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Steven ISSERLIS BEETHOVEN Cello Sonatas
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Our top releases for January will help chase away the winter’s chill. Britain’s favorite cellist, Steven Isserlis, is joined by fortepianist Robert Levin for collection of the complete works for cello and piano by Beethoven (p.19) and is featured on the Hyperion début album by pianist Sam Haywood, who is playing works by Isserlis’s grandfather (p.18). January’s priority releases from harmonia mundi include the Jerusalem Quartet playing Janácek and Smetana (p.14), Richard Egarr playing Handel Suites (p.16), the final installment of Kristian Bezuidenhout’s Mozart series (p.15) and Jean-Guihen Queyras leading the Ensemble Resonanz in works by Berg and Schoenberg (p.13). In other highlights, the acclaimed Beethoven cycle by Onyx artist Jonathan Biss reaches volume four (p.24), Rick Stotijn presents Basso Bailando, a spirited disc of works for double-bass on Channel (p.11), La Petite Bande’s Bach Cantata series for Accent reaches volume 17 (p.4) and Christophe Rousset plays book two of Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier on Aparté (p.9). Two opera releases round out the month, with Orange Mountain’s recording of Philip Glass’s Galileo Galilei with the Portland Opera (p.25) and Aparté’s release of Lully’s Phaéton with Les Talens Lyriques (p.7). Non-classical priorities include two jazz releases - I Hear The Sound by Archie Shepp (p.33) and a solo album by pianist Omar Sosa entitled Senses (p.35).
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Busoni: Late Piano Music Marc-André Hamelin Hyperion• CDA 67951
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“One of the great classical piano sets of the year... A terrific three-disc collection of piano music magnificently played.”
“This program, commandingly led by Valery Gergiev, is an excellent introduction to Szymanowski’s orchestral music... Denis Matsuev handles the piano part with authority.”
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“A tour de force” —TIME OUT NEW YORK
COMING NEXT MONTH Catherine Russell mines musical treasures Bring it Back Catherine Russell Jazz Village • JV 579001
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On Bring It Back, vocalist Catherine Russell digs deeper into a rich vein of musical treasures. Mining legendary collaborations between her father, Luis Russell, and the great Louis Armstrong, Russell brings along her team from two previous chart-topping albums. Gems from the jazz age and swing era, performed with new arrangements for ten-piece orchestra, blend seamlessly with reinventions sourced from blues icons Esther Phillips, Al Hibbler, Wynonie Harris and Little Willie John.
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GABRIELI Sacrae Symphoniae
IMPORT Gabrieli is one of the most important representatives of Venetian polyphony. His Sacrae Symphoniae, printed in 1597, is a monumental Price Code: A22 collection reflecting the power and esteem of the (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) Venetian state. On this recording, Wim Becu and Oltremontano have selected works that form a cross-section of Gabrieli’s vocal and instrumental oeuvre. The ensemble is joined by the Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam for the vocal concertos, in which we find not only Psalm motets bound to the earlier, lofty Renaissance style, but also hymn-like settings of Marian prayer texts. In addition, there are also purely instrumental works – a novelty for this period. The predilection of the period for the effects of spatial antiphony is reflected in all the works.
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BIBER Vespro della Beata Vergine KERLL Missa in fletu solatium Obsidionis Viennensis Concerto Palatino Cantus Cölln , Konrad Junghänel Accent • ACC 24286 IMPORT Konrad Junghänel and Cantus Cölln are featured here in a recording of music by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber and Johann Caspar Kerll. Price Code: A22 Biber’s Vespro della Beata Vergine is not a single (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) work, but rather a collection of composition assembled to form a liturgical service. It includes works from Biber’s anthology of psalm settings entitled Vesperae Longiores ac Breviores and brief sonatas and solo motets are performed in place of the introductory antiphons. Kerll’s Missa in fletu solatium was likely composed in celebration of the victory at the great Battle at Kahlenberg. His somewhat gloomy mass exhibits astonishing compositional artistry.
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Oltremontano Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam, Wim Becu Accent • ACC 24282
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Elisabeth Hermans (soprano), Yeree Suh (soprano), Siri Thornhill (soprano), Petra Noskaiová (alto), Christoph Genz (tenor), Jan Van der Krabben (bass) La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken Accent • ACC 25317 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo Some musicologists have proposed that many of Bach’s sacred vocal works were actually written for solo voices and not a choir. Accent’s critically-acclaimed cantata series provides a strong justification for this theory. Each disc features one cantata for each Sunday and the great feasts of the ecclesiastical year. Here, Sigiswald Kuijken and La Petite Bande are joined by a quartet of superb soloists for volume seventeen, which features cantatas for the seventh and ninth Sundays after Trinity, the third day of Easter and the third Sunday in Lent, also know as Oculi.
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Previous release in the series Bach: Cantatas - Vol.16 Accent • ACC 25316 (4015023253162)
“Profoundly affecting.” —GRAMOPHONE 4
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Widerstehe doch der Sünde BACH Cantatas Vol.17 - BWV186, 168, 134 & 54
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C.P.E. BACH Sonatas, Rondos & Fantaisie
IMPORT This disc features a collection of works for viola da gamba by CPE Bach. Soloist Emmanuel Guigues studied viola da gamba with such Price Code: A23 luminaries as Jordi Savall, Paolo Pandolfo and (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) Christophe Coin. She plays and records with several ensembles, notably the Ricercar Consort, la Simphonie du Marais and Doulce Mémoire. Coming from a family of organists, keyboardist Daniel Isoir studied with such great masters as Marek Jablonski, Claude Frank, Paul BaduraSkoda and Paul Tortelier. In addition to leading his ensemble Petite Symphonie, Isoir also works regularly on projects with the Royaumont Foundation and the Bach Academy.
