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August marks the triumphant return of pianist Maria João Pires, who makes her Onyx début playing Beethoven concertos backed by Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (p.23). Keyboard fans will welcome the launch of Hyperion’s new Classical Piano Concerto series, which kicks off with Howard Shelley playing little-known works by Dussek (p.19). Violinist Tanja Becker-Bender is the soloist on volume sixteen of the label’s Romantic Violin Concerto series (p.18). The late Sir Colin Davis is featured in a set of Haydn symphonies on LSO Live, and Sascha Goetzel leads the Borusan Istanbul Symphony Orchestra in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade for Onyx (pp.21-22). Vocal music priorities include masses by Charpentier on Alia Vox featuring Jordi Savall (p.5), Bach Cantatas on Channel with the Magdalena Consort (p.7) and ancient Celtic church music with the Choir of Gonville and Caius College on Delphian (p.8). The harmonia mundi label’s key titles include Mozart from Cuarteto Casals (p.10), Dvorák’s Symphony No.6 with the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and James Gaffigan (p.13), Venetian oboe concertos with Xenia Löffler (p.14) and two discs of French Baroque music featuring La Nuova Musica and Ensemble Correspondances (pp.11-12). The legacy of the great Indian master Ravi Shankar is explored in volume four of East Meets West’s Nine Decades series (p.31). Last but not least, film music and jazz lovers alike will enjoy harmonia mundi’s swinging tribute to Henry Mancini entitled Music from Peter Gunn, which features the talents of Harmonie Ensemble/New York led by Steven Richman (p.29).
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COMING NEXT MONTH Fauré: Requiem Choir of King’s College, Cleobury King’s College • KGS 0005
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Fauré’s Requiem on original instruments
In January 2014, The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge were joined by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and former choral scholar Gerald Finley to make the first recording of Marc Rigaudière’s new reconstruction of the first complete liturgical performance of Fauré’s Requiem. Under the direction of Stephen Cleobury, the choir has faithfully recreated the 1889 premiere, even using the organ stops available to the organist at the Cathedrale de Ste. Madeleine in Paris.
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AUGUST 2014
Mozart’s Maestri MOZART Mozart/J.C. Bach: Concertos K107 Nos.1-3 RUTINI Sonatas Op.6 Nos.2, 5 & 6, Sonata Op.5 No.5
IMPORT It was only on very rare occasions that the Mozarts, father and son, had praise to spare for their composing colleagues. Amongst the few about Price Code: A22 whom they spoke favorably were Johann Christian (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) Bach and Giovanni Marco Rutini. On this recording, Luca Guglielmi and Concerto Madrigalesco present works of both of these composers that bear eloquent witness to this appraisal.
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HAYDN Divertimenti, Quartet Piccolo Concerto Wien Accent • ACC 24292
IMPORT Joseph Haydn’s younger brother Michael was also a highly esteemed composer during his lifetime, and his works were admired by Schubert and Mozart. Price Code: A22 Michael Haydn was the court composer in Salzburg (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) for 43 years. His numerous sacred and secular works were not printed, however, which is the reason why they are not as well known as those of his famous brother. The Divertimenti recorded here by Piccolo Concerto Wien were written for either a quartet or a trio. Their varied instrumental colors give them a special attraction.
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Luca Guglielmi (fortepiano), Concerto Madrigalesco Accent • ACC 24256
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STRAVINSKY Le Sacre du Printemps, Petrouchka
IMPORT On May 29, 1913 the début performance of Stravinsky’s ballet Le Sacre du Printemps created one of the biggest scandals in the history of music. Price Code: A21 Published eight years after its inception, the ballet (Suggested Retail Price: $21.98) was later modified by the composer. On this fascinating release, conductor François-Xavier Roth, with special permission of Boosey & Hawkes editions and with the assistance of musicologist Louis Cyr, has restored the score of Le Sacre du Printemps to the original version used at the work’s première. The disc also features the first version of the ballet Petrouchka.
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Les Siècles François-Xavier Roth Actes Sud • ASM 15
Trobar & Joglar
IMPORT The vocal and instrumental pieces on this recording from Alla francesca focus on the historical performance of medieval songs and poetry in Price Code: A23 Occitan and northern French and the essential (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) role of the jongleurs alongside the troubadours and trouvères. The majority of the songs in this selection are in Occitan, the language of the troubadours. These poets all shared the language and the art that they termed trobar. The texts belong to various genres, and display different styles including canso, sestina, tenso, descort and chanson de mal-mariée.
