DECEMBER 2014 | NEW RELEASES
Jordi SAVALL
Vivaldi & Bach Magnificats & Concertos
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The year may be coming to an end, but there are still lots of great new releases on the way. December’s offering leads off with a very special set from Jordi Savall on Alia Vox. Savall directs the Capella Reial de Catalunya and Le Concert des Nations on a disc of Magnificats and Concertos by J.S. Bach and Vivaldi (p.6). The package includes a DVD (in PAL format) with video content mirroring the disc’s program. Bach is also the featured composer on a new two SACD set of the complete Brandenburg Concertos from Channel Classics featuring the acclaimed English chamber ensemble Florilegium (p.11). Vocal music fans will delight in the second solo disc for the Aparté label by the superb countertenor Xavier Sabata. I Dilletanti features music by a selection of Venice’s non-professional composers (p.7). Orange Mountain proudly presents the first release of the complete piano Études of Philip Glass. Recently completed, these fascinating works are given definitive performances by Maki Namekawa (p.16). Leading off our non-classical releases, jazz trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf teams up with rapper-poet Oxmo Puccino for Au pays d’Alice, a jazz musical based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (p.25). Last but not least, Howe Records’s latest soundtrack release features Rosewater — the directorial début of Daily Show host Jon Stewart. Howard Shore’s atmospheric score is paired with songs by Leonard Cohen, Mahdyar Aghajani and 25 Band (p.26).
IN THE PRESS Offenbach: Fantasio Sarah Connoly/ Sir Mark Elder Opera Rara • ORC 51
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COMING NEXT MONTH 1865 - Songs of Hope & Home Anonymous 4, Bruce Molsky harmonia mundi • HMU 807549
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Sacrifices La Nuova Musica, David Bates harmonia mundi • HMU 807588
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Messiaen: La Fauvette Passerinette Peter Hill Delphian • DCD 34141
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Anonymous 4 sings songs of The Civil War Anonymous 4 and special guest Bruce Molsky commemorate the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War with songs that were in the air in the year 1865. It includes ballads and choruses originally intended for the stage and the parlor, as well as songs and instrumental tunes from the hills and back roads of America. They portray the highly emotional, personal stories of soldiers, widows and others who lived through one of the bloodiest wars in American history.
Editor-in-chief: Matthew Owen Design: Stephanie Jacobson
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DECEMBER 2014
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PICCININI Lute Music Mónica Pustilnik (lute) Accent • ACC 24193
IMPORT Alessandro Piccinini, a contemporary of Monteverdi and Frescobaldi, hailed from a Bolognese family of lutenists that made its mark on Italian musical life Price Code: A22 for over one and a half centuries. Piccinini’s two (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) books of lute works are primarily influenced by the emergent Italian instrumental music, but French and Spanish influences can also be clearly heard. On the present recording, Mónica Pustilnik performs selections from both books.
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SAN PIETRO DE’ NEGRI Amorosa Fenice
IMPORT Of all the fascinating, little-known figures who populated the world of Italian song in the early 17th century, Giulio Sant Pietro de’ Negri is one of Price Code: A23 the most interesting. His songs include startlingly (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) original and interesting settings, even by the experimental standards of the time. This collection, featuring the ensemble Faenza conducted by Marco Horvat, samples some of the composer’s finest works.
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Faenza, Marco Horvat Agogique • AGO 018
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DECEMBER 2014
Matthew Trusler (violin), Roland Wood (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano) Albion • ALBCD 018 IMPORT This release from Albion Records highlights both Vaughan Williams’s skill in setting English poetry and prose to music and his abiding love of the Price Code: A19 violin, which he described as his “musical salvation.” (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) It features song settings of both John Bunyan and Robert Louis Stevenson performed by baritone Roland Wood alongside familiar and less well-known works for violin, arranged on this occasion for violin and piano and played by Matthew Trusler and Iain Burnside.