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Emmanuelle Guigues (viola da gamba) Daniel Isoir (fortepiano) Agogique • AGO 012
DOWLAND Lachrimae or Seaven Teares Hespèrion XX, Jordi Savall Alia Vox • AVSA 9901
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IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Published in 1604, Dowland’s Lachrimae was composed for an ensemble of five viols and Price Code: A20 a lute. The collection contains seven Pavans (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) based on the air Flow My Tears (which explains the work’s subtitle, Seaven Teares Figured in Seaven Passionate Pavans). These variations are alternated with Galiards and Almands for contrast. Jordi Savall’s 1987 recording with Hespèrion XX is still a cornerstone of any Dowland discography. This critically acclaimed album is now available for the first time in a vivid multichannel remastering.
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FALVETTI Nabucco
IMPORT Of all Michelangelo Falvetti’s numerous compositions, only two magnificent dialoghi for five or six voices - Il diluvio universale and Nabucco Price Code: A22 - have survived intact. In these two masterful (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) scores, Falvetti’s music is characterized by a sensuality and a thoroughly Mediterranean expressivity, combined with studious respect for Baroque musical tradition. Leonardo García Alarcón and Cappella Mediterranea’s previous release of Il Diluvio revived interest in Falvetti, and the recording received the highest critical praise.
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Rebel de Pere en Fils J. REBEL Les Caractères de la Danse; Tombeau de Monsieur de Lully F. REBEL Ballet de la paix, Prélude pour le Jugement de Paris, Musette pour Paris, Airs, Chaconne Juliette Perret (soprano), Étienne Bazola (baritone) Ensemble Les Surprises Ambronay • AMY 303 IMPORT Founded in 2010, the period instrument ensemble Les Surprises takes its name from Rameau and his opera Les Surprises de l’Amour. Marrying stage Price Code: A22 drama and chamber music, the group’s début (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) album (appropriately) draws on the music of 18th century French opera, focusing on the music of Jean-Fery Rebel and his son, François. Featuring soprano Juliette Perret and baritone Étienne Bazola, this recording presents a selection of works by both composers arranged for chamber orchestra, shedding new light on a mostly forgotten repertoire.
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Mariana Flores (soprano), Capucine Keller (soprano), Magdalena Padilla Osvaldes (soprano), Caroline Weynants (soprano), Fabián Schofrin (countertenor), Fernando Guimarães (tenor), Matteo Bellotto (bass), Alessandro Meerapfel (bass), Keyvan Chemirani (percussion), Kasif Demiröz (ney), Choeur de chambre de Namur, Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alarcón Ambronay • AMY 036
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] LULLY Phaéton
IMPORT Following on the success of their recording of Bellérophon, Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques present Phaéton, the eighth tragédie lyrique by Jean-Baptiste Lully and his faithful librettist, Philippe Quinault. It is truly one of their most remarkable creations. First performed in 1683, it proved so popular that it was referred to as the “opera of the people.” It portrays the story of a young man’s temerity in wishing to drive the chariot of his father, the sun god, and the son’s inevitable downfall.
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Also available Lully: Bellérophon Aparte • AP 015 (794881993222)
“Excitingly conducted by Christophe Rousset, the recording is sensational.” —THE GUARDIAN 7
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Ingrid Perruche (soprano), Gaëlle Arquez (mezzo-soprano), Isabelle Druet (mezzo-soprano), Cyril Auvity (countertenor), Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (tenor), Benoît Arnould (baritone), Frédéric Caton (baritone), Andrew Foster-Williams (bassbaritone) Choeur de chambre de Namur, Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset Aparté • AP 061
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Memento Mori MONTEVERDI Chi vol che m’innamori, Lamento de la Maddalena ROSSI Disperar di se stesso, O Cecità del misero mortale
IMPORT The phrase Memento mori (Latin for “remember that you will die”) is a symbolic reminder of the inevitability of death. Catholic prayer oratories in Price Code: A22 the early years of the 17th century employed the (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) vernacular Italian instead of Latin, a significant factor in attracting more participants. This works in this collection of ‘moral cantatas’ were designed to heighten the devotional feelings of those attending. The ancient practices of laude, basso ostinato and lamenti, as well as popular new musical genres, including opera, were used as a vehicle for spiritual messages in these works by Monteverdi & Rossi. Geoffroy Jourdain leads Les Cris de Paris in powerful readings of these deeply moving works.
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SCHUBERT Arpeggione Sonata SCHUMANN Märchenbilder Op.113 BRAHMS Viola Sonata Op.120, No.2 Lise Berthaud (viola), Adam Laloum (piano) Aparté • AP 069 IMPORT Violist Lise Berthaud studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Gérard Caussé. In 2005, she won the Hindemith Prize at the Price Code: A22 Geneva International Competition, was short (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) listed by the Victoires de la Musique Classique 2009 as ‘Révélation de l Année’ (Newcomer of the Year) and since September 2013, has been part of the prestigious BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme. Pianist Adam Laloum studied at the Paris Conservatoire before receiving international recognition when he won first prize at the prestigious Clara Haskil Competition. This collection of works by Schubert, Schumann and Brahms is their first recital together and Berthaud’s début recording.
