Allegro Classical April 2013 New Release Book

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Danish String Quartet IN NY TIMES “One of the most stylish and spirited accounts of a Haydn quartet to come along in a while … the Danish String Quartet has secured a position as a significant ensemble. A new recording, which pairs Haydn’s Quartet in D and Brahms’s Quartet in A minor, makes clear why this fast-rising ensemble has been having such international success in recent seasons. All the benchmarks of superior quartet playing are here.”

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Opera d’Oro OPERA D’ORO CELEBRATES WAGNER’S BICENTENNIAL YEAR “Hear this Ring, and find out what this music, and Richard Wagner, are all about.” — New York Times

Richard WAGNER

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Hans Hotter, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Josef Greindl, Astrid Varnay, Wolfgang Windgassen, Ramon Varnay: vocal soloists Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Chorus Clemens Krauss: conductor WAGNER: Der Ring des Nibelungen (complete opera) A deluxe edition of one of the most beloved complete Opera d’Oro recordings! This new package contains newly translated complete English librettos for all four music dramas, along with a fifth book of essays.

“I will proceed to proclaim the 1953 Bayreuth Festival Ring conducted by Clemens Krauss the best on records … Hotter in his prime as Wotan, Wolfgang Windgassen in his first Bayreuth Siegfried … and Astrid Varnay as a womanly, impassioned Brunnhilde.

The rest of the cast, with minor exceptions, matches the competition point for point and easily surpasses all other Rings … The sound, remarkably solid and natural for a live recording of that era, favors the voices in a way that doesn’t slight the orchestra. But what lifts this Ring to preeminence is the conducting of Clemens Krauss … Tempos move forward purposefully, on the whole, but without slighting the music’s mystery and tragedy. And the intensely dramatic and ecstatic moments, those great outbursts to which Wagner rises with satisfying frequency, are delivered with blinding passion. Hear this Ring, and find out what this music, and Richard Wagner, are all about.” — John Rockwell, New York Times

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Claudio MONTEVERDI

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The Sixteen Harry Christophers: conductor MONTEVERDI: Laudate Dominum (Secondo) • Iste confessor (Secondo) • Magnificat (Secondo) • Credidi propter quod locutus sum • Pianto della Madonna “Iam moriar, mi fili” (Sopra il Lamento dell’Arianna) • Beatus vir (Secondo) • È questa vita un lampo • Confitebor tibi Domine (Secondo) • Memento Domine David • Laudate pueri (Secondo) • Salve Regina (Terzo) • Magnificat (Primo) The third and final volume in The Sixteen’s acclaimed Selva morale e spirituale series! Included on this final volume are the eight-part Magnificat (Primo), one of the most impressive of all Monteverdi’s settings; the old style Credidi and Memento featuring the full choir; and the exquisitely beautiful soprano solo, Pianto della Madonna “Iam moriar, mi fili,” performed by Grace Davidson.

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Hans GÁL & Robert SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2 & Symphony No. 4

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Orchestra of the Swan Kenneth Woods: conductor GÁL: Symphony No. 2 • SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120 “Hats off to conductor Kenneth Woods and his Orchestra of the Swan, who have been making a case for Gál’s elegantly built orchestral pieces.” — NPR’s All Things Considered Kenneth Woods, Principal Guest Conductor of Stratford-upon-Avon-based Orchestra of the Swan, has made international headlines for his ongoing cycle of world premiere recordings of Hans Gál’s Symphonies. The set, paired with the symphonies of Robert Schumann, has been featured by National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and Performance Today, the New York Times, Washington Post, Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, and dozens of other newspaper and online reviews, introducing a new generation to Gál’s wide-ranging and extensive oeuvre.

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Avie Records Frank Almond: violin William Wolfram: piano TARTINI: Devil’s Trill • SCHUMANN: Sonata in D minor • plus works by Julias Röntgen & Karol Lipinski “Intoxicating brilliance and immense panache.” — The Strad A Violin’s Life traces the provenance and history of the “Lipinski” Strad, one of the most notable of the coveted string maker’s instruments, which are worth millions today. Crafted in 1715, the violin is named for Polish virtuoso Karol Lipinski, who played this instrument from c. 1818 until his death in 1861.

Frank Almond, concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, has played on the “Lipinski” Strad since 2008. Envisioning a project that chronicled the extraordinary history of this violin and its associations, he has made a recording that includes Tartini’s most famous work, the “Devil’s Trill” Sonata, as well as a virtuoso solo piece by Karol Lipinski, one of Julius Röntgen’s unjustly neglected violin sonatas, and the stupendous Sonata in D minor of Robert Schumann, certainly performed during their lifetimes with Schumann at the piano and Lipinski playing this very instrument. William Wolfram is Frank’s estimable accompanist.

Frank Almond A Violin’s Life

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Fuga Libera Yin-Yang Piano Duo Inge Spinette & Jan Michiels: pianos Track List: BACH/KURTÁG: Liebster Jesu wir sind hier, BWV 633 (a) • Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 611 • Christe, du Lamm Gottes, BWV 619 (a) • BARTÓK: Suite for two pianos, Op. 4b, BB 122 (1941)(transcription of Orchestral Suite No. 2, Op. 4, BB 40) • BACH/ KURTÁG: Két Kép (Two Images), Op. 10, BB 59 (1910) (transcription for two pianos by Zoltán Kocsis, 1978) • Dies sind die heil’gen zehn Gebot’, BWV 635 • Alle Menschen müssen sterben, BWV 643 • Aus tiefer Not schrei’ ich zu dir, BWV 687 • Das alte Jahr vergangen ist, BWV 614 • BARTÓK: Seven pieces for two pianos from Mikrokosmos, BB 120 (1939–40) (transcriptions of Mikrokosmos, BB 105) • BACH/KURTÁG: Christe, du Lamm Gottes, BWV 619 (b) • Ach wie nichtig, ach wie flüchtig, BWV 644 • Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 633 (b) After La Valse à mille temps, Jan Michiels and Inge Spinette return with a new two-piano program for Fuga Libera. This recording pays tribute to Bach, Bartók, and Kurtág, and also to two legendary piano duos: Dittá and Béla Bartók, and Márta and György Kurtág. The recording highlights the strength of the union of two minds, which — like Dittá and Béla Bartók, Márta and György Kurtág, and Inge Spinette and Jan Michiels — can phrase music with a rare degree of intensity and acuity.