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Alla francesca Agogique • AGO 017
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Gérard Lesne (countertenor), John Elwes (tenor), Josep Cabré (bass-baritone), La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall Alia Vox • AVDVD 9905 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD; DVD 91 minutes, PAL Fomat; CD+Book Released in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the foundation of Le Concert des Nations, Alia Vox presents Charpentier à la Chapelle Royale de Versailles - a special set that features a SACD remastering of the ensemble’s first recording, a DVD of the group in concert at the Royal Chapel at Versailles and a second SACD featuring the Missa Assumpta est Maria and the Concert pour quatre parties de Violes. The genius of Charpentier retains its relevance and eloquence today, thanks to his highly individual way of incorporating foreign influences into the French tradition. All this, together with his profound spirituality, makes Charpentier’s music a perfect example of the “goûts réunis.”
“Savall is the consummate master...”
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Price Code: 2A15 (2 SACDs + 1 DVD, Suggested Price: $31.98)
Also available Marais: Alcione - Suites des airs à joüer Alia Vox • AVSA 9903 (8435408099035) “Savall whets the appetite for the entire work...” —FANFARE 5
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CHARPENTIER Canticum ad Beatam Virginem Mariam, Missa Assumpta est Maria, Motets pour la Vierge, Concert pour quatre parties de Violes
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AUGUST 2014
TCHAIKOVSKY Grande Sonate, The Seasons
IMPORT Moldovan pianist Alexander Paley has been widely acclaimed for his dazzling technical prowess, his exceptionally broad and extensive repertoire and the depth of his unique and personal interpretations. Paley graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1981 and went on to win numerous major awards, including First Prize at the Leipzig International Bach Competition in 1984. On his début release on the Aparté label, Paley plays Tchaikovsky’s complete Seasons and the Grande Sonate in performances rich with dazzling colors and striking virtuosity.
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Alexander Paley (piano) Aparté • AP 087
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Daniel Taylor (alto), James Gilchrist (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass), Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey Channel Classics • CCS SA 35214 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Bach’s ambition to compose liturgical music for the entire church calendar produced a wealth of sacred cantatas. Around two hundred have survived, and are an eloquent expression of his opinion that, “true music should be for the honor of God and the recreation of the soul”. This collection features three of Bach’s best-loved cantatas performed by the Magdalena Consort led by Peter Harvey. Vocal lines are sung one-to-a-part, in the style originally championed by Joshua Rifkin, which lends these performances an air of chamber music. Harvey, who also sings the bass part, is joined by soprano Elin Manahan Thomas, alto Daniel Taylor and tenor James Gilchrist.
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Also available Bach: Double & Triple Concertos Channel • CCS SA 34113 (723385341130)
“Podger’s Bach is the perfect marriage of joy and formality” —POSITIVE FEEDBACK 7
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Recreation for the Soul J.S. BACH Cantatas BWV78, 147 & 150
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AUGUST 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Barnaby Brown (triplepipes & lyre), Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber Delphian • DCD 34137 IMPORT This groundbreaking program from Geoffrey Webber’s consistently inventive choir seeks to recreate three distinct sound-worlds: 7th Century hymns from Iona, 10th Century chants from Celtic foundations in Switzerland, and 14th century Columban antiphons from the Inchcolm Libellus. As well as the evidence of early notation and of drawings and other indications of instrumentation, the performance styles — developed in an exciting extended collaboration with scholar and piper Barnaby Brown — are informed by oral traditions from as far afield as Sardinia and the Outer Hebrides.
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Also available Deutsche Motette Delphian • DCD 34124 (801918341243)
“The performances are enjoyable and very well done.” —AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE 8
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In Praise of Saint Columba The Sound-World of the Celtic Church
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AUGUST 2014
MACMILLAN Visions of a November Spring, Etwas zurückhaltend, For Sonny, String Quartet No.3
IMPORT This disc from Delphian with the Edinburgh Quartet features chamber works by composer Price Code: A19 James MacMillan, written between 1982 and 2011, (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) providing three snapshots of his evolving style. Influences from Wagner to folk music are heard in works that are often visionary in scope. The Edinburgh Quartet was founded in 1960 and quickly became established as one of Britain’s foremost chamber ensembles.
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Edinburgh Quartet Delphian • DCD 34088
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BRAHMS Piano Sonata No.1 BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.29 ‘Hammerklavier’
IMPORT The brilliant young Polish-American pianist Adam Golka has won widespread critical and popular acclaim for his brilliant technique and emotional Price Code: A20 depth. He has garnered international prizes (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) including the 2008 Gilmore Young Artist Award and first prize in the 2003 China Shanghai International Piano Competition. Brahms was clearly influenced by Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata, yet this is the first time these two works have appeared together on a recording. Golka’s readings are truly remarkable.
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Adam Golka (piano) First Hand • FHR 33
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AUGUST 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Cuarteto Casals harmonia mundi • HMC 902186
IMPORT When he dedicated a set of six quartets to Haydn in 1785, Mozart was acknowledging the latter’s supremacy in this difficult genre. Inspired by the older composer’s masterpieces, Mozart did more than just imitate him; he integrated Haydn’s innovations into his own style, thereby producing a new milestone of Viennese Classicism. The three quartets played here by Cuarteto Casals are among Mozart’s finest, and are truly masterpieces of the genre.
“A vivacious and technically superb outfit...”
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—BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
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Also available Haydn: Die sieben letzten Worte harmonia mundi • HMC 902162 (3149020216224)
“An alluring rendition in terms of timbre and texture, with the quartet’s period bows drawing out a sound that’s complex and vulnerable.” —LISTEN 10
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MOZART String Quartets K428, 465 & 387
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AUGUST 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] La Nuova Musica, David Bates harmonia mundi • HMU 807588 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD David Bates leads La Nuova Musica in Sacrifices - a program of intensely dramatic oratorios from the middle Baroque. Included are Carissimi’s Historia di Jephte and Charpentier’s Sacrificium Abrahae and Le Reniement de Saint Pierre. The vocal selections are interspersed with instrumental music by Sébastien de Brossard. Since their founding in 2012, critical praise for Bates and La Nuova Musica has been unanimous. The group’s harmonia mundi label debut featured a world première on CD of the 1712 version of Handel’s Il pastor fido.
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“David Bates directs his expert period band with spirit and imagination” —THE BUFFALO NEWS
Also available Handel/Vivaldi: Dixit Dominus harmonia mundi • HMU 807587 (093046758769)
“Passion, vitality, transparency...” —OPERA NEWS 11
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Sacrifices CHARPENTIER Sacrificium Abrahae, Le Reniement de Saint Pierre CARISSIMI Historia di Jephte DE BROSSARD Symphonie pour le Graduel, Sonate en trio
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AUGUST 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé harmonia mundi • HMC 902194 IMPORT For more than thirty years, the career of composer Étienne Moulinié was inseparably linked with the patronage of Gaston d’Orléans (160860), brother of Louis XIII. In his Mélanges sur des sujets chrétiens, which he regarded as his magnum opus, Moulinié claimed the right to a compositional freedom that would “purify music and make it wholly chaste.” Some of the finest pieces from the collection feature on this recording by Sébastien Daucé’s Ensemble Correspondances, showing just how successfully the composer achieved his aim.
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“Ensemble Correspondances was founded in 2009, but such is their refined polish and delivery that one would think them a seasoned ensemble...” —TORONTO EARLY MUSIC
Also available Charpentier: Litanies de la Vierge harmonia mundi • HMC 902169 (3149020216927)
“Heaven is a good analogy for these performances.” —AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE 12
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MOULINIÉ Meslanges pour la chapelle d’un prince BOËSSET Jesu nostra redemptio, Popule meus quid fecit tibi DE CHANCY Allemandes CONSTANTIN La Pacifique
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AUGUST 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Luzerner Sinfonieorchester James Gaffigan harmonia mundi • HMC 902188
IMPORT While Dvorák’s Symphony No.6 is clearly inspired by the Symphony No.2 of his friend and champion Johannes Brahms, its middle movements are more in the Slavonic tradition. The Suite Op.98b, written when Dvorák was director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York, is an exotic patchwork of Amerindian and Afro-American music – with a pronounced Bohemian accent. In these superb performances by the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester led by James Gaffigan, both the charm and folkloric character of these works are clearly in evidence.
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“The Lucerne Orchestra under James Gaffigan is committed, polished, and radiant.” —THE ABSOLUTE SOUND
Also available Rihm: Symphony ‘Nähe Fern’ harmonia mundi • HMC 902153 (3149020215326)
“A thoroughly worthwhile release.” —INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW 13
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DVORÁK Symphony No.6, American Suite
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AUGUST 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Xenia Löffler (oboe), Georg Kallweit (violin) Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin harmonia mundi • HMC 902185 IMPORT This disc is an invitation to explore one of the great attractions of Venice in the Baroque era, the famous ospedali. Among the residents of the Pietà was a girl named ‘Pellegrina,’ for whom Vivaldi wrote many of his oboe concertos. Accompanied by her colleagues of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, oboist Xenia Löffler not only breathes new life into a selection of concertos by the ‘Red Priest’ – but also several by his emulators, among them a composer of today, no less fervent in his admiration: Uri Rom.
