This recording of the piano transcriptions of these ground-breaking scores remain as faithful as possible to the orchestral versions. Played here by the duo of Lidija Bizjak and Sanja Bizjak, the vivid colors, startling rhythms and lyrical melodies of these works are given full voice and weight.
Russian music for viola
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SHOSTAKOVICH Viola Sonata Op.147 GLAZUNOV Elegy Op.44 TCHAIKOVSKY Nocturne Op.19 No.4, Mélodie Op.42 No.3, Valse Sentimentale Op.51 No.6
Gérard Caussé (viola), Brigitte Engerer (piano) Mirare • MIR 172
May 2012
IMPORT From Tchaikovsky to Shostakovich, Russian music has often found its truest voice in elegies. With Glazunov and Tchaikovsky, they are recollections of childhood, or nostalgia for another world. While Rachmaninoff evokes purity in his Vocalise, in his Sonata, Shostakovich intones a swansong, a song of death. In the warm timbre of Gérard Caussé’s viola and the generous sonority of Brigitte Engerer’s piano, all the melancholy, tenderness and pain of Russia find eloquent expression.
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Philip Glass at 75 orange mountain
GLASS Symphony No.9
Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Dennis Russell Davies Orange Mountain • OMM 0081
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Concert review DOMESTIC Composed on commission from the Bruckner Orchester Linz, Carnegie Hall, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philip Glass’ Symphony No.9 receives its world premiere here on a recording from Orange Mountain Music. Written for large symphony orchestra with expanded brass and percussion, Glass’ three-movement work received its US premiere at Carnegie Hall on January 31, 2012, Glass’ 75th birthday. This recording is conducted by Glass’ long-time collaborator Dennis Russell Davies, conductor and music director of the Bruckner Orchester Linz, Landestheater, and the Sinfonieorchester Basel, who has premiered all but one Glass symphony. The Bruckner Orchester Linz continues its long association with the music of Philip Glass having performed and recorded his sixth, seventh and eighth symphonies, as well as staging of his operas The Voyage, Kepler and Orphée.
May 2012
Recently released
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Glass: In The Penal Colony
Orange Mountain • OMM 0078 (801837007824)
“The familiar oscillations of Glass’s score, skillfully played by a quintet of strings with electronic noises off, are put to intense, inventive use.” — THE OBSERVER
“ Glass’s Ninth, with its multiple ethnic and historical references, shows the 75-year-old composer’s unbroken curiosity about the contemporary outside world — and the past.” — THE CLASSICAL REVIEW
Carbonara plays Schubert Price Code: A19 (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)
Michelangelo Carbonara (piano) Piano Classics • PCL 0034
IMPORT Michelangelo Carbonara is one of the most interesting and talented young Italian pianists. A student of the famous Imola Piano School he benefited from the advice of such luminaries as Dmitri Bashkirov, Leon Fleischer, Alicia de Larrocha, Menahem Pressler and Aldo Ciccolini. His recordings of piano music by Ravel, Scarlatti and Nino Rota brought him great critical acclaim in the international press. This disc for Piano Classics presents him in music very close to his heart, the piano sonatas by Franz Schubert (he is prize winner of the Schubert International Piano Competition in Dortmund), from the early joyful sonata in E major, through the lyrical A major D664 to the grim A minor sonata D845.
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SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas D.157, D.664, & D.845
Spanish piano favorites
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The Spanish Album DE FALLA Cuatro Piezas Españolas GRANADOS Danzas Españolas, Escenas Poéticas ALBENÍZ España
Michel Block (piano) Piano Classics • PCL 0031
May 2012
IMPORT Michel Block (1937-2003) gained international attention and fame when at the 1960 Chopin Competition jury member Artur Rubinstein was so outraged by the jury decision that he awarded Michel Block the special Artur Rubinstein Award on the spot. Two years later Michel Block, a Juilliard laureate, won the prestigious Leaventritt Award and then embarked on an international solo career. After joining the faculty of Indiana University, Block ceased his busy concert schedule and his rare public appearances after that were memorable events. Block had a special affinity for Spanish music (he grew up in Mexico). This recital offers gems from the Spanish repertoire including Granados’ Spanish Dances, Albeniz’s España and the four Spanish Pieces by De Falla.
