Apr08 nrclassical

April 2008 Release Date: April 8, 2008 A d i v i s i o n o f A l l e g ro M e d i a G ro u p

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allegro Classical News

MA Recordings celebrates its 20th year and its new relationship with Allegro media group!

Contents Jennifer Koh Complete Beethoven Symphonies Ton Koopman

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New Labels MA Recordings

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Label List Alpha Ancalagon Records Arte Nova Classics Arte Verum Bel Canto Society Bravissimo Opera Library CAvi-music Cedille Records Challenge Classics Classica d’Oro Cold Blue Music CORO DiscMedi Doremi Eclectra Records Ecstatic Records Endeavour Classics FineLine Classical Fuga Libera GB Records GM Recordings Gothic Records hänssler Classic Integra Records UK Landor Records Loft Recordings Lyrita

MA Recordings Meridian Records Metronome Records Moscow Studio Archives Nimbus Records Nuova Era Opera d’Oro Other Minds Palexa Records Paradizo Port Royal Quartz Records Quilisma Rubedo Canis Musica (RCM) Reference Recordings ReZound Ricercar Stradivarius Summit Records Tactus Toccata Classics Urtext Digital Classics Well-Tempered Productions Winter & Winter Zig-Zag Territoires

Founded in Japan by Los Angeles pianist, composer, engineer, and producer Todd Garfinkle, MA Recordings presents a personal approach to the way we listen to and perceive acoustic music. Each recording is produced on location in acoustically intriguing spaces and places, including gothic churches, concert halls, and even national monuments.

With MA’s state-of-the-art recording devices, exotic audio cables, and just two handmade omni-directional microphones, Garfinkle captures the entire musical statement that becomes each MA Recording. “MA” means “space” or “interval” in Japanese, and listening to an MA Recording is like taking a magical voyage to the particular space where each unique musical moment was created.

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Early titles were recorded in a well-known concert hall in Japan and focused on virtuoso piano, guitar solos and duets, and small jazz recordings. Much of the latter two-thirds of the approximately 75-title catalog puts the emphasis on classical, ancient, and world music from throughout Europe and South America. Quite often musical lines are blurred when a fusion of some or all of these genres is achieved.

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Release Date: April 8, 2008

Ancalagon Records

Lara St. John

Hindson, Corigliano, Liszt Cat # ANC 133 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 35 Not Available In Canada

5% Preorder Discount Includes World Premiere Recordings

Lara St. John: violin Sarah Ioannides: conductor Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Matthew HINDSON: Violin Concerto • John CORIGLIANO: Suite from The Red Violin • Franz LISZT (arr. Kennedy/St John.): Totentanz “Wild, idiosyncratic, and gripping.” — LA Times “It is difficult to argue with such a technically dazzling and unfailingly musical interpretation.” — Gramophone Front Cover Sticker: World Premiere Recording.

Includes two world premiere works. Composers John Corigliano and Matthew Hindson are two of the most important musicians on the global scene. Corigliano won an Academy Award and a Grammy for his music to the film The Red Violin. These two composers were present during the recording sessions. also available

J.S. BACH The Six Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo (2 CDs) Cat # ANC SACD 132 (2L) Not Available In Canada

J.S. BACH The Concerto Album Cat # ANC 131 (R) Not Available In Canada

MA Recordings

Release Date: April 8, 2008

Rubato Appassionato ˇ

Le Temple du Gout: 18th century music from Italy and France Cat # MAJ 75 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

5% Preorder Discount

Antonia Tejeda: recorders Eyal Streett: baroque bassoon Sasha Agranov: baroque cello MANCINI: Recorder Sonata No. 11 • Nicolas CHÉDEVILLE: Recorder Sonata No. 4 from Il Pastor Fido • BOISMORTIER: Recorder Sonata No. 6 • VALENTINE: Recorder Sonata Op. 2, No. 1) • PHILIDOR the elder: Suite en e si mi • ANON: Partite di Follia A delightful collection of French and Italian Baroque favorites performed on recorder, baroque bassoon, and baroque cello. Recorded in a small, acoustically sublime chapel in the old quarter of Barcelona, Spain. All instruments are period and/or reproductions of period instruments. Recorded and produced at the highest audiophile level, utilizing MA Recordings’ own custom, handmade microphones and pure silver and gold audiophile cables.