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“The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin is as good as it gets in early music...” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
Also available Mozart: Adagios & Fugues after J.S. Bach harmonia mundi • HMC 902159 (3149020215920)
“Admire the music’s architecture, and the thought of one master paying homage to another.” —THE BUFFALO NEWS 14
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Concerto – Venice: The Golden Age VIVALDI Concertos MARCELLO Oboe Concerto
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AUGUST 2014 Chant Corse Manuscrits franciscains
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PURCELL Harpsichord Suites Nos.1-8 LASSUS Lagrime di San Pietro
Kenneth Gilbert (harpsichord) harmonia mundi • HMA 1951496
Ensemble Vocal Européen Philippe Herreweghe harmonia mundi • HMA 1951483
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RACHMANINOV Études-tableaux Opp.33 & 39 Nicholas Angelich (piano) harmonia mundi • HMA 1951547
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J.S. BACH French & English Suites Céline Frisch (harpsichord) harmonia mundi • HMA 1951707 Previously Available as HMN 911707 (794881503827) Deleted April 2007
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Ensemble Organum Marcel Pérès harmonia mundi • HMA 1951495
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AUGUST 2014
Huelgas-Ensemble Paul Van Nevel harmonia mundi • HMA 1951760
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BRUCKNER Symphony No.3 (1873) ALKAN Cello Sonata Op.47 LISZT Élégie I & II, La lugubre gondola, Romance oubliée, Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth
Deutsches SymphonieOrchester Berlin, Kent Nagano harmonia mundi • HMA 1951817
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Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) Pascal Amoyel (piano) harmonia mundi • HMA 19517582
LISZT Piano Sonata in B Minor
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Paul Lewis (piano) harmonia mundi • HMA 1951845 Previously Available as HMC 901845 (794881751822) Deleted February 2010
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HAYDN Violin Concerto No.1, Symphonies Nos.49 & 80 Freiburger Barockorchester Gottfried von der Goltz harmonia mundi • HMA 1952029 Previously Available as HMX 2962029 (794881924622) Deleted January 20143
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RORE Missa Praeter rerum seriem, Motets & Madrigals
CLASSICAL
AUGUST 2014
Canticles from St. Paul’s Cathedral, London
IMPORT The Canticles are the crowning glory of the Anglican liturgy and have afforded the greatest opportunity for musical development within the Anglican rite. Thousands of people daily hear the world-famous St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir and organist Simon Johnson under their director of music Andrew Carwood singing these settings. Here these forces present a satisfying collection including nineteenth-century masterpieces by Stanford and Charles Wood, and from the twentieth century Walton’s Coronation Te Deum, written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, and Tippett’s monumental work for St. John’s College Cambridge.
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Also available Mozart: Missa solemnis Hyperion • CDA 67921 (034571179216)
“A well-planned program of Mozart’s Salzburg church music... this is a subtly devised and well-executed record.” —INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW 17
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St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir, Andrew Carwood, Simon Johnson (organ) Hyperion • CDA 68058
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AUGUST 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Tanja Becker-Bender (violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Garry Walker Hyperion • CDA 68044 IMPORT German violinist Tanja Becker-Bender returns to the Romantic Violin Concerto series along with Hyperion house band the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Garry Walker. Volume sixteen features concertos by Busoni and Strauss. In D major, the key of Beethoven’s and Brahms’s violin concertos, Busoni’s Violin Concerto is clearly intended to continue their lineage although it never descends into mere imitation. The seventeen-year-old Strauss wrote his Violin Concerto during his final year at the Ludwigsgymnasium. The work is fairly unknown on the concert platform, but Becker-Bender’s interpretation should win it new friends.
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“Tanja Becker-Bender not only shows stamina, but also technical command, beauty of tone and clear sympathetic identification with the music.”
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—BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
Also available Romantic Violin Concerto Vol.15 Hyperion • CDA 67990 (034571179902) ‘Not only the first recording of both Mlynarski’s Violin Concertos together, but the premiere of his haunting First Concerto in a warm performance.” —BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE 18
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Romantic Violin Concerto Vol.16 BUSONI Violin Concerto Op.35a STRAUSS Violin Concerto Op.8
CLASSICAL
AUGUST 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Howard Shelley (piano), Ulster Orchestra Hyperion • CDA 68027
IMPORT Hyperion’s new Classical Piano Concerto series focuses on the lesser-known concertos from the dawn of the genre. This series aims to be the first in-depth recorded survey of this forgotten repertoire. This first volume features three of Bohemian virtuoso Jan Ladislav Dussek’s eighteen piano concertos, taken from different points in his career. As a group, these pieces are a fascinating study, with most of the earlier works largely reflecting the Mozartean model, and the later ones revealing stylistic traits that anticipate future developments in the genre. There could be no finer guide to these concertos than Howard Shelley, whose recordings of Clementi keyboard works and Mozart and Hummel piano concertos have received such acclaim.
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“Shelley’s playing is faultless...” —INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
Recently released Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.63 Hyperion • CDA 68043 (034571280431)
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The Classical Piano Concerto Vol.1 Dussek Piano Concertos Op.1 No.3, Op.29 & Op.70
CLASSICAL
AUGUST 2014
PÄRT Berliner Mass, Magnificat, Seven Magnificat Antiphons, De Profundis, The Beatitudes
IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 66960 (034571169606) Deleted February 2014 The composer Arvo Pärt has succeeded in Price Code: A11 (Suggested Retail Price: $11.98) capturing the attention of a broad public through his consummate ability to weave a sense of inevitable power into music of fundamental simplicity. This mid-priced reissue features some of the most spiritually uplifting music of our generation, sung by that most virtuosic of choirs, Polyphony.
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BEETHOVEN Early Cantatas, Opferlied Judith Howarth, Janice Watson (sopranos), Jean Rigby (contralto), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), José Van Dam (bass) Corydon Singers & Orchestra, Matthew Best Hyperion • CDH 55479 IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 66880 (034571168807) Deleted June 2013 This mid-priced reissue features Beethoven choral Price Code: A11 works sung by the Corydon Singers and Matthew (Suggested Retail Price: $11.98) Best. It includes the composer’s famous Opferlied, here performed beautifully by Jean Rigby in the version for soprano, choir and orchestra. Also featured are two rarely performed and fascinating early works, the Cantatas to mark the death of Joseph II and the accession of his brother Leopold II.
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Polyphony, Stephen Layton Hyperion • CDH 55408
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AUGUST 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] HAYDN Symphonies Nos.92, 93, 97, 98 & 99
IMPORT Hybrid SACD/ Stereo/ DSD Entering a new chapter after the death of Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, Haydn’s forward-looking late symphonies exude all the hallmarks of the composer’s protean maturity. Received in concert to enormous success, their expressive strength and inventive mastery of form gave Haydn’s international reputation a substantial boost. Sir Colin Davis’s affinity for Haydn’s music was legendary. During his Indian summer with the London Symphony Orchestra, he recorded both Die Schöpfung and Die Jahreszeiten. These symphonies were recorded during this same period, and offer yet another example of Davis’s consummate artistry.
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Price Code: 2A13 (2 SACD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $27.98)
ADVANCE REVIEW “All of these symphonies’ expressive strength and rigour, their invention and mastery of form, are laid bare in these revelatory performances which confirm for all time Sir Colin’s reputation as a pre-eminent interpreter of Haydn’s music. He doesn’t hold back and relishes the warmth of Haydn’s sound world.” —CLASSIC FM
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Haydn: The Creation LSO Live • LSO 0628 (822231162827) “Davis’s interpretation strikes a careful balance.” —OPERA NEWS
Haydn: The Seasons LSO Live • LSO 0708 (822231170822) “Davis is alive to every nuance of Haydn’s late masterpiece.” —CLASSIC FM 21
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London Symphony Orchestra Sir Colin Davis LSO Live • LSO 0702
CLASSICAL
AUGUST 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, Sascha Goetzel Onyx Classics • ONYX 4124 IMPORT Under the direction of Sascha Goetzel, the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra has built a formidable reputation as one of the most creative and exciting orchestras in Europe. The group’s first two CDs for Onyx were extremely well received by critics around the world. Since it was founded, the orchestra has worked to become a showcase for music from different traditions. This new recording explores the eastern musical roots of Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, identifying elements from the eastern side of the Bosphorus which have impinged on the Western cultural background of these composers.
“The Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic may not be one of the world’s more familiar ensembles, but... it deserves to be much better known, as does conductor Sascha Goetzel...”
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—CLASSICS TODAY
Also available Music from the Machine Age Onyx • ONYX 4086 (880040408628) “This is not just a fine disc: it’s a sensational set of performances...” —THE SUNDAY HERALD 22
onyx classics
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade BALAKIREV Oriental Fantasy IPPOLITOV-IVANOV Caucasian Sketches No.2 & 4 ERKIN Dance Suite
CLASSICAL
AUGUST 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Maria João Pires (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Daniel Harding Onyx Classics • ONYX 4125 IMPORT On her début release for Onyx, the great pianist Maria João Pires performs two Beethoven concertos she has played often, but never before recorded. After giving concerts in Stockholm last October, she went directly into the studio with Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and this remarkable recording is the result. These are performances of such passion, poetry and drama Beethoven as he should sound, just as if you are hearing these great concertos for the first time. In the booklet, Pires has provided a personal note on her approach to these works.
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“Pires has achieved an almost Garbo-like mystique. The more she tries to avoid the limelight and vanish into the music she’s playing, the more fascinated the musical world becomes in her.” —THE TELEGRAPH
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BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos.3 & 4
CLASSICAL
AUGUST 2014
Le Livre Vermeil de Montserrat
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La Camera Della Lacrime, Bruno Bonhoure Paraty • 414125
IMPORT The Monastery of Montserrat draws legions of pilgrims to Catalonia, eager to visit the Black Virgin. Legend has it that in the year 880 a miraculous vision Price Code: A23 led the shepherds in the area to a cave where they (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) found an image of the Savior’s mother. The Livre Vermeil is basically a manual for a pilgrimage to Monserrat. It also contains the notation (music and lyrics) for songs of pilgrimage. This recording from Paraty features a selection of these songs, performed by La Camera delle Lacrime led by Bruno Bonhoure.
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SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No.13 ‘Babi Yar’ PROKOFIEV October (excerpts)
IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Bi-channel Stereo/ DSD This recording is an echo of the second performance of Shostakovich’s Symphony No.13 Price Code: A23 in December of 1962. It still features the original (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) text by Yevtushenko in spite of Khrushchev’s order to modify it so as not to pay homage only to the Jews assassinated in the Ukrainian ravine at Babi Yar. Kyrill Kondrashin succeeded in making this a heroic, impassioned ballad - tinged with humor but vengeful and funereal. Also featured here are excerpts from October - Prokofiev’s sole patriotic cantata, written in the same titanic, specifically Russian vein.
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Vitaly Gromadsky (bass), RSFSR Academic Choir, Yurlov State Choir, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Kyrill Kondrashin Praga • PRD 350089
CLASSICAL
AUGUST 2014
STRAVINSKY Le Rossignol DELAGE Quatre Poemes Hindus, Berceuse Phoque
IMPORT Reissue - Previously Released June 1998 Stravinsky’s short, charming opera Le rossignol is rarely performed or recorded. Written in 1913-14 Price Code: A20 after the Rite of Spring, its libretto, based on The (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, was cowritten by the composer and Stepan Mitussov. The opera’s first performance was given in May 1914 at the Palais Garnier in Paris in a production by Sergei Diaghilev. This disc featuring André Cluytens, back in print after a long hiatus, presents the work’s first ever commercial recording, made in mono in 1955.
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Janine Micheau (soprano), Jean Giraudeau (tenor), Choeurs et Orchestra National de la Radiodiffusion Française, André Cluytens Testament • SBT 1135
SCHNEIDER Metamorphosen
IMPORT Metamorphosen is the first in a series of ten recordings of the music of Enjott Schneider on the Wergo label. Schneider is a German businessman, Price Code: A26 composer, musicologist, and music educator. As a (Suggested Retail Price: $26.98) composer he is known for his film work, having won the Bavarian Film Award in 1990, the Filmband in Gold in 1991, and the Deutscher Fernsehpreis in 2007. Many of Schneider’s compositions refer to well-known works from music history or to the idiomatic stylistic tendencies of individual composers, in order to then create something new through metamorphosis.
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Christoph Hartmann (english horn), Johannes Strassl (english horn), Gottfried Pokorny (bassoon), Tonkünstler-Orchester, Xincao Li Wergo • WER 5110
CLASSICAL
AUGUST 2014
KISHINO Irisation
IMPORT This collection provides insight into the sensitive and exciting sound aesthetics of the composer Malika Kishino. Nature and beauty constitute the Price Code: A24 main points of reference of her oeuvre. Japanese (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) culture and its aesthetics leave a mark on Kishino’s music, yet it is futile to look for anything reminiscent of the traditional music of her home country. Nature, especially optical and visual phenomena or physical states, are an inspiration for the structure and character of her works which she herself describes as sound organisms.
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OLBRISCH Craquelé Studio for New Music Ensemble Moscow, Vladimir Gorlinsky hr-Sinfonieorchester, Sian Edwards, et al. Wergo • WER 6799
IMPORT Wergo presents a collection of works by contemporary German composer Franz Martin Olbrisch. Olbrisch studied Composition and Price Code: A26 Music Theory at the Hochschule der Künste in (Suggested Retail Price: $26.98) Berlin. Up until 1989, he composed predominantly instrumental works before adopting a more interdisciplinary and multimedia approach in the 1990s. He is currently a professor of composition at the Studio for Electronic Music of the University of Music Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. This disc features four major works that employ both traditional forces and combinations of instruments and live electronics.
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musikFabrik, Daniel Kawka Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus, Chifuru Matsubara hr-Sinfonieorchester, Lucas Vis, et al. Wergo • WER 6411
CLASSICAL
AUGUST 2014
FRANZSON The Negotiation of Context Yarn | Wire Wergo • WER 7313
wergo IMPORT David Brynjar Franzson, one of the leading Icelandic composers of his generation, currently resides in New York. This disc from Wergo features Price Code: A26 his 2001 work entitled The Negotiation of Context, (Suggested Retail Price: $26.98) played by Yarn|Wire. The composition is made up of three independent pieces, each assembled from various sounds and contexts on top of a topography of pre-existing programs. In them, the actions of one performer extend the actions of the other, and only through the combined actions of the two performers is a given sound produced.
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GRAMSS Thinking of... Mark Dresser, John Eckhardt, Sebastian Gramss, Barry Guy, Christine Hoock, Joëlle Léandre, Dieter Manderscheid, Barre Phillips, Daniele Roccato, Tetsu Saitoh, Håkon Thelin, Stefano Scodanibbio Wergo • WER 8052 IMPORT Wergo’s Thinking of… is an homage to the doublebass player Stefano Scodanibbio, who died in 2012. It features eleven bass players, each recorded Price Code: A26 separately with ten different sound engineers in (Suggested Retail Price: $26.98) seven different countries. The first part of the album features the title work by Sebastian Gramss, who also produced the album and is one of the players. The second part of the album is a collection of eleven solos in which the players share their personal connections to Scodanibbio’s work. The album ends with a live recording of a duo by Scodanibbio and Gramss from the Altstadtherbst Festival in Düsseldorf in 2008.
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JAZZ
AUGUST 2014
Life Suite
IMPORT File in: Jazz One of the UK’s leading jazz guitarists, Fred Thelonious Baker has performed and recorded all over the world as a session musician and soloist with a variety of musicians and ensembles. He has worked with such diverse artists as Courtney Pine, Nigel Kennedy, Billy Cobham, the CBSO, Fairport Convention, Soft Machine, Geoff Eales, Liam Genocky and Phil Miller. Life Suite, Baker’s eagerly awaited solo guitar début album from First Hand is a masterpiece of jazz waiting to be discovered.
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“He’s a guitarist who has mastered the instrument’s evolution from Charlie Christian through to Jimi Hendrix and beyond.” —THE HERALD SCOTLAND
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Fred Thelonious Baker First Hand • FHR 32
JAZZ
AUGUST 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Harmonie Ensemble / New York, Steven Richman harmonia mundi • HMU 907624
IMPORT File in: Jazz The classic TV detective series Peter Gunn, which ran from 1958 to 1961, is probably best remembered today due to the show’s trendsetting score written by Henry Mancini and inspired by the West Coast Cool jazz style. On Music for Peter Gunn, GRAMMY®-nominated conductor Steven Richman and the sensational Harmonie Ensemble/New York (joined by ace old-school improvisers Lew Soloff and Lew Tabackin), place their own stamp on Mancini’s iconic orchestrations. It follows in the footsteps of Richman’s and Harmonie Ensemble’s previous bestselling releases Gershwin by Grofé (which landed on the Billboard charts in the top ten) and Ellington/Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suites.
“Steven Richman’s Harmonie Ensemble New York is a delight...”
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—BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
Price Code: A19 (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)
Also available Gershwin: By Grofé harmonia mundi • HMU 907492 (093046749224 ) “Gershwin enthusiasts are in for a real treat...” —INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW 29
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Music from Peter Gunn
JAZZ
AUGUST 2014
Tenor Madness Sonny Rollins Quartet APO • CPRJ 7047 SA
apo DOMESTIC Hybrid SACD/ Mono/ DSD File in: Jazz Dating from 1956, Tenor Madness by Sonny Rollins Price Code: A40 features the rhythm section of the Miles Davis (Suggested Retail Price: $40.98) Group. Miles was a tireless supporter of Rollins, and for this album he lent him his own lead tenor, John Coltrane. The album was conceived as a battle between Trane and Rollins, and the result is pure gold. This high fidelity SACD remaster from Analogue Productions features a recreation of the original Prestige LP album cover.
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Cookin’ Miles Davis Quintet APO • CPRJ 7094 SA
DOMESTIC Hybrid SACD/ Mono/ DSD File in: Jazz In 1956, the Miles Davis Quintet played two nowPrice Code: A40 legendary studio sessions that produced four classic (Suggested Retail Price: $40.98) albums - Relaxin’ with The Miles Davis Quintet, Steamin’ with The Miles Davis Quintet, Workin’ with The Miles Davis Quintet and Cookin’ with The Miles Davis Quintet, which was the first to be released. The intent was to document the group’s vast live-performance catalog in a studio environment. The results are stunning, and this audiophile SACD remaster from Analogue Productions offers listeners the best possible sound quality.
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WORLD
AUGUST 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Ravi Shankar East Meets West • EMWM 1013
DOMESTIC File in: World / Asia / India On August 6, 1976, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his first US concert appearance, Ravi Shankar organized a dusk ‘til dawn concert at the historic St. John the Divine cathedral in New York City. The concert, featuring many acts of the day and several virtuosos of the Indian classical world, ended at dawn with an extended set from the Maestro. To mark the 60th anniversary of his first introduction to the West, East Meets West Music is proud to release his remastered concert as the fourth installment of the Nine Decades series, which provides insightful perspective on a career that spans 70-plus years and is a direct bridge between the artist himself and his listeners.
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Also available Nine Decades - Vol.3 East Meets West • EMWM 1005 (666449738722)
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A Night at St. John the Divine - Nine Decades Vol.4
WORLD
AUGUST 2014
Impro Ferran Savall Alia Vox • AVSA 9906
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IMPORT Hybrid SACD/ Stereo & Multi-Channel/ DSD File in: World / Europe / Spain After his acclaimed first opus, Ferran Savall is back Price Code: A19 with a second and deeply personal album. Whether (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) performing solo or accompanied by his father Jordi Savall and the percussionist Pedro Estevan, he continues to explore the traditions of his native Catalonia, enriched with his own musical experience. The album’s highlight is the track “Comiat d’una Mare” (Farewell to a mother), a piece dedicated to soprano Montserrat Figueras, who died on November 23, 2011.
Operette
IMPORT File in: World / Europe / France In a wonderful homage to the genre’s creators, Moussu T e lei Jovents interpret tunes from the Price Code: A19 Marseille Operetta in a delightfully mischievous (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) manner. Operette features twelve songs dating from the genre’s golden years (1932-1939). Steeped in blues, reggae and rock, they are also strongly influenced by folk songs from Marseille. In them, the bright and breezy lyrics of Raymond Vinci, Vincent Telly and Fernand Nazereau are blended with unforgettable melodies by Georges Sellers, Germain Blanc and the inimitable Vincent Scotto.
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Moussu T e lei Jovents Chant du Monde • 2742355
ROCK/BLUES
AUGUST 2014
Texas Hurricane
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DOMESTIC SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD File in: Rock / Blues APO presents what must be the greatest Stevie Ray Vaughan tribute collection ever made. Vaughan single-handedly ignited the blues revival of the ‘80s. His eclectic and fiery style bridged the gap between blues and rock like no other artist had since the late ‘60s. Vaughan’s tragic death in 1990 only emphasized his influence on both the blues and American rock & roll. Texas Hurricane features six of Vaughan’s classic albums - Texas Flood, Couldn’t Stand the Weather, Soul to Soul, In Step, Family Style and The Sky Is Cryin’ - specially remastered for SACD by Sterling Sound. All are sourced from the original 30ips analog master tapes, and each album includes bonus tracks. APO’s packaging is beyond compare. Inside the magnetically sealed box (the first 1,000 of which are gold foil-numbered) are six discs housed in a custom tray and a glossy, full color booklet filled with photos and tons of information including contributions from Stevie Ray Vaughan biographer Craig Hopkins.
Price Code: 6A55 (6 SACD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $335.98)
“Stevie Ray Vaughan demanded your attention.” —ROLLING STONE 33
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Stevie Ray Vaughan, Double Trouble APO • CAPB SRVBOX SA
Summer Festival Highlights
Artist Jonathan Biss
Date Jul 24 Aug 8-9
City Highland Park Jackson Hole
State IL WY
Festival Ravinia Festival Grand Teton Music Festival
Yefim Bronfman
Jul 13 Jul 19 Aug 23
Aspen Vail Lennox
CO CO MA
Aspen Music Festival Bravo Vail Festival Tanglewood
C.J. Chenier
Jul 15 Jul 26 Jul 27 Aug 7 Aug 9 Aug 23 Aug 30-31 Sep 5
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CT NJ PA CA CA MI RI MI
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James Ehnes
Jul 7-23
Seattle
WA
Seattle Chamber Music Festival
Matthias Goerne
Jul 31
Highland Park
IL
Ravinia Festival
Marc-André Hamelin
Jul 16 Jul 20
Aspen New York
CO NY
Aspen Music Festival International Keyboard Institute & Festival
Pablo Heras-Casado
Aug 3
Katonah
NY
Caramoor Festival
Stephen Hough
Jul 18-19
Chicago
IL
Grant Park Music Festival
Dejan Lazic
Jul 23
Aspen
CO
Aspen Music Festival
Paul Lewis
Jul 25
Lennox
MA
Tanglewood
Nikolai Lugansky
Aug 10, 12
Aspen
CO
Aspen Music Festival
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Artist Andrew Manze
Date Aug 1-2
City New York
State NY
Festival Mostly Mozart Festival
Dennis Matsuev
Jul 27
Highland Park
IL
Ravinia Festival
Nicholas McGegan
Jul 11 & 17 Aug 14
Aspen Lennox
CO MA
Aspen Music Festival Tanglewood
Midori
Jul 18 Jul 20
Vail Aspen
CO CO
Bravo Vail Festival Aspen Music Festival
Jon Nakamatsu
Aug 8, 20 & 22
Wellfleet
MA
Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival
Garrick Ohlssohn
Aug 3
Aspen
CO
Aspen Music Festival
Steven Osborne
Aug 1-2
New York
NY
Mostly Mozart Festival
Lucky Peterson
Sep 20
Greenville
MS
Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival
Lawrence Power
Aug 19-20
New York
NY
Mostly Mozart Festival
Catherine Russell
Jun 23
Rochester
NY
Rochester International Jazz Festival
TakĂĄcs Quartet
Aug 11 & 13
Highland Park
IL
Ravinia Festival
Chucho ValdĂŠs
Jul 29-30 Jul 31-Aug 3
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IL CA
Ravinia Festival SFJazz
Joyce Yang
Jul 18, 26
Aspen
CO
Aspen Music Festival
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