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The Late String Quartets Op. 135 & Op. 132 Cat # AEN 1223 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 d

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Brentano String Quartet Mark Steinberg: violin Serena Canin: violin Misha Amory: viola Nina Maria Lee: cello BEETHOVEN: String Quartet Op. 135, No. 16 • String Quartet Op. 132, No. 15 “The glittering clarity of the Brentano’s sound is intoxicating.” — The Strad “Brilliant, virtuosic, and still mellow … one of the great musical hopes of a field overcrowded with contenders.” — Los Angeles Times Founded in 1992, the New York-based Brentano String Quartet is particularly recognized for their interpretations combining perfect technique with peerless musicality. Their previous release — also devoted to Beethoven’s late quartets, and named Editor’s Choice by Gramophone — served as the soundtrack for Yaron Zilberman’s film A Late Quartet, which featured a galaxy of stars including Philip Seymour Hoffman and Christopher Walken. also available

BEETHOVEN The Late String Quartets Op. 127 & Op. 131 Cat # AEN 1110 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 d

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soundtrack to the film a late quartet

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Franz SCHUBERT Winterreise

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Matthew Rose: bass Gary Matthewman: piano SCHUBERT: Winterreise “A robust bass voice and dignified presence.” — New York Times “Utterly compelling.” — Opera Now Stone Records is delighted to announce the release of Matthew Rose’s debut recital disc. Together with pianist Gary Matthewman, he performs Schubert’s masterpiece Winterreise. Rose, renowned for his performances at the world’s leading opera houses (The Metropolitan, La Scala, Covent Gardent), is becoming one of the most sought-after basses of his generation. He has teamed up with rising star Matthewman, and together they worked on Winterreise over the course of several years prior to making this recording. The result is one of the most dramatically thrilling and intelligently planned renditions of this great work!

The recording was made at the Snape Maltings near Aldeburgh in the UK, a suitably remote and inspiring location for such a piece. Superbly captured by award-winning producer Sébastien Chonion, the disc is presented in a collectible CD-sized hardback booklet, with articles by Warwick Thompson and Susan Youens, full texts in German & English, and — as downloadable files on the CD itself — transposable sheet music for the entire work.

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Ricercar Vox Luminis Lionel Meunier: conductor Les Trompettes des Plaisirs Jean-François Madeuf: conductor Lingua Franca Benoît Laurent: conductor Guy Penson: virginal Funeral music for Queen Mary and Elizabeth I, by Purcell, Paisible, Tollett, Morley, Weelkes, and Tomkins This recording assembles the music composed for the funeral of Queen Mary, and that used at the funeral of Elizabeth I in 1603. The program is completed by Purcell’s sublime a cappella anthems and a moving anthem by Weelkes on the death of Thomas Morley. After the success of the recording of Schütz’s Musicalische Exequien, voted Record of the Year by Gramophone magazine, this disc will be one of the major events of spring 2013!

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Delphian Records Gordon Ferries: guitars, lute, theorbo DE VISEE: Allemande ‘La Royalle’ • Suite in D minor • LE ROY: Pavane ‘Est il conclud’ • Gaillarde plus diminuée • Allemande • CORBETTA: Suite in D major • BRAYSSING: Fantasie des Grues • Fantasie No. 5 • BRAYSSING: Fantasie no. 6 • DE SERMISY, arr. Attaingnant: Une bergerote • HUREL: Suite in C major • CORBETTA: Allemande ‘La Royalle’ • Sarabande ‘La Stuarde’ • LULLY, arr. Hurel: Les Pellerins • CERTON, arr. Morlaye: Robin • SANDRIN, arr. Morlaye: Jay veu que j’estoys franc et maistre • LE HEURTEUR, arr.

Morlaye: Regretz soucy et peine “A master of musical subtlety.” — International Record Review Gordon Ferries’ fifth solo disc for Delphian spans two centuries of music for kings and courtiers. Performing on four instruments matched to the periods in question, and captured in sumptuous recorded sound, Ferries takes in the chansons and elegant counterpoint of sixteenth-century France’s cultivated humanist courts and the exquisite melancholy and refined dance forms from the private chambers of Louis XIV’s Versailles, and investigates the place of guitar music at the heart of the decadence, sexual intrigue, and Baroque splendor of Charles II’s Restoration court.

Gordon Ferries

La Royalle: Music for Kings & Courtiers Cat # DPH 34111 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

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TransArt Nemanja Radulovi´c: violin Marielle Nordmann: harp CHOPIN: Nocturne in C sharp minor No. 20, Op. posth. • OBERTHÜR: Berceuse, Op. 299 • Le Sylphe (solo harp) • TCHAIKOVSKY: Polina’s Romance (from The Queen of Spades) • BARTÓK: Romanian Folk Dances: Stick Dance • Sash Dance • Stamping Dance • Hornpipe Dance • Polkas • BARRIOS MANGORÉ: La Catedral: Andante religioso (solo harp) • Preludio (Saudade) (solo harp) • Allegro solemne (solo harp) • Etude de Concert (solo harp) • RAVEL: Pièce en forme de Habanera • MASSENET: Meditation from Thaïs • SAINT SAËNS: Fantaisie for violin and harp in A major, Op. 124 • FAURÉ: Après un rêve, Op. 7, No. 1 “Engaging and exactingly articulated.” — New York Times

Nemanja Radulovi´c & Marielle Nordmann Après un rêve…

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“A musician who is actually worthy of the prizes he has taken … a thoughtful, intelligent, and fiery player … It’s playing like this that reminds one of the story that Paganini sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his virtuosity.”

— Musicweb-International Young violinist Nemanja Radulovi´c unites his fire and modernity with the supreme elegance of harpist Marielle Nordmann, as the unconventional pair offers a captivating program of sparkling delicacy and angelic music.

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Challenge Classics Isabelle van Keulen: violin Ronald Brautigam: piano PROKOFIEV: Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 94 • Violin Sonata in F minor, Op. 80 • Cinq Mélodies, Op. 35A Isabelle van Keulen’s breakthrough came in 1984, when she won BBC Young Musician ­of the Year. The competition was broadcast all over Europe, and watched live on television by millions. Her versatility lies in the fact that she plays both the violin and the viola with the same energy, performing chamber music in all possible combinations and directing chamber orchestra performances. Her duo partner of 22 years is Ronald Brautigam, one of Holland’s most respected musicians, and their chemistry is immediately obvious! Brautigam has received numerous awards including the Dutch Music Prize and the 2010 MIDEM Classical Award for Best Concerto Recording.

