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TABLE OF CONTENTS AVIE Records 3–5 Budapest Music Center 26 Cantus 29 CAvi-music 21 Challenge Classics 16–17 col legno 23 CORO 7 Cypres Records 9 EM Records 19 Foghorn Classics 10–11 IBS Classical 27 Intergroove Classics 12–13

LAWO Classics 24–25 Meridian Records 20 Myrios Classics 6 Nimbus 13–15 Oboe Classics 22 Querstand 30 Reference Recordings 8 Sheva Collection 18 SOMM Recordings 20 Stone Records 22 Stradivarius 28 Summit Records 5

intergroove CLASSICS

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Intergroove Classics is a new classical label operating internationally from Germany. Its release focus will be based on rarely-recorded symphonic material — including the St. Petersburg Classics Series in 24 bit/96 hz — and live opera recordings, mostly produced in HD quality. The label is headed

by Elmar Lindemann, head of Teldec Classics for about 15 years and Senior Vice President of Marketing at Sony Classical International. Intergroove Classics comes to Allegro Classical via New Arts International.

SHEVA COLLECTIOn

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Sheva Collection is an Italian record label founded in Northern Italy in 2007.

Thanks to collaborations with a roster of high-quality musicians worldwide, the label’s catalog grew quickly in a short time. Sheva Collection celebrates its 100th release in 2014 with a major project: The Complete Works for Violin and Piano by Charles Villiers Stanford, where almost half the pieces are world premiere recordings. Sheva Collection has recently merged with Academy Productions, a label dedicated to recordings of piano music performed by the pianists graduating from the International Piano Academy at Lake Como, one of the most important music schools in the world. Sheva Collection comes to Allegro Classical via Launch Music International Ltd.

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Avie Records

Jean SIBELIUS & Thomas ADÉS Violin Concertos

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Augustin Hadelich: violin Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Hannu Lintu: conductor ADÉS: Violin Concerto • SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto • Three Humoresques Violinist Augustin Hadelich is one of the fastest-rising stars of his generation. With three critically acclaimed and Billboard-charting releases on AVIE to his credit, he now delivers what promises to be one of the most important concerto recordings of the year, pairing the Violin Concertos by Jean Sibelius and Thomas Adès, the latter only the second recording of the composer’s work. On this disc, Augustin is superbly supported by Hannu Lintu conducting the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Avie Records Orchestra of the Swan Kenneth Woods: conductor GÁL: Symphony No. 1 • R. SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 1 “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 … Here’s hoping this is the beginning of a substantial Gál revival.”

— NPR, All Things Considered With this release, Kenneth Woods and the Orchestra of the Swan make musical history by completing the first-ever recorded cycle of the Symphonies of Hans Gál! The Vienna-born composer’s Symphony No. 1 was written in 1927, when he was at the height of his powers, belying the turbulent central European events that would forever affect him in the coming years.

The music is bold, uninhibited, and persuasive, the writing is virtuosic and the orchestration is colorful. Gál’s First Symphony reflects the essence of his compositional voice, to which he remained true throughout his nearly century-long life. As today’s most committed champion of Hans Gál’s music, which remained relatively dormant throughout the 20th century, Kenneth Woods has captured the imagination and introduced a new generation to Gál’s wide-ranging and extensive oeuvre.

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Joyce Yang: piano RACHMANINOV: Dreams Op. 38, No. 5 • The Little Island Op. 14, No. 2 • Vocalise Op. 34, No. 14 • Piano Sonata No. 2, Op 36 • HINDEMITH: In einer Nacht, Op. 15 • BARTOK: Out of Doors Sz. 81, BB 89 • SCHUMANN: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 “In Schumann’s Fantasiestücke … Yang was probing vivid colors and emotional extremes … The opening Des Abends depicted dreamy colors, reminiscent of a slowly rotating kaleidoscope, and was followed by a passionate and exuberant reading of Aufschwung … Combined with her masterfully dexterous fingers, inner textures were brought out clearly.” — San Francisco Classical Voice Pianist Joyce Yang follows her critically acclaimed AVIE debut, Collage (AVR 2229), with the equally imaginative Wild Dreams, inspired by a musical dream sequence. The artist interweaves dream-inspired pieces such as Earl Wild’s transcription of “Rachmaninov’s Dreams,” Hindemith’s “In Einer Nacht,” and Schumann’s “Traumes Wirren” with the nocturnal “Night Music”

by Bartók and Schumann’s “In der Nacht.” The climax of the program is Rachmaninov’s passionate Second Piano Sonata, performed with bravado.

Joyce Yang Wild Dreams

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Avie Records Marina Piccinini: flute PAGANINI: 24 Caprices, Op. 1 “Piccinini makes her own magic … Brilliant technical fluency and keen interpretive senses.” — Baltimore Sun “Splendidly recorded … evocative … the playing is first class.”

— MusicWeb International Flutist Marina Piccinini relishes tradition with a twist! Having recorded J.S. Bach’s Flute Sonatas with the Brasil Guitar Duo — the first-ever recording using this combination of instruments (AVR 2196) — she astounds again with astonishing virtuosity in her own arrangements of Paganini’s devilishly difficult 24 Caprices. Piccinini matches Paganini’s vision and independence of spirit, explaining, “I was drawn to transcribe and record all the Caprices as a challenge and stimulus for my own development, a path towards pushing the envelope outside my personal comfort zone. What I discovered and fell in love with was a musical voice that demanded a far greater emotional expression through technical perfection of phrasing, flexibility of embouchure, depth of sound, breath control, digital dexterity, and precise articulation.”