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Les Cris de Paris Geoffroy Jourdain Aparté • AP 059
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier – Book 2
IMPORT Over the course of his career, Christophe Rousset has consistently excelled – both as a harpsichordist and as the director of Les Talens Lyriques. Following on several critically acclaimed albums of keyboard music for Aparté, Rousset turns to Bach’s great musical testament: the Well-Tempered Clavier. Written 20 years after the first volume, the second book of this collection contains the musical and spiritual legacy of the composer. Rousset performs on a 1628 Ruckers harpsichord, one of the best examples of its kind in the world, which has been preserved in the château de Versailles since 1946.
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“Rousset is an undisputed master in this repertoire...” —FANFARE
Also available Bach: Fantasy Aparte • AP 010 (794881978526) “Even if you know your BWV numbers backwards and forwards, inside and out, there will be at least one moment during this incendiary display of Bach at his finest that will make you think or say, ‘What the f---?’” —THE HUFFINGTON POST 9
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Christophe Rousset (harpsichord) Aparté • AP 070
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CORELLI Sonatas REALI Capriccio Primo, Folia Op.1
IMPORT The output of composer Arcangelo Corelli dominates a crucial period in the history of instrumental music. During the years 1681 to Price Code: A22 1713, the Pre-classical sonata and concerto (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) grosso reached a degree of maturity, and Corelli’s became a designated model for all composers of his generation. At the same time, Corelli’s work entirely devoted to bowing and performance became the violin teaching guide for nearly a century at various European schools, and whose first elements are still the basis of today’s techniques. This recording features a collection of sonatas performed by the French chamber ensemble Stravaganza.
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Bartlett & Robinson – Selected Recordings 1927-1947 Ethel Bartlett (piano) Rae Robertson (piano) APR • APR 6012
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IMPORT Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson both studied with Tobias Matthay in the 1910s. They established a two-piano duo that quickly became Price Code: A19 the first such team to achieve truly international (2 CDs for the Price of 1, fame. From the 1930s they based themselves in Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) the USA where they gave important American premieres of works by Poulenc and Stravinsky. They made first recordings of much of the standard two-piano repertoire and also inspired many new works and arrangements. Given their significance, it is surprising that this important legacy has been completely neglected since the 1950s and this issue is the first CD release ever devoted to their recordings.
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Rick Stotijn (double bass), Malin Broman (violin), Lavinia Meijer (harp), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Channel Classics • CCS SA 33613 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Basso Bailando - mixed Spanish and Italian for ‘dancing bass’ - is the perfect description for the pieces of this collection featuring Dutch Music Prize winner Rick Stotijn, whose début recording of music by Bottesini was met with the highest praise. Stotijn is joined by a cadre of great musicians including violinist Malin Broman, harpist Lavinia Meijer and members of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. The repertoire includes arrangements of music by Piazzolla and Falla and an original work by Nino Rota – all ‘border-crossers’ between the worlds of popular and classical music.
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“Rick Stotijn is a first rate virtuoso, a real master of his instrument...”
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Also available Bottesini: Capriccio di Bravura Channel • CCS SA 32612 (723385326120)
“Stotijn soars with his partners in each of these concoctions to places and at speeds where no double bass has any right to go... ” —STRINGS 11
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Basso Bailando PIAZZOLLA Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas ROTA Divertimento Concertante for Double Bass and Orchestra FALLA Siete Canciones Populares Espanolas
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ALLEGRI Miserere PALESTRINA Missa Papae Marcelli
IMPORT Pure Audio Blu-ray/ 5.1 Surround Sound Gimell presents their first release in the Pure Audio Blu-ray format. The Tallis Scholars’s Price Code: A31 2007 release of Allegri’s Miserere and works by (Blu-ray Audio plus CD, Palestrina is a classic recording and has been a top Suggested Retail Price: $31.98) seller for the label worldwide. This set includes one Blu-ray Audio disc with both high resolution stereo and multi-channel surround sound, one standard compact disc and a 24-page booklet. There is no video on the disc, just glorious top-quality audio. The surround sound rendering of Allegri’s Miserere is a special highlight. Pure Audio Blu-ray is an ideal format for listeners who own a home theater system.
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SharonRose Pfeiffer (organ) Gloriae Dei Cantores • GDCD 059 DOMESTIC SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Through the E. M. Skinner Organ at the Church of the Transfiguration in Orleans, Massachusetts, Price Code: A24 Dr. SharonRose Pfeiffer gives voice to works (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) by master composers from the Baroque to the twentieth century. The program on this Super Audio CD includes Sonate der 94ste Psalm by Reubke, Job for Organ VI by Eben, the Allegro from Symphonie No.6 by Widor, J.S. Bach’s Fantasia BWV651, Resurrection: Lament, The Rising, The Ecstasy, Reflection by Larry King, and the finale of Messiaen’s Messe de la Pentecôte. The inspirations for all of these text-based works are outlined in the detailed program notes.
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Illuminations Organ Works by King, Widor, Eben, Bach, Messiaen & Reubke
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BERG Lyric Suite SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht Ensemble Resonanz Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello & direction) harmonia mundi • HMC 902150 IMPORT The First World War, a crucible of artistic change, intervened between Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and Berg’s Lyric Suite. From opposite sides of that traumatic divide, these works tell stories of adulterous love. Richard Dehmel’s poem that inspired Verklärte Nacht evokes the conception of an illegitimate child and its pardon. The amorous dialogue between Berg and Hanna Fuchs and its painful epilogue form the subtext to the Lyric Suite. Cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras leads the Ensemble Resonanz in striking and virtuosic accounts of both these seminal works of the second Viennese school.
“Queyras is one of today’s most impressive cellists.”