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Come Back to Me — Piano Arrangements of Great Film Music Jane Chee (piano) Albion • ALBCD 019
IMPORT This recording explores the various musical themes used in films to express romance, nobility, adventure and hope. Pianist Jane Chee plays a selection of Price Code: A19 clever and illuminating arrangements of music from (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) a wide range of films including Somewhere in Time, Gone with the Wind, Titanic, Out of Africa, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Gladiator, Braveheart and The Lord of the Rings.
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Stars of the Night VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending, Six Studies in English Folk Song, Violin Concerto, Songs of Travel, Three Songs from The Pilgrim’s Progress
CLASSICAL
DECEMBER 2014
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS A Cambridge Mass
IMPORT A Cambridge Mass was written between 1897 and 1899 as part of Vaughan Williams’s efforts toward the degree of Doctor of Music from Cambridge University. His time at Cambridge was to influence Vaughan Williams’s character, friendships, ideals and musical development for the rest of his life. This world première recording features a quartet of fine soloists backed by The Bach Choir and the New Queen’s Hall Orchestra conducted by Alan Tongue.
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Also available Vaughan Williams: The Solent Albion • ALBCD 016 (5060158190164) “A mandatory acquisition for all RVW acolytes.” —GRAMOPHONE 5
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Olivia Robinson (soprano), Rebecca Lodge (contralto), Christopher Bowen (tenor), Edward Price (baritone), The Bach Choir, New Queen’s Hall Orchestra, Alan Tongue Albion • ALBCD 020
CLASSICAL
DECEMBER 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Pierre Hantaï (harpsichord), La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall Alia Vox • AVSA 9909 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD On this spectacular recording of baroque masterworks, Maestro Jordi Savall leads Le Concert des Nations and La Capella Reial de Catalunya in performances of Magnificat settings by J.S. Bach and Vivaldi. Recorded live at the Royal Chapel in Versailles in 2013, each of the choral works is paired with a concerto by the same composer in the same tonality. A bonus DVD is included (in PAL format only) that includes both Magnificats and Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto BWV243, played by keyboard virtuoso Pierre Hantaï.
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“Jordi Savall is one of the greatest living forces in the rebirth of early music.” —LISTEN MAGAZINE
(SACD+DVD, Suggested Retail Price: $24.98)
Also available 25th Anniversary Alia Vox • AVSA 9897 (7619986398976) “Jordi Savall’s discs can always be relied on to widen listeners’ musical horizons in the most enjoyable way possible.” —THE TELEGRAPH 6
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VIVALDI Magnificat, Concerto RV578 J.S. BACH Magnificat, Harpsichord Concerto BWV243
CLASSICAL
DECEMBER 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] I Dilettanti
IMPORT Following on the success of his début album Bad Guys, countertenor Xavier Sabata presents I Dilettanti. This recording features works by a selection of Venice’s many non-professional composers. Despite their “dilletante” status, some of these composers, including Benedetto Marcello and Emanuele d’Astorga, left their own very personal mark on the history of music. Sabata is accompanied here by the ensemble Latinitas Nostra led by Markellos Chryssicos.
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“Sabata has one of the richest of counter-tenor voices, his warmth of tone carrying intimations of decadence.” —THE GUARDIAN
(Suggested Retail Price: $21.98)
Also available Handel: Bad Guys Aparté • AP 048 (3149028024920) “His energetic reading of these arias brings to life Handel’s more vengeful operatic characters. And yet, there’s still that Baroque beauty and elegance underlying the entire performance.” —CBC Music 7
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Xavier Sabata (countertenor) Latinitas Nostra, Markellos Chryssicos Aparté • AP 093
CLASSICAL
DECEMBER 2014
Guiomar Novaes — The Complete Published 78-rpm Recordings
IMPORT Brazilian pianist Guiomar Novaes was described by her teacher Isidore Philipp as, “by far the best pupil he had ever nursed to the concert stage.” Price Code: A19 Novaes shot to fame as a teenager and immediately (2 CDs for the Price of 1, Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) became a star pianist, particularly in the USA where she settled. She recorded well into the LP era but by common consent her greatest recordings are considered to be the 78-rpm discs she made in her youth. Here, for the first time, all are reissued together.