Niccolò PAGANINI 24 Caprices, Op. 1

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Summit Records Atlantic Brass Quintet Louis Hanzlik, Andrew Sorg: trumpets Seth Orgel: horn Tim Albright: trombone John Manning: tuba FERBER: Kopi Luwak • SHOSTAKOVICH: Jazz Suite No. 1, arr. Johannes C. Schott • LATO/KUKURBA: Sat (Time), arr. Markovic • CARATINI: Passages for brass quintet • DOUGLAS: Private Music 1 • Private Music 2 • MARKOVIC: Zvonce Kolo, arr. Jacob Garchik • MONDER: Luteous Pangolin, arr. Alan Ferber • ARR. LUKE: Doise • ARR. HOWARD: Bubamara “Pushing the envelope of what a brass quintet is capable of … an irresistibly infectious spirit.” — Buffalo News

Atlantic Brass Quintet

World-renowned chamber ensemble the Atlantic Brass Quintet continues to expand the role of the traditional brass quintet with Crossover, the group’s tenth recording, a fresh program revolving around compositions by NYC jazz luminaries Dave Douglas, Ben Monder, and Alan Ferber that includes Dimitri Shostakovich’s “Jazz Suite” as well as dance music from the Balkans.

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Myrios Classics

Paul HINDEMITH

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Tabea Zimmermann: viola Thomas Hoppe: piano HINDEMITH: Sonata for viola and piano Op. 11, No. 4 • Sonata for solo viola Op. 11, No. 5 • Sonata for solo viola Op. 25, No. 1 • Sonata for viola and piano Op. 25, No. 4 • Sonata for solo viola Op. 31, No. 4 • Sonata for solo viola (1937) • Sonata for viola and piano (1939) Tabea Zimmermann commemorates the 50th anniversary of the death of Paul Hindemith by recording his complete works for viola! The first volume, released in July 2013, has been awarded Gramophone Editor’s Choice, BBC Music Choice of the Month, IRR Outstanding, and listed among The Sunday Times’ 100 Best Records of the Year. This second volume includes the complete sonatas for solo viola, and for viola and piano. Ordered by their creation date, the seven compositions give impressive insight into Hindemith’s development as a composer, from the early works of 1919 to the mature, epic sonatas of the late 1930s.

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J.S. BACH

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The Sixteen Harry Christophers: conductor J.S. BACH: Mass in G major BWV 236 • Cantata 79: Gott der Herr ist Sonn’ und Schild BWV 79 • Mass in A major BWV 234 “Often overlooked, Bach’s Lutheran works are restored to glorious life by The Sixteen.” — The Observer The Sixteen completes its acclaimed mini-series with Volume II of the Bach Lutheran Masses. Despite their exquisite beauty, featuring splendid choruses and deeply moving arias, there are relatively few recordings of the Lutheran Masses. On this new collection, just eight singers from The Sixteen perform the Masses, allowing the beauty of the virtuosic vocal lines to be heard with absolute clarity.

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Kansas City Symphony Miraculous Metamorphoses

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Kansas City Symphony Michael Stern: conductor HINDEMITH: Symphonic Metamorphosis on themes of Carl Maria von Weber • PROKOFIEV: Love for Three Oranges Suite • BARTÓK: The Miraculous Mandarin Suite “Stern characterizes each variation with great skill … the eloquent cello playing in Variation XII and the superb room-shaking organ in the Finale makes this a performance and recording to relish.” — Graham Williams, Classical CD Choice (review for REF 129) This magnificent new symphonic recording with the Kansas City Symphony contains classic modern masterpieces by Hindemith, Prokofiev, and Bartók. It is also the premiere recording made in Helzberg Hall, in the new Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, MO. Conductor Michael Stern’s interpretations of these great works have been captured in brilliant HDCD sound by Grammy®-winning engineer Keith O. Johnson. Producer David Frost has also won Grammy Awards® — in 2005, 2009, and 2011 — for Classical Producer of the Year. He has produced a large roster of stars and Grammy®-winning titles, and Reference Recordings is most honored to work with him again on this project.

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Cypres Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart SWR Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart Marcus Creed: conductor APERGHIS: Wölfli-Kantata Anyone familiar with Georges Aperghis’ prolific catalog of vocal music, and with Adolf Wölfli’s still more prolific output of writings and drawings, will be struck by evidence of the parallel evolution of their oeuvres, distinct as these might be in time, in place, in the conditions of their production, and in artistic intention. Both display a curious fascination for enumeration, lists, figures, geometric, and symmetrical constructions and, above all, the use of a vocabulary that engulfs words and sentence fragments in a fog of seemingly nonsensical vocables. Both artists construct vast architectures that are at once decorative and physical, visual and mysteriously resonant, and both search constantly and almost obsessively for sense in the sentient, the ineffable and the inexpressible. In addition, both constantly deploy structures composed of dense, shifting layers, highly contrasted but always connected by an internal logic, which, while rendered visible by certain repetitive features and figures, remains unarticulated and unfathomable.

Georges APERGHIS Wölfli-Kantata

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Mireille Delunsch: soprano Nora Gubisch: mezzo-soprano Edgaras Montvidas: tenor Jérôme Varnier: bass Symphony Orchestra & Chorus of La Monnaie Flemish Radio Choir Childrens Chorus of La Monnaie Ludovic Morlot: conductor BRUNEAU: Requiem • DEBUSSY: Symphonie Pelléas et Mélisande From Lully’s grand motets to Poulenc’s Stabat Mater, there is a magnificent tradition of sacred music in France. Whether manifest in the pomp of the Sun King, in revolutionary ardor, or in Meyerbeerian grand opéra, France has always had a fascination for the expression of grand passions, whether sacred or profane, and the influence of opera is undeniable in the epic works of Lesueur and Méhul, and even in the masses of Cherubini. A vacillation between high drama and devotion characterized the entire evolution of the genre of sacred music and, in particular, its ultimate and perhaps most spectacular embodiment, the Requiem Mass. The latter part of the 19th century brought a considerable output of religious works, and in France such important figures as César Franck, Théodore Dubois, Jules Massenet, and Émile Paladilhe all produced remarkable oratorios. In the 1880s it was therefore only to be expected that a young composer like Bruneau should attempt a large-scale religious work before launching a career in opera, which at the time was still the key to achieving a major reputation in France.