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Also available Elgar: Cello Concerto harmonia mundi • HMC 902148 (3149020214824)
“Not only sparkles with virtuosity but engages us with crucial charm, and that vivid yet not overstated individuality.” —SINFINI MUSIC 13
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JANÁCEK String Quartets Nos.1 & 2 SMETANA String Quartet No.1 Jerusalem Quartet harmonia mundi • HMC 902178 IMPORT The acclaimed Jerusalem Quartet’s latest release focuses works by two giants of Czech music. Though Smetana, the founder of the Czech national school, and Janácek, his spiritual heir, are best known as operatic composers, they also left strongly autobiographical chamber works. Composed when he was already profoundly deaf, Smetana’s String Quartet No.1 looks back over the different stages of his life. Also written late in life, Janácek’s second quartet, subtitled Intimate Letters, describes his unfulfilled passion for Kamila Stösslová, his junior by 38 years.
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“A quartet that has established itself in the forefront of chamber music ensembles.” —INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
Also available Brahms: Clarinet Quintet harmonia mundi • HMC 902152 (3149020215227)
“Jerusalem Quartet know the composer, and they have something to say.” —AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE 14
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MOZART Keyboard Music Vols.5 & 6 Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) harmonia mundi • HMU 907529 IMPORT With this double set encompassing volumes five and six, fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout completes his multi-disc survey of Mozart’s music for solo keyboard. The first four volumes in the series have been met with the highest critical acclaim from around the world. On this collection, Bezuidenhout performs a mix of Piano Sonatas, Variations and other works on a fortepiano by Paul McNulty that was modeled after an instrument by the great instrument maker Anton Walter.
“Bezuidenhout is steeped in Mozart’s idiom and able to explicate it with the erudition of a scholar and wisdom of a sage. More than most of his colleagues, he is his instrument, exploiting its every expressive potential with ease.”
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Previous release in the series Mozart: Keyboard Music Vol.4 harmonia mundi • HMU 907528 (093046752828)
“His Mozart could change the way other performers think about the composer - and I hope it does.” —AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE 15
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HANDEL Eight ‘Great’ Suites for Keyboard, HWV 426-433 Richard Egarr (harpsichord) harmonia mundi • HMU 907581 IMPORT Today, Handel is best known for his many vocal masterpieces. However, during his lifetime, more copies of his keyboard works were in circulation than Bach’s or Scarlatti’s. A famed virtuoso and improviser, much of Handel’s harpsichord music was never written down. However, in 1720, not long after he had settled in England, a collection of eight ‘Great Suites’ was issued in London. Published by the composer himself, it includes works from both his Hamburg and English periods. The music’s tone is heroic, balancing secular Italianate panache with French nobility and decorum. Performed here by Richard Egarr, this magnificent collection demonstrates Handel’s unique ‘orchestral’ keyboard style and grand sweep.
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“Egarr’s harpsichord playing is as imaginative as ever…”
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—INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
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Also available Bach: The English Suites BWV 806-811 harmonia mundi• HMU 907591 (093046759124)
“The best harpsichord recital of these Suites on disc.” —BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE 16
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BRAHMS Portrait Piano Concerto No.1, Violin Concerto, String Sextet No.2, Piano Quintet, Piano Quartet, Clarinet Quintet, Horn Trio, Violin Sonata No.1, Fantasien Op.116, Ballades Op.10, Handel Variations, Hungarian Dances, Zigeunerlieder, German Requiem Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano), Gerald Finley (tenor), Isabelle Faust (violin), Olga Kern (piano), Cédric Tiberghien (piano), Arcanto Quartett, Trio Wanderer, RIAS Kammerchor, Markus Creed, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Harding, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano, La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre Des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe
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MOZART Portrait Symphonies Nos.40 & 41, Piano Concertos Nos.21 & 24 , Clarinet Concerto, Serenade No.10 “Gran Partita,” Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Adagio & Fugue in C minor, String Quartet No.17, Clarinet Quintet, Piano Sonata No.11, Lieder, Così fan tutte, Requiem Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Werner Güra (tenor), Stefan Vladar (piano), Kölner Kammerchor, Jerusalem Quartet, Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs, La Chapelle Royale, Orchestre Des ChampsElysées, Philippe Herreweghe, The English Concert, Andrew Manze
HANDEL Portrait Dixit Dominus, Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, Famous scenes from Serse, Rodelinda & Alcina, Concerti Grossi Op.3, Organ Concerto HWV 295, Giulio Cesare, Messiah Jennifer Larmore (soprano), Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano), Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Concerto Köln, Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, Choir of Clare College, Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr, Vocalconsort Berlin, Philippe Herreweghe
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The Huberman Week Festival – 30th Anniversary
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Daniel Benyamini (violin), Ivry Gitlis (violin), Ida Haendel (violin), Shlomo Mintz (violin), Itzhak Perlman (violin), Shira Ravin (violin), Roy Shiloh (violin), Isaac Stern (violin), Henryk Szeryng (violin), Chaim Taub (violin), Pinchas Zukerman (violin) Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta Helicon • 029667 IMPORT The 20th-century produced a wealth of talented Jewish violinists. Although the list includes a galaxy of stars, the most extraordinary of all Price Code: 4A13 (4 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $55.98) may be the Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman. Huberman posessed superb technique, but his legacy goes far beyond that. In the early 1930s, he saw the situation for Jews deteriorating in Europe. So Huberman recruited the finest Jewish musicians to form an orchestra, the Palestine Symphony, later renamed the Israel Philharmonic. This set makes available for the first time recordings from a 1982 festival honoring the centenary of Huberman’s birth. It features a literal who’s-who of the finest violinists of our time.
