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Jazz vocalist Catherine Russell presents Bring It Back - a Valentine’s Day gift to music lovers everywhere that features gems from the jazz age (p.27). The rebirth of Penguin Cafe has fans of this eclectic group cheering. Red Book takes them in new directions - even into outer space (p.29)! The Piano Sings is one of contemporary music icon Michael Nyman’s bestselling albums - volume 2 is sure to repeat that success (p.23). The recent passing of composer John Tavener has renewed interest in his deeply spiritual music. This month, harmonia mundi is reissuing his acclaimed Eternity’s Sunrise (p.12). Spirituality is at the heart of Conspirare’s powerful new album of Orthodox choral music entitled The Sacred Spirit of Russia (p.11). Vocal splendor is also in evidence on the RIAS Kammerchor’s disc of music by CPE Bach (p.10), as well as Hyperion’s album of Monteverdi Madrigals featuring the ensemble Arcangelo (p.19) and their disc of Schubert Lieder with baritone Florian Boesch (p.17). Chamber music lovers will applaud harmonia mundi’s new album of Beethoven Piano Trios played by Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov as well as Florilegium’s SACD of works by Couperin and Rebel (p.4). Also new this month are new discs from two of today’s most exciting young pianists, Denis Matsuev (p.22) and Cédric Tiberghien (p.18). Last but not least, maestro Bernard Haitink leads the London Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner’s glorious Symphony No.9 (p.21).
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On his latest release for Onyx, the extraordinary violinist James Ehnes demonstrates his versatility as well as his virtuosity. As part of the Ehnes Quartet, he displays his chamber music prowess in two quartets by Shostakovich. Joined by Mark Wigglesworth leading the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Ehnes reconfirms his mastery as a soloist in Khachaturian’s tuneful Violin Concerto.
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DUKAS L’Apprenti Sorcier, Velléda, Polyeucte Overture
IMPORT French composer Paul Dukas was a classical “one hit wonder” - thanks to The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, his fame was assured. The work remains a staple of Price Code: A21 concert repertoire and will live on in immortality (Suggested Retail Price: $21.98) thanks to Walt Disney’s Fantasia. However, this friend of Claude Debussy gave us further evidence of his immense talent with the Cantata Velléda and the overture to Polyeucte, which have been restored thanks to the efforts of the Palazzetto Bru-Zane. This recording by François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles includes all three works and features instruments from the late 19th century that illuminate the original, vibrant colors of Dukas’s brilliant orchestrations.
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A Violino Solo Thibault Noally (violin) Aparté • AP 068
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IMPORT Violinist Thibault Noally has enjoyed a highly successful career as a member of several acclaimed period-instrument groups including Price Code: A21 the Musiciens du Louvre and Concerto Köln. (Suggested Retail Price: $21.98) This album of German Baroque music from Aparté marks Noally’s début as a soloist. It explores the evolution of solo violin repertoire over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries through works by both well-known composers (Bach, Telemann) and those who remained in the margins (Baltzar, Vilsmayr). Noally cleverly connects these works and creates a fascinating recital that sheds new light on a key period in the development of Baroque forms and techniques.
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Florilegium Channel Classics • CCS SA 33213 IMPORT Hybrid SACD/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD The two composers presented on this recording by the acclaimed English ensemble Florilegium were musicians at the court of Versailles. François Couperin was organist of the Chapelle du Roi, and Jean-Féry Rebel was a violinist in the Chapelle du Roi and composer for the King. Like many chamber works of the period, Couperin left no precise instructions as to instrumentation for Les Nations. This adds versatility as the treble parts are therefore suitable for flutes, violins or oboes or any combination available. Rebel was an innovator, and one of the first French musicians to compose sonatas in the Italian style. His ballet Les Caractères de la danse was one of his most popular and widely performed works.
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SHEPPARD Sacred Choral Music
IMPORT Following Gramophone Editor’s Choices for their recent excursions into the sacred music of Bruckner and of Gabriel Jackson, Duncan Price Code: A19 Ferguson and the Choir of St. Mary’s (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) Cathedral, Edinburgh return, in their fourth disc together, to the epoch of their first recorded triumph – the early sixteenth century. Their 2010 Taverner disc won plaudits for its exhilarating freshness and panache, and the choir brings the same musical and liturgical integrity to music by Taverner’s near contemporary John Sheppard, Informator Choristarum at Magdalen College, Oxford. This wide-ranging collection is centered around Sheppard’s most extended and ecstatic composition, the Missa Cantate.
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Remember me my deir – Jacobean songs of love and loss Fires of Love Delphian • DCD 34129 IMPORT On this recording, Scotland’s modern-day troubadours Fires of Love follow King James VI on a varied journey through song and Price Code: A19 instrumental music. As the musicians deftly (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) weave their way through Scotland’s rich tapestry of historic manuscripts, they unveil attractive but unsophisticated melodies, often heavily imbued with the French style. On their arrival in London, James and his musicians would have been taken aback by the highly active theatre scene. Shakespeare’s texts give rise to compelling settings, from the plaintive to risqué. As the Scots courtier-musicians nimbly traded French influence for London’s ‘Englished’ Italian style, one wonders: did they look homeward with regret?