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The virtuosity of Nicolai Lugansky SCHUMANN Études Symphoniques Op.13, Piano Sonata No.1; Toccata Op.7 Nikolai Lugansky (piano) Piano Classics • PCL 0029
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IMPORT Tatiana Nikolaeva’s prophesy about her pupil Nikolai Lugansky — “He is the next one”has come true. Lugansky is now regarded as one of the major pianists from the Russian Piano School, enjoying a dazzling career across all the continents, playing with the most important orchestras and conductors in world renowned concert venues. He is universally praised for his sincere interpretations, his honesty, his deep burning passion and (last but not least) his limitless and unbelievably perfected technique. This Schumann program offers two major large scale works, played with grandeur and nobility, and a dazzling performance of the fiendishly difficult Toccata.
The colorful piano music of Berio BERIO Complete Piano Music
May 2012
Francesco Tristano (piano) Piano Classics • PCL 0032
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IMPORT The piano works of Luciano Berio span the entire life of the composer, and bear perfect witness of the style of this 20th Century genius. He composes a fascinating world of colors, inventions, wit and virtuosity, extremely challenging for both pianist and audience, but rewarding for those with open ears. Francesco Tristano is a phenomenal interpreter of this music. A Juilliard alumnus, in 2004 Tristano won the prestigious Competition for 20th Century Piano Music in Orléans, which was the start of a successful, if unorthodox, career. His first recordings were made on the French Sisyphe label. At present he is under contract with Deutsche Grammophon.
Celebrating an icon of contemporary music wergo
50 Years — 1962-2012 STRAVINSKY Sonata for 2 Pianos, Three Easy Pieces for Piano Duet SCHNEBEL Choralvorspiele I & II, Atemzüge NONO Polifonica-Monodia-Ritmica, Canti per 13 CAGE Works for Percussion: 3 Constructions, Imaginary Landscape No.2 STOCKHAUSEN Kontra-punkte, Refrain, Zeitmasze, Schlagtrio Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky (pianos),
Interpretenensemble Darmstadt, Dieter Schnebel, Ensemble United Berlin, Helios Quartet, Ensemble Recherche, Rupert Huber Wergo • WER 6946
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IMPORT In 2012, the Wergo label celebrates its 50th anniversary. For half a century, Wergo has been synonymous with contemporary music. The label’s catalog reads like a virtual who’s-who of modern music, both in terms of composers and performers. From the beginning, the intent of founder WERner GOldschmidt (from whom the label derives its name) was to provide listeners with a snapshot of current musical activity and innovation. Goldschmidt’s label and mission, now managed by the publisher Schott, is maintained to this day by a dedicated staff that is constantly striving to bring the best new music to the attention of the world. This specially-priced commemorative set features five discs, with one from each from the label’s five rich decades. Featured composers include Cage, Nono, Schnebel Stockhausen and Stravinsky.
May 2012
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JAZZ
Verve classics now on SACD Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson
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Like Someone In Love
Ella Fitzgerald APO • CVRJ 6000 SA
Ben Webster, Oscar Peterson APO • CVRJ 6114 SA
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Price Code: A40 (Suggested Retail Price: $40.98) DOMESTIC SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD File In: Jazz
Arranged by Frank DeVol and enlivened by what the liner notes described as, “the sensitive, poignant saxophone solos of Stan Getz” on four tracks, Ella Fitzgerald’s album Like Someone In Love was (not surprisingly) targeted at “people in love.” But its real audience, then as now, was anyone who loves timeless songs impeccably sung. What was timeless in 1957 still is today.
Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson brings together two of the greatest stylists American music has produced. Here, in a program of timeless songs, pianist Oscar Peterson is the perfect foil — his effortless swing an excellent set-up for the unhurried scoops, slurs, and bent notes of tenor saxophone balladeer Ben Webster — just the way he liked it.
May 2012
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A jazz tribute to Hendrix
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Jimi’s Colors — A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix Francis Lockwood Frémeaux • FA 565
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IMPORT File In: Jazz This tribute to Jimi Hendrix by French jazz pianist Francis Lockwood was first published by Owl Records (EMI) in the mid-nineties. It was immediately acclaimed by the International media, from France to Japan and beyond. The album’s eleven tracks feature both songs that Hendrix made famous (“Burning of the Midnight Lamp,” “The Wind Cries Mary”) and Lockwood originals. The immortal qualities of Hendrix’s music find an unexpected but welcome home in the sound-world of jazz.
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Retro-futurist jazz from Sandra Nkaké Nothing For Granted
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Sandra Nkaké Jazz Village • JV 570002
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Advance review “Nothing for Granted is a collection of musical stories. Or more like a festival of short films in sound. Playing the lead role, Sandra Nkaké changes tone of voice to act out her characters as others might change costume. The singer creates a three-dimensional world peopled with fictional characters wandering round castles in the air, rebellious, off-the-wall, and jamming it up inside her mind’s eye.”