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Wanda Landowska — The Complete Piano Recordings Wanda Landowska (piano) APR • APR 7305
IMPORT Wanda Landowska achieved such fame for her revival of the harpsichord that it is sometimes forgotten that she was also a fine pianist. This set Price Code: 3A11 brings together, for the first time, all her recordings (3 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $35.98) on that instrument. In their understanding of period style, and above all in their ability to get to the emotional heart of the matter, these recordings reveal Landowska’s playing to be as valid now, in our historically informed time, as it ever was.
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Guiomar Novaes (piano) APR • APR 6015
CLASSICAL
DECEMBER 2014
IMPORT Hungarian violinist and conductor Sándor Végh is perhaps best known as one of the greatest chamber music performers of the twentieth century. Price Code: A21 Végh focused the last thirty years of his career (Suggested Retail Price: $21.98) on conducting, leading his own Végh Chamber Orchestra as well as such famous ensembles as the Vienna Philharmonic. This remastered 1992 recording features a live performance from the vaults of the Österreichischer Rundfunk.
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MOZART Symphonies Nos.39 & 40 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Sándor Végh Belvedere • 10147
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IMPORT All zones; 97 minutes; 16:9; In German with English and French Subtitles Concert for a Deaf Soul is a theatrical take on the secretive life of French composer Maurice Ravel. Price Code: 2A26 This video featuring collaboration between the (2 DVD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $53.98) Halle Puppet Theatre and pianist Ragna Schirmer offers scenes from the life of Ravel alternating and merging with some of his most impressive pieces for piano. Music, imagination, puppets and actors combine to create a touching and poetic experience.
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RAVEL Concert for a Deaf Soul Halle Puppet Theatre, Ragna Schirmer (piano) Belvedere • 10150
CLASSICAL
DECEMBER 2014
BRAHMS Mass & Motets
IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD The choral music of Johannes Brahms spans much of his career as a composer. Its influences range from folk music to contrapuntal masterworks of the Renaissance and Baroque. Musicology has in its infancy in the Romantic period, and Brahms was fascinated with ‘old’ music, especially the works of Bach. This illuminating selection of a cappella choral music features the supreme talents of the Swedish Radio Choir led by Peter Dijkstra.
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“The 35-voice choir makes a suitably full-bodied sound, yet keeps the individual lines clean and clear and the textures rich and vibrant, confirming once again the reasons that make us not only so happy to listen but that also make us want to sing...” —CLASSICS TODAY
Also available Poulenc: Figure Humaine Channel • CCS SA 31411 (723385314110) “Arresting...” —BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE 10
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Swedish Radio Choir, Peter Dijkstra Channel Classics • CCS SA 35814
CLASSICAL
DECEMBER 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] J.S. BACH Brandenburg Concertos Nos.1-6
IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Like many of Bach’s sets, such as the Goldberg Variations or The WellTempered Clavier, the Brandenburg Concertos form a kind of master anthology — a demonstration of all the imaginable possibilities inherent in a certain musical form. Each of these six concertos calls for a different combination of soloists, every one unprecedented in its choice of instruments. This recording from the superb English ensemble Florilegium goes in reverse of the numbered order, so that each piece adds to the musician complement.
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(2 SACD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $27.98)
“Any release from this superb ensemble is worthy of notice...” —INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
Also available Bach: Organ Trio Sonatas Channel • CCS SA 27012 (723385270126) “Listeners will welcome the opportunity to hear some of Bach’s best instrumental music in these new, impressively idiomatic arrangements.” —CLASSICS TODAY 11
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Florilegium Channel Classics • CCS SA 35914
CLASSICAL
DECEMBER 2014
David Wilde (piano) Delphian • DCD 34138 IMPORT David Wilde’s first recording for Delphian was a Chopin recital recorded live at the Wigmore Hall. Seven recordings and twelve years later, Wilde Price Code: A19 offers a second Chopin program, intended as a (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) memorial to his recently departed wife Jane. Wilde’s breathtaking virtuosity and towering intellect combine here in interpretations fueled by passion — performances that combine heartfelt tenderness with deep personal grief.