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Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, Duncan Ferguson Delphian • DCD 34123
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BRAUNFELS Piano Concerto, Ariels Gesang, Schottische Phantasie for Viola & Orchestra
IMPORT German composer Walter Braunfels built a considerable reputation before the 1930s as composer, pianist and teacher. Since his death Price Code: A22 in 1954, his operas have been revived, and (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) Dutton now presents a disc with several world première recordings. The Piano Concerto is notable for its sweeping cantilenas, vivid expression and orchestral color. Victor Sangiorgio is authoritative in the demanding solo part. The Schottische Phantasie for Viola & Orchestra is a large-scale viola concerto eloquently played here by Sarah-Jane Bradley. The program is completed by the Shakespeare-inspired tone poem Ariels Gesang.
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MATTHEWS Vespers, Symphony No.7 Katie Bray (mezzo-soprano), Matthew Long (tenor), The Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Hill, John Carewe Dutton • CDLX 7305 IMPORT Unlike many contemporary composers, David Matthews enjoys working in the great forms of the past – symphony, string quartet, oratorio Price Code: A22 – and finding ways of renewing them. He has (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) never shied away from tonality and possesses a musical language that is clear and direct. Matthews’s Vespers, a grand oratorio masterfully combining a sense of solemnity and exhilaration, is an important addition to the great tradition of choral music. The same feeling of boisterous energy is felt in his Symphony No.7. Inspired by Sibelius’s Seventh Symphony – a one-movement work that subtly transitions from slow to fast and back again – Matthews creates a piece of exquisitely scored beauty and richness. Both works are heard here in their world première recordings.
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Victor Sangiorgio (piano), Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola), BBC Concert Orchestra, Johannes Wildner Dutton • CDLX 7304
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BUSH Africa, Symphony No.2, Fantasia on Soviet Themes
IMPORT Alan Bush’s stern face usually hid a tuneful heart. Dutton’s second disc of orchestral music by this composer presents the popular, programmatic Price Code: A22 Nottingham Symphony evoking Sherwood Forest, (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) Clifton Grove, Castle Rock and the Goose Fair. Also featured is Peter Donohoe’s authoritative reading of Bush’s Africa, a piano concerto in all but name, politically inspired and based on African tunes and rhythms. The program is completed by the popular wartime Fantasia on Soviet Themes in which a handful of Russian revolutionary songs appear in characteristic celebratory orchestral dress. Africa and the Fantasia are both world première recordings.
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FOULDS Undine Suite, Kashmiri Boat Song, Chinese Suite, A Gaelic Dream-Song, Basque Serenade, Kashmiri Wedding Procession, Miniature Suite, Scène Picaresque, Gipsy Czárdás, Kashmiri Boat Song on Jhelum River BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp Dutton • CDLX 7307 IMPORT Following the success of Dutton’s first two volumes of John Foulds’s melodious lighter fare, this third traversal of a forgotten but Price Code: A22 agreeably tuneful repertoire reveals even more (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) delights. It includes the early Undine Suite, the Prèlude Romantique followed by musical visits to Kashmir, China and Hungary, and rounded out with the Gaelic Dream-Song and Basque Serenade. All are world première recordings, performed with customary panache by the BBC Concert Orchestra under the direction of Ronald Corp.
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Peter Donohoe (piano) Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates Dutton • CDLX 7306
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BAX Symphony in F Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates Dutton • CDLX 7308
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IMPORT Dutton presents the world première recording of Bax’s “symphony number zero.” The piano score of Arnold Bax’s Symphony in F of 1907 Price Code: A22 was completed by its composer but never (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) orchestrated, and has long been one of the great might-have-beens of the British symphonic repertoire, along with Elgar’s third symphony and E.J. Moeran’s second. Unlike Elgar and Moeran, Bax actually completed his symphony, and now Martin Yates has set it into full score, managing to catch the elusive, idiomatic sound of Bax’s orchestra in a convincing way. The glorious second movement in particular, on a similar scale to his many later tone poems, is a striking and poetic creation in which Bax finds his voice.
Meditations – Oboe & Harp at the Opera harmonia mundi • HMC 902175 IMPORT Before the days of recordings, transcriptions were the only way outside of the concert hall for listeners to enjoy popular compositions of the Price Code: A19 period. Such transcriptions ranged from versions (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) for solo piano to ones for various instrumental combinations, and many were highly virtuosic. Operas were a rich musical source, and they provide the thematic backbone for this album featuring some of the most famous scenes in the Romantic opera repertoire. With its unusual instrumental combination of oboe and harp, this enchanting collection featuring oboist Céline Moinet and harpist Sarah Christ centers round the evergreen Méditation from Massenet’s opera Thaïs.