IMPORT File In: Jazz The energy is rock, the feeling pop, the spirit jazz and the groove implacable — this is the magic formula of the soul-jazz singer Sandra Nkaké. With magnificent support from a rhythm section recalling the heyday of Stax, this album, with compositions and lyrics by Sandra and her close partner, flautist-producer Jî Drû, packs a powerful punch. Old instruments, appealing arrangements, a retro-futurist atmosphere studded with echoes of sixties songs and soundtracks of cult films, a spacey production — everything here conspires to make Nothing For Granted an explosive manifesto where Sandra Nkaké’s rough-hewn voice rings out like a cry of freedom.
— RADIO FRANCE May 2012
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accords croisés
WORLD
Melos: Mediterranean Songs
Keyvan Chemirani, Dorsaf Hamdani, Juan Carmona, En Chordais Accords Croisés • AC 146
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IMPORT File In: World / Europe Melos is an ambitious artistic creation gathering musical traditions of three Mediterranean countries: Spain, Tunisia and Greece. Around traditional songs and modern compositions, Keyvan Chemirani has gathered together a group of exceptional singers and musicians for a journey exploring the infinite rhythmic strength which defines music of the Mediterranean region.
Aprilaccords 2012
croisés
chant du monde
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The Aleppian Music Room Ensemble Al Kindi Chant du Monde • 2741108
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Tangos Pendientes
Débora Russ Accords Croisés • AC 145
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IMPORT File In: World / Middle East / Syria The music on the Al Kindi Ensemble’s set entitled The Aleppian Music Room is a distillation of centuries of tradition, clothed in modern form. Recorded beneath the dome of a small palace in Aleppo, at the crossroads of the famous silk routes, the group presents an eternal dialogue, questioning each other, moving apart, converging, then fading away so as to let the voices of silence ring out.
IMPORT File In: World / South America / Argentina Débora Russ’ Tangos Pendientes features sixteen tracks, each of which resonates in the listener’s mind with its own voice. These voices are of the singer’s relatives, family, friends, people known and unknown — those whose passage through Russ’ life has left a trace in her soul, and it is to those voices that this lovely and poignant album is dedicated.
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Darkly magical cityscapes from Bratsch Urban Bratsch
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Bratsch World Village • 479057
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Advance review “It’s very polished: Bratsch devotees won’t be disappointed; new converts may well be made.”
IMPORT File In: World / Europe / France Founded in 1975 by guitarist Dan Gharibian and violinist Bruno Girard, Bratsch is a French band that defies nearly every attempt at simple categorization. Their fiery blend of Gypsy, Klezmer, Balkan, rock and folk styles creates a heady mix that is uniquely Bratsch. The band’s work is not well known in North America, but they have played here on occasion and have built a small but loyal following. Their all-star guest extravaganza Plein du Monde was re-released on World Village in May, and now comes a brand new album, Urban Bratsch, the band’s discourse on cities and song and the interaction therein. Paris, London, Naples, New York, Berlin... all these and other cities form a wellspring of inspiration.
— SONGLINES
Also available World Village • 479056 (794881997626)
“It sounds like a Central European band arriving in a summertime Paris — but late at night.” — FROOTS
May 2012
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Concert Calendar • CLASSICAL May 2012
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Kristian Bezuidenhout Jonathan Biss
harmonia mundi Onyx Classics
Yefim Bronfman Danny Driver
Helicon Hyperion
James Ehnes Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov Bernarda Fink
Onyx Classics harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Gerald Finley Freiburger Barockorchester Philip Glass Matthias Goerne
Hyperion harmonia mundi Orange Mountain harmonia mundi
Marc-André Hamelin
Hyperion
Angela Hewitt
Hyperion
Stephen Hough
Hyperion
Alina Ibragimova Steven Isserlis
Hyperion Hyperion
Jerusalem Quartet Olga Kern
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Mariusz Kwiecien
harmonia mundi
Paul Lewis
harmonia mundi
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev Denis Matsuev
LSO Live Mariinsky Mariinsky
Nicholas McGegan
Philharmonia Baroque
Tai Murray
harmonia mundi
Jon Nakamatsu
harmonia mundi
Gianandrea Noseda
LSO Live
Paul O'Dette
harmonia mundi
Marlis Petersen Jordi Savall
harmonia mundi Alia Vox
Takács Quartet
Hyperion
Alexandre Tharaud Tokyo String Quartet
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Shai Wosner
Onyx Classics
Haochen Zhang
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