Sergei PROKOFIEV

Complete works for violin & piano Cat # CHR 72580 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 O-Card Jewel, Box Lot 22 d

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Challenge Classics Voces Intimae Riccardo Cecchetti: piano Luigi De Filippi: violin Sandro Meo: cello GOUVY: Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 18 • Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 19 • Piano Trio No. 4, Op. 22 “A performance of inspired clarity and subtle expression, characterized by a transparent interpretation and flawless intonation.” — The Strad The second album from enchanting Italian trio Voces Intimae on Challenge Classics! The trio goes straight to the core of the music, resulting in extremely moving performances. They have appeared at Wigmore Hall and St. John’s Smith Square in London, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Musik Halle in Hamburg, the Vredenburg in Utrecht, Amici della Musica in Florence, and many more. The trio received very good reviews for their Warner album featuring the works of Hummel, and for their debut album on Challenge Classics featuring Schumann.

Théodore GOUVY Piano Trios

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Arno Piters: clarinet Marleen Asberg, Nienke van Rijn, Keiko Iwata: violins Edith van Moergastel, Judith Wijzenbeek: violas Benedikt Enzler: cello Rob Dirksen: double bass BRAHMS: Sonata for Clarinet and String Quintet in F minor, Op. 120/1 • Sonata for Clarinet and String Sextet in E flat major, Op. 120/2 • R. SCHUMANN: Fantasiestücke for Clarinet and String Quartet, Op. 73 This new disc features three arrangements by Geert van Keulen of works by Schumann and Brahms, two of which were specially requested by clarinetist Arno Piters. The superb ensemble consists of members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

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SOMM Recordings Clélia Iruzun: piano MOMPOU: Cançons i Danses I, II, III, IV, V, VI • Pessebres • Dansa • L’ermita • El pastor • Impresionaes Intimas • Plany I Lento cantabile espressivo • Plany II Larguetto • Plany III Gracioso • Plany IV Agitato • Pájaro triste Largo • La barca • Cuna • Secreto • Gitano • Variaciones sobre un tema de Chopin • Thème • Variation I Traunquillo • Variation II Gracioso • Variation III Lento (pour la main gauche) • Variation IV Espressivo • Variation V Tempo di Mazurka • Variation VI Recitativo-Lento • Variation VII Allegro leggiero • Variation VIII Andante dolce • Variation IX Valse • Variation X Évocation • Variation XI Lento dolce • Variation XII Galope • Epilogo Lento “Iruzun’s playing has flair, invigorating rhythmic élan, and a rich palette of colors.”

— Classic FM

Federico MOMPOU Selected Works Vol. 1 Cat # SMM 121 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Brazilian pianist Clélia Iruzun has delighted critics over the years with her performances and recordings of music by Villa Lobos, Granados, Ginastera, Mignone, and Marlo Nobres, among others. Now, SOMM Recordings is delighted to join her as she embarks on a series of recordings selected from Federico Mompou’s large piano œuvre. The recording includes the Variations on a Theme of Chopin, the theme being the Prelude No. 7 in A major, on which Mompou composes 13 sparkling and inventive Variations. These are not often recorded, and they make a wonderful addition to the catalog!

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ZOHO Classix Carlos Barbosa-Lima: guitar Larry Del Casale: guitar Havana String Quartet LENNON/MCCARTNEY arr. Leo Brouwer: Beatlerianas for Guitar and String Quartet • BROUWER: Paisaje Cubano con Fiesta • Cantilena de los Bosques • Zapateo • String Quartet No. 5 • Micropiezas • Quintet for Guitar and String Quintet “This Grammy®-winning album should undoubtedly put Cuba on the classical music map more firmly, with excellent performances from the Havana String Quartet showcasing composer Leo Brouwer’s music.”

— All Music Guide (for ZMR 201108)

Leo BROUWER Beatlerianas

Beatlerianas features seven classic Lennon & McCartney songs, arranged

by Cuban composer Leo Brouwer for guitar and string quartet. Following their 2010 Latin Grammy®-winning ZOHO release of Brouwer’s string quartets, the Havana String Quartet now pairs with Brazilian guitarist Carlos Barbosa-Lima in a “guitar and strings” recital that also includes the premiere recording of Brouwer’s String Quartet No. 5. also available

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Melodiya Tatiana Nikolayeva: piano J.S. BACH: The Art of Fugue The Art of Fugue is a cycle of fugues and canons that can be rightfully considered the peak of J.S. Bach’s polyphonic mastery. Amazing thanks to its unsurpassed polyphonic technique, the work left a mass of mysteries and questions as to the author’s concept, its completeness, and the instruments on which it could be played. This album features the cycle as it was performed by Tatiana Nikolayeva, a recognized master of interpretation of Bach’s music. In 1950, then a young pianist, she became a winner of the International J.S. Bach Competition in Leipzig; Dmitri Shostakovich had composed a cycle of 24 preludes and fugues especially for her. Her performance of The Art of Fugue ranks among the best-known piano interpretations of this work.

J.S. BACH

The Art of Fugue Cat # MYD 1002006 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Mieczysław Weinberg: piano Borodin Quartet Rostislav Dubinsky: violin Yaroslav Alexandrov: violin Dmitry Shebalin: viola Valentin Berlinsky: cello WEINBERG: Quintet for piano, two violins, viola and cello in F minor, Op. 18 • Quartet No. 8 or two violins, viola and cello in C minor, Op. 66 The music of Mieczysław Weinberg is one of the most beautiful pages of unwritten music history of the 20th century. Now, Melodiya presents the best examples of Weinberg’s chamber music. His piano quintet, composed during WWII, and eighth quartet (1959), a one-movement piece filled with inner contrasts, unintentionally call up associations with Shostakovich’s brightest chamber opuses composed during the same years. Weinberg’s compositions are performed by the original lineup of the Borodin Quartet, an outstanding chamber ensemble.

In the quintet, the author — who graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory — plays the piano!

Mieczysław WEINBERG

Piano Quintet Op. 18 & String Quartet No. 8 Cat # MYD 1001998 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Melodiya The USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra Evgeny Svetlanov: conductor KALINNIKOV: Symphony No. 1 in G minor • Symphony No. 2 in A major • Intermezzo No. 1 in A major • Intermezzo No. 2 in G major • Serenade for string orchestra • Nymphs, symphonic poem • Bylina, overture • The Cedar and the Palm, symphonic picture • Suite • Tsar Boris, music to the tragedy by Alexey Tolstoy Melodiya presents a complete collection of symphonic heritage by Vasily Kalinnikov, an outstanding and rarely performed composer who combined various trends of 19th-century Russian art. Kalinnikov, who had to fight poverty and incurable disease for most of his short life, created music that was amazing in its lyrical spirituality, melodic richness, and epic power. This album features the composer’s two best-known symphonies as well as his earlier compositions, one-movement program works and experiments for drama theatre (music to Alexei Tolstoy’s play Tsar Boris).

Vasily KALINNIKOV Symphonic Works

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USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra Evgeny Svetlanov: conductor BALAKIREV: Overture on the theme of a Spanish march for symphony orchestra • Overtures on the themes of three Russian songs • King Lear, music to the tragedy by William Shakespeare Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837–1910) was an outstanding Russian musician, pianist, conductor, and composer. Some of the most remarkable events in Russian music culture of the second half of the 19th century are linked with his name. Balakirev’s compositions for symphony orchestra, in which the musical and aesthetic principles inherited from Mikhail Glinka and Alexander Dargomyzhsky found their development, take a central place in his creative work. This program brings together seven symphonic works in chronological order, all performed by the outstanding Evgeny Svetlanov and the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra.

Mily BALAKIREV Symphonic Works

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Melodiya Evgeny Kissin: piano Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra Dmitri Kitaenko: conductor CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 • Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 • Mazurka in F minor, Op. 63 No. 2 • Mazurka in F minor, Op. 68, No. 4 • Waltz for piano in E minor, Op. Posth.

In March 1984, a fragile 12-year-old boy went onstage at the Big Hall of the Moscow Conservatory to perform Chopin’s two concerts with the Moscow Philharmonic Society Orchestra, conducted by Dmitri Kitaenko. His name became instantly known both in the USSR and overseas. From the very first performance, one could not help but feel a rare combination of almost mutually exclusive qualities: freshness and fascination of youth and very mature, conscious proficiency.

Today, almost 30 years later, the recording of his first concert at the conservatory keeps that wonderful youthful fascination.

Frédéric CHOPIN

Piano Concertos 1 & 2 Cat # MYD 1001994 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Bolshoi Theatre soloists, choir, and orchestra I. Agafonnikov, A. Rybnov: choirmasters Fuat Mansurov: conductor RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Tsar’s Bride (an opera in four acts) In 1849, translator, poet, and playwright Lev Mey (1822–1862) wrote a drama called The Tsar’s Bride, based on one of the passages from the era of Ivan the Terrible’s reign. In 1868, Mily Balakirev drew Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s attention to Mey’s work. However, the composer did not set to creating an opera based on the plot of The Tsar’s Bride until some 30 years later. Almost without changing Mey’s plot, Rimsky-Korsakov enhanced the dramatic qualities of The Tsar’s Bride with his musical means. The opera was premiered in Autumn 1899 at a Moscow theatre of the industrialist and patron Savva Mamontov, with Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov as conductor.

Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV The Tsar’s Bride

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Melodiya Natalia Shakhovskaya: cello USSR State Symphony Orchestra Aram Khachaturian: conductor KHACHATURIAN: Symphony No. 1 in E minor • Concerto-Rhapsody for cello Aram Khachaturian’s music is a sort of chronicle of his time and his motherland; it is an enthusiastic tale of the life of his country, built right before the artist’s eyes. Symphony No. 1 (1934), dedicated to the 15th anniversary of Soviet Armenia, was the composer’s diploma thesis.

The Concerto-Rhapsody for cello was written in a burst of inspiration in a free developing form similar to Chausson’s Poème and Ravel’s Gitana for violin. The composer found quite a rigid structure that connected the principle of rhapsodic development of music based on a free flight of fantasy with important elements of sonata style that add a clear logic of symphonic thinking to the whole.

Aram KHACHATURIAN

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Great Symphony Orchestra of the All-Union Radio and Television Gennady Rozhdestvensky: conductor STRAVINSKY: Le baiser de la fée Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale The Ice Maiden was taken as a basis for the libretto of Le baiser de la fée, a ballet that was ordered by Ida Rubinstein for her seasons. However, Stravinsky admitted that only some motifs were left from the Danish writer’s fairytale: the mother and her child lost in a blizzard, and the Fairy who marked the child with her magic kiss and then took him away to her miraculous world of eternal life. Using some themes from pieces by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky dedicated his score to the great Russian composer. This CD presents a recording from 1966, made by the Great Symphony Orchestra of All-Union Radio and Television with conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

Igor STRAVINSKY Le baiser de la fée

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Melodiya Grigory Ginsburg: piano LISZT: From the cycle “Years of Pilgrimage”: Italy, Venice, Naples: No. 1 Gondoliera • No. 3 Tarantella • Switzerland: No. 2 At Lake Wallenstadt • No. 4 Beside a Spring • No. 9 The Bells of Geneva • No. 6 Obermann’s Valley • RUBINSTEIN: Etude No. 2 in F major, Op. 23 • Piano Concerto No. 4 in D minor, Op. 70 Melodiya presents an album featuring Grigory Ginsburg, a wonderful virtuoso pianist and one of the glorious representatives of the Russian piano school of the 20th century. Ginsburg’s name is now overshadowed by some of his better-known peers such as Emil Gilels, Sviatoslav Richter, Yakov Flier, and Stanislav Neuhaus. However, in his time in the 1930s–’50s, his concert performances entranced audiences and critics alike.

Grigory Ginsburg

Plays Anton Rubinstein and Franz Liszt Cat # MYD 1002067 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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USSR State Academic Choir Moscow Chamber Choir Vladimir Minin: conductor SHCHEDRIN: The Sealed Angel Melodiya presents one of the most significant choral works by modern composer Rodion Shchedrin, composed after Nikolai Leskov’s story The Sealed Angel. Shchedrin repeatedly worked in the choral genre; he was often attracted to religious plotlines and liturgical texts. And still, the choral music to The Sealed Angel has a special, personal imprint that reflects how the composer perceived Leskov, and Russian spirituality. “If the so-called Russian soul really exists, there’s no one who can answer this sacramental question better than Leskov,” Shchedrin wrote.

Rodion SHCHEDRIN The Sealed Angel

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Melodiya USSR Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra Alexander Melik-Pashayev: conductor TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 “Pathétique” • SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D 759 “Unfinished” Melodiya presents recordings of the outstanding Soviet conductor Alexander Melik-Pashayev, whose performing career at the USSR Bolshoi Theatre lasted more than 30 years and made up a whole era in the life of the famous company. His numerous recordings of opera sets, including those awarded with prestigious foreign prizes such as Borodin’s Prince Igor, Prokofiev’s War and Peace, and Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, are very well known. He is less known as a symphony conductor, but Melik-Pashayev’s concerts with the Bolshoi orchestra were some of the brightest ones in Moscow’s eventful musical life. His repertoire included not only fragments from operas, but also symphonic and oratorio compositions by Beethoven, Verdi, Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich, and Shebalin.

Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY & Franz SCHUBERT From conducting legacy of A. Melik-Pashaev Cat # MYD 1002072 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Delta Classics Rundfunkchor Berlin Nicolas Fink: chorus master Berliner Mädchenchor Sabine Wüsthoff: chorus master Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin Ingo Metzmacher: conductor HUMPERDINCK: Königskinder Engelbert Humperdinck, born in 1854, composed a total of 14 operas and musical comedies. Six of them are fairytale operas, of which one remained popular throughout the years: Hänsel und Gretel. The shadow of this major success hides his other works, which deserve an equal share of appreciation for their quality; for example, Königskinder. The trio of the main protagonists is the same: an evil witch and two young people who are introduced to the seriousness of life through several severe tests. However, while Hänsel und Gretel features a happy ending, Königskinder ends in tragedy; the grief is elaborately reflected in Humperdinck‘s composition.

Engelbert HUMPERDINCK

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Améson Georges APERGHIS

Á portée de voix: Vocal Works Valérie Philippin: soprano/Ensemble Kiosk APERGHIS: Calme plat(s) • Dialogue amoureux • Simulacre II • Rire Physiologique • Monomanie(s) • Fidélité • Pub I et II

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Valerie Philippin, an accomplished artist with a wide-ranging, eclectic virtuoso repertoire, gives us a radiant and personal version of a number of solo vocal works by Georges Aperghis, some of which were dedicated to her. The package contains a bonus DVD, produced by Thierry Tibolla, which includes performance clips and an interview with Valerie Philippin by musicologist Corinne Schneider. DVD is PAL, not NTSC, but will play on most computers.

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Music & Media Jill Kemp

English Recorder Works Jill Kemp: recorders/Aleksander Szram: piano/Brodowski Quartet BERKELEY: Sonatina • ARNOLD: Sonatina, Op. 41 • Solitaire • Fantasy for Recorder & String Quartet • JACOB: Suite for Recorder & String Quartet • BOWEN: Sonata, Op. 121 • RUBBRA: Meditazioni sopra ‘Coeurs Désolés’ Op. 67 A great introduction to 20th century English recorder pieces performed by young player Jill Kemp, a highly talented pupil of the world’s leading recorder player, Michala Petri.

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Martin Eastwell

Lady Maggie’s Lilt: Music from the Lute Book of Lady Margaret Wemyss 1629–1648 Martin Eastwell: lute

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ANONYMOUS: The days dawes in the morning • Sinkpays • Port Robart • I left my tru love • Corant • Sarabande • I wish I wer there • General Lesly’s Goodnight • Ladie lie ner me • Tom of Bedlam • The Spanish Pavin • Ane Curant • I never knew I loved thee • Buckingham’s Gast • The Corbie and the Pigot • Holi and Faire • Ruthven’s Lilt • Newburn • Shooting Dance • Broom of Cardenowes • Fare and Loucky • Goodnight • The Flowers of the Forest • GAULTIER: Almond Goutier • Curent Goutier • Gautirs Current • Sarabande du Guteir • Almond Gautier • Almond (“Old Gaultier’s Nightingale”) • DE LESPINE: Current Lysabelle • DE MERVILLE: Mervell’s Sarabande • MESANGEAU: Almond Goutier • Almond dafo • DUFAULT: Curent dafo • DE CHANCY: Curent dafo A fascinating insight into the world of music for the lute in the first half of the 17th century, with emphasis on French compositions.

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Opera d’Oro Luciano Pavarotti: tenor Music from Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti, Bellini, Mozart, and Massenet The career of Luciano Pavarotti spanned 45 years, one of the longest careers of any operatic singer. His debut took place in Italy in Puccini’s La bohème in April 1961, and this remained one of his signature roles throughout his life.

Later that same year, he made his first appearance in Verdi’s La traviata. The next year, in Palermo, he first sang the Duke in another Verdi masterpiece, Rigoletto. The single performance, however, that propelled Pavarotti into world fame was at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1972, when he sang the role of Tonio in Donizetti’s The Daughter of the Regiment (La fille du régiment).

The nine brilliant high Cs that he effortlessly emitted in the single aria “Ah, mes amis” brought down the house, and earned him the nickname he would carry ever after: “King of the High Cs.”

Luciano Pavarotti A Life in Music

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Luciano Pavarotti: tenor Music from Verdi, Bellini, Donizetti, Giordano, Tosta, Sibella, Puccini, and Massenet In modern times, “superstar” status for an opera singer is unusual. Not so in the 19th century, when opera singers were commonly accorded the adulation reserved for rock stars today. Luciano Pavarotti’s numerous appearances on television, both in operas and commercials, as well as his sharing the stage with major pop singers, the huge arena performances of “the three tenors” (along with Plácido Domingo and José Carreras), and performances at other mass venues made him a true “superstar” equal to, or even greater than, many of pop music’s biggest stars. This disc surveys the breadth and depth of Pavarotti’s recordings of opera and song over the decades.

Luciano Pavarotti The Superstar

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Opera d’Oro Luciano Pavarotti: tenor Music from DeCurtis, Tosta, De Crescenzo, Bixio, Buzzi Peccia, Lazzaro, and Donizetti The Neapolitan song is a specific genre of classical vocal music with a distinctive style that, once heard, is never forgotten. It originated officially at a music festival in Naples, Italy, in 1835 but reached its international heyday in the early 20th century when the great tenor Enrico Caruso, himself a native of Naples, sang Neapolitan songs as encores to many of his opera recitals.