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ISSERLIS Piano Music
IMPORT In 1989, pianist Sam Haywood was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Julius Isserlis Scholarship. Years later, via his friendship with Price Code: A19 Julius’s grandson Steven, Haywood discovered (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) Julius Isserlis’s piano compositions. Struck by the beauty of the music, Haywood decided to make his own performing edition. Julius Isserlis studied with Taneyev and Widor, but the music of Frédéric Chopin seems to have been his strongest influence. The playful virtuosity of several of the works is an indication not only of Isserlis’s own agility on the keyboard but also of that of their dedicatees (including cellist Pablo Casals, who inspired the Ballade, for which Haywood is joined here by Steven Isserlis).
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Sam Haywood (piano) Steven Isserlis (cello) Hyperion • CDA 68025
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JANUARY 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] BEETHOVEN Cello Sonatas
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Steven Isserlis (cello) Robert Levin (fortepiano) Hyperion • CDA 67981 IMPORT On this recording, Steven Isserlis, together with his regular collaborator, fortepianist Robert Levin, presents a magisterial compendium of Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano, including Beethoven’s own arrangement of his Horn Sonata. The use of the fortepiano opens up a wealth of sonic possibilities for these works. The five Cello Sonatas span Beethoven’s compositional epochs and comprise the most important cycle of cello sonatas in the entire repertoire. Isserlis writes that the composer, “transforms himself from confident virtuoso to supreme master of classical form, and then beyond that to a mystic exploring strange new worlds of unearthly beauty – a wondrous transfiguration.”
“Isserlis’ instrumental mastery is complete, but entirely unobtrusive. His tone is pure, warm, and infinitely variable in color, inflection, and intensity. His phrasing and expressiveness are natural and spontaneous, reflecting the immediacy and integrity of his response to the music.”
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Also available Dvorák: Cello Concertos Hyperion • CDA 67917 (093046746728)
“An impassioned account... in tune to the work’s tragic ethos...” —AUDIOPHILE AUDITION 19
CLASSICAL
JANUARY 2014
C.P.E. BACH Württemberg Sonatas
IMPORT Hyperion is delighted to present the début recording by harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani. Esfahani was the first harpsichordist to be named Price Code: A19 a BBC New Generation Artist as well as the first (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) to be awarded a fellowship prize by the BorlettiBuitoni Trust. On this disc, Esfahani performs C.P.E. Bach’s six Württemberg Sonatas. His thrilling performances make the best possible case for this dramatic and endlessly imaginative music. The sonatas range stylistically from Sturm und Drang to High Baroque to the idiom of his famous father. Mahan writes in his booklet notes that C.P.E. Bach, “makes the most combative statement possible to assert his new musical language.”
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Rejoice, the Lord is king! Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O’Donnell Robert Quinney (organ) Hyperion • CDA 68013 IMPORT On this album, the halls of Westminster Abbey ring with the voices of choir and organ lifted in the great hymns that are a vital part of England’s Price Code: A19 national character and history. The recording (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) brings the experience of Abbey occasions – from royal weddings to state funerals to regular services – into the home. The singing of hymns has its roots in the earliest days of the Christian church and remains a central part of the liturgy. In the Anglican church, and nowhere more so than in Westminster Abbey, this is a tradition that thrives, and where tunes from the sixteenth century sit happily alongside arrangements by the Abbey’s musicians of today.
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Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord) Hyperion • CDA 67995
CLASSICAL
JANUARY 2014
WALLACE Symphonic Poems
IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 66848 (034571168487) Deleted July 2012 William Wallace was a classical scholar, a doctor, a poet and dramatist, a writer on music and Price Code: A11 musicians, and the man described by Shaw as, (Suggested Retail Price: $11.98) “a young Scotch composer with a very tender and sympathetic talent.” His orchestral compositions rank amongst the earliest attempts at the genre of the symphonic poem to be made in the British Isles. His choice of subjects for these was at least as wide-ranging as his own interests and achievements. This mid-priced collection of tone poems features Martyn Brabbins leading the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
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STRAVINSKY Les Noces and other choral music New London Chamber Choir, James Wood Hyperion • CDH 55467 IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 66410 (034571164106) Deleted July 2012 Stravinsky’s popular, extroverted choral work Les Noces – the epitome of his Russian style – is placed Price Code: A11 in context in this marvelous recording featuring (Suggested Retail Price: $11.98) James Wood’s New London Chamber Choir. Joined by the Voronezh Chamber Choir, who bring an authentic Russian sound to the ensemble, Woods also performs Russian folksongs and the Slavonic versions of Stravinsky’s Ave Maria, Credo and Pater Noster. Other aspects of Stravinsky’s compositional style are represented by the austere TS Eliot setting The dove descending and the memorial to TS Eliot himself.
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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins Hyperion • CDH 55461
CLASSICAL
JANUARY 2014
André Isoir (organ) La Dolce Volta • LDV 147
6 CDs for the Price of 3
IMPORT Recorded between 1972 and 1976, The Golden Age of French Organ Music is one of the most comprehensive anthologies ever dedicated to the instrument. On it, André Isoir surveys music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a period in which the French organ school matured in the service of the Roman Catholic Church. Composers of this period focused on color and timbre, resulting from techniques of instrument building that anticipated the tendencies of the repertory itself. From Titelouze to Dandrieu, the works presented here bear witness to one of the most prosperous periods for French music, which coincides almost exactly with the reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV.