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The Marian Collection Choral works by Bruckner, Byrd, Jackson, Stravinsky & Weir Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas, Peter Phillips Delphian • DCD 34144
IMPORT On The Choir of Merton College, Oxford’s album The Marian Collection, conductor Benjamin Nicholas draws from a collection of works written Price Code: A19 in celebration of the college’s 750th anniversary. (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) Featured here is a set of the four Marian antiphons, all specially commissioned from women composers, as well as première recordings of works by Gabriel Jackson and Matthew Martin. Peter Phillips takes the baton for Byrd’s Salve Regina and John Nesbett’s Magnificat, a piece whose neglect on disc is astonishing.
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Wilde Plays Chopin Vol.2 CHOPIN Nocturnes Op.9 No.2, Op.27 Nos.1 & 2, Polonaise Op.53, Piano Sonata No.2, Prélude Op.28 No.15, Fantaisie Op.49
CLASSICAL
DECEMBER 2014
HAHN Ciboulette
IMPORT All zones; 176 Minutes Ciboulette by Reynaldo Hahn is considered to be one of the last great masterpieces of French operetta. The action takes place in Paris in 1867, and is filled with a gallery of characters typical of the Belle Époque. This video features Laurence Equilbey leading the Toulon Opera. The second-largest opera house in France, Toulon’s hall is one of the country’s national historic monuments. Soloists here include soprano Julie Fuchs in the title role and tenor Julien Behr as Antonin, her love interest.
Also available on Blu-ray FRA Musica • FRA 509 Extra features: 31 minutes of interviews with Laurence Equilbey and others
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Recently released Ravel: L’heure espagnole FRA Musica • FRA 008 (3770002003138) “Simply put, if you love well-staged opera and Ravel’s music, you must have this recording!” —AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE 13
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Julie Fuchs (soprano), Julien Behr (tenor), Jean-François Lapointe (baritone), Accentus Chamber Choir, Toulon Opera, Laurence Equilbey FRA Musica • FRA 009
CLASSICAL
DECEMBER 2014
IMPORT Originally released between 1975 to 1991 on the now-defunct Calliope label, André Isoir’s recordings of the complete organ works of Bach Price Code: 4A18 have been unanimously acclaimed by both the (15 CDs for the Price of 4, Suggested Retail Price: $75.98) press and the public. La Dolce Volta now offers these landmark recordings (unavailable since 2008), completely remastered, in a deluxe, specially priced boxed set. The set includes a 152 page, full color booklet rich with photos and information about the music and the recordings.
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SCHUMANN String Quartets Op.41, Nos.1-3 Quatuor Hermès La Dolce Volta • LDV 17
IMPORT After receiving first prize at the prestigious Geneva International Competition in 2011, the Quatuor Hermès won the Young Concert Artists Auditions Price Code: A23 in New York in 2012. La Dolce Volta presents (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) this exciting young group’s second commercial recording, featuring the String Quartets of opus 41 by Robert Schumann. The players’ musical maturity and bold impetuosity go hand in hand to create profound, romantic readings of these works that are both powerful and sensuous.
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J.S. BACH The Organ Works André Isoir (organ) La Dolce Volta • LDV 153
CLASSICAL
DECEMBER 2014
IMPORT Luis Fernando Pérez is one of the few Spanish pianists since Alicia de Larrocha to have championed his native repertoire with such passion. After discs Price Code: A23 of Soler and Granados for Mirare, he now presents (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) a portrait of Manuel de Falla. From the Andalusian impressionism of Nights in the Gardens of Spain to the somber hues of Love, the Magician, Pérez explores the rich, vibrant colors of de Falla’s highly evocative music.
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J.S. BACH English Suites Nos.2 & 6, Italian Concerto, Fantaisie, Chorales Pierre Hantaï (harpsichord) Mirare • MIR 251
IMPORT Keyboard virtuoso Pierre Hantaï presents a superb recital recording featuring the music of J.S. Bach. The program, played on harpsichord, centers Price Code: A23 on two of the English Suites and the beloved Italian (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) Concerto. These three major works are interspersed with keyboard transcriptions of famous Chorales and the Fantaisie BWV944.