Since then almost every famous tenor has continued the Caruso tradition, and in modern times almost everyone has left an album of Neapolitan songs along with their operatic recordings. Naturally, Pavarotti did also, and these short songs with their direct emotional impact, usually full of sweet nostalgia and a touch of melancholy, graced virtually every vocal recital he ever gave.

Luciano Pavarotti Neapolitan Songs

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Luciano Pavarotti: tenor Music from Puccini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Tosti, and Massenet A survey of hundreds of popular and classical song titles throughout the centuries shows that love is by far the leading theme of vocal music. Yet only one track on this album is technically a love song: Tosti’s “L’ultima canzone.”

The rest are arias, the operatic equivalent of the love song. Luciano Pavarotti made his professional debut in Puccini’s La bohème, and this remained probably his most famous signature role for the rest of his long career. Rodolfo sings tenderly to Mimì “O soave fanciulla” (“O gentle girl, o sweet face bathed in soft moonlight, in you I see the dream I have dreamed forever”). Can you get more romantic? Some of opera’s great lovers are here, including the Duke from Verdi’s Rigoletto, who starts out as a callous seducer and ends up a gibbering jellyfish, madly in love with the lady he kidnapped for sport.

Luciano Pavarotti Love Songs

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CAvi-music

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Ruhr Piano Festival

Lucy Jarnach

Juan Pérez Florestán, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Cheng Zhang, Bertrand Chamayou, Ya-Fei Chuang, Robert Levin, Tamara Stefanovich, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Fabian Mueller: pianos

Lucy Jarnach: piano

France, America & New Music (2012)

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Im Freien: Ravel, Jarnach, Bartók

RAVEL: Jeux d’eau • Miroirs • La Valse • Sonatina in F sharp minor • DEBUSSY: Suite bergamasque • GERSHWIN: Three Preludes • American Song Book • An American in Paris • The Man I Love • I Got Rhythm • WILD: Seven Virtuoso Etudes after George Gershwin • CAGE: Music for Piano II • Sonata No. II • GLASS: Modern Love Waltz • HOELLER: Double Play

RAVEL: Gaspard de la Nuit • JARNACH: Three Piano Pieces, Op. 17 (premiere) • BARTÓK: Im Freien Next to Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit and Bartók’s Im Freien, the music of German composer Philipp Jarnach fits nicely, as performed by his granddaughter Lucy Jarnach.

Another great edition from the Ruhr Piano Festival, this time focusing on the music of France and America as well as new music.

GIA Publications

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North Texas Wind Symphony

North Texas Wind Symphony

North Texas Wind Symphony/Eugene Migliaro Corporon: conductor

North Texas Wind Symphony/Eugene Migliaro Corporon: conductor

DIETZ: Sasei Fanfare • WHITE: Miniature Set •BRYANT: Concerto for Piano • TURNER: Rumpelstilzchen • MARTINEZ GALLEGO: La Concepcion 1910 • PANN: Hold This Boy and Listen • FREER: Rio’s Convergence

ZARE: Lift Off! • LINDROTH: Passage • TICHELI: Songs of Love and Life • TULL: Toccata • GANDOLFI: Flourishes and Meditations • DZUBAY: Snake Alley

Audibles

Voicings

Audibles is the eleventh recording in GIA’s wonderful WindWorks series, which represents the relationship between the North Texas Wind Symphony and GIA Publications.

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Voicings is the twelfth recording in GIA’s wonderful WindWorks series, which represents the relationship between the North Texas Wind Symphony and GIA Publications.

Quartz Records Osvaldo GOLIJOV Dreams & Prayers

Paul Roe: clarinet, bass clarinet/Con Tempo GOLIJOV: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind (1994) • O’LEARY: Soundshapes II (2007) • ROTH: Clarinet Quintet for klezmer clarinet/bass clarinet and string quartet (2010) A new recording from Paul Roe and Con Tempo.

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Franz Joseph HAYDN Piano Sonatas

Alexander Kobrin: piano HAYDN: Sonata in D • Sonata in E minor • Sonata in B minor • Sonata in E Flat • Andante with Variations A new recording of the Haydn sonatas by Russian pianist Alex Kobrin.

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Fernando Marin sCORDAtura

Fernando Marin: lyra-viol, baroque cello, viella FERRABOSCA: Lessons for Lyra-viol: Lesson 17, 19, 8, 9 • DA FIRENZE: Sento D’Amor (Ballata) • Codex: Mente Pura • GABRIELLI: Ricera 6 & 7 • J.S. BACH: Suite No. 5 sCORDAtura is an Italian concept that implies the tuning of strings in different combinations, through which the instrument receives a special sound, rich in color and resonant in certain tones.

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Tactus Giuseppe Maria CAMBINI Chamber Works

Sans Souci Ensemble/Marcello Defiant: violin/Giuseppe Nalin: oboe/Serena Mancuso: cello/Marco Vincenzi: harpsichord CAMBINI: Cinque quartetti for harpsichord, violin, oboe and cello • Trio No. 5, Op. 45 in D major for violin, oboe and cello

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It is quite likely that Giuseppe Cambini influenced the Parisian milieu with his typically Italian originality. He is regarded as a pre-Romantic composer not only because he anticipated the era of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, and Chopin, but above all because of his pensive search for expression.

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Luigi DE GRASSI Six Organ Sonatas

Manuel Tomadin: organ DE GRASSI: Sonata I in C major • Sonata II in C major • Sonata III in C major • Sonata IV in E-flat major • Sonata V in A minor/A major • Sonata VI in C major (incomplete)

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The vast group of works by Luigi De Grassi comprises masses, psalms, motets, chants, and more — either accompanied by the organ or a cappella — for all kinds of vocal ensembles. A great number of compositions for solo organ also testify to his work as organist. The Sonatas recorded on this CD are some of the most interesting and ambitious creations for organ by this master composer from Grado.

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Giulio RICORDI Piano Works

Roberto Piana: piano RICORDI: Romance Poudrée • Il racconto della nonna • Fantaisie Hongroise • Aquarelles • Le rêve de l’Odalisque • Almanacco Musicale Everybody knows Giulio Ricordi was the greatest editor and publisher of the most important Italian operas, but very few know he also was a great musician and composer!