“Isoir’s playing is brilliant...” —MUSIC WEB
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Rencently released Bach: L’orgue concertant La Dolce Volta • LDV 118 (3770001901558)
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CLASSICAL
JANUARY 2014
BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Sonatas
10 CDs for the Price of 4
IMPORT In June 1978 at the age of nineteen, Lebanese pianist and composer Abdel Rahman El Bacha won the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Price Code: 4A16 Competition. Since then, El Bacha has enjoyed (10 CDs for the Price of 4, a busy concert schedule and has produced Suggested Retail Price: $67.98) numerous acclaimed recordings. For his Mirare début, El Bacha performs the complete numbered Piano Sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven. In making the recording, the pianist chose to play the sonatas in exact chronological order to maintain the arc of the composer’s musical development. Mirare’s specially-priced set features deluxe packaging and extensive liner notes.
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BACH The Well Tempered Clavier - Complete Zhu Xiao-Mei (piano) Mirare • MIR 235 IMPORT The triumphant life story of pianist Zhu XiaoMei, who overcame the setback of China’s Cultural Revolution and went on to a highly Price Code: 4A13 successful career in the west, is now legend. (4 CD Set, Suggested Retail André Leblanc’s novel for children The Red Price: $55.98) Piano is based on her story. Xiao-Mei’s catalog of acclaimed recordings for Mirare now includes this specially-priced reissue featuring the complete Well Tempered Clavier of J.S. Bach. Today, Xiao-Mei shares her time between her teaching activities at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Paris and her many concerts in France and abroad.
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Abdel Rahman El Bacha (piano) Mirare • MIR 187
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JANUARY 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol.3
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Jonathan Biss (piano) Onyx Classics • ONYX 4115 IMPORT 1801 saw Beethoven’s development of the piano sonata take a dramatic turn, testing the sonata’s limits with a set of slow variations in lieu of a sonata allegro in Op.26, a multi-movement work played without pause in Op.27 No.1, and the remarkable opening movement of the Moonlight. Operatic recitatives are incorporated into the Tempest. These features are without precedent. Volume three of Jonathan Biss’s acclaimed cycle of the sonatas contains two works from this year of experiment and innovation, though the innovations are less brazen – the Pastorale and the somewhat overlooked Op.31 No.1. The third sonata on this disc is one of the most famous of the 32 – the Waldstein, composed in 1803, is a work of life affirming spirit and energy.
“These are rare, intelligent, deeply musical performances by a splendid pianist who is wise beyond his years. I urge you not to miss them .”
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Previous release in the series Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol.2 Onyx • ONYX 4094 (880040409427)
“Biss unreels the music like a prayer to the universe.” —NPR 24
CLASSICAL
JANUARY 2014
GLASS Galileo Galilei The Portland Opera, Anne Manson Orange Mountain • OMM 0091 DOMESTIC Orange Mountain Music presents the world première recording of Philip Glass’s opera Galileo Galilei featuring The Portland Opera Orchestra conducted by Anne Manson. In 2010, the Portland Opera and Anne Manson teamed with Glass’s long-time producer Michael Riesman to produce the Glass masterpiece Orphée. The team reunited in 2012 during a run of performances in Portland to take on Glass’s 2002 opera Galileo Galilei, with a libretto by Mary Zimmerman and Arnold Weinstein, featuring a roster of dynamic singers. The opera draws from letters of Galileo and his family and various other documents to retrospectively journey through Galileo’s life. It explores his religiosity as well as his break with the church, and expands into the greater relationship of science to both religion and art.
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“Thoughtful, probing and charged with the excitement...” —OPERA NEWS 25
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JANUARY 2014
Capriccio Stravagante, Skip Sempé Paradizo • PA 0012 IMPORT The trademark sound of Skip Sempé and Capriccio Stravagante have graced the world’s concert stages for more than 30 years. Off the stage, Sempé has contributed insightful essays on a wide range of topics, from Renaissance virtuosity to the fine art of instrument building. Inspired by Bach’s famous Memorandum of 1730 – Bach’s personal ‘wish list’ for ideal performances – this set from Paradizo features forty of Sempé’s selected writings, paired with a collection of his groundbreaking recordings, brought together on five compact discs produced by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Astrée, Alpha and Paradizo. Offered in a sumptuous hardback book package, Memorandum XXI offers an overview of a rich career that is still evolving: musically, intellectually and esthetically.
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Also available Terpsichore - Muse of the Dance Paradizo • PAR 0011 (5425019972110)
10/10 “There’s certainly no shortage of variety and diversity here, and no matter how large or small the setting everyone involved unfailingly rises to the occasion.” —CLASSICS TODAY 26
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Memorandum XXI Essays & Interviews on Music & Performance
CLASSICAL
JANUARY 2014
BRAHMS String Sextets Nos.1-2
IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Inspired by Mendelssohn’s chamber works, Johannes Brahms went on to define the sextet Price Code: A24 form. His two glorious String Sextets possess (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) a rare sweetness, the full variety of colors of both summer and autumn and the power and brilliance of a string orchestra. His works in turn inspired many later composers, most notably Reger and Schoenberg. On this super-audio CD, the Prazák Quartet, augmented by the talents of violist Petr Holman and cellist Vladimír Fortin, offer powerful and virtuosic interpretations of these evergreen chamber favorites.
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MUSSORGSKY Russian Songs, Pictures at an Exhibition STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Berlin Philharmonic, Russian State Academic Choir, Russian Symphony Orchestra Igor Markevitch Praga • PRD 350096 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD This release in Praga’s Reminiscences series features SACD remasterings of stereo recordings made Price Code: A23 by the great Russian conductor Igor Markevitch. (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) Recorded in 1953, Markevitch leads the Berlin Philharmonic in Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and from June 1960, Markevitch conducts Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms with the Russian State Academic Choir and Russian Symphony Orchestra. The great soprano Galina Vishnevskaya was at her absolute peak in June 1962. She is heard here in Mussorgsky’s six Russian Songs performed in arrangements penned by Markevitch himself.