Release Date: April 8, 2008

Cedille Records

Jennifer Koh: violin Reiko Uchida: piano Jennifer HIGDON: String Poetic • Lou HARRISON: Grand Duo • John ADAMS: Road Movies • Carl RUGGLES: Mood “A boldly expressive musician.” — Gramophone World premiere of Higdon piece, written for Jennifer Koh. First CD appearance of major work by Lou Harrison. Jennifer Koh is a rising star among American violinists who has worked extensively with the two living composers represented on the disc.

also available SCHUMANN Violin Sonatas Cat # CED 95 (Q)

Jennifer Koh

Not Available In Canada

Jennifer Koh Violin Fantasies

String Poetic: American Works, A 21st Century Perspective Cat # CED 103 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

Cat # CED 73 (Q) Not Available In Canada

5% Preorder Discount Includes World Premiere Recording

Not Available In Canada

Paradizo Julien Martin: recorder Capriccio Stravagante Skip Sempé: harpsichord, director 27 short pieces by Holborne, Dowland, Van Eyck, Scheidt, Hume, Ferrabosco, Brade, Purcell & Morley “If only for the sonic power, this disc is a big success … Skip Sempé demonstrates with sincerity, competence, and imagination that the modernity of this repertoire requires nothing but real musicality.”

— Diapason Capriccio Stravagante and Skip Sempé perform an irresistible selection of well and lesser-known Airs, Pavans, Galliards, and Masque dances by key composers of the Renaissance. A magnificent portrait of Northern European music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

also available

Skip Sempé

SCARLATTI Duende: Harpsichord Sonatas

Consort Music & Airs for the Flute Cat # PDZ 1 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

Cat # PDZ 9003 (R) Not Available In Canada

5% Preorder Discount

Not Available In Canada

Gothic Records

Release Date: April 8, 2008 Schola Gothia Ulrike Heider: director PACKE: Mass movements • DUNSTABLE: Salve Regina Front Cover Sticker: American Premiere!

In the tradition of Anonymous 4, the four women of Schola Gothia perform polyphonic settings of the ordinary of the Mass interspersed with Gregorian chant.

Thomas PACKE Gaudete in Domino Cat # GOT 49259 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

5% Preorder Discount

Loft Recordings Ja kyung Oh: organ BUXTEHUDE: Toccata in F • Passacaglia in D minor • J.S. BACH: Partite diverse sopra il Corale “O Gott du frommer Gott,” BWV 767 • Pièce d’Orgue in G, BWV 572 • KREBS: Jesu, meine Freude • Christ lag in Todesbanden • W.A. MOZART: Andante in F, K. 616 • MENDELSSOHN: Sonata No. 6 in D minor, Op. 65, No. 6 Cover Sticker: New organ from GOArt! Performed on a new organ at the Korea National University of Arts (KArts), designed according to the style of Arp Schnitger. A program of music from Buxtehude to Mendelssohn shows off the organ’s variety of sound and color.

Ja kyung Oh

Plays the Yokota-GoArt Organ Cat # LOF 1101 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

5% Preorder Discount

Release Date: April 8, 2008

Other Minds Records

Conlon Nancarrow: composer NANCARROW: Studies for Player Piano “After decades of struggle and neglect, Conlon Nancarrow is finally being recognized as one of the major American composers of the 20th century.”

— New York Times “The expatriate American experimentalist composer Conlon Nancarrow is increasingly recognized as having one of the most innovative musical minds of this century … Yet despite its complexity, Nancarrow’s music drew its early influence from the jazz pianism of Art Tatum and Earl Hines and from the rhythms of Indian music; Nancarrow’s whirlwinds of notes are joyously physical in their energy.” — Village Voice Cover Sticker: Newly Remastered.

The definitive recording of these works, newly remastered with spectacular sound, represents the most faithful reproduction of what Conlon Nancarrow heard, in his own studio. This is the only available recording utilizing Nancarrow’s original instruments: two 1927 Ampico player pianos.