Alfred BRUNEAU Requiem

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Foghorn Classics Alexander String Quartet Zakarias Grafilo: first violin Frederick Lifsitz: second violin Paul Yarbrough: viola Sandy Wilson: cello Toby Appel: viola David Requiro: cello BRAHMS: String Sextet No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 18 • String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36 • String Quintet No. 1 in F major, Op. 88 • String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 111 The perennially beloved complete string quintets and sextets of Johannes Brahms, performed by the Alexander String Quartet with their cherished and beloved collaborators, violist Toby Appel and cellist David Requiro. These new recordings were produced by multi-Grammy® winner Judith Sherman in February 2013. Gorgeous and warmly blended, beautifully balanced sound are the dependable hallmarks of this stunning combination.

Johannes BRAHMS

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Joyce Yang: piano Alexander String Quartet Zakarias Grafilo: first violin Fred Lifsitz: second violin Paul Yarbrough: viola Sandy Wilson: cello SCHUMANN: Quintet for piano and strings in E flat major, Op. 44 • BRAHMS: Quintet for piano and strings in F minor, Op. 34 Two of the greatest and most popular piano quintets in the standard repertoire, performed by the renowned Alexander String Quartet with sensational, electrifying, and much-lauded pianist Joyce Yang. Produced by multi-Grammy® winner/nominee Judith Sherman in just four days under optimal conditions in California in April 2013, this is a truly celebratory collaboration between well-met and likeminded 21st-century contemporaries.

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Intergroove Classics

George Frideric HANDEL Agrippina

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George Frideric HANDEL Agrippina

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Susanne Geb, Hiroshi Matsui, Elizabeth Wiles, Judith Braun: vocal soloists Saarland State Orchestra Konrad Jungh채nel: conductor HANDEL: Agrippina Live recording of the spectacular new production of this baroque masterpiece at the Saarbr체cken State Theater from 2008! How to enrich a gloomy plot full of intrigue, cabal, and rancor to an adorable comedic insight into the inner life of the Royals? In love with detail, focused on directing the characters with exuberant fantasy and creativity, Berlin director Peter Lund sparks brilliant Handel fireworks, unleashing an effervescent joy of playing that puts an irresistible spell on the viewer, with a premium cast under Konrad Jungh채nel, one of the leading conductors in early music.

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Intergroove Classics St. Petersburg String Quartet BORODIN: String Quartet No. 1 in A major • String Quartet No. 2 in D major This new release marks the launch of the St. Petersburg Classics series, featuring recordings made in the late ’90s by Mazur Media in co-production with Sony Classical — however, with a few exceptions, most were never released! Technically, these productions were far ahead of their time; all of the recordings were produced with 24 bit/96 hz High Definition Technology and, by means of special high-performance filters, the masters were then converted into the common CD standard almost without loss. The result is brilliant sound and incredible transparency, which projects the purity of the instruments in the most natural way.

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Nimbus Alliance Lorna Perry: alto Andrew Shepstone: tenor Joyful Company of Singers Peter Broadbent: conductor RACHMANINOV: All-Night Vigil, Op. 37 • O mother of God, ever vigilant in prayer Sergei Rachmaninov’s sacred choral music has become some of the best known among the extensive repertoire composed in Russia before its untimely curtailing with the advent of the Revolution in 1917. Rachmaninov’s choral writing is technically both perfect and ambitious, linguistically rooted in tradition yet constantly seeking to renew it, and transcendent in its piercing beauty.

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Nimbus Alliance Harold Pinter, Ruth Rosen, Harry Ariel: voices Derek Wax: director Tracks include a collection of testimonies of those who perished in, survived, and perpetrated the Holocaust This program of testimonies presented 25 years ago, at the Southbank Centre, was part of the first academic conference on the Holocaust and an endeavor to understand the enormity of what had happened to the Jewish people during the years 1939–1945. These 24 pieces of testimony — not only from victims and survivors, but also from the perpetrators — are powerful reminders of what happens when a society falls victim to its baser instincts, and it is hoped that these readings will inspire a new generation to act differently.

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Simon Ponsford: countertenor David Ponsford: virginals, organ BYRD: Prelude • Fantasia in C • Rowland, or Lord Willoughby’s welcome home • The woods so wild • Ut re mi fa sol la • DOWLAND: Can she excuse my wrongs? • Time stands still • I saw my lady weep • Wilt thou, unkind, thus reave me? • In darkness let me dwell • Were every thought an eye • Flow my tears • Fine knacks for ladies • Awake, sweet love • Now, O now I needs must part • ROSSETER: Shall I come if I swim? • CAMPION: Never weather-beaten sail • ANONYMOUS: Miserere, my maker • GIBBONS: Fantasy in A minor • JOHNSON: Where the bee sucks • Full fathom five • Come, heavy sleep • TOMKINS: A sad pavan for these distracted times • FORD: Since first I saw your face Simon Ponsford recently graduated MA with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music, where he was also awarded the S&M Eyres Wilson Scholarship and a Diploma of the Royal Academy of Music for outstanding performance. As an ensemble singer, Simon has sung with many professional choirs including Polyphony, English Voices, and Tenebrae; was an Apprentice in the Monteverdi Choir; and is a founding member of the Platinum Consort.

He is currently a lay clerk in the choir of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, and has just been appointed a Lay Vicar in the choir of Westminster Abbey.

This is his debut recording as a soloist.

Simon & David Ponsford

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Nimbus Records Richard Lester Organ Masses

Richard Lester: organ CAVAZZONI: Missa Apostolorum • A. GABRIELI: Anchor che co’l partire • Toccata, Quinta Tono • Missa De Beata Virgine • MERULO: Toccata, Del Iii Tono • Missa In Dominicis Diebus • Toccata, Quinta Tono • BERTOLODO: Communion, Ricercar Del Sesto Tuono

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In a distinguished musical career spanning almost five decades, Richard Lester’s musical prowess has come full circle. A fellow of the London College of Music, he gave organ recitals at many famous venues early in his career. Lester was recently awarded a prominent position in the Penguin Guide to the 1,000 Finest Classical Recordings following a long association with Nimbus Records.

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Franz SCHUBERT

Variations on Trockne Blumen Hansgeorg Schmeiser: flute/Matteo Fossi: piano W.A. MOZART: Sonata in F major K. 376 • BEETHOVEN: Serenade in D major, Op. 41 • DONIZETTI: Sonata for flute and piano • SCHUBERT: Introduction and Variations on Trockne Blumen from Die Schöne Müllerein D. 802

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Hansgeorg Schmeiser began his music studies with Gottfried Hechtl at the Academy of Music in his hometown of Graz. He followed this by studying with Alain Marion in Paris, and Wolfgang Schulz at the Vienna Academy of Music, from where he graduated with distinction in 1982. His busy program of solo and chamber music has taken him all over Europe, Japan, Taiwan, and Korea, where he regularly gives masterclasses. Schmeiser makes regular guest appearances with the Vienna Philharmonic, and has been a member of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra for many years.

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W.A. MOZART Orchestral Works

Christopher Kite: piano/Colin Lawson: basset clarinet/The Hanover Band/Roy Goodman: director W.A. MOZART: Symphony No. 41 in C major “Jupiter” K. 551 • Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor K. 466 • Serenata Notturna in D major K. 239 • Symphony No 40 in G minor K. 550 • Basset Clarinet Concerto in A major K. 622 • Eine kleine Nachtmusik K. 525 The Hanover Band was formed by Caroline Brown in 1980 to perform the music of the Hanoverian era (1714–1830) on period instruments. Its members include some of the finest European specialists in the field, and the band has performed widely in Britain and toured extensively abroad.

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Challenge Classics

Karl Amadeus HARTMANN Symphonies 1–8

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Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Markus Stenz: conductor James Gaffigan: conductor Michael Schonwandt: conductor Christoph Poppen: conductor Osmo Vanska: conductor Ingo Metzmacher: conductor HARTMANN: Symphony No. 1 “Versuch eines Requiems” • Symphony No. 2 “Adagio” • Symphony No. 3 • Symphony No. 4 • Symphony No. 5 “Sinfonia concertante” • Symphony No. 6 • Symphony No. 7 • Symphony No. 8 One of the most characteristic features of Hartmann’s work is the way in which he forges sometimes extremely contrasting stylistic elements and techniques from various periods of music history into a seamless unit. Moreover, one melody is found in all his symphonies, in which it is concealed to varying degrees. This melody is based on the Jewish song “Elijahu hanavi” about the prophet Elijah, whom the Jews anxiously await because he will bring redemption. Thanks to the presence — whatever its form — of this theme in the vast majority of his works, Hartmann’s resounding legacy can be heard as an abstract and highly impressive work of art.

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Challenge Classics Osiris Trio Ellen Corver: piano Peter Brunt: violin Larissa Groeneveld: cello DVORÁK: Dumky-trio, Op. 90 • MARTIN: Piano trio on Irish Folk Tunes • IVES: Trio • HAYDN: Piano trio in C major, Hob.XV:21 • NOVAK: Trio quasi ballata, Op. 27 • SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 67 • Seven romances after poems by Alexander Blok, Op. 127 • MESSIAEN: Quartet for the end of time • MENDELSSOHN: Trio in D minor, Op. 49 • Trio in C minor, Op. 66 • VAN OOSTEN: Pianotrio • LOEVENDIE: Ackermusik • FORD: Brandelli • JETHS: Chiasmos • VERBEY: Trio In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Osiris Trio, Challenge Classics is proud to present this magnificent five-CD box set featuring a cross-section of the trio’s recordings. Since 1988, the trio has toured five continents and won a number of Dutch awards.

Their discography encompasses two centuries of repertoire for piano trio, and all of their recordings have been welcomed with excellent reviews in the press.

Osiris Trio

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Cora Burggraaf: mezzo-soprano Liza Ferschtman: violin Netherlands Youth String Orchestra Bas Wiegers: conductor TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade, Op. 48 • ANDRIESSEN: Miroir de Peine • TAKEMITSU: Nostalghia The Netherlands Youth String Orchestra is the place to be for young talented string players. The orchestra’s aim is to train young budding professionals, and provide concerts at the highest levels. The Netherlands Youth String Orchestra works on three programs each year, and every session ends with a series of concerts at important venues in the Netherlands and abroad. The programs consist of a special mix of standard and lesser-known repertoire. NYSO is the finest youth string orchestra in the Netherlands, and therefore also the finest learning base for talented string players at the very highest levels!

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Allegro Classical Welcomes Sheva Collection Giovanni Santini: piano SEABOURNE: Flying Machines • Sixty Beggars • Old Man with Water Studies • Study of a Woman’s Hand • The Kite of the Cradle • Tank • Polishing Imperfections in Glass • A Moth to the Light • Perspectives of Disappearance • La Scapigliata • The Existence of Nothingness • The Impossibility of Perpetual Motion • Lenses for looking at the Moon • Study of a Deluge • This is the Way Birds Descend Piano pieces inspired by Leonardo da Vinci inventions, this music communicates a succession of moods, sonorities, tempos, and textures. The pieces not only reflect the wide diversity of the contents, but also their spontaneity and intensity.

Seabourne’s musical language has a high level of energy, and slightly tangential train of thought.

Peter SEABOURNE

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Alberto Bologni: violin Christopher Howell: piano STANFORD: Sonata No. 1, Op. 11 • Three Intermezzi, Op. 13 • Legend • Album-leaf • Six Irish Dances • Five Bagatelles, Op. 183 • Six Irish Fantasies, Op. 54 • Five Characteristic Pieces, Op. 93 • Three Irish Airs • Three Irish Dances, Op. 89 • Six Irish Sketches, Op. 153 • Six Irish Marches • An Ancient Melody • Planxty Sudley • Six Sketches, Op. 155 • Sonata No. 2, Op. 70 This three-CD box set is a milestone in the story of recorded music, as Sheva Collection presents the world premiere recording of the complete works for violin and piano by Charles Villiers Stanford. Christopher Howell, a Stanford champion for more than 40 years, has arranged and adopted some pieces available only in manuscripts. Outstanding Italian violinist Alberto Bologni gives a great performance of these masterpieces.