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FALLA Noches en los jardines de España, El sombrero de tres picos, Fantasía Bética, El amor brujo Luis Fernando Pérez (piano), Basque National Orchestra, Carlo Rizzi Mirare • MIR 219
CLASSICAL
DECEMBER 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Maki Namekawa (piano) Orange Mountain • OMM 0098
DOMESTIC In 1994, Philip Glass began work on a series of short compositions designed to hone his skills at the keyboard. Two decades in the making, the result was an anthology comprising twenty exquisite Etudes that stands both as a monument to Glass’s deeply personal relationship with the piano and as embodiment of his evolving style. This two-disc set of the complete Etudes featuring Maki Namekawa (in her solo recording début) contains the world première recording of the recently completed second book of etudes (Nos.11-20).
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Also available Glass: Piano Music Orange Mountain • OMM 0060 (801837006025) “A beautiful disc...” —THE BUFFALO NEWS 16
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GLASS The Complete Piano Etudes
CLASSICAL
DECEMBER 2014
SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets Nos.14 & 15, Two Pieces, Op.36
IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD Spanning a period of more than three and a half decades, Shostakovich’s fifteen String Quartets are a musical testament to the composer’s creative evolution. Their intimate and private nature stand in stark contrast to his symphonies. His late quartets evoke the spirit of Beethoven in that there is clearly a refinement of the composer’s musical language and process as well as experimentation in musical form. This disc features the Prazák Quartet in Shostakovich’s last two quartets.
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(Suggested Retail Price: $24.98)
“The Prázak always sounds gorgeous...” —AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
Also available Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos.7 & 8 Praga • PRD 250270 (794881962822) “One of the finest discs of Shostakovich’s chamber music I have encountered for a long time...” —INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW 17
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Prazák Quartet Praga • PRD 250306
CLASSICAL
DECEMBER 2014
BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto, Violin Concerto
IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD This SACD remastering in Praga’s Reminiscences series features the great violinist David Oistrakh Price Code: A23 in two concertos by Beethoven. This recording of (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) the Violin Concerto, backed by André Cluytens, is considered by many critics to be his finest. Oistrakh is joined by his usual trio partners Lev Oborin and Sviatoslav Knuschevitzky in a fiery reading of the Triple Concerto, accompanied by the Philharmonia Orchestra led by Sir Malcolm Sargent.
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RACHMANINOV Études-Tableaux, Préludes Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Praga • PRD 350083
IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD Praga’s Sviatoslav Richter Edition, part of their Reminiscences series of SACD reissues, continues Price Code: A23 with this Rachmaninov recital. The disc’s program, (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) selected by Richter himself, juxtaposes a selection of the smaller, more intimate Études-Tableaux with the more romantic and melancholic Préludes.
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David Oistrakh (violin), Sviatoslav Knuschevitzky (cello), Lev Oborin (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, André Cluytens Praga • PRD 350082
CLASSICAL
DECEMBER 2014
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MOZART Piano Concerto No.9 WEBER Konzertstück STRAUSS Burleske Freidrich Gulda (piano), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm, Volkmar Andreae Praga • PRD 350102 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD Friedrich Gulda was an unusual personality. His performing career spanned both classical and jazz, Price Code: A23 and as a teacher, he was a tremendous influence (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) on many of the 20th Century’s greatest pianists. A fine performer in his own right, Gulda gave his Carnegie Hall début at the age of 20, and is considered one of the most important interpreters of the postwar period. This SACD remaster from Praga offers listeners a sampling of Gulda’s superb artistry.
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Yvonne Lefébure (piano) Testament • SBT 1497
IMPORT Yvonne Lefébure (1898-1986) was a highlyregarded French pianist and teacher. She studied with Alfred Cortot at the Paris Conservatoire and Price Code: A20 had a long and successful concert career. She was (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) the teacher of such luminaries as Dinu Lipatti, Samson François and Imogen Cooper. This disc collects two of Lefébure’s live recordings made in the early 1960s for the BBC. Of special note is her Fauré, as she was one of the composer’s favorite performers of his music.