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Prazák Quartet Zemlinsky Quartet Petr Holman (viola), Vladimír Fortin (cello) Praga • PRD 250297
CLASSICAL
JANUARY 2014
Quatuor Diotima Signature • SIG 11079 IMPORT After graduating from Yale University and earning an MFA from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Hugh Levick set off for Paris to write a novel. Eventually, he returned to his musical beginnings and the saxophone, studying and playing with Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy and the Chicago Art Ensemble. Later, he studied classical composition at Julliard with Stanley Wolfe and David Diamond, and privately with John Cage and Vinko Globokar. This recording features three of Levick’s works for string quartet played by the Quatuor Diotima.
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“One of the five quartets you should know about.” —Gramophone
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LEVICK The Unimagined: preparations for the unknown, Empire Inc., Morning Evening Love Bears All
CLASSICAL
JANUARY 2014
L’Art de Karel Ancerl — Live DVORÁK Stabat Mater TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto
IMPORT During the summer of 1962, the Czech Philharmonic and its conductor Karel Ancerl took part in the Montreux Festival and gave Price Code: 2A15 (2 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $31.98) several concerts which, luckily, were recorded by Radio Suisse Romande. With this Tahra release, listeners can finally enjoy two previously unissued recordings by the great conductor. Featured works include Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with Nathan Milstein and Dvorak’s magnificent Stabat Mater.
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Beethoven by Knappertsbusch BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No.3, Symphony No.7 Géza Anda (piano), Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Knappertsbusch Tahra • TAH 762 IMPORT Commemorating Hans Knappertsbusch’s 125th birthday, this disc from Tahra presents the legendary conductor leading two works Price Code: A18 by one of his favorite composers, Ludwig van (Suggested Retail Price: $18.98) Beethoven. Even though these recordings are not first-time issues, they are culled from the original sources. Géza Anda is the soloist in the Piano Concerto No.3 and Knappertsbusch leads his beloved Vienna Philharmonic in the Symphony No.7.
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Nathan Milstein (violin), Czech Singers’ Chorus, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Karel Ancerl Tahra • TAH 755
CLASSICAL
JANUARY 2014
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MAINTZ Fluchtlinie, Naht, Tourbillon, Ferner und immer ferner, Wenn steine sich gen himmel stauen Otto Katzameier (baritone), Scharoun Ensemble, Robert HP Platz , Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Francesco Filidei (organ), Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Jean Deroyer Wergo • WER 6589
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BLACK No Use In A Centre Ensemble Ascolta, Johannes Kalitzke, Jessica Rona (viola), Annesley Black (electronics), Ernesto Molinari (clarinet), Theo Nabicht (clarinet), Martin Lorenz (drums), Erik Drescher (drums), Sebastian Berweck (drums), hr-Sinfonieorchester, David Robert Coleman Wergo • WER 6590
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DE GRANDIS Movimento perpetuo, Preludi per pianoforte Antonio Tarallo (piano) Wergo • WER 6787
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Price Code: 2A18 (2 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $37.98)
IMPORT The German Music Council campaigns for Germany’s vibrant existence as a land of music. Its renowned Contemporary Music Edition presents a basic listening library of contemporary composition in Germany. This month features two releases in the series. First is a selection of five works by composer Philipp Maintz. Wide ranging in both scoring and content, these works show Maintz as a powerful voice of today. The second features a selection of five works by composer Annesley Black. As a bonus, this release includes a DVD computer game entitled This Feels Great developed specifically for this CD. Renato de Grandis’s forty-eight Preludi per Pianoforte were composed several years after the composer decided, shortly after his 60th birthday, to stop composing. After building a reputation as one of the major composers in Europe’s avant-garde music scene, de Grandis decided to go on retreat. His withdrawal from composing lasted only a few years, however; it appears travelling led him back to music. Considered as a whole, one finds in the Preludes the entire spectrum of de Grandis’s musical thought.
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No Ideas But In Things The Composer Alvin Lucier - A film by Viola Rusche & Hauke Harder
IMPORT All Zones/ 97 Minutes/ English/ Stereo Alvin Lucier is one of the most prolific American composers of new music of the 20th Price Code: A33 Century. As one of the first proponents of (Suggested Retail Price: $33.98) live electronic music, he explored in his work the nature and effect of natural and acoustic sounds, resonance, echoes and interference. This documentary film by Viola Rusche and Hauke Harder explores Lucier’s entire career. Beginning with performances of early live electronic works from the sixties and seventies to the world premiere of the latest ensemble piece Panorama 2, it examines and comments on the composer and his music, and gives an insight into the beginnings of his pioneering work.
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FORTNER Bluthochzeit Wuppertal Theater, Hilary Griffiths Wergo • MV 08075 IMPORT All Zones/ 132 Minutes/ Stereo/ German with English Subtitles The opera Bluthochzeit (Bloodwedding) by Wolfgang Fortner is based upon the lyric tragedy Price Code: A33 of the same name by Federico García Lorca. (Suggested Retail Price: $33.98) The premonition of a crime yet to be committed pervades the story from the very beginning. Premièred in Cologne in 1957, Bluthochzeit first became one of the most successful operas in the post-war era. However, today the opera is seldom performed. This DVD features an acclaimed new production staged by Christian von Götz for the Wuppertal Theater in January 2013.
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Alvin Lucier Wergo • MV 08095
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JANUARY 2014
Mediterranean Sound
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Mediterranean Sound marks brothers Lionel and Stéphane Belmondo’s musical reunion as they pay Price Code: A19 a vibrant tribute to their father Yvan, who passed (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) down to them his deep love and knowledge of jazz. Joining forces on an album for the first time, the three Belmondos are backed by guitarist Jean-Philippe Sempere, double-bass player Sylvain Romano and drummer Jean-Pierre Arnaud. Blending a wide range of influences including modern jazz, hard bop West-Coast styles, the Belmondo Family Sextet swings with panache and delight.
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Belmondo Family Sextet Discograph • 6150062
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Not many gypsy guitarists can truly be considered heirs of Django Reinhardt. However, Price Code: A24 Angelo Debarre can claim that title. He carries (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) on the gipsy jazz tradition while always renewing the repertoire thanks to his uncommon creativity. On Complicité, Debarre joins forces with virtuoso violinist Marius Apostol and the band Gipsy Unity. In addition to pieces composed by the leaders, the album also contains three covers of Django originals.
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Angelo Debarre, Marius Apostol, Gipsy Unity Just Looking • JLP 06
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JANUARY 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Archie Shepp, Attica Blues Orchestra Archie Ball • ARCH 1301 IMPORT File in: Jazz On September 9, 1971, a riot broke out in Attica Prison, New York State, and quickly spread. Five days later the prison was re-taken by force and 39 people were left dead: 29 prisoners and 10 hostages. At first, the administration tried to blame the guards’ deaths on the rioters, before being forced to renege. In January 1972, Archie Shepp recorded an album entitled Attica Blues in tribute to this rebellion. After the original and the repeat performance at the Palais des Glaces in 1979 by his Attica Blues Orchestra, in 2012, Shepp reprised this fantastic tribute, together with a brilliant and dynamic collective of performers. It is an album that transcends styles and epochs.
“Attica Blues is an important part of African-American jazz history and it is revisited here with conviction. Still musically compelling and still, sadly, socially relevant.”
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Price Code: A21 (Suggested Retail Price: $21.98)
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Also available Wo!man Archie Ball • ARCH 1102 (3149028003024)
“Pack[s] an emotional punch...” —THE ABSOLUTE SOUND 33
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JANUARY 2014
Orchestre National de Jazz, Daniel Yvinec Jazz Village • JV 570036
IMPORT File in: Jazz During his six years as Artistic Director of France’s Orchestre National de Jazz, Daniel Yvinec never stopped leading his musicians into new territories, tackling the full range of contemporary music styles. For his swansong, Yvinec has joined forces with New York producer and arranger Michael Leonhart for a truly inventive and joyous musical celebration. The fruit of the duo’s collaboration is a playlist with a strong futuristic and international flavor, featuring several original pieces mixed alongside a series of reinterpretations that are as unusual as they are innovative. Amongst the artists revisited we find Serge Gainsbourg, Shuggie Otis, Talking Heads and Henry Mancini, whose song The Party provides the album with its felicitous title.
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Piazzolla! Jazz Village • JV 570007 (3149027000727)
“Visionary conception, exquisite craftsmanship and dazzling variety.” —ALL ABOUT JAZZ 34
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JANUARY 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Senses
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Omar Sosa Otá • OTA 1026 DOMESTIC Omar Sosa’s new solo piano recording was born at EMPAC, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY in February 2012. Omar was invited to an artist residency at EMPAC with Zimbabwean dancer / choreographer Nora Chipaumire to compose the music for Nora’s dance-theater piece, Miriam, inspired partly by the life of legendary South African singer Miriam Makeba. During the residency period, Omar was able to use the state-of-the art facilities at EMPAC, including a magnificent Yamaha CFIII concert grand piano, to record solo piano. The resulting improvisations comprise Omar’s sixth solo piano CD, Senses. Senses is a very personal, intimate set of 16 piano improvisations – relaxed, introspective, infused with calm and tranquility.
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Also available Eggun - The Afri-Lectric Experience Otá • OTA 1024 (616444102424)
“Stunning... more of an experience than an album... let the music take you away.” —ALL ABOUT JAZZ 35
WORLD
JANUARY 2014
5 CDs for the Price of 2
Portrait – la chance à la chanson
Portrait – du trottoir au music-hall
Charles Trénet Chant du Monde • 5742262
Edith Piaf Chant du Monde • 5742267
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IMPORT File in: World / Europe / France Portrait illuminates the work of those universally recognized artists we all know and love – the leaders and the groundbreakers – those for whom we can all agree there was a ‘before’ and an ‘after’. The two indisputable champions of French chanson are Edith Piaf and Charles Trénet. Trénet was the first in a venerable line of great singer-songwriters, a spur to the creative energy of the likes of Georges Brassens, Léo Ferré and Serge Gainsbourg. Piaf left an enduring legacy, both to music hall and to musical performers (male and female alike), from Yves Montand to Mireille Mathieu, including Jacques Brel and Annie Cordy. For each artist in this series, the songs featured take this collection far beyond a simple ‘Best of,’ inviting the listener not only on a musical journey, but on a journey of love.
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WORLD
JANUARY 2014
Violons Barbares World Village • 479090
IMPORT File in: World / Europe / France Take a walk on the wild side… everyone welcome! Violons Barbares (Barbarian violins) proves three times over that our own cultural heritage can only be enriched by contact with other cultures. Drawing collectively on their Mongolian, Bulgarian and French origins, these three musicians build a unique sound space; in concert, their creative union hits the right note every time and their first album is already a must-have for collectors. This second album explores many new directions without losing one drop of its phenomenal energy.
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“Enthusiasm and virtuosity...” —Mondomix
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