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Fryderyk Chopin Society Malcolm Frager: piano R. SCHUMANN: Études symphoniques, Op. 13 • Sonata in G minor, Op. 22 The first album in the new series Music of Chopin’s Time contains Robert Schumann’s Symphonic etudes, Op. 13 and the Sonata in G minor, Op. 22 in the interpretation of one of the greatest American pianists. The recording was made on a historical piano from Vienna from 1845.

Robert SCHUMANN

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Brussels Philharmonic Recordings Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra Michel Tabachnik: conductor STRAVINSKY: Le sacre du printemps • Le chant du rossignol The story of Brussels Philharmonic is a remarkable one. As the former orchestra of the Belgian Radio, and later the Flemish, this orchestra managed not only to survive independently, but also to build a successful national and international career in the heart of Europe. With their label Brussels Philharmonic Recordings, the orchestra presents itself in all its facets.

Igor STRAVINSKY Le sacre du printemps Cat # BRX 4 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 32 d

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Audiomax Trio Alba MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trios, Op. 49 & 66 Chamber music instead of Carnegie Hall! It must have been a great creative urge indeed that compelled Felix Mendelssohn to compose his second piano trio while turning down a conducting invitation to New York — and the result explains just what was at stake here. Beginning with a sweeping symphonic dimension in the first movement, the mighty work builds up to a finale in which quite significant questions are posed, and on this sparkling debut CD the Alba Trio offers refreshingly sophisticated answers to them.

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Felix MENDELSSOHN

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Smekkleysa Þórunn Ósk Marinósdóttir: viola Steinunn Birna Ragnarsdóttir: piano HALLGRÍMSSON: Notes from a Diary, Op. 33 • BRITTEN: Lachrymae On his work Notes from a Diary, Hafliði Hallgrímsson says: “During a visit to Amsterdam some years ago, I found myself standing by a dark window covered in grey dense material in a house, No. 263 in Prinsengracht, where Ann Frank and her family hid from the Nazis for two years during the Second World War. Standing by the window in this environment and what it represented was strangely muted. Suddenly a large bell was struck in the Westertoren Church nearby and the deep resonance emanating from that bell shook me profoundly for a split second. So this was the sound that Ann found reassuring; I was for a few moments painfully aware of the terrible fate.

When I started to work on a composition for viola and piano, the experience in the Ann Frank Museum became more and more the magnet that shaped the musical character of the work.”

Hafliði HALLGRÍMSSON & Benjamin BRITTEN

For this disc, Hafliði Hallgrímsson asked the performers to perform Britten’s Lachrymae to accompany his own Notes from a Diary — an appropriate choice, as this year we celebrate Britten’s 100th birthday!

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Smekkleysa

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Bára GRÍMSDÓTTIR

Jón LEIFS

Hljómeyki Choir/Bernharður Wilkinson: conductor

Þórunn Guðmundsdóttir: mezzo-soprano/Rut Ingólfsdóttir: violin/ Reykjavik Chamber Orchestra/Bernard Wilkinson: conductor

Virgo gloriosa

Elegies

GRÍMSDÓTTIR: Virgo Gloriosa Virgo Gloriosa is the first large-scale work Bára Grímsdóttir has composed for the choir Hljómeyki. Using Latin text, the poem tells of how the Virgin Mary appeared to the poet in a magnificent dream. The work also contains a number of ancient melodic lines, some quite well known.

LEIFS: Scherzo concreto, Op. 58 • Quintet, Op. 50 • Variazioni pastorale, Op. 8 • Elegies, Op. 35 Chamber music was never the main focus of Jón Leif ’s compositional activity. The ideal venue for his often rough and primitive music was the large concert hall. And his “instrument” was the symphony orchestra, enlarged by a unique assembly of rare percussion instruments.

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Thorkell SIGURBJÖRNSSON

The Ethos Quartet

Hamrahlíð Choir/Thorgerður Ingólfsdóttir: conductor

The Ethos Quartet

SIGURBJÖRNSSON: Choir Music

PÁLSSON: Theme with Variations and Fugue • NORDAL: From Dream to Dream • TÓMASSON: A Long Shadow • MAGNUSSON: Quartet No. 2

Choir Music

Icelandic String Quartets

Since the founding of the Hamrahlíðar College Choir in 1967, it has served as a kind of a musical greenhouse for the creation of new Icelandic choral music. Thorgerður Ingólfsdóttir has cultivated a remarkable “musical garden” premiering over 70 new works with her young students over the course of 40 years.

Of many Icelandic composers who have been associated with the choir, Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson is the most prolific.

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This album by the Ethos Quartet is dedicated to celebrating Icelandic string quartets. The disc features four works, including one of the first Icelandic compositions written for string quartet: String Quartet No. 1 by Helgi Pálsson.

Flora Giovanna Pessi & Eduardo Egüez

Liquide perle: Music for harp and theorbo Giovanna Pessi: harp/Eduardo Egüez: theorbo, guitar A compilation of toccatas, dances, improvisations, and variations on popular tunes composed by Frescobaldi and Anonymous composers, written for the harp and theorbo The pieces presented here were chosen from the collection of a Roman manuscript from the first half of the 17th century known as the “Chigi manuscript.” By nature multiple and sometimes sketched, these pieces reflect an art of improvisation as a natural practice for musicians of that time.

Cat # FLO 1106 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 32 d

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Marin MARAIS

Charivary: Music from the Third Book of Viol Pieces Philippe Pierlot, Rainer Zipperling: bass viol/Maude Gratton: harpsichord/Eduardo Egüez: theorbo, guitar MARAIS: Suite in D • Suite in C • Suite in A

Cat # FLO 1507 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 32 d

Marin Marais’ Third Book of Viol Pieces is an important milestone in his production: the suites are perfectly well ordered and the art of the violist is at its peak. This first volume devoted to the “Third Book” contains three suites based on the classical dance forms, completed by a few character pieces such as “La Musette,” “La Guitare,” and the famous “Charivary.”

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La Bottega Discantica Pietro NARDINI

Six Sonatas for two German flutes and a bass Il Bell’Accordo Ensemble NARDINI: Six Sonatas for two German flutes and a bass The works for flute by Pietro Nardini (1722–1793) are currently the focus of a renewed interest by all experts in this field. The most recent acquisitions have, in fact, allowed a correct appraisal of a body of instrumental work of interest and charm, which can thus compete with the better known and more often performed violin repertoire by Giuseppe Tartini’s most famous pupil.

Cat # BDI 156 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 20 d

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Editions Hortus Ensemble Sagittarius Michael Laplénie: conductor SCHEIN: Opella Nova • Fontana d’Israel A man of the Renaissance and a Humanist, J.H. Schein is one of the most talented champions of early German Baroque sacred music, in which the influence of Italian aesthetics are quite obvious.

Johann Hermann SCHEIN Opella Nova – Fontana d’Israel Cat # HOR 75 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

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Ensemble Sagittarius Michel Laplénie: conductor Orchestre Baroque Les Passions LEVENS: Te Deum • Deus Noster Refugium At the beginning of the reign of King Louis XV, the French provincial music scene gained more prominence thanks to its bustling theatres, “Académies,” and regional choir schools. Compositions by provincial music masters, such as Charles Levens’ Grands Motets, were included in the repertoire of the “Concerts parisiens” and the Royal Chapel at Versailles.

Charles LEVENS Te Deum

Cat # HOR 960 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 20 WORLD PREMIERE

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Indésens French Army’s Choir Aurore Tillac: conductor VERDI: Ernani & Rigoletto (ext.) • FRANCK: Rebecca (ext.) • DONIZETTI: La Fille du Régiment (ext.) • ROBERT: Quand Madelon • BOULANGER: Pour les funérailles d’un soldat • SCHUBERT: Gesang der Geister über den Wassern • GOGUEL: Chant des marais • MARLY: Le chant des partisans • MÉHUL: Le chant du départ • GOUNOD: Faust (ext.) • STEFFE: Battle Hymn of the Republic This unique men’s professional choir in France, founded in 1982, counts 45 singers from among the greatest professionals. Part of the French Republican Guard, it’s the official choir of the republic of France. The choir regularly performs with the large French symphonic orchestras, under conductors such as Yutaka Sado, Christoph Eschenbach, Pierre Boulez, Michel Plasson, and Peter Eötvos.

French Army’s Choir French Army’s Choir Cat # IDS 33 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Jan Talich: violin Agnès Pyka: violin BARTOK: 44 Duets for 2 violins, Sz. 98 Although intended as part of a violin teaching method, Bartók’s Violin Duos far exceeded the expectations of their commissioner. These exquisite miniatures, imbued with traditional folk music, are beautifully rendered by the bows of Jan Talich and Agnès Pyka.

Béla BARTÓK 44 Violin Duets

Cat # IDS 49 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Syrius Helga Schauerte: organ A collection of early organ pieces predating and leading up to the compositions of J.S. Bach The Kloster Oelinghausen (in the town of Arnsberg, Westphalia), which was founded in 1174 by the order of the Premontarians, is one of the Meccas of the sacred art and music of the Sauerland. While the altar and the organ are a unique ensemble of baroque style in the interior of the abbey church, the chapel also houses several treasures of Gothic religious art such as the Virgin, called “Madonna of Cologne,� which dates from the first decades of the 13th century. The music presented on this wonderful CD is in harmony with the beauty and the spirituality of this exceptional site.

Helga Schauerte

Organum Antiquum: Earliest organ music until J.S. Bach Cat # SYR 141459 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

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Etcetera De Nederlandse Opera & Chorus Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Reinbert de Leeuw: conductor WAGEMANS: Legende The original version of Legende was created as three acts, each approximately 55 minutes long, with two intervals. The version produced by De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, recorded here, differs from the original in that substantial cuts have been made; however, Act 1 is almost complete, lacking only a short aria for Ursula and Pontus.

Peter-Jan WAGEMANS Legende

Cat # ETC 1443 Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) Number of Discs: 2 Digibox, Box Lot 20 d

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Etcetera Franz LISZT

Via Crucis (version for piano solo, 1879) Reinbert de Leeuw: violin/Vera Beths: violin LISTZ: Via Crucis • La Notte Via Crucis is one of Reinbert de Leeuw’s favorite pieces. In an interview in 2002, he said that the “A in the Fourth Station was the most beautiful note” in the history of music. In that same year, he performed for the first time the solo piano version that he would go on to feature more often in recitals. On this CD he combines that piece with La notte, in a performance with his usual violinist partner Vera Beths.

Cat # ETC 1458 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

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RAYUELA

Made of Melting Snow: Elizabethan Consort Songs RAYUELA/Andrea Lauren Brown: soprano/Claudia Gerauer, Martina Joos, Thomas Engel: recorders/Christoph Urbanetz: viol/Thor-Harald Johnsen: lute, theorbo/Johannes Hämmerle: harpsichord, organ

Cat # ETC 1909 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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JOHNSON: Satyr’s Dance • BYRD: Though Amaryllis dance in green • All as a sea • Fantasia • In fields abroad • Ye sacred muses • This sweet and merry month of May • MORLEY: April is in my Mistress’s face • Now is the Month of Maying • ANNONYMOUS: When May is in his prime • My Sweet Little Darling • The Dark is my Delight • NICHOLSON: In a Merry May Morn • SIMPSON: Almande • Ballet • Bonny sweet Robin • BALDWINE: Coockow as I me walked • GIBBONS: The Silver Swan • BEVIN: Browning • DOWLAND: Courant • HOLBORNE: Fantasia • PILKINGTON: Diaphenia, like the daffdowndilly RAYUELA was formed in 2004 as a result of the close cooperation between Claudia Gerauer, Martina Joos, and Thomas Engel together with other musician friends. The members completed their degrees at leading European music academies (Zurich, Vienna, Basel, Trossingen) and have been active internationally as members of various ensembles for Early Music.

Johannes BRAHMS Piano Quartets

Tetra Lyre/Nana Kawamura: violin/Tony Nys: viola/Geert De Bièvre: cello/Jan Michiels: piano BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 • Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60 • Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 26 Tetra Lyre is an ensemble of like-minded musicians that has grown in an organic way. All of the players have gained experience in chamber music or as soloists. The ensemble, which basically consists of a piano quartet, explores the history of music starting from the impressive canon of 19th-century chamber music repertoire.

Cat # ETC 4041 Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) Number of Discs: 2 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

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