Conlon NANCARROW

Studies for Player Piano (4 CDs) Cat # OTM 1012 Price Code: 4G (SRP $35.99) Double Jewel; Box Lot 40

also available NANCARROW Lost Works, Last Works

Not Available In Canada

Cat # OTM 1002 (R) Not Available In Canada

Cold Blue Music J.A. Deane: trombone Steve PETERS: The Webster Cycles “Open-space lyricism and beatific atmosphere … vivid, stark, and alluring.”

— Dusted Front Cover Sticker: “Pure, restrained, and rigorously beautiful.”

— Alvin Curran. A specially priced CD single.

The Webster Cycles’ six trombone parts are performed by noted musician J.A. Deane, whose eclectic credits include more than 40 recordings with such artists as Jon Hassell, Butch Morris, Brian Eno, John Zorn, Wayne Horvitz, and even Ike & Tina Turner. Composer Steve Peters is a composer/sound artist who draws inspiration from the experimental tradition and a wide range of the world’s folk music.

Steve PETERS

also available PETERS from shelter

The Webster Cycles Cat # CBM 27 Price Code: H (SRP $8.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

CAT # CBM 18 (H) Not Available In Canada

5% Preorder Discount

Not Available In Canada

Zig-Zag Territoires

Release Date: April 8, 2008

Cat # ZIG 71002 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Digipak; Box Lot 25

Cat # ZIG 60801 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Digipak; Box Lot 25

Not Available In Canada

Not Available In Canada

5% Preorder Discount

5% Preorder Discount

Cyril Auvity

Marin MARAIS

Cyril Auvity: tenor

Ensemble Spirale/Marianne Muller: viola da gamba, director

RAMEAU: Orphée • CLÉRAMBAULT: Ophée • COUPERIN: La charme • L’enjouement • La vivacité • La noble fierté • L’et caetera • La douceur • CHARPENTIER: Tristes déserts • LAMBERT: Par mes chants • Vous ne sauriez, mes yeux • Vos mépris chaque jour • BOUVARD: Plus je vous voix • “D.S.”: Mes Yeux

MARAIS: Les Folies d’Espagne • Suite in E minor • Tombeau pour M. de Sainte-Colombe • Le Labyrinthe • Suite d’un goût étranger (exc.)

Orphée: French Songs

Les Folies d’Espagne

This album includes two “hits” of Marin Marais: Les folies d’espagne and Le Tombeau de Mr de Ste Colombe.

Cyril Auvity is being hailed as a rising young tenor. This disc is a nice portrait of Orfeo’s myth viewed by French baroque composers such as Lambert, Clerambault, and Rameau.

Cat # ZIG 50903 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Digipak; Box Lot 25

Cat # ZIG 50302 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Digipak; Box Lot 25

Not Available In Canada

Not Available In Canada

5% Preorder Discount

5% Preorder Discount

Arcangelo CORELLI

Ensemble 415

Ensemble Fitzwilliam (Jean-Pierre Nicolas: flute/Michèle Dévérité: harpsichord/Bruno Cocset: cello/Yasunori Imamura: theorbo)

Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini: violin, director/Gaetano Nasillo: cello

La Follia

CORELLI: Flute (Violin) Sonatas, Op. 5, Nos. 7–12 A very interesting interpretation of violin sonatas by Jean-Pierre Nicolas, a major flutist of the first Baroque generation.

Neapolitan Concertos for Cello

FIORENZA: Concerto in F • Concerto in A • PORPORA: Concerto in G • LEO: Concerto in A • SABATINO: Concerto in G Beautiful Neapolitan cello concertos! Gaetano Nasillo and Ensemble 415 suit each other well, making this album truly rewarding.

Release Date: April 8, 2008

Zig-Zag Territoires

Anima Eterna Jos van Immerseel: conductor BEETHOVEN: Complete Symphonies • Complete Overtures “Jos van Immerseel’s orchestra Anima Eterna offers a fresh take … Van Immerseel opts for a lively but unforced approach with bags of inner detail, vivid percussion, and a particularly enthusiastic bass drum. There’s hardly a hint of kitsch … just great music, superbly focused.” — The Independent “The immediate impression here is of a solidly based orchestral sound—not surprising, as the band balances 12 violins and four violas with three cellos and three double basses.” — BBC Music magazine Zig-Zag Territoires presents a groundbreaking and unique recording of the complete Beethoven Symphonies.

also available

RAVEL Bolero Cat # ZIG 60901 (R) Not Available In Canada

RACHMANINOV Suites for Piano

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN

Complete Symphonies (6 CDs) Cat # ZIG 80402 Price Code: 3R (SRP $53.99) Box Set; Box Lot 10

Cat # ZIG 61105 (R) Not Available In Canada

5% Preorder Discount

Not Available In Canada

HAYDN Symphonies 44/45 Cat # ZIG 40203 (R) Not Available In Canada

Antoine FORQUERAY

Pieces for Harpsichord (2 CDs) Blandine Rannou: harpsichord FORQUERAY: Harpsichord Suites Nos. 1­­­–5 In 2001, Blandine Rannou began her recording career with the complete harpsichord pieces of Jean-Philippe Rameau, the eminent 18th century French composer and harpsichordist. She has since recorded the foremost German master of the same era, J.S. Bach, and excerpts from L’Art de toucher le clavecin by François Couperin. Here her trajectory continues with the virtuosity and expressive power of Jean-Baptiste Forqueray’s transcriptions of his father Antoine’s pieces for viola da gamba.

Cat # ZIG 80301 Price Code: 2R (SRP $35.99) Double Digipak; Box Lot 16

5% Preorder Discount

Not Available In Canada

Stradivarius

Release Date: April 8, 2008

Cat # STV 33778 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

Cat # STV 33764 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

Not Available In Canada

Not Available In Canada

World Premiere Recordings

World Premiere Recordings

Antonio VIVALDI

Antichi strumenti

Ensemble Strumentale di Roma/Giorgio Sasso: violin, conductor

Laura Toffetti: violin/Tobias Bonz: cello/Gabriele Palomba: theorbo/Gabriele Miracle: percussion

Violin Concertos

Dance music at the court of Francesco d’Este

VIVALDI: Violin Concertos, Rv 382, 276, 184, 247, 224a, 134, 198 & 364a All of the concertos recorded here are world premiere recordings performed on period instruments by an experienced group.

Lively and unpredictable music!

VITALI: Bergamasca • Canario • Minuetto • Passagallo • COLOMBI: Brando XXV • Sonata for violin and violone • SOROSINA: Sonatas Tera and Quarta for violin and violone • UCCELLINI: Corrente Terza e Quarta First recordings of rare, refined Baroque music coming from the prestigious Este court in Modena. Chamber treasures of the early literature for violin and cello.

Cat # STV 33753 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

Cat # STV 33788 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

Not Available In Canada

Not Available In Canada

Includes World Premiere Recordings

World Premiere Recordings

Alfred SCHNITTKE

Giovanni VERRANDO

Giampaolo Nuti: piano

RAI National Symphony Orchestra/Pierre-André Valade: conductor

Complete Piano Music Vol. 1

SCHNITTKE: Prelude and Fugue • Little pieces • Sonata No.1 • Five Aphorisms • Sonatina for piano four hands First volume of complete piano works from a trendy composer by an experienced pianist already known for his previous Schnittke.

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Orchestral Works

VERRANDO: Triptych • Sottile • Agile • Polyptich World premiere orchestral recordings by a young talent. This is the sixth volume of collaboration between Stradivarius and the RAI orchestra.

Release Date: April 8, 2008

hänssler Classic

Mannheim Mozart Orchestra Thomas Fey: conductor SALIERI: Armida ballet music • Daliso e Delmita Overture • Pafio e Mirra ossia I prigionieri di Cipro ballet music • Der Rauchfangkehrer Overture • Les Danaïdes ballet music • Les Horaces Overture • Catilina Overture A fascinating and vividly performed survey of the neglected master works from Mozart’s great rival for Vienna’s opera stage. While demonized as Mozart’s “assassin,” Antonio Salieri was a gifted composer in his own right; a colorful and imaginative orchestrator; and the man who taught Beethoven, Schubert, Hummel, and Liszt.

also available HAYDN Symphonies 94 & 104 Cat # HNS 98340 (S)

Antonio SALIERI

Overtures & Ballet Music Vol. 1 Not Available In Canada

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Vol. 2 Cat # HNS 98281 (S) Not Available In Canada

Cat # HNS 98506 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

5% Preorder Discount Includes World Premiere Recordings

SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart Roger Norrington: conductor W.A. MOZART: Symphony No. 8, K. 48 • Symphony after the “Posthorn” Serenade K. 320 • Symphony No. 40, K. 550 Insightful, vigorous, and essential readings of Mozart’s most beloved symphonies from one of the pioneers of the “historically informed performance” movement.

also available

W.A. MOZART Essential Symphonies Vol. II Cat # HNS 93212 (S)

W.A. MOZART

Essential Symphonies Vol. III Not Available In Canada

W.A. MOZART Essential Symphonies Vol. 1 Cat # HNS 93211 (S)

Cat # HNS 93213 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

5% Preorder Discount Not Available In Canada

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Challenge Classics

Release Date: April 8, 2008

Cat # CHR 72180 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

Cat # CHR 72189 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

Not Available In Canada

Not Available In Canada

Willem van OTTERLOO

Leopold & W.A. MOZART

Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra/Micha Hamel, Thierry Fischer: conductors

Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra/Ton Koopman: conductor/ Tini Mathot: pianoforte

OTTERLOO: Symphonietta • Suite for String Orchestra • Serenade • SCHUBERT (arr. Otterloo): Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 103, D 940

Leopold MOZART: Die Bauernhochzeit • Cassatio ex G (‘mit der Kindersinfonie’) • W.A. MOZART: Fugue from Gallimathias musicum K 32 • Twelve Variations in C on the French song ‘Ah, vous dirai-je maman’ K 265 • Symphony in E flat, K 16

Symphonietta, Suite & Serenade

From Toy Symphony to Peasant Wedding

Rarely recorded compositions of a world-famous conductor.

Beautiful orchestral works in the style of Bartók and the composers of his time.

All these works have been recorded before, but never so well and never in this context, which reveals the roots of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A good musical portrait of father and son.

Cat # CHR 72194 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

Cat # CHR DVD 72197 Price Code: 2M (SRP $29.99) Amaray; Box Lot 15

Not Available In Canada

Not Available In Canada

Johannes BRAHMS

Nicolò PAGANINI

Moderntimes_1800 (Ilia Korol: violin/Natalia Grigorieva: fortepiano)

Shlomo Mintz: violin/Limburg Symphony Orchestra Maastricht/ Yoel Levi: conductor

BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No. 1 • Violin Sonata, No. 3 Op. 108

Paganini: The Extraordinary Journey (spoken commentary in English, Italian, or Dutch; subtitles in French or German) • PAGANINI: Violin Concerto Op.6, No.11

Violin Sonatas

It is a revelation to hear Brahms on this thoroughbred, sonorous Streicher Grand—with its richness in overtones, powerful bass, and clear and focused high notes. Almost identical to Brahms’s own instrument!

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Violin Concerto Op. 6 No. 1 (2 DVDs)

Live concert performed on a unique instrument. Shlomo Mintz is regarded as one of the foremost violinists of our time. Spoken commentary includes an introduction to Paganini, his hometown, the violin, its preparation for the concert, and the actual journey of the precious instrument from Italy to the Netherlands for this performance on September 6, 1997. Region 0 (playable in all regions). Approx run time: 58 min.

Release Date: April 8, 2008

Challenge Classics

Ton Koopman: harpsichord, virginals BUXTEHUDE: 16 works for harpsichord The sixth volume of a complete works series, and the second part of Buxtehude’s harpsichord works. One of these pieces (track 5) is newly discovered and recorded here for the first time. Ton Koopman is one of the world’s foremost performers on harpsichord and virginals.

also available

BUXTEHUDE Complete Works Vol.V (2 CDs) Cat # CHR 72244 (2Q)

Dieterich BUXTEHUDE Not Available In Canada

BUXTEHUDE Complete Works Vol. IV

Complete Works Vol.VI: Harpsichord Works 2 (2 CDs) Cat # CHR 72245 Price Code: 2Q (SRP $31.99) Double Slimline; Box Lot 20

Cat # CHR 72243 (Q) Not Available In Canada

Includes World Premiere Recording

Not Available In Canada

Summit Records Andrea Giuffredi: trumpet Orchestra & Chorus of The Italian Opera Company Antonello Gotta: conductor Selections from Madama Butterfly, Pagliacci, Un ballo in maschera, Il trovatore, Turandot, Manon Lescaut, and more “A master.” — American Record Guide “One of the finest trumpet talents of all time.” — Joseph Alessi, NY Philharmonic An absolutely gorgeous tribute to the legendary Luciano Pavarotti from Italy’s best-known trumpet player, Andrea Giuffredi. also available Andrea Giuffredi Forme d’arte Cat # SMT 315 (R)

Andrea Giuffredi

Not Available In Canada

Andrea Giuffredi L’anacoreta

Tribute to Luciano Pavarotti Cat # SMT 499 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 50

Cat # SMT 392 (R) Not Available In Canada

5% Preorder Discount Cross-File Under Pavarotti

Not Available In Canada

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Doremi

Release Date: April 8, 2008 Cor de Groot: piano Vienna Symphony Orchestra Hague Residency Orchestra Willem van Otterloo: conductor BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 15 • Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 19 • Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 37 • Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 58 • Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 73 • Piano Sonata No. 17, Op. 31, No. 2 “Tempest” • Piano sonata No. 18, Op. 31, No. 3 “Cor de Groot plays these wonderful little pieces with imagination, charm, and great idiomatic freedom … there is an imaginative quality in his playing which makes it stand apart from that of the other pianists.”

— Musicweb-International First time on CD. Legendary Dutch pianist Cor de Groot in his great Beethoven concertos set, out of print for over 50 years.

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN

Complete Piano Concertos (3 CDs) Cat # DHR 7937 Price Code: 3R (SRP $53.99) Box Set; Box Lot 10 Not Available In Canada

Leonid Kogan

BRAHMS & MOZART Violin Concertos Vol. 1 Leonid Kogan: violin/Boston Symphony/Pierre Monteux: conductor/New York Philharmonic/ Dimitri Mitropoulos: conductor BRAHMS: Violin concerto, Op. 77 • W.A. MOZART: Violin concerto No. 3, K.216 Russian-Jewish Leonid Kogan, one of the greatest violinists of all time, on his first tour of America.

Cat # DHR 7900 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Not Available In Canada

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Release Date: April 8, 2008

Fuga Libera/Ricercar

Cat # FGL 534 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

Cat # RCE 262 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Digipak; Box Lot 25

Not Available In Canada

Not Available In Canada

Benjamin BRITTEN

Syntagma Amici

European Camerata/Laurent Quénelle: violin, conductor/JeanPaul Minali-Bella: arpegina

Syntagma Amici/Bernhard Stilz: tournebout, flute, conductor

Variations on a theme of Franck Bridge

BRITTEN: Variations on a Theme of Franck Bridge, Op. 10 • Lachrymae–Reflections on a Song of Dowland Op. 48a • Two Portraits For String Orchestra • Simple Symphony, Op. 4 This program, largely devoted to striking works of the youthful Britten, allows the listener to discover the exceptional talent of a string orchestra unlike any other: the European Camerata.

Krumhorn, cromorne, storto, tournebout?

30 selections by Susato, Alamire, Isaac, von Hesen, Senfl, Manchicourt, Stoltzer, Desprez, Donato, Willaert, Mainerio, Corteccia, Viadana, Schein & Praetorius Introduces the listener to a little-known instrument whose performing life was limited to the Renaissance: the krumhorn (German), storto (Italian), or tournebout (French).

Alpha

Cat # APH 119 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Digipak; Box Lot 25

Cat # APH 112 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Digipak; Box Lot 25

Not Available In Canada

Not Available In Canada

Franz LISZT

Oliver MESSIAEN

Patrick Scheyder: piano

Sequenza 9.3/Catherine Simonpietri: conductor

LISZT: Funérailles Paysage • Mazeppa • Polonais Sposalizio • Il Penseroso • Rêve d’amour Nos. 1–3 • Improvisation

DANIEL-LESUR: Le cantique des cantiques • