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RENÉ JACOBS BACH St. Matthew Passion
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Our first release of the fall season features a powerhouse lineup of big-name artists and exciting projects. In classical recordings, harmonia mundi leads off the month with a surround-sound SACD of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion performed by René Jacobs (p.7). This new version is full of surprises and is certain to be one of the highlights of 2013. The holiday season starts off swingin’ with Harmonie Ensemble/New York’s latest, which presents two versions of Tchaikovsky’s beloved Nutcracker Suite – the original and a jazz arrangement by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn (p.5). Advent is the focus of albums by the Choir of Merton College on Delphian and the Choir of Clare College on harmonia mundi (p.4). The stars are out at Hyperion, with a new disc from cellist Stephen Isserlis (p.11) and the label début of the Orlando Consort (p.13). Valery Gergiev brings his fire and intensity to the symphonies of Brahms in the first release of a new cycle for LSO Live (p.16). Violinist Midori is back in the spotlight, débuting on Onyx with an album of 20th Century sonatas (p.18). Orange Mountain presents an unreleased collaboration between composer Philip Glass and The Raybeats, a progressive band from the 80s (p.20). In non-classical recordings, jazz pianist Harold López-Nussa returns with a killer set called New Day (p.25), space-jazz clarinettist Yom soars in The Empire of Love (p.27) and the famed Swingle Singers début on World Village with an album of vocal wizardry called Weather to Fly (p.28).
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Bartok: Violin Concertos Nos.1 & 2 Isabelle Faust harmonia mundi • HMC 902146
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Britten & Shostakovich: Concetros James Ehnes Onyx • ONYX 4113
Fauré: Piano Music Angela Hewitt Hyperion • CDA 67875
Delphian harmonia mundi Hyperion LSO Live Mirare Onyx Orange Mountain Praga Wergo
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COMING NEXT MONTH The début of Éditions Les Arts Florissants Handel: Belshazzar Les Arts Florissants, Christie Les Arts Florissants • AF 001
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Recordings on the new label Éditions Les Arts Florissants will be a natural extension and faithful reflection of the group’s concert performances. Given William Christie’s long association with the music of Handel, it is appropriate that the inaugural release on his label would be the composer’s opera Belshazzar, a work whose subject is especially relevant today: the decline of a once glorious society and the ephemeral nature of Empire.
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Wilde plays Liszt LISZT Mephisto Waltz No.1, Liebesträume, Tre Sonetti di Petrarca, Funérailles
IMPORT Fifty years after his victory in the International Liszt- Bartók Piano Competition, pianist and composer David Wilde – student of Solomon Price Code: CA20 and of Nadia Boulanger – brings to the studio (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) a lifetime’s experience with the music of Franz Liszt. The diabolically difficult Mephisto Waltz No.1 is dispatched in a reading which overflows with personality and conviction, while Funérailles, too, is compellingly reimagined by an artist who cleaves to an earlier generation’s ideals of recreating both the self and the music in every inspired performance.
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MAILLARD Missa Je suis déshéritée, Motets The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery Delphian • DCD 34130 IMPORT Jean Maillard’s life is shrouded in mystery, and his music is rarely heard today. Yet in his own time his works were both influential and widely Price Code: CA20 known; indeed, the musicologist François Lesure (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) held him to be one of the most important French composers of his era. Who better, then, than Rory McCleery’s Marian Consort to give this composer’s rich and varied output its first dedicated recording? Their characteristically precise and yet impassioned performances bring out both the network of influence in which Maillard’s music participated its Josquin-esque pedigree, on successors such as Lassus and Palestrina, and its striking, individual beauty.
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David Wilde (piano) Delphian • DCD 34118
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[PRIORITY RELEASES] Advent at Merton
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Choir of Merton College, Oxford Peter Phillips Benjamin Nicholas Anna Steppler (organ) Delphian • DCD 34122 IMPORT The beginning of Advent is celebrated with particular solemnity at Merton College. For its second recording, the school’s choir explores Price Code: CA20 the musical riches that adorn this most special (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) time in the church’s year, centering on a newly commissioned sequence of Magnificat antiphons from seven leading composers. Founded in 2008, the new Choir of Merton College, Oxford is led by full time Director of Music Benjamin Nicholas as well as Reed Rubin Director of Music Peter Philips. The choir is rapidly emerging as a major force in collegiate choral music. This disc was recorded in the beautiful environs of Merton College Chapel, which has stood at the heart of the college as a place of worship for almost 750 years.
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Veni Emmanuel - Music for Advent
IMPORT The familiar hymn Veni Emmanuel is emblematic of the Advent season – a period of reflection upon the meaning of Christ’s coming. Framing Price Code: CA20 this program by the Choir of Clare College, (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) Cambridge, directed by Graham Ross, the hymn paraphrases the great ‘O’ Antiphons (plainchant settings traditionally sung on the days leading up to Christmas), complemented here by later works echoing their rich imagery and symbolism.
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Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Graham Ross harmonia mundi • HMU 907579
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TCHAIKOVSKY Nutcracker Suite ELLINGTON/STRAYHORN Nutcracker Suite Harmonie Ensemble/New York Steven Richman harmonia mundi • HMU 907493 IMPORT On this recording, Steven Richman and his Harmonie Ensemble/ New York swing in the holiday season with a twist, pairing Tchaikovsky’s original 1892 Nutcracker Suite with a 1960 jazz adaptation by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. The idea for combining the two Nutcrackers came about when trombonist Art Baron, who had played with Duke Ellington, introduced Richman to a 1960 recording of the Nutcracker Suite in Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s superb jazz arrangement. Richman loved it, and immediately decided he had to perform it side-by-side with Tchaikovsky’s original. This is the first time that the Ellington-Strayhorn Nutcracker has been recorded in over fifty years, and Richman’s fascinating and entertaining holiday pairing is the perfect follow-up to his critically praised album Gershwin By Grofé.
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“The Harmonie Ensemble/New York performs with great virtuosity and joy of the music, that is both captivating and revealing.”
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Also available Gershwin By Grofe harmonia mundi • HMU 907592 (093046749224)
“Beautifully recorded, crisply played, and stylistically spot-on... A fascinating and hugely enjoyable disc.” —BBC music magazine
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Carols from the Old & New Worlds
IMPORT Previously Available as HMU 907079 (093046707927) Deleted October 2006 Featuring music from Austria, Finland, Price Code: CA09 Germany, England and the USA, Carols (Suggested Retail Price: $9.98) from the Old and New Worlds, a series devised by Paul Hillier and Theatre of Voices, features a handpicked program rich with holiday spirit. Originally released in 1994, this festive title returns at a budget price just in time for the holidays.
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Christmas! Noël! Weihnachten! RIAS-Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann harmonia mundi • HMC 902170 IMPORT On this new holiday album of choral favorites, Hans-Christoph Rademann leads the world-famous RIASPrice Code: CA20 Kammerchor in a musical retelling of (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) the Christmas story. With music ranging from Mendelssohn to Pärt, this collection leads the listener to the heart of Christmas night and to rejoicing at the savior’s birth.
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Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier harmonia mundi • HMA 1957079
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BACH St. Matthew Passion Sunhae Im (soprano), Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano), Werner Güra (tenor), Topi Lehtipuu (tenor), Johannes Weisser (baritone), Konstantin Wolff (bass-baritone) Staats-und Domchor Berlin, RIAS-Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin René Jacobs harmonia mundi • HMC 802156
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IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Bach’s St. Matthew Passion has been at the heart of René Jacobs’s musical career since he was a child. From performances as a boy chorister in Ghent to countertenor solos in adulthood, Jacobs has been steeped in the work’s rich tradition for his whole life. In a defining moment that comes at the peak of his musical powers, Jacobs leads a cast of superb soloists, backed by the RIAS-Kammerchor and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, in a definitive recording of the St. Matthew Passion. Offered in surround-sound, this deluxe, audiophile-quality set from harmonia mundi (which also includes a bonus ‘making-of ’ DVD) does full justice to a truly remarkable performance. Jacobs’s vision of the work focuses on the paradox of a drama that is at once intimate and theatrical. As always, there are interpretive surprises, but what will strike listeners most is the recording’s powerful emotional intensity.
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Also available Telemann: Brockes Passion harmonia mundi • HMC 902013 (794881910427)
“Jacobs has shaped his reading of Telemann’s colorful score with a compelling dramatic sense.” —OPERA TODAY
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EISLER Ernste Gesänge, Lieder with Piano
IMPORT The composer Hanns Eisler’s life was one long exile, set against the backdrop of the artistic, technical and political revolutions of the 20th Price Code: CA20 century. His journey spanned 1920s Vienna (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) and the Berlin to emigration to the USA, then back to Vienna after the defeat of Nazism and ultimately spending his final years in East Berlin. Distance, irony, and melancholy are the aesthetic corollaries that characterize the lieder presented here by baritone Matthias Goerne, their atmosphere often evoking the despair of those dark times. Also included is Eisler’s early Piano Sonata, played here by Thomas Larcher, a work which brought the young composer an admiration that has never dimmed since.
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MOZART Clarinet Quintet, String Quartet K421 Jörg Widmann (clarinet) Arcanto Quartett harmonia mundi • HMC 902168 IMPORT We owe these two masterpieces to the musical friendships Mozart made during his years in Vienna. The celestial beauties of the Clarinet Price Code: CA20 Quintet were tailor-made for the great Anton (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) Stadler, while the D minor String Quartet K421, more severe in tone, is one of six Mozart dedicated to his ‘caro amico’ Joseph Haydn. This recording, which pairs clarinetist Jörg Widmann with the Arcanto Quartett, shows these artists’ affinity with the Mozartian repertoire.
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Matthias Goerne (baritone), Thomas Larcher (piano) Ensemble Resonanz harmonia mundi • HMC 902134
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Compagnie Olivier Dubois harmonia mundi • HMD 9909044 IMPORT The ground-breaking dance composition Tragédie by Olivier Dubois caused a sensation at the official Avignon Festival in 2012. In the work, Dubois submits the nude bodies of eighteen dancers to the implacable repetition of a mechanism that slowly gnaws away at their docility, pushing them toward an explosive liberation. Powerful and gut-wrenching, Tragédie pulls the audience headlong into a collective catharsis. An exemplary film by Tommy Pascal was created from performances at Le Centquatre in February 2013, and is presented here on DVD from harmonia mundi. The choreography is set to an original score by composer François Caffenne, whose music is featured in a separate, bonus CD included with the set.
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Agnieszka Adamczak (soprano), Sarah-Jane Brandon (soprano), Sarah Fox (soprano), Felicity Lott (soprano), Geraldine McGreevy (soprano), Nicole Tibbels (soprano), Ailish Tynan (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Ben Johnson (tenor), Robin Tritschler (tenor), Pierre Bernac (baritone), Ivan Ludlow (baritone), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Ashley Riches (baritone), Brandon Velarde (baritone), Neal Davies (bass) Graham Johnson (piano) Hyperion • CDA 68021
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IMPORT Graham Johnson is acknowledged as the greatest living authority on French song. His innate feeling for the music is combined with prodigious scholarship, and his wonderful recordings in Hyperion’s French Song Edition have enjoyed the highest critical acclaim. Hyperion proudly presents Johnson’s latest effort, a set of the complete songs of Francis Poulenc released to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the composer’s death. The songs on each of the set’s discs are arranged to present four different journeys through the composer’s career. A special joy is the inclusion of a 1977 recording of Pierre Bernac narrating the well-known L’histoire de Babar. The set’s singers include Dame Felicity Lott, acclaimed as one of the foremost performers of Poulenc, as well as other stars from previous recordings in the series.
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The Hyperion French Song Edition POULENC The Complete Songs
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DVORÁK Cello Concertos, Lasst mich allein Steven Isserlis (cello) Mahler Chamber Orchestra Daniel Harding Hyperion • CDA 67917 IMPORT Hyperion is delighted to present the world’s best-loved cello concerto performed by one of the world’s best-loved cellists, Britain’s national treasure, Steven Isserlis. This album puts Dvorák’s B minor Cello Concerto in context, including not only the original ending, but also an orchestral version of the song Lasst mich allein, which is quoted in the concerto’s second and third movements. Dvorák’s first Cello Concerto, a little-known work from the composer’s early period, is also included. This version (in its première recording) is by German composer Günter Raphael, and is extensively rewritten from the composer’s original. For this fascinating program of Dvorák’s cello music, Isserlis is joined by his regular collaborators, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra led by conductor Daniel Harding.
“His playing is so free and agile yet so effortlessly accurate that one feels a joy that there is a cellist like him around.”
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Also available Adés: Lieux retrouves Hyperion • CDA 67948 (034571178981)
“Blissfully unhackneyed and brilliantly executed… an unusually rewarding program.” —gramophone
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IMPORT The spectacular organ (and massive acoustic) of St Paul’s Cathedral brings this collection of works by César Franck to glorious life, played with requisite virtuosity by Simon Johnson, the cathedral’s regular organist. He plays his own transcription of Franck’s Symphony in D minor, a troublesome work which was despised by critics at its premiere. Modern advances in console control enable Franck’s orchestration to be used as the outline for a detailed registration plan. The Symphonic Interlude is built on two main thematic ideas, the first a gloriously noble tune that Emmanuel Chabrier described as “the very soul of music,” and the second an energetic peal from the trombones, with responses and modulations from the brass and woodwind. The two are developed and combined ingeniously.
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“A brilliant and sensitive musician… achieving greatness through his calm demeanour.” —GRAMOPHONE
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FRANCK Symphonic Organ Works Symphony in D minor, Cantabile, Pièce héroïque, Symphonic Interlude from Rédemption Simon Johnson (organ) Hyperion • CDA 68046
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] MACHAUT Songs from Le Voir Dit
IMPORT The Orlando Consort make their Hyperion début with the first in a series of albums devoted to the complete chansons of the fourteenth century’s most famous poet and composer, Guillaume de Machaut. This bold project benefits directly from a Leverhulme Trust project that will produce the first modern edition of Machaut’s complete poetry and music. Today, Machaut is considered the supreme representative of the Ars nova musical tradition that revolutionized composition and notation in that period. Livre dou Voir Dit (Book of the True Tale) is Machaut’s masterpiece. It relates a supposedly recent episode in the aging poet-composer’s life - his love affair with a lady some forty years his junior.
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“The Orlando Consort ranks with the finest vocal ensemble of the day.” —FANFARE
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Orlando Consort Hyperion • CDA 67727
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ARENSKY Piano Quintet TANEYEV Piano Quintet
IMPORT This recording presents two chamber masterpieces from nineteenth-century Russia, performed by Piers Lane and the Goldner Price Code: CA20 String Quartet. Taneyev’s Piano Quintet in G (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) minor is possibly the greatest work in the Russian piano-chamber repertoire before Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet of 1940. Only the extravagance of its technical demands can explain its failure to establish itself in the standard repertoire. Arensky’s Piano Quintet is less monumental and less flamboyant, though not exactly short of fireworks, especially in the piano writing.
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BRIDGE Phantasy Piano Quartet, Cello Sonata, Violin Sonata, Folk Tunes for String Quartet Nash Ensemble Hyperion • CDA 68003 IMPORT The Nash Ensemble presents a fascinating collection of chamber music by Frank Bridge. Bridge is best known through his most famous Price Code: CA20 pupil, Benjamin Britten, who recognized his (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) teacher’s genius and frequently programmed his works. The Phantasy Piano Quartet displays Bridge’s early style at its most fluent. In his later works, represented here by the Cello Sonata and Violin Sonata, Bridge seemed influenced by contemporary trends in Europe, much to the dismay of critics at home, but Britten staunchly defended him. Also included are folk-song arrangements in which Bridge absorbs the material into his musical fabric, taking creative ownership of the melodies.
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Piers Lane (piano) Goldner String Quartet Hyperion • CDA 67965
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BYRD Consort Songs
KORNGOLD String Sextet SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht
Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Concordia Hyperion • CDH 55429 Previously Available as CDA 67937 (034571173979) Deleted January 2011
Raphael Ensemble Hyperion • CDH 55466 Previously Available as CDA 66425 (034571164250) Deleted June 2012
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POULENC Mass in G, Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël, Litanies à la Vierge Noire, Quatre petites prières de Saint François d’Assise, Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence, Exultate Deo, Salve regina Choir of Westminster Cathedral, James O’Donnell Hyperion • CDH 55448 Previously Available as CDA 66664 (034571166643) Deleted July 2011
HANDEL Ottone, Re di Germania Claron McFadden (soprano), Jennifer Smith (soprano), James Bowman (counter-tenor), Dominique Visse (counter-tenor), Catherine Denley (mezzo-soprano), Michael George (bass), The King’s Consort, Robert King Hyperion • CDS 44511 Previously Available as CDA 66751 (034571167510) Deleted September 2013
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev LSO Live • LSO 0733 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Valery Gergiev launches his Brahms cycle with the London Symphony Orchestra with this disc featuring the first two symphonies. Also included are the Tragic Overture and the Haydn Variations, Brahms’s first orchestral piece and the first set of independent variations for orchestra by any composer. The epic first symphony, portraying dignity and grandeur, was ecstatically received at its premier in 1876, and Brahms was soon heralded as one of the great symphonic masters. His second, with its joyful melodies and pastoral beauty, portrays a more relaxed tone than its predecessor. The Tragic Overture, on the other hand, is turbulent and tormented, with a powerful and magnificent energy. Gergiev’s performances capture all of these varying moods, balancing clarity and drive with emotion and subtlety.
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CONCERT REVIEWS “As always with Gergiev, there were idiosyncrasies to his rendition of Brahms’s First Symphony. But they were all welcome. The dark colorings and strong accentation that hinted at a Russian flavour were fascinating. As was the bass-heavy final peroration that seemed to transform the orchestra into an Orthodox choir.” -THE ARTS DESK
“Gergiev struck gold in a superbly handled sequence of variations. The feather-light Mendelssohnian scherzo of the fifth was followed by a jaunty windband in the sixth, a gracefully lilting seventh and a spookily muted eighth before the St. Anthony chorale emerged with dignity.” -London Evening Standard
Also available Szymanowski: Symphonies Nos.1 & 2 LSO Live • LSO 0731 (822231173120)
“Wonderfully committed, vital, colorful playing...” —BBC RADIO 3
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BRAHMS Symphonies Nos.1 & 2, Tragic Overture, Variations on a Theme of Haydn
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Variations on a Theme by Scarlatti
IMPORT Matan Porat is a rising star of a new generation of pianist-composers. For this Mirare recording, Porat has created a visionary program centered Price Code: CA24 around Scarlatti’s Sonata in D minor K32. The (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) 24 pieces that follow - from Bach to Boulez by way of Chopin and Debussy – all use the same motif, as if they were all variations on a theme. The result is a fascinating network of correspondences and interconnections that, strangely, inspire one to listen in an entirely new way.
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Mikhail Pletnev (piano) Onyx Classics • ONYX 4110 IMPORT Onyx presents a special treat for both fans of Mikhail Pletnev and for piano enthusiasts in general. Recorded in single takes between sessions Price Code: CA20 for other recordings, these performances allow (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) us to eavesdrop on one of the great pianists of our time, playing only for pleasure. Never before released, the performances and recordings here include a Beethoven sonata Pletnev has not recorded before, and a reading of the Bach/Busoni Chaconne recording that pre-dates his famous ‘Live from Carnegie Hall’ album. The Schubert Impromptus were recorded at Rachmaninov’s villa in Switzerland on the composer’s own Steinway.
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Pletnev in Person BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata Op.2 No.2 BACH/BUSONI Chaconne SCHUBERT Impromptus D899 Nos.1 & 3 CHOPIN/LISZT The Maidens Wish Op.74 TCHAIKOVSKY Nocturne Op.19 No.4, The Seasons - ‘November - On the Troika’ Op.37b No.11
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Midori (violin), Özgür Aydin (piano) Onyx Classics • ONYX 4084 IMPORT Acclaimed Japanese-American violinist Midori makes her début on Onyx with this disc featuring three 20th-century violin sonatas. Ernest Bloch’s seldom heard Violin Sonata No.2 (subtitled Poéme mystique) is paired with Janácek’s Violin Sonata of 1914-21 and Shostakovich’s late G major sonata of 1968, a stark masterpiece composed for David Oistrakh and Sviatoslav Richter. After exploding on the scene as a child-prodigy, today Midori is recognized as an extraordinary performer, a devoted and gifted educator and an innovative community engagement activist, who was named a UN Messenger of Peace in 2007. Writing about these works Midori says, “These are three works that interweave the anxieties of the modern world condition with much hope for the future. In the end, the music fills us with a great feeling of warmth and compassion while not shying away from what must be confronted.”
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“Most violinists have a particular sound - creamy or bright, soulful or trenchant - that serves as a calling card. Not Midori... she has as many different sounds at her disposal as the hues on a Pantone color chart.” -the new york times
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BLOCH Violin Sonata No.2 ‘Poéme mystique’ JANÁCEK Violin Sonata SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Sonata Op.134
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BRAHMS Serenade No.1 BEETHOVEN Romances Nos.1 & 2
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Augustin Dumay (violin & conductor) Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra Onyx Classics • ONYX 4101 IMPORT On his third recording for Onyx, Augustin Dumay is featured both as conductor and violin soloist. The disc pairs the deliciously good-natured Price Code: CA20 Serenade No.1 by Brahms, an early work full of great (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) tunes, with early Beethoven – his popular Romances for violin and orchestra – one of which may have been the second movement to his unfinished C major concerto WoO5 of the mid-1790s. Dumay shines in both roles, and the Kansai Philharmonic once again demonstrates their world-class skills and burnished tone.
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DOMESTIC Philip Glass’s passion to unravel the mystery of what music really is has been present throughout his entire career. He has expressed this passion Price Code: CA20 through his travels around the world, engaging (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) with musicians of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds and creating new music with them. In 2012, Glass journeyed into the mountains of Mexico to interact with the Wixarika people. Concert of the Sixth Sun gives us a glimpse into this culture’s unique world of mystery and spiritual beauty. Guitarist Roberto Carillo Cocío and violinist Daniel Medina de la Rosa are joined by the composer at the piano.
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GLASS Concert of the Sixth Sun Roberto Carillo Cocío (guitar), Daniel Medina de la Rosa (violin), Philip Glass (piano) Orange Mountain • OMM 0090
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GLASS The Lost Philip Glass Sessions The Raybeats Orange Mountain • OMM 7008 DOMESTIC “The Raybeats went into Green St. Recording on June 4, 1982 with Philip Glass, Michael Riesman, and Kurt Munkacsi without really knowing what to expect. We wouldn’t know what we had until thirty years later.” So begins the liner notes to The Raybeats – The Lost Philip Glass Sessions, a set of seven songs by the instrumental neo-surf rock combo from New York City that arose from the No Wave musical scene. The Raybeats’ original line-up consisted of Don Christensen (drums), Jody Harris (guitar), Pat Irwin (guitar, saxophone, organ) and George Scott III (bass). New York City in the late-1970s and early 1980s was a place where the cross pollination of very different artistic streams was limitless. Three of these tracks feature keyboard arranged and performed by Philip Glass, and performances by Michael Riesman and the rest of the production team. The songs include “Black Beach,” “And I Do Just What I Want,” “Pack of Camels” and a cover of the band’s classic track “Jack the Ripper.”
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Also available Glass: Cello Concerto No.2 Orange Mountain • OMM 0087 (801837008722)
“Davies is the ideal conductor for this music, and the orchestra knows and plays the Glass idiom beautifully.” —SAN FRANCISCO classical voice
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CLASSICAL
OCTOBER 2013
Isaac Stern (violin) New York Philharmonic Leonard Bernstein Praga • PRD 350099 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD Praga presents a generous collection of concertos – immaculately remastered for SACD – that had a powerful impact on music in the pre-war years. Berg wrote his concerto in memory of Manon Gropius, the daughter of his muse Alma Mahler, who died tragically at age 19. Berg himself died shortly afterward of septicemia, making the concerto his last completed work and his own farewell piece. The Berg is paired with two works by Bartók, his Violin Concerto No.2 and Rhapsody No.2. The soloist for all three of these modern masterworks is the great Isaac Stern, accompanied by Leonard Bernstein leading the New York Philharmonic.
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Also available Saint-Saëns: Concertos Praga • PRD 350077 (3149028026122)
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BERG Violin Concerto BARTÓK Violin Concerto No.2, Rhapsody No.2
CLASSICAL
OCTOBER 2013
SATIE Piano Works, Parade
IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD On this SACD from Praga, pianist Christoph Deluze is featured in a selection of the eclectic Price Code: CA24 solo piano music of Erik Satie. The pairing is the (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) composer’s ballet Parade in a recording from 1959 featuring Manuel Rosenthal. The work, premièred in May of 1917, brought together the painter Picasso, the dancer/choreographer Massine and composer Satie. It provoked a scandal comparable to that caused by The Rite of Spring four years earlier.
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BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No.5, Piano Sonata No.32, Op.111 DEBUSSY Images Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano) Prague Symphony Orchestra, Václav Smetacek Praga • PRD 350098 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD Praga’s second SACD remastering featuring the great pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Price Code: CA24 focuses on the music of Beethoven. A (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) monumental performance of the Piano Sonata No.32 is followed by a similarly epic reading of the Piano Concerto No.5, accompanied by the Prague Symphony Orchestra led by Václav Smetacek. The disc includes a welcome bonus - encore performances of the four Images for solo piano by Claude Debussy.
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Christoph Deluze (piano) Orchestre National de France, Manuel Rosenthal Praga • PRD 250299
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OCTOBER 2013
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Piano Seasons Grete Sultan (piano) Wergo • WER 4043
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NEWSKI Alles Ensemble Mosaik, musikFabrik, VocalConsort Berlin, Titus Engel Wergo • WER 6587
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ZENDER Logos-Fragmente (Canto IX) SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden Emelio Pomàrico Wergo • WER 6765
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IMPORT Pianist Grete Sultan is one of the most extraordinary artists of the 20th century. Raised in a Jewish upper-class household in Berlin, she escaped Germany in 1941 after being banned from the concert stage. In New York, she met John Cage with whom she maintained an artistic collaboration for her whole life. Piano Seasons contains her solo recordings, some of them released for the first time. Wergo’s disc of music by composer Sergej Newski focuses on the primordial element of the voice. This recording includes a selection of his works performed by the Ensemble Mosaik and musikFabrik. Hans Zender’s Logos-Fragmente deals with the origins of humanity, its suffering and fate. This CD presents the first complete recording of these works.
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JAZZ
OCTOBER 2013
One for Rudy
IMPORT File in: Jazz The whole trick of putting together a Hammond B-3 trio is not like creating a great pasta sauce. It’s all a matter of what basic ingredients you put together, and then how you season and stir it up. On One For Rudy, Joey DeFrancesco creates a pomodoro of a disc with a mixture of his own Hammond and the tried and true flavors of his regular bandmates Steve Cotter and Ramon Banda. This swinging threesome references everybody from saxophonist Sonny Rollins (“Way Out West”) and former boss Miles Davis (“I Don’t Wanna Be Kissed”) to Thelonious Monk (“Monk’s Dream”). The musicians clearly delight in exploring the material, playing off one another and letting their envious chops off the leash. The Rudy of the title is, of course, the legendary Rudy Van Gelder, who engineered, mixed and mastered the disc.
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Also available Wonderful! Wonderful! HighNote • HCD 7241 (632375724122)
“An inspired pairing with results ranging from sublime to positively pyrotechnic.” —JAZZ TIMES
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Joey DeFrancesco HighNote • HCD 7256
JAZZ
OCTOBER 2013
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Harold López-Nussa Jazz Village • JV 570021 IMPORT File in: Jazz With roots in both Cuba and Europe, the thrilling young jazz pianist Harold López-Nussa displays an impressive maturity, which at merely thirty years of age will no doubt guarantee him a place amongst the greats. His latest album, New Day, clearly represents a watershed moment - the rising star refines his style and adds color to his artistic palette (listen for the Fender Rhodes keyboard), all to further charm his ever-growing audience across the globe. López-Nussa’s music is an intoxicating blend of lush melodies and quicksilver rhythms that owes as much to the distinguished school of Cuban piano as to the pianist’s innate virtuosity, which has been cultivated under the influence of such great jazzmen as Keith Jarrett and Wayne Shorter.
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“Lopez-Nussa projects an innovative stance and original voice.” —the wall street journal
Also available El Pais de las Maravillas World Village • 479061 (3149026006126)
“A repeatably listenable, well-thought-out record.” —downbeat
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JAZZ
OCTOBER 2013
IMPORT File in: Jazz For years the go-to pianist and arranger for Mongo Santamaria, Dave Valentin, Gato Barbieri, the Fort Apache Band and others, Bill O’Connell has developed a true melding of Latin and Jazz music. His own playing – from its robust chordal comping to its exuberant and sometimes knotty solos – favors a sort of Bud Powell-meets-ChickCorea sound. Joined by Latin-tinged trombone great Conrad Herwig, on Zócalo O’Connell presents a thoughtful program of originals and a few re-imagined standards including Victor Feldman’s “Joshua” and “Surrey with the Fringe on Top.” Saxophonist Steve Slagle, percussion legend Richie Flores and his regular rhythm section make the album a joyous romp filled with energy and high spirits from a powerful voice in Latin Jazz.
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Also available Triple Play Savant • SCD 2089 (633842208923)
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Zócalo Bill O’Connell Savant • SCD 2129
JAZZ
OCTOBER 2013
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Yom Jazz Village • JV 570026 IMPORT File in: Jazz With The Empire of Love, Eclectic artist Yom soars in a new space-time continuum – incorporating a French touch, cyber-jazz and klezmer science fiction. Rhythmic, silky strings and futuristic blend with the haunting melodies that spring from his entirely acoustic clarinet. Is it a Balkan Disco? A dance floor in the Middle East? It’s the rich new sound of a utopia that is both modern and psychedelic.
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POP
OCTOBER 2013
[PRIORITY RELEASE] The Swingle Singers World Village • 450025 IMPORT File in: Pop/Jazz Weather To Fly is The Swingle Singers’s first full-length album since 2009 and the first of two discs to be released in the group’s fiftieth anniversary year. A punchy, electrifying set that holds all the excitement of a live show, the album celebrates the best of the group’s current a cappella repertoire. All-vocal arrangements of songs from Turkey, Spain, Italy and Argentina sit alongside re-imagined British pop from Elbow, Florence and the Machine and The Beatles. For half a century, The Swingle Singers have pushed the boundaries of what the human voice can achieve. Their vocal agility and blend, combined with captivating showmanship, have thrilled audiences across the globe. Celebrating their 50th anniversary in the 2013-14 season, today’s young and gifted Swingle Singers represent the group’s evolution from baroque jazz pioneers to contemporary a cappella phenomenon.
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“Everything about the Swingles is flawless.” —los angeles times
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WORLD
OCTOBER 2013
Arghyam - The Offering
DOMESTIC File in: World/India On this recording, Ashwini Bhide Deshpande, world-renowned classical Hindustani vocalist Price Code: CA22 in the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana tradition, pays (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) loving tribute to the Maestro, Ravi Shankar. This recording features four Ravi Shankar ragas, performed by Deshpande and overlaid with her lyrical bandishes, as well as one original raga. The selections, both intricate and soaring, feature the talents of Deshpande, who Shankar recognized during his lifetime as a vocalist blessed with both a beautiful voice and the scholarship to retain the spirit of the tradition. The album includes a Bonus track: an archival recording of Shankar performing UTSAV Mishra Gara.
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Raga & Raj Barry Phillips, Linda Burman-Hall, Lux Musica Ensemble East Meets West • EMWM 1011 DOMESTIC File in: World/India Barry Phillips, Linda Burman-Hall and the Lux Musica Ensemble (with guest Debopriyo Price Code: CA22 Sarkar) present a selection of daring, (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) experimental compositions that reflect and reimagine the musical encounters between North Indian and British traditions during the late 1780s. Though very different creative languages – Indian music communicates emotion through pitch nuance and elaborate metric foundations, whereas European music relies on simpler meters and melodies in order to convey emotion through harmonic progressions – these two traditions have diversified each other significantly ever since the British Raj, with results that are as complicated as they are beautiful.
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Ashwini Bhide Deshpande East Meets West • EMWM 1010
WORLD
OCTOBER 2013
Chansons de Léo Ferré
IMPORT File in: World/France Léo Ferré was a Franco-Monegasque composer, singer, musician and poet whose works mixed Price Code: CA19 love and melancholy with moral anarchy. Chansons (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) de Léo Ferré was originally released on Le Chant du Monde in 1953. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Ferré’s death, the album has been meticulously remastered from the original tapes. This reissue stands as a fitting tribute to a man who laid the foundations for an art which, to date, has never been equaled.
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Léo Ferré Chant du Monde • 2741110
Mortissa
IMPORT File in: World/Turkey Mortissa (a strong independent woman) is the debut album by Cigdem Aslan, featuring Price Code: CA22 smyrneika/rebetiko songs in Greek and Turkish (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) with musical roots in Anatolia. The music arose in the turbulent times of the 1920s, from an underground scene of freedomloving people – appropriate for the current political situation. An immigrant of a minority ethnic group and a female singer in a typically male genre, Aslan presents a fresh take on rebetiko. Having made her mark singing as a lead singer of the award-winning She’koyokh Klezmer Ensemble and as an opening act for Sezen Aksu and Yasmin Levy, Aslan is ready to take the stage as a star in her own right.
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Cigdem Aslan Asphalt Tango • ATR 4313
NOSTALGIA
OCTOBER 2013
Paul Mauriat Dutton • CDLK 4475
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Career Girls; Up Close Peter Nero Dutton • CDLK 4497
Elgart au Go-Go; Sound of the Times Les & Larry Elgart Dutton • CDLK 4501
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An Album of Ballet Melodies; The World’s Favorite Love Songs Mantovani Dutton • CDLK 4503
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Reality; Pour Le Plaisir Paul Mauriat Dutton • CDLK 4496
Un Jour, Un Enfant; Je T’aime Moi non Plus
NOSTALGIA
OCTOBER 2013
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Opiate d’Amour; Rebound Jackie Gleason Dutton • CDNJT 5215
The Mancini Generation; Hangin’ Out with Henry Mancini Henry Mancini Dutton • CDSML 8499
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Tout Pour La Musique; Roma Dalla Finestra Paul Mauriat Dutton • CDSML 8500
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Peter Nero Dutton • CDLK 4504
New Thresholds in Sound; The Big Band Sound of Sid Ramin Sid Ramin Dutton • CDLK 4506
The Colorful Peter Nero; Peter Nero in Person
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