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Piano Recital — Music of Ravel, Fauré, Schubert & Debussy 1961 & 1963 BBC Broadcasts, Previously Unpublished
CLASSICAL
DECEMBER 2014
Recorded Live at the Salzburg Festival, August 1964 — Previously Unpublished
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Carl Schuricht Testament • SBT2 1498 IMPORT The Berlin Philharmonic gave five concerts at the 1964 Salzburg Festival: under Karajan, Mehta, Sawallisch, Schuricht and Szell. Carl Schuricht Price Code: 2A15 took listeners back to a nearly forgotten golden (2 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $31.98) age of orchestral playing. One has only to hear his exquisite shaping of the exposition of the Adagio from Bruckner’s Symphony No.7 to realize what his ‘old school’ methods could achieve. This recording’s program also features an equally compelling reading of Mozart’s Prague Symphony.
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MOZART Piano Concerto No.27, Symphony No.28 BRAHMS Symphony No.2
Recorded Live at the Salzburg Festival, August 1970 — Previously Unpublished
Emil Gilels (piano), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm Testament • SBT2 1499 IMPORT Emil Gilels was unjustly overshadowed by other famous pianists of his generation, particularly fellowSoviet Sviatoslav Richter. His superb technique and Price Code: 2A15 interpretive skills are heard to great effect on this (2 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $31.98) live recording with Karl Böhm and the Berlin Philharmonic recorded in 1970 at the Salzburg Festival. Gilels was considered to be among the best Mozart pianists of the period. His elegant performance of the Piano Concerto No.27 is highlighted by Böhm’s masterful conducting.
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BRUCKNER Symphony No.7 MOZART Symphony No.38 ‘Prague’
CLASSICAL
DECEMBER 2014
Recorded Live at the Philarmonie, Berlin, May 2001 — Previously Unpublished
Olli Mustonen (piano), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Paavo Berglund Testament • SBT2 1500 IMPORT This disc from Testament documents a fascinating live concert from 2001 featuring the Berlin Philharmonic led by Paavo Berglund. Those Price Code: 2A15 who were present at this concert were witness to an (2 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $31.98) unforgettable, exceptional and exciting evening and the thought-provoking encounter of two very different musical personalities. The program paired Stravinsky’s stark, neo-classical Piano Concerto (played here by Ollie Mustonen) with Shostakovich’s heroic and colorful Symphony No.8.
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CILEA Adriana Lecouvreur
Recorded Live at the Edinburgh Festival, August 1963
Magda Olivero (soprano), Adriana Lazzarini (mezzo-soprano), Juan Oncina (tenor), Sesto Bruscantini (baritone), Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, Oliviero de Fabritiis Testament • SBT2 1501 IMPORT Testament offers this important recording as a tribute to the soprano Magda Olivero, who died in September 2014 aged 104. Francesco Cilea Price Code: 2A20 considered Olivero to be the definitive interpreter (2 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $41.98) of his opera Adriana Lecouvreur. In 1951, after ten years of retirement, Olivero returned to the stage at the request of Cilea to revive the work and thereafter she remained active in opera and concerts almost to the end of her life. This recording features a live performance made at the 1963 Edinburgh Festival.
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SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No.8 STRAVINSKY Concerto for piano and wind instruments
CLASSICAL
DECEMBER 2014
IMPORT This specially-priced set offers a portrait of the young German composer Johannes Boris Borowski. It focuses on a genre that is rarely found Price Code: A23 in contemporary music: the concerto. Although the (2 CDs for the Price of 1, Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) instrumental style of playing may suggest a classical orientation, Borowski breaks with the concerto tradition in new and unexpected ways. One concerto and one ensemble piece are contained on each of the discs in this set which features top interpreters of the international contemporary music scene.
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Monolithen Works for Piano Duo & Four Hands by Debussy, Zimmerman & Stravinsky Klavierduo Huber / Thomet Wergo • WER 6809
IMPORT The piano works for two pianos or piano fourhands united here by the Klavierduo Huber / Thomet have quite a few inner connections. Each, Price Code: A24 in its own way, breaks down aesthetic conventions (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) and evokes vast historical and geographic horizons while demanding the highest level of virtuosity from the performers. Featured works include Debussy’s En blanc et noir, Zimmermann’s Monologe and a four hand transcription of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps penned by the composer.
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BOROWSKI Fagottkonzert, Wandlung, Klavierkonzert, Chergui Pascal Gallois (bassoon), Florent Boffard (piano), Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Aventure, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ensemble Interface, Bruno Mantovani, Scott Voyles, Manuel Nawri Wergo • WER 6412
CLASSICAL
DECEMBER 2014
Charles Temkey (bass-baritone), Erik Holtje (bassoon), Jabberwocky Winds Zarathustra Music • ZM 007
IMPORT EP: Total Time: 12 Minutes Zarathustra Music presents the world première recording of Elliot Goldenthal’s Jabberwocky, a narrative miniature based on Lewis Carroll’s poem, written for bass-baritone and woodwind quartet. This special 12-minute release features the original version and a second allinstrumental version. Upon its Carnegie Hall première, the New York Times called Jabberwocky, “a delightful, imaginative work.” Featured performers include acclaimed bass-baritone Charles Temkey and bassoonist Erik Holtje.
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(Suggested Retail Price: $8.98)
Recently released Goldenthal: Othello Symphony Zarathustra • ZM 001 (852726005001)
Goldenthal: The Stone Cutters Zarathustra • ZM 002 (852726005018)
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GOLDENTHAL Jabberwocky
JAZZ
DECEMBER 2014
Hank Mobley Analogue Productions • CPRJ 7082 SA
DOMESTIC SACD Hybrid/ Mono/ DSD File in: Jazz Hank Mobley’s Second Message was recorded on Price Code: A40 (Suggested Retail Price: $40.98) July 27, 1956, just one week after its predecessor, Mobley’s Message. This six track quintet set features three Mobley originals alongside three standards and first rate accompaniment from trumpeter Kenny Dorham, pianist Walter Bishop, Doug Watkins on bass and Art Taylor on percussion. Analogue Productions’s superb SACD remastering is housed in a miniature recreation of the original LP packaging.
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Lush Life John Coltrane Analogue Productions • CPRJ 7188 SA
DOMESTIC SACD Hybrid/ Mono/ DSD File in: Jazz Lush Life is one of the key albums in John Coltrane’s Price Code: A40 (Suggested Retail Price: $40.98) discography. It features his first recordings as sole leader and one of his first readings of a ballad, the classic title track by Billy Strayhorn. The album was recorded in 1957 soon after Coltrane had spent six months playing with Thelonious Monk — a collaboration that had much to do with sharpening Coltrane’s harmonic conception and torrential attack.
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Mobley’s Second Message
JAZZ
DECEMBER 2014
Au pays d’Alice Ibrahim Maalouf, Oxmo Puccino Mi’ster Productions • IBM 9
IMPORT File in: Jazz Au pays d’Alice is a jazz musical inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Accompanying Ibrahim Maalouf on this adventure is the rapper-poet Oxmo Puccino. Rich with influences from multiple genres and cultures, the work offers a stunning adaptation of Carroll’s story. It features a wide range of musicians including a thirty piece classical orchestra and the children’s choir of Radio France. Make no mistake, this recording is a musical event. Maalouf and Puccino take listeners through the looking-glass into a new and exciting sound world.