Charles Villiers STANFORD

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EM Records Mark Wilde: tenor Joseph Spooner: cello David Owen Norris: piano OWEN NORRIS: Tomorrow Nor Yesterday • Think Only This • BRITTEN: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35 for high voice and piano EM Records presents Benjamin Britten’s Holy Sonnets of John Donne, alongside settings of the same poet by David Owen Norris, and Norris’ staggeringly powerful First World War song cycle “Think Only This.”

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The Bridge Quartet Colin Twigg: violin Catherine Schofield: violin Michael Schofield: viola Lucy Wilding: cello Robert Gibbs: viola PARRY: String Quartet No. 3 in G major (premiere) • String Quintet in E flat major (premiere) EM Records presents the world premiere recordings of Parry’s wonderful String Quartet in G major of 1878 and the String Quintet of 1884, performed by the Bridge Quartet joined by Robert Gibbs on viola. The Quartet and Quintet represent a watershed in Parry’s compositional development, and his unique voice emerges through these seminal works. The Quartet channels his Dionysian energy and exercises his formidable contrapuntal skills, while the Quintet reveals the more poetic eloquence, warmth, and nobility of his mature style; both works are bathed in celestial melodic radiance.

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SOMM Recordings Mark Bebbington: piano ALWYN: Fantasy Waltzes • Funeral Rites for the Death of an Artist • Bicycle Ride • Piece for Piano • Sonata alla Toccata • The Weather Vane • CARWITHEN: Sonatina Following highly acclaimed cycles of the piano music of Frank Bridge and John Ireland, Mark Bebbington’s new release for SOMM (and his 31st CD for the label!) focuses on the piano music of William Alwyn and his second wife, Doreen Carwithen. Although chiefly remembered today as a large-scale symphonic and film composer — Alwyn’s symphonies were championed by Barbirolli, Sargent, and Sir Thomas Beecham — his exceptional body of piano works spanned his creative life and reveals a composer entirely attuned to the inventive possibilities of 20th-century piano writing. As Mark Bebbington says: “The piano writing of Alwyn would grace any current day piano recital; its blend of lyricism, romantic heart-on-sleeve melodies, wit and — at times — acerbic harmonic language make for a heady mix. And yet Alwyn remains his own, individual man. Coupled with a real sense of keyboard virtuosity, these works are irresistible.”

William ALWYN Piano Music

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Meridian Records Susanne Stanzeleit: violin David Angel: violin Martin Outram: viola Michal Kaznowski: cello MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet in E minor Op. 44, No. 2 • Four Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 81 • String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80 Meridian Records is proud to announce a new collaboration with one of the finest British string quartets, the Maggini Quartet. This release features the first volume of a complete Mendelssohn quartet cycle, with the quartets in E minor Op. 44 No. 2, F minor Op. 80, and the Capriccio, one of a set of four pieces for string quartet published posthumously.

Felix MENDELSSOHN

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CAvi-music Lea Birringer: violin Esther Birringer: piano SZYMANOWSKI: Sonata in D Minor, Op. 9 • HINDEMITH: Sonata in E flat major Op. 11, No. 1 • RESPIGHI: Sonata in B minor, P. 110 This CD presents rarely recorded repertoire, with three works that mirror the early 20th century’s musical development played by the Birringer duo.

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Barbara Buntrock: viola Daniel Heide: piano CLARKE: Sonata for viola and piano • HINDEMITH: Sonata Op. 11, No. 4 • BLOCH: Suite for viola and piano This new disc offers three works written/premiered in the year 1919. Barbara Buntrock is a highly decorated viola player, awarded with many first prizes in various competitions around the world.

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Stone Records Sarah Castle: mezzo-soprano Samuel Evans: baritone Jill Carter: alto flute Sarah Thurlow: clarinet Rachel Bolt: viola CORP: Songs of the Elder Sisters

Ronald CORP

Following on from his critically acclaimed recording Dhammapada, Ronald Corp has again collaborated with writer Francis Booth to produce these settings of Buddhist texts, taken from the Therigatha. These words, written around 2,500 years ago, are not only some of the earliest extant poems by women, but also the only canonical work in any religion written entirely by women. The original authors were Buddhist nuns, and Booth has newly translated the texts for this recording. Corp’s settings are beautiful and spiritual, capturing the essence of this Eastern religion’s words in his own Western musical voice. As a Church of England priest, Corp’s choice of text is interesting, powerful, and important. These beautiful songs, accompanied by an all-female chamber ensemble of alto flute, clarinet, and viola, are beautifully performed by rising star soloists Sarah Castle and Samuel Evans.

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Oboe Classics ˇ covaˇcki: oboe, cor anglais Borislav Ciˇ ŽEBELJAN: Dance of the Wooden Sticks • Leonce and Lena • Sarabande • Girotondo • The Miracle in Shargan 1 (oboe and violin version) • Simon and Anne • Three Goat’s Ears • The Miracle in Shargan 2 (oboe and piano version) • New Songs of Lada without Words • The Mousetrap • Two Songs of Bride of the Wind Like Béla Bartók, Isidora Žebeljan combines the folk music traditions of Eastern Europe with those of the West to produce music of passion, tragedy, and exuberance. Written for her husband, virtuoso oboe and cor anglais player ˇ covaˇcki, these pieces push the instruments beyond their stereotypes.

Borislav Ciˇ The 20-page CD booklet contains full details and many color photographs.