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Céline Moinet (oboe, English horn), Sarah Christ (harp)
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BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Op.70 No.2 & Op.97 ‘Archduke’ Isabelle Faust (violin) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Alexander Melnikov (piano) harmonia mundi • HMC 902125 IMPORT By granting the stringed instruments the status of genuinely equal partners with the piano, it was Beethoven who gave the piano trio the form it was to retain throughout the 19th century. This album presents the composer’s last two works in the genre, Op.70 No.2 dedicated to Countess Marie Erdödy, and the celebrated ‘Archduke’ trio, which marked the final public appearance of its composer. All three eminent Beethovenians, violinist Isabelle Faust, Cellist JeanGuihen Queyras and pianist Alexander Melnikov join forces here in performances that set a new standard.
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Also available Dvorak: Cello Concerto, Dumky Trio harmonia mundi • HMC 901867 (794881782628)
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C.P.E. BACH Magnificat, Heilig ist Gott, Symphony Wq 183/1 Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (contralto), Lothar Odinius (tenor), Markus Eiche (baritone), RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Hans-Christoph Rademann harmonia mundi • HMC 902167 IMPORT On April 9, 1786, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach conducted a charity concert in Hamburg featuring three of his finest and most representative works: the Symphony Wq 183/1, the Magnificat (written in 1749 in the hope of succeeding his father as Cantor in Leipzig) and the stupendous motet Heilig ist Gott for double choir, of which he wrote, “It will be my swan song of this kind, and will serve to ensure that I shall not soon be forgotten after my death.” Released to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the composer’s birth, this recording recreates the program of this historic concert. HansChristoph Rademann leads the RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and a stellar cast of soloists (including soprano Elizabeth Watts) in definitive recordings.
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LISTEN NOW “This remains one of the truly elite vocal ensembles in the world.” —OPERA NEWS
Also available J.C. Bach: Missa da Requiem, Miserere harmonia mundi • HMC 902098 (3149020209820)
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The Sacred Spirit of Russia Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson harmonia mundi • HMU 807526 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD To understand and partake of the “Sacred Spirit of Russia” requires one, first and foremost, to experience the beauty and splendor of the Russian Orthodox liturgy, which has been an integral part of the Eastern Slav identity for over a thousand years. The music of the “New Russian Choral School” features sublime settings of the liturgy that draw on a rich history of Orthodox chants and native traditions, creating music of unprecedented color and textural richness. Following the lead of Tchaikovsky, composers such as Kastalsky, Gretchaninov, Tchesnokov, Rachmaninov and a host of others have left us a treasure-trove of musical delights. Craig Hella Johnson and Conspirare (featuring the astounding basso profundo Glenn Miller) present a glorious sampling of some of their finest works in this genre.
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Also available Sing Freedom harmonia mundi • HMC 807525 (093046752569)
“Everything on this disc is bound to rivet you to your seat, when you’re not grooving on the outpouring of choral joy.” —GRAMOPHONE 11
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TAVENER Eternity’s Sunrise Julia Gooding (soprano), Patricia Rozario (soprano), George Mosley (baritone), Andrew Manze (violin), Academy of Ancient Music, Paul Goodwin harmonia mundi • HMU 907231 IMPORT REISSUE - Previously released April 1999, deleted June 2011 In November 2013, Sir John Tavener, one of Britain’s most celebrated composers, passed away at the age of 69. He is perhaps best known for his work The Protecting Veil, which was played at the funeral of Princess Diana. Originally released in 1999, this acclaimed recording features a wide-ranging selection of Tavener’s music. The title work, Eternity’s Sunrise, was commissioned by The Academy of Ancient Music to mark their 25th anniversary and was the composer’s first work for period instruments. Performed by The Academy of Ancient Music conducted by Paul Goodwin, the album also includes four other major works: Sappho: Lyrical Fragments, Funeral Canticle, Petra: a ritual dream and Song of the Angel.
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“Eternity’s Sunrise is a tour de force...” —STEREOPHILE
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“Music to carry the spirit...” —LOS ANGELES TIMES
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“Weaves an affecting spell...” —OPERA NEWS
“Soothes our sense of the world’s dissonance.” —WIRED
Also available Tavener: Total Eclipse harmonia mundi • HMU 907271 (093046727123)
“A must for all Tavener fans.” —GRAMOPHONE 12
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Maria Bayo (soprano), Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano), Gerald Finley (tenor), Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Concerto Vocale, René Jacobs, Les Arts Florissants, William Christie harmonia mundi • HMX 2908658 IMPORT This set is truly a marvel, both in terms of its musical excellence and in the luxuriousness of its presentation. Through superb performances of works both famous and rare, Opéra Baroque offers listeners a comprehensive, country-by-country guide to the world of opera in the Baroque period. It features 39 compact discs and 3 DVDs comprising over 47 hours of music, including 17 complete operas performed by some of the world’s finest singers under the direction of René Jacobs and William Christie. Several of the recordings in this set have been award winners, and some have been unavailable on CD for many years. Housed in packaging of the highest quality, the set also includes four richly detailed booklets and a supplementary CD with sung texts and translations. This is a release to treasure for a lifetime.
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HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: • Blow: Venus and Adonis • Campra: Idoménée • Cavalli: La Calisto • Charpentier: Le Malade imaginaire • Charpentier: Médée • Graun: Cleopatra & Cesare • Handel: Giulio Cesare (DVD) • Handel: Rinaldo • Handel: Flavio • Keiser: Croesus • Lully: Atys • Monteverdi: L’Orfeo (DVD) • Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea • Purcell: Dido and Aeneas • Rameau: Les Indes Galantes • Scarlatti: La Griselda • Telemann: Orpheus • Vecchi: L’Amfiparnaso
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Le Chant de Virgile Huelgas-Ensemble Paul Van Nevel harmonia mundi • HMA 1951739
J.S. BACH Motets La Chapelle Royale Collegium Vocale Gent Philippe Herreweghe harmonia mundi • HMA 1951231
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D’INDIA Madrigali e Canzonette Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano) Concerto Soave Jean-Marc Aymes harmonia mundi • HMA 1951774 Previously Available as HMC 901774 (794881704224) Deleted June 2008
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Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès harmonia mundi • HMA 1951347
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Freiburger Barockorchester Petra Müllejans harmonia mundi • HMA 1951809
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BLOCH Cello suites, Méditation hébraïque, From Jewish Life, Nirvana, Nigun
Le Violon vagabond Graf Mourja (violin) Natalia Gous (piano) harmonia mundi • HMA 1951785
Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) Pascal Amoyel (piano) harmonia mundi • HMA 1951810
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BYRD Masses for 3, 4 & 5 voices The Pro Arte Singers Paul Hillier harmonia mundi • HMA 1957223 Previously Available as HMU 907223 (093046722326) Deleted July 2004
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MOZART Divertimenti K136-138, Serenata Notturna K239
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KODÁLY String Quartets Nos.1 & 2, Intermezzo & Gavotte
IMPORT In the chamber works recorded here, spanning Kodály’s career, one can hear an unwavering desire to place genuine Hungarian folk music Price Code: A19 (rather than the ‘style hongrois’ espoused by the (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) Strauss family and many other composers) within classical music traditions. Bartók wrote of his compatriot, “If I were to name the composer whose works are the most perfect embodiment of the Hungarian spirit, I would answer, Kodály.” The Dante Quartet, winners of the BBC Music Magazine Award for their album of Franck and Fauré, respond to this music with dancing energy and folkloric simplicity.
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ZEMLINSKY Symphonies Nos.1 & 2 BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Martyn Brabbins Hyperion • CDA 67985 IMPORT On this recording, Martyn Brabbins leads the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in two works from the crucible of the Viennese fin Price Code: A19 de siècle. Zemlinsky wrote his two completed (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) symphonies while studying at the conservatory. He wrote under the watchful eye of its conservative masters, and was greatly influenced by Brahms; but like many of his classmates and contemporaries, Zemlinsky peppered the otherwise bland conservatory diet with visits to performances of new works by Verdi, Wagner and Richard Strauss. Caught between these two factions, these symphonies show him wrestling, often thrillingly, with the pedagogical parameters imposed upon him.
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Dante Quartet Hyperion • CDA 67999
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SCHUBERT Der Wanderer Florian Boesch (baritone) Roger Vignoles (piano) Hyperion • CDA 68010 IMPORT Florian Boesch possesses a sensuously attractive baritone voice, first-rate diction and remarkable acting ability. Following on his acclaimed album of Loewe songs, Boesch is joined again by Roger Vignoles for an album of Schubert Lieder. Der Wanderer focuses on the composer’s darker songs. They encapsulate a recurrent theme of German Romantic art: that of the rootless outsider. It is the world of Goethe’s mysterious Harper and Mignon, and of the solitary, silhouetted figures in the darker landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich. In music it found its supreme expression, not only in Schubert’s Winterreise but in these many individual ‘wandering’ songs: some grimly resigned, some serenely contemplative, others imbued with a sense of physical and spiritual isolation and longing for an ultimately unattainable ‘otherness.’
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Also available Loewe: Songs & Ballads Hyperion • CDA 67866 (034571178660) “This is an ideal introduction to Loewe.” —AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE 17
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Cédric Tiberghien (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67886
IMPORT Cédric Tiberghien’s first solo recording for Hyperion explores the sensual, crepuscular sound-world of Szymanowski’s piano music. Tiberghien’s expressive, mercurial, quicksilver playing, with its extraordinary pianissimos and kaleidoscopic range of color, makes him an ideal performer of this repertoire. Szymanowski’s most celebrated works have been recorded here. The four early Études include the popular Andante in modo d’una canzone, a sorrowful song above slow repeated chords. The rest of the (later) works show the maturing of Szymanowski’s unique piano style and in particular the salutary influence of Ravel’s and Debussy’s weightless, diaphanous textures.
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Also available Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.60 Hyperion • CDA 67931 (034571179315) “Cédric Tiberghien’s sense of color and crystalline touch are welcome... for elegance and integration, this kind of performance couldn’t be bettered.” —FANFARE 18
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SZYMANOWSKI Masques, Métopes, Études, Opp.4 & 33
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] James Gilchrist (tenor), Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen Hyperion • CDA 68019 IMPORT The Gramophone Award-winning ensemble Arcangelo presents a selection from Monteverdi’s last three books of Madrigals. These ardent and passionate works are microcosms of Monteverdi’s great operas and among his most celebrated music. The eighth book of introduces the genere concitato — (agitated style) that Monteverdi devised to convey the emotions of war, whether physical or psychological. Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda sets an extended passage from Tasso’s epic poem Gerusalemme liberata. Tasso’s text, set in the time of the first crusade, tells of the combat between the Christian knight Tancredi and the Saracen maiden Clorinda. Most of the action is conveyed by a narrator, sung here by celebrated tenor James Gilchrist.
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Also available Handel: Finest Arias for Base Voice Hyperion • CDA 67841 (034571178424) “Purves is that most cutting-edge of present-day singers... He has few peers among acting singers today... The payoff is enormous in his new collection of 20 arias...” —AUDIOPHILE AUDITION 19
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Love and Loss MONTEVERDI Madrigals
CLASSICAL
FEBRUARY 2014
HOWELLS Choral Music
IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 67494 (034571174945) Deleted June 2012 Recorded as Malcolm Archer’s farewell to Wells Cathedral prior to his prestigious appointment Price Code: A11 to St. Paul’s in London, this generously filled (Suggested Retail Price: $11.98) album presents some of Howells’s best choral works, some well known, others less so. His settings of the Canticles set the benchmark for twentieth-century liturgical composition and led to the composer being besieged by commission requests from cathedrals and collegiate chapels. This mid-price reissue includes the Morning Canticles written for St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle and the Evening Canticles, which constitute the ‘New College Service.’
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DVORÁK Piano Quintet Op.81, String Quintet Op.77 Gaudier Ensemble Hyperion • CDH 55472
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IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 66796 (034571167961) Deleted July 2013 The two works on this mid-price reissue Price Code: A11 featuring the Gaudier Ensemble come from (Suggested Retail Price: $11.98) different periods in Dvorák’s career. In the colorful Op.77 String Quintet, instead of a second viola, he places a double bass beneath the single cello. The success of his Op.81 Piano Quintet rests on its happy reconciliation of forces. Dvorák’s early attempts at composing for the piano had been hampered by his own lack of familiarity with the instrument, but in this work he achieves a remarkable fluency, with five instruments operating as consistent equals and in harmonious unity and balance.
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Wells Cathedral Choir, Malcolm Archer Rupert Gough (organ) Hyperion • CDH 5545
CLASSICAL
FEBRUARY 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] BRUCKNER Symphony No.9
IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Bernard Haitink is internationally renowned for his interpretations of Bruckner and is widely recognized as the world’s leading Bruckner conductor. Bruckner’s symphonies are often described as ‘Gothic cathedrals in sound,’ an apt description considering the composer’s devout faith and early vocation as an organist. He died before he could finish his Symphony No.9, but within its three movements can be found some of his most complete music, imbued with a sense of deep solace and resolution.
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“Haitink’s performances are models of decorum, propriety, insight, and intelligence.” —CLASSICAL CANDOR
Also available Bruckner: Symphony No.4. LSO Live • LSO 0716 (822231171621)
“A worthy, well-judged performance...” —GRAMOPHONE 21
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London Symphony Orchestra Bernard Haitink LSO Live • LSO 0746
CLASSICAL
FEBRUARY 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Denis Matsuev (piano) Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev Mariinsky • MAR 0548 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Since winning the 11th International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1998, Denis Matsuev has established a reputation as one of Russia’s leading pianists. His début release on the Mariinsky label received widespread acclaim. For his third release, Matsuev turns to the music of Tchaikovsky, with the Piano Concertos Nos.1 & 2. Tchaikovsky’s first Piano Concerto is one of his most popular works. He balances core motivic elements with a sense of lyrical spontaneity to create a technically challenging but instantly appealing work. The Piano Concerto No.2 was dedicated to pianist Nikolai Rubinstein. After a tremendous piano cadenza in the first movement, Tchaikovsky allows other instruments to shine, with prominent solos for violin and cello in the second movement.
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LISTEN NOW “Valery Gergiev and Denis Matsuev are very much of one mind as to where to go with the music, and more importantly, perfectly matched for sonority.” —FANFARE
Also available Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Mariinsky • MAR 0509 (822231850922)
“Full of charisma...” —THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER 22
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TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
CLASSICAL
FEBRUARY 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Michael Nyman (piano) MN Records • MNRCD 131 IMPORT The Piano Sings 2 is a welcome follow-up to Michael Nyman’s début album on his own label, MN Records. Volume two covers a wider range, in terms of both chronology and dynamics, than The Piano Sings. It features well-known music from well-known films (The Draughtsman’s Contract and The Piano), unknown music from unknown films (Conor McPherson’s The Actors and Michael Winterbottom’s Everyday) and also music from Enemy Zero (1997) which resurfaced in Michael’s soundtrack for Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera and in his own film NYman with a Movie Camera. The album also contains two compositions which have no connection with film: Sadie’s Song (1999) and Through the Only Window (2012). “Franklyn” from Michael Winterbottom’s Wonderland is self-evidently the model for The 7th Visit and is included on this album as a fond memory of The Piano Sings.
“All of Michael Nyman’s music is unfailingly interesting and listenable...”
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—THE BUFFALO NEWS
Price Code: A17 (Suggested Retail Price: $17.98)
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Also available Nyman: String Quartets Nos.1-3 MN Records • MNRCD 124 (5060211140129)
“Impressive in the extreme and fully worthy of investigation.” —FANFARE 23
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NYMAN The Piano Sings 2
CLASSICAL
FEBRUARY 2014
Nikita Magaloff (piano) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe Testament • SBT 1492 IMPORT This disc featuring Rudolf Kempe was recorded at the Salzburg Festival in 1962 and includes works by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Price Code: A20 Haydn’s light hearted Symphony No.55 is followed (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) by Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4 with soloist Nikita Magaloff. Kempe’s reading of Mozart’s Symphony No.39 features a bigger orchestra than we often hear nowadays, but the performance is more rhythmically aware than many contemporary versions. These historic recordings have never been commercially available until now.
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MOZART Symphony No.40 Mahler Kindertotenlieder Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm Testament • SBT2 1489 IMPORT This two-CD set featuring Karl Böhm was recorded at the Salzburg Festival in 1962 and includes works by Mozart, Mahler and Richard Price Code: 2A15 (2 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $31.98) Strauss. It includes three major works, Mozart’s Symphony No.40, Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra and Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder. Famed baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is the soloist in the Mahler, and his performance is one of the highlights of this specially priced set. These historic recordings have never been commercially available until now.
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HAYDN Symphony No.55 Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4 Mozart Symphony No.39
CLASSICAL
FEBRUARY 2014
Leontyne Price (soprano), Giulietta Simionato (mezzo-soprano), Giuseppe Zampieri (tenor), Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Wien, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Herbert von Karajan Testament • SBT 1491 IMPORT Testament’s series of previously unpublished live concert recordings made by the Berlin Philharmonic offers listeners a rich library of notable performances by some of history’s greatest conductors. Herbert von Karajan first conducted Verdi’s Requiem as a young assistant Kapellmeister in Ulm in 1933. It became one of his signature works, and Karajan conducted the work frequently, recorded it several times and it was the last work he conducted with the Berlin Philharmonic shortly before his death in 1989. This live performance from the 1962 Salzburg festival features four top-level soloists, headlined by soprano Leontyne Price.
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Also available Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra Testament • SBT 1474 (749677147426)
“This performance enjoys wonderfully mellifluous solo playing and is not short of intimacies or lucid textures…” —CLASSICALSOURCE.COM 25
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VERDI Messa da Requiem
CLASSICAL
FEBRUARY 2014
Peter Pears (tenor) Noel Mewton-Wood (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, Basil Cameron Testament • SBT 1493 IMPORT This disc brings to light both the unjustly neglected talents of Australian pianist Noel Mewton-Wood and two rare recordings by the great English tenor Peter Pears. It is the first commercial release of these performances, originally recorded by the BBC. Mewton-Wood died at the age of thirty-one and made very few commercial recordings. Benjamin Britten gave the première of his Piano Concerto at the 1938 Proms, but revised the work in 1945. This revised version was first recorded in 1947 by Mewton-Wood, joined by the London Symphony Orchestra and Basil Cameron. The vocal works by Seiber and Bush were commissioned by Pears for a recital that he and Mewton-Wood gave in May 1953. Four months later, the BBC asked the two musicians to record the works for future broadcast.
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Recently released Britten: War Requiem Testament • SBT 1490 (749677149024)
“Conveys the high emotion of the occasion, especially Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s heart-rending performance.” —Los Angeles Times 26
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BRITTEN Piano Concerto Seiber To Poetry Bush Voices of the Prophets
JAZZ
FEBRUARY 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Catherine Russell Jazz Village • JV 579001 IMPORT File in: Jazz With 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, the latest of which won the Prix du Jazz Vocal from L’academie du Jazz and Grand Prix du Hot Club de France. 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. Russell personifies the living heart and proud history of each song.
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LISTEN NOW “Russell’s voice is truly another instrument in the mix. Well, not just another instrument. It’s the best one... one of the classic voices in song.” —PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE
Also available Strictly Romancin’ World Village • 468101 (713746810122)
“Soulful and sure-footed interpretations... Picking favorites isn’t easy, but some songs are almost impossible to shake after hearing them so evocatively arranged.” —THE WASHINGTON POST 27
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JAZZ
FEBRUARY 2014
Al Hirt Plays Bert Kaempfert; Latin in the Horn
IMPORT File in: Jazz Trumpeter and bandleader Al Hirt is best remembered for his album Honey in the Horn Price Code: A22 and for the theme song to The Green Hornet. (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) Hirt posted twenty-two albums on the Billboard charts in the 1950s and 1960s, many of which showcase his traditional Louisiana jazz roots. Hirt’s albums Honey In The Horn and Cotton Candy were both among the top 10 best sellers for 1964. This release from Dutton pairs two of his albums from the late 60s on one disc. Latin in the Horn is an easy-going Brazilian outing conducted and arranged by Lalo Schifrin. Hirt Plays Bert explores some of the top hits by the German orchestra leader and songwriter Bert Kaempfert, including “Strangers in the Night” and “Moon Over Naples.”
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The 1930s Brunswick Recordings Vol.6 - Jamboree Jones Paul Whiteman Dutton • CDEA 6225 IMPORT File in: Jazz Leader of one of the most popular dance bands of the 1920s, Paul Whiteman produced many Price Code: A22 recordings that were immensely successful, and (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) press notices often referred to him as the “King of Jazz.” Whiteman is perhaps best known for his blending of symphonic music and jazz, as typified by his 1924 commissioning and debut of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue. Whiteman’s work influenced modern jazz musicians as diverse as Miles Davis, Gil Evans, the Modern Jazz Quartet and Wynton Marsalis. This disc is the latest release in Dutton’s ongoing series devoted to Whiteman’s artistry.
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Al Hirt Dutton • CDLK 4505
POP
FEBRUARY 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Penguin Cafe Penguin Cafe • DPC 104 IMPORT File in: Pop Fans of Penguin Cafe have been overjoyed at the band’s comeback and recent recordings. The catalyst for this new album came about in 2012, when Arthur Jeffes worked on a project with NASA and the International Space Orchestra. The tracks Aurora and 1420 have since been beamed into space as part of NASA’s Kepler project. These touchstones marked a ‘satellitic’ beginning for Penguin Cafe’s new album entitled Red Book, which then presents a collection of songs that return to earth to undertake a rich, cross-continental musical journey.
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Also available A Matter of Life Penguin Cafe DPC 101 (5060259350009)
“A convincing musical statement from Jeffes. Good to hear the café’s still open.” —SONGLINES 29
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The Red Book
POP
FEBRUARY 2014
Dusty in Memphis
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Dusty Springfield APO • CAPP 8214 SA DOMESTIC SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD File in: Pop Originally released in 1969, the concept for Dusty In Memphis was to take England’s reigning female soul queen to the home of the music that had inspired her. Produced by Atlantic’s Jerry Wexler and Arif Mardin and engineered by Tom Dowd, the record’s highlights include “Son Of A Preacher Man,” “So Much Love,” “Breakfast In Bed,” “Just One Smile,” “I Don’t Want To Hear It Anymore” and “Just A Little Lovin’.” Springfield is backed by a crack band that had previously worked with Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, King Curtis and Elvis Presley among others. Songwriting contributions include Randy Newman, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. Dusty Springfield is one of the finest white soul singers of her era, and this superbly remastered SACD is the undisputed proof.
“Blazing soul and sexual honesty that transcended both race and geography.”
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ROCK
FEBRUARY 2014
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Nuthin’ Fancy
Second Helping
Lynyrd Skynyrd APO • CAPP 2137 SA
Lynyrd Skynyrd APO • CAPP 413 SA
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DOMESTIC SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD File in: Rock After 35 years, with a catalog of over 60 albums and sales beyond 30 million, Lynyrd Skynyrd remains a cultural icon that appeals to all generations. Following on the success of their 1973 debut album, Skynyrd’s 1974 album Second Helping features their biggest hit single ever, “Sweet Home Alabama,” an answer to Neil Young’s “Southern Man.” Backed by a tight rhythm section and the mighty three-guitar attack of Allen Collins, Ed King and Gary Rossington, singer Ronnie Van Zant turned in legendary performances on “I Need You,” “The Needle And The Spoon” and “The Ballad Of Curtis Loew.” The eight rockin’ tracks of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s third album, Nuthin’ Fancy, take the band to new territory. Conceived while the band was on tour, the music is heavier and harder, incorporating some of the flavor of album rock bands that were popular in the mid-’70s. These audiophile SACDs from Analogue Productions were remastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio.
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ROCK
FEBRUARY 2014
Steppenwolf
DOMESTIC SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD File in: Rock Steppenwolf has become synonymous with their huge Harley ridin’-hit “Born to be Wild,” but their success was far broader, with sales totaling more than 25 million units worldwide. Steppenwolf started life in Canada in the early ‘60s as The Sparrows, but did not find fame until they had changed their name and released their rockin’ album début in 1968, now available on Hybrid SACD from Analogue Productions, mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio. When the album’s top two tracks, “Born to be Wild” and “The Pusher,” were used in the film Easy Rider, the success of the album was assured. It marked the first of the band’s five consecutive gold certified albums.
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Steppenwolf APO • CAPP 50029 SA
COUNTRY
FEBRUARY 2014
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Floyd Cramer Plays MacArthur Park; Here’s What’s Happening!
Floyd Cramer Plays Country Classics; Country Piano - City Strings
Floyd Cramer Dutton • CDLK 4517
Floyd Cramer Dutton • CDLK 4520
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IMPORT File in : Country These two combo discs from Dutton present four classic albums by the legendary Floyd Cramer. Cramer is known as an architect of the “Nashville Sound,” which blended country and pop, but his influence also extended to traditional country and rock and roll. He was a sideman on recordings by Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Patsy Cline and many others. Not just a top Nashville sideman, Cramer enjoyed a prolific career as a solo artist as well. Cramer cut 50 instrumental albums and reached Number Two on the pop charts in 1960 and he won a Grammy for Best Country Instrumental in 1979.
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SOUNDTRACK
FEBRUARY 2014
Once Upon a Forest - Original Soundtrack
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Following up on his Oscar-winning hit March of the Penguins, director Luc Jacquet explores Price Code: A21 the mysteries of the world’s rain forests in his (Suggested Retail Price: $21.98) breathtaking documentary, Once Upon a Forest (Il était une forêt). This release from Actes Sud offers the film’s soaring and evocative soundtrack, written by Éric Neveux. Since his 1996 début with the soundtrack to François Ozon’s Regarde la mer, Neveux has built an extensive catalog of work for film and television, including Ziad Doueiri’s acclaimed The Attack and the 2011 television series Borgia.
Visions of Eight - Soundtrack Music
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Henry Mancini Dutton • CDSML 8502
Henry Mancini wrote music for numerous films from the 50s until the early 90s. Perhaps best known for his soundtrack for The Pink Panther, Mancini’s music is rich with good tunes that people have been humming and whistling for decades. This disc from Dutton features Mancini’s superb soundtrack to Visions of Eight, Milos Forman’s documentary about the 1972 Olympics.
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Stiletto - Original Film Soundtrack Sid Ramin Dutton • CDSML 8501
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Composer and songwriter Sid Ramin is best known as being part of the Oscar-winning team that supervised and orchestrated Bernstein’s music for West Side Story. His soundtrack to the 1969 movie Stiletto, based on a book by Harold Robbins, features lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman and orchestrations by Dick Hazard. Stiletto succeeds not only as a soundtrack, but as great music - it has a cool 60s sound that never gets old.
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Éric Neveux Actes Sud • ASM 14
WORLD
FEBRUARY 2014
Kanou
IMPORT File in: World / Africa / Mali Mamani Keïta is one of the great voices of Mali, a singer who knows how to bind her audience Price Code: A18 to her, all the better to seduce and then electrify (Suggested Retail Price: $18.98) them. She is also supremely charismatic, with a generous spirit that embraces the world and its music. All of which makes her an independent and socially engaged artist. On Kanou, meaning ‘to love’ in her native Bambara, Keïta’s blazing vocals intertwine perfectly with the arabesques woven by the n’goni of virtuoso Moriba Koïta and the guitar of Djeli Moussa Kouyaté of Bamako Rail Band fame. Overflowing with a benevolent strength, this collection of searingly passionate songs is Keïta’s first solo album, marking a decisive turning point in her career.
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Mamani Keïta World Village • 479080
Devil’s Tale
IMPORT File in: World / Gypsy Canadian guitar wizard Adrian Raso and Fanfare Ciocarlia both share a love of Django Price Code: A23 and big band jazz. For Devil’s Tale, Raso called (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) in several heavyweight friends to contribute to the sessions. These included legendary guitarists John Jorgenson and Rodrigo (of Rodrigo & Gabriela) and rock drummer Kevin Figueriedo. The album’s inspirations range from New Orleans to Paris, and from the Balkans to Detroit. Raso’s guitar sets off on a fluid journey, caressing and cajoling the horns. Together they have created a music rooted in jazz and the Balkans, a sound full of history but looking towards the future.
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Adrian Raso, Fanfare Ciocarlia Asphalt Tango • ATR 4414
NOSTALGIA
FEBRUARY 2014
Peter Nero Dutton • CDLK 4521
Newley Recorded; Who Can I Turn To Disco, Dance and Love Themes of the 70s; Say Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose
Anthony Newley Dutton • CDLK 4515
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Peter Nero Dutton • CDLK 4518
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Caterina Valente Live at Talk of the Town; Caterina Valente Live
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Caterina Valente Dutton • CDLK 4511
The New Sound of Broadway; Something to Remember You By George Melachrino Dutton • CDLK 4502
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Nero-ing in on the Hits; Xochimilco
NOSTALGIA
FEBRUARY 2014 Le Grand Orchestre de Paul Mauriat Vols.1 & 2
Le Grand Orchestre de Paul Mauriat Vols.3 & 6
L’ete Indien; Sommer Souvenirs
Paul Mauriat Dutton • CDLK 4519
Paul Mauriat Dutton • CDLK 4513
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A Mystic Portrait of The Moody Blues; The Strip Goes On Werner Müller Dutton • CDLK 4508
Tropical Nights; Top Hits in Color Werner Müller Dutton • CDLK 4510
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Paul Mauriat Dutton • CDLK 4516
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