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“Maalouf is a startling new voice in contemporary jazz.” —THE GUARDIAN
Also available Illusions M’ister Productions • IBM 7 (3149028044928) “I defy anyone not to be seduced by Maalouf’s giddy mix of Eastern and Western rhythms.” —THE TIMES 25
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SOUNDTRACK
DECEMBER 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Howard Shore with Leonard Cohen, Mahdyar Aghajani & 25 Band Howe Records • HWR 1018
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DOMESTIC File in: Soundtrack The feature film Rosewater marks the screenwriting and directorial debut of The Daily Show host Jon Stewart. A true story, the film is based on the New York Times best-selling memoir Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival, written by BBC journalist Maziar Bahari. It follows the story of Bahari’s imprisonment in Tehran in 2009 and his interrogation at the hands of a man he knew only as Rosewater. Accused of espionage while covering Iran’s elections for the BBC, Bahari was stunned to find among the government’s supposedly incriminating evidence personal photos from dinner parties, his Facebook posts, and his appearance in a segment on The Daily Show. This soundtrack recording features an original score by Howard Shore, coupled with tracks by Leonard Cohen and Persian musicians Mahdyar Aghajani and 25 Band.
Price Code: A16
(Suggested Retail Price: $16.98)
Recently re-mastered
Crash
Dead Ringers
Naked Lunch
Howe Records HWR 1015
Howe Records HWR 1016
Howe Records HWR 1017
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Rosewater Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
WORLD
DECEMBER 2014
Massilia Sound System Chant du Monde • 5742091
IMPORT File in: World / Europe / France In 2014, Massilia Sound System, superstars of the musical world in Marseille, France, celebrate their 30th anniversary. The band’s musical style is a delicious, uniquely Provençal blend of reggae, rub-a-dub and raggamuffin, with lyrics in the French and Occitan languages. They also incorporate rhythms, beats and samples from the local tradition or other musical colleagues. This boxed set features four of the band’s key albums at a special price, plus an exclusive compilation disc called London Marseille Experience.
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(5 CDs for the Price of 2, Suggested Retail Price: $35.98)
CONTENTS • Parla Patois • Chourmo • Commando Fada • Aïollywood • London Marseille Experience [bonus]
Recently released Massilia Chant du Monde • 2742356 (3149024235627) “Massilia Sound System represent the France of the 21st century, and it’s a brave new world out there.” —GLOBAL VILLAGE IDIOT 27
chant du monde
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WORLD
DECEMBER 2014
Les Choeurs de l’Armee Rouge Chantent Noël
IMPORT File in: World/ Russia or Christmas On this release, the Red Army Choir sings Price Code: A19 traditional and orthodox Christmas songs. Even (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) when singing such familiar music, the precision of the ensemble’s sound reveals the full mastery of the choir’s vocal skills. Combined with a unique feeling for these carols’ arrangements, these performances remind the listener exactly why the Red Army Choir was one of the great artistic symbols of the Soviet era.
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Mayas Révélation d’un Temps Sans Fin Les Amérindiens Frémeaux • FA 5477
IMPORT File in: World / Mexico Released to coincide with the exhibition Mayas, Price Code: A19 Revelation of an Endless Time at Paris’s Quai Branly (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) Museum, this disc features historic field-recordings made in the late sixties to the early seventies by François Jouffa and Serge Roterman. Featured here are recordings not only by the Maya population but also the Totonac and Cora peoples. The art of music captured here shows a collective, functional, and also esoteric and sacred character.
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Red Army Choir, Boris Alexandrov Frémeaux • FA 5475
WORLD
DECEMBER 2014
world village
Silk & Stone Amira Medunjanin World Village • 450029
IMPORT File in: World / Bosnia Bosnia’s Amira Medunjanin is blessed with such an astonishingly rich and emotive voice that all else can seem to slow down when she sings the hauntingly beautiful songs of her Balkan homelands. On her fourth studio album, Silk & Stone, Amira again performs traditional songs from Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Croatia and Montenegro. Although essentially a studio album, Amira and her two musical collaborators took the decision to record these tracks as live at Zagreb’s Lisinski Concert Hall.
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“Amira’s focused but vulnerable voice carries the emotion of the music without indulgence or exaggeration. It’s a delight.” —SONGLINES
(Suggested Retail Price: $18.98)
Also available Amulette World Village • 450018 (3149026006423) “Amira has found new realms of expression...” —THE INDEPENDENT 29
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