Isidora ŽEBELJAN Balkan Bolero

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col legno Erin Gee: voice ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra Martyn Brabbins: conductor Phace Ensemble Klangforum Wien GEE: Mouthpiece IX part 1• Mouthpiece IX part 2 • Mouthpiece, segment of the 3rd letter • Mouthpiece VII • Mouthpiece X • Mouthpiece I It took no more than a few sounds by Erin Gee to make one thing clear: her music is col legno music. In a laid-back manner and with apparent effortless ease, the American composer involves her entire vocal apparatus in the making of music. And the way in which she integrates other musicians into her elaborately detailed cosmos of sound makes listening a rare treat, and attests to a special talent. The intimate and familiar sound potential of the oral cavity is operated with brilliant skill to reveal a multitude of different facets, while the electrical amplification through a microphone elevates these delicate sounds to the dynamic range of their musical partners. The listener experiences a combination of human body sounds and musical instruments that is very modern, and very much alive.

Erin GEE

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Gerald Preinfalk: soprano & alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet Iren Seleljo: piano Christoph Cech: piano Alegre Corrêa: guitar Per Mathisen: fretless bass Wolfgang Muthspiel: baritone guitar Fabian Rucker: baritone saxophone Harri Stojka: guitar ALBRIGHT: Sonata for alto saxophone and piano • DESENCLOS: Prélude, Cadence and Finale for alto saxophone and piano • DENISOV: Sonata for alto saxophone and piano • MUTHSPIEL/PREINFALK: Music Before Time • CORREA/PREINFALK: Alegre • CECH/PREINFALK: Percussive Monument • PREINFALK: The “O” I Know • RUCKER/PREINFALK: Lieber zwei Saxophone • MILHAUD: My Scaramouche This album might be described as a kind of personal audio storybook

by Gerald Preinfalk, and a celebration of his woodwind instruments in a whirlwind of musical collaborations. One of the starting points for this project was a conversation with Harri Stojka during a long ride on the tour bus. Talking about their various other jobs, Preinfalk mentioned his involvement with Klangforum Wien as well as his professorship for classical saxophone at the Graz Music University, which triggered Stojka’s astonished reply: “Classical saxophone? There is no such thing, surely!”

Gerald Preinfalk Art of Duo

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LAWO Classics Nils Henrik Asheim: piano CHOPIN: Mazurkas Three years ago, Nils Henrik Asheim released Mazurka: Remaking Chopin, a collaborative project with Gjertrud’s Gypsy Orchestra. This release, which was awarded the Norwegian Grammy®, explored Chopin’s Mazurkas, creating new versions with traditional music as its most important influence.

The new release has “researching” in the subtitle, as Asheim has been searching for Chopin with a historical instrument: a Collard & Collard square piano from the 1830s. He fell in love with the instrument during the last recording, at Ulefos Hovedgaard. The Collard & Collard piano offered new possibilities in the very playing of Chopin, and new insight into how his music originally sounded.

Frédéric CHOPIN

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Mats Claesson: guitar GRIEG: Holberg Suite (arr. for guitar) Who are the people who decide the “correct” way to perform the music of the past? Now we are in an age when it’s possible to make electronic sounds that can imitate exactly the sounds a performer makes. Where does this leave the performers of the future? Can the use of modern music technology challenge the way in which classical music is played? These are a few of the questions Mats Claesson intrinsically poses with this recording.

Edvard GRIEG

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LAWO Classics Vegard Landaas & Anders Eidsten Dahl Aria: music for saxophone and organ

Vegard Landaas: saxophone/Anders Eidsten Dahl: organ TVEITT: Velkomne med aera • MORRICONE: Gabriels oboe, arr. Bjerkestrand • HURUM: Emigrantvisa • ARR. GRIEG/HALVORSEN: Guris vise • Jeg lagde meg saa silde • Brureaele kjem in i garden • Han Ola • I fjol gjet e gjeitin • Fansmarch • LINDBERG: Old Pastoral Hymn from Dalarna • HURUM: Solefall • ARR. BRATLIE: Jesus, din søte forening å smake • BOZZA: Aria • MARCELLO: Concerto in D minor • SATIE: Gymnopédie No. 3 • WALLIN: Elegi

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On their new album, Vegard Landaas and Anders Eidsten Dahl present some of the finest arias in music history, in an eclectic selection that ranges from Baroque composer Alessandro Marcello to contemporary Norwegian composers.

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Anders Eidsten Dahl Hymnus: Organ Works Andres Eidsten Dahl: organ SIBELIUS: Intrada, Op. 111a • Surusoitto (funeral music), Op. 111b • CARLSEN: Prélude, 1915 • Festforspil, 1917 • Intermezzo, 1915 • SINDING: Hymnus for Organ, Op. 124 • ALVFÉN: Präludium, Op. 31 • NIELSEN: Commotio, Op. 58 Anders Eidsten Dahl’s selection of organ works on this recording demonstrates how music can both frame the life work of a composer and bring it to a close, as alpha and omega.

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Johannes BRAHMS

Works for a cappella choir Women’s Student Choral Society (Oslo) BRAHMS: Three Sacred Choruses, Op. 37 • Ave Maria, Op. 12 • Twelve Lieder and Romances, Op. 44 • Four Songs, Op. 17

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This CD is part of the LAWO Classics collection of new recordings of Brahms. The Women’s Choral Society of the University of Oslo has had the pleasure of collaborating with a group of very accomplished female musicians. Some have accompanied the choir in the past; with others, it is a first-time collaboration. Works for female choir by Brahms are not often performed in a Norwegian context, and this CD can help to put the repertoire on the map.

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Budapest Music Center

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Péter EÖTVÖS

Franz LISZT

Ensemble Linea/Allison Bell: soprano/Benjamin Kobler: piano/ Mario Caroli: flute/Miklós Lukács: cimbalom/Jean-Philippe Wurtz: conductor

Adrienne Krausz: piano

Ensemble Linea Plays Eötvös

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The Twilight of Liszt

EÖTVÖS: Sonata per sei • Octet Plus • Natasha • Un taxi l´attend, mais Tchékhov préfère aller à pied • Erdenklavier-Himmelklavier No. 2 • Psy for cimbalom, flute and cello • Cadenza Eötvös likes to put things onstage. A drama is hatched; an intrigue is exposed. Sometimes they feature Eötvös himself; other times artists that inspire him make an appearance. This abiding sense of theatre constitutes the underlying texture of this disc.

LISZT: La lugubre gondola No. 1 • Romance oubliée • Première valse oubliée • Quatrième valse oubliée • Nuages gris • Deux csárdás • Unstern! Sinistre • Csárdás macabre • Bagatelle sans tonalité • La lugubre gondola No. 2 • Hungarian Rhapsody 15–19 • En reve In spite of his deteriorating health, the elderly Liszt remained extremely productive. Of countless pieces, this selection includes those that meant something important to Adrienne Krausz. The Twilight of Liszt is a bridge between Romantic and Modern music.

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Saint Ephraim Male Choir

Dóra Érsek: soprano/Róbert Rezsnyák: baritone/Tibor Szervét: narrator/Hungarian Public Service Media MR Symphonic/UMZE Ensemble/Dedalo Ensemble/Gergely Vajda: conductor/Vittorio Parisi: conductor

Evgeny Nesterenko, Márta Sebestyén, Tünde Szabóki, Fülöp Kocsis: vocals/Saint Ephraim Male Choir/Tamás Bubnó: artistic director

Barbie Blue

Orientale Lumen

VAJDA: Barbie Blue • Gulliver In Faremido • Conversations With Children The idea of Barbie Blue was conceived for the 125th anniversary of Béla Bartók’s birth. It was written as a preceding “comic version” to its inspiration, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, and is composed for the same voices and a similar-sized orchestra as Bartók’s only opera.

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TCHESNOKOV: Evening sacrifice • TRAD.: Bell prayer I–IV • Today Christ is risen – Lord Christ has risen • O pure and virgin Lady • By divine command • The twelve thieves • MUSSORGSKY: The Angel cried to the Lady full of grace • BUBNÓ: Christ is risen from the dead • Rusyn Christmas Songs • PHILIPP: Today Christ is risen from the dead, Greek paschalitikal song • ZOMBOLA: The Lord’s Prayer • RACHMANINOV: Hexapsalm • DITCHKO: Trishagion The Saint Ephraim Male Choir marked its 10th anniversary through a series of concerts titled “Orientale Lumen” (“Light of the East”), held at the magnificent St. Stephen’s Basilica in Budapest.

IBS Classical Yu-Jung Chung: percussion Diego Arias: trumpet, flugelhorn Antonio José Herrera Molina: percussion Daniel Jesús Martín Martín: percussion Jorge Cano Rodriguez: percussion Manuel Quesada Benítez: trombone BUSS: Rite of Passage • Incantation • Spanish Memoirs • Night Tide • Atmosphere Spanish Memoirs is an exciting new addition to the percussion repertoire. It is characterized by spicy, zesty Latin rhythms juxtaposed with soaring lyrical melodies hugely influenced by jazz. The music is both accessible and sophisticated. A melodious trumpet part, as well as an animated accompaniment featuring toe-tapping rhythms, some flashy mallet playing, and the influences of the jazz and Latin idioms, will go a long way to ensure the success of this music.

Howard BUSS Spanish Memoirs

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Trio Arbos Juan Carlos Garvayo: piano Miguel Borrego: violin José Miguel Gómez: cello Rocío Gómez: viola BAUTISTA: Seconda Sonata Concertata a Quattro, Op. 15 • TURINA: Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 67 • REMACHA: Piano Quartet Trio Arbos are the proud recipients of the 2013 Spanish National Prize for Music! During a period of seven years (from 1930), three masterpieces were written for a chamber ensemble, the piano quartet, for which there were barely any examples in the history of Spanish music: the Seconda Sonata Concertata a Quattro is a major, forceful work, impetuously overwhelming and evoking a degree of “Stravinskyan” primitivism, tinged with southern elegance.

Trio Arbos

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Stradivarius

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Lorenzo Regazzo

Ivan FEDELE

Lorenzo Regazzo: bass/Dimitri Romano: piano/Sara Mingardo: contralto

Maria Grazia Bellocchio: piano

La Regata Veneziana

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Two Moons

TRAD.: Canzoni veneziane da battello • Fior vezzoso • BUZZOLLA: L’amor discreto • L’abandon • El tropo e ‘l tropo poco • El spin • ROSSINI: La regata veneziana • HAHN: Che pecà! • MALIPIERO: Sette canzoni veneziane • BIANCHINI: Barcarola • “Canta... canta!...” • “El sorze in trapola” • Tute do • Redentor in famegia From the liner notes by Lorenzo Regazzo: “For this selection of Venetian songs … I have chosen some pieces for purely affective reasons, precisely because they are capable of evoking exactly the shapes of the city that I have always known and which I love.”

FEDELE: Suite francese • Etudes boréales • Two Moons • Due Notturni con figura From the liner notes by Claudio Proietti: “We must not be surprised that the piano repertory represents, in Ivan Fedele’s extensive catalog, an important space occupied by fundamental pieces, starting from the splendid Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra of 1993. Several times it has happened that Fedele, speaking of his piano works, has used expressions like ‘what remains after having forgotten everything’), revealing in this way that in them one finds the most intimate memory.”

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Marco MOMI

Giorgio BATTISTELLI

David Brutti: saxophone/Matteo Cesari: flute/Valentina Valente: soprano/MDI Ensemble/Marino Formenti: conductor/Solistes XXI/Rachid Safir: conductor

Riccardo Massai: actor/Icarus Ensemble/Marco Angius: conductor

MOMI: Les Mots • Almost Vanishing for E.P. • Almost Pure for E.P. • Cinque Nudi • Iconica • Iconica III

From the liner notes by Marco Angius: “With an ever broader and more variegated catalogue, Giorgio Battistelli continues to renew (and to shake) contemporary musical theatre. Right from the beginning, with the very famous Experimentum Mundi, Battistelli has accepted and surpassed the legacy of the Moment-Form of Stockhausen and of certain post-modernist orientations of Kagel.”

Almost Pure

L’imbalsamatore

From the liner notes by Pierluigi Basso Fossali: “There are certain attitudes that can be clearly felt in Marco Momi’s music: rejections, privations, obsessive tests. The writing is solid, quick to eliminate the superfluous, but finds validation only through in vivo experimentation with the rendering of sound, that is, with its potential for exemplification.”

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BATTISTELLI: L’imbalsamatore

Cantus Josep Maria Roger: fortepiano RODRIGUEZ: Rondó in B flat major • 2 Sonata XII in C major • Sonata XIV in F major • Sonata XIII in F major • Sonata XI in G major • Sonata XV in C minor • Sonata III in B flat major • Andantino grazioso • Allegro • Rondó The figure of Felipe Rodríguez (1760–1815) still continues to be almost completely unknown. Not even the recent edition of the prestigious musical dictionary New Grove mentions his name, despite the indubitable value of his keyboard music. Rodríguez was born May 1, 1760 in Madrid, although he studied in the Montserrat Monastery in Barcelona. After becoming priest, Rodríguez returned to Madrid, where he was an outstanding organist, preparing a book with organ works (the instrument came given by the availability of the church in which he was employed, although these pieces can also be performed with fortepiano, as this CD demonstrates).

Felipe RODRIGUEZ Fortepiano Works

CD: CUS 9622 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Michael Craddock: Renaissance guitar MORLAYE: Fantasie II • Pleurez mes yeux • Villanesque • Gaillarde “Les cinq pas” • Fantasie I • Conte clare • Paduane “Au joly bois” • Gaillarde • Ma bouche rit • La Seraphine • Fantasie de Rippe • LE ROY: Fantasie seconde • Pavane “Si je m’en vois” • La Pavane precedente plus diminuée • Gaillarde “Si je m’en vois” • La Gaillarde precedente plus diminuée • Fantasie premiere • Pauane de “La guerre” • Gaillarde de la precedente pauane • Bransle de Bourgongne I–VI • BRAYSSING/LE ROY: Fantasie V • La la la je ne l’ose dire • O Passi sparsy • “Il estoit une fillette” en basse-dance • Tourdion – Plus diminué • LE ROY/BRAYSSING: Prélude • Fantasie I des Grues • Pauane “J’ay du mal tant tant” • Plus diminuée • Gaillarde de la precedente pauane • Plus diminuée The Cantus label is proud to rescue from oblivion not only a repertoire, but also an instrument: the Renaissance guitar! This is the first CD entirely devoted to the Renaissance guitar. The instrument was probably invented in Spain, but it was in France, under Henri II, that it achieved great popularity, rivaling even the lute. Between 1551 and 1555 nine books of tablature for guitar were published in Paris: four by Le Roy, three by Morlaye, one by Brayssing, and another by Gorlier. The three first composers are represented on this recording by a selection of exquisite pieces chosen by our soloist, American guitarist and lutenist Michael Craddock.

Michael Craddock Guitar Tabulatures

CD: CUS 9632 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Querstand

CD: QUE 1308 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

CD: QUE 1319 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30

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Siegfried Petri

Efim JOURIST

Siegfried Petri: organ

Kibardin Quartet/Michael Kibardin: violin/Alexander Pankov: bayan/Jens-Uwe Popp: guitar/Guido Jäger: bass

Colors for eye and ear

At the Samovar: Tango Tales from Russia

J.S. BACH: Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565 • Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn BWV 648 • Fuga sopra il Magnificat “Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn” BWV 733 • Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645 • LEFÉBURE-WÉLY: Scéne pastorale (for the inauguration of an organ or Midnight Mass) • BOËLLMANN: Fantaisie dialoguée, Op. 35 • GUILMANT: Morceau de Concert, Op. 24 • HAKIM: Nos autem (world premiere recording) • Hagia Sofia Debut CD recording at the new Vleugels organ in Chemnitz Castle Church (inaugurated in 2011), a symphonic organ in the tradition of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll.

JOURIST: I thank you, my heart, that you can love this way • Exhausted Sun • Autumn • Tango Pizzicato • Unforgettable Evening • If you love me • At the Samovar • Russian Taverna • Hommage to Astor Piazzolla Efim Jourist was often called the “Paganini of the Bayan.” Born in 1947 in Kamenez-Podolski in the Ukraine, Jourist stood out from an early age because of his unique musical talent. The tangos on this CD were written in 1995, after his emigration to Germany.

CD: QUE 1205 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

CD: QUE 1321 Price Code: 10Q (SRP $159.99) Number of Discs: 12 Box Set, Box Lot 3

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Andrea Kumpe

Johann Ludwig KREBS

Andrea Kumpe: organ

Felix Friedrich: organ

J.S. BACH: Preludium and Fugue in A minor BWV 543 • Choralbearbeitung “Dies sind die heil‘gen zehn Gebot’” a 2 Clav. e Pedale BWV 678 from “Clavier-Übung” III • ALAIN: Litanies • FRANCK: Choral in B minor • WIDOR: Allegro from the Symphony No. 6 in G minor, Op. 42.2 • BRAHMS: “Herzlich tut mich verlangen” from Chorale Prelude, Op. 122 • MENDELSSOHN: Variations sérieuses in D minor, Op. 54

KREBS: Complete Organ Works

Historical Organs in Allgäu Vol. 1

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Complete Organ Works

The Allgäu region has great local traditions in the field of organbuilding, and this CD reflects this tradition with three portraits of selected instruments by the brothers Hindelang (Ebenhofen), Josef Zeilhuber (Altstädten), and Gerhard Schmidt (Kaufbeuren).

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The recordings of Johann Ludwig Krebs’ complete works for organ on 12 CDs, started at the end of the last century, is now available in a gorgeous box set! Krebs specialist Felix Friedrich, Altenburg Castle Organist, presents the composer’s work for organ played on selected instruments of the region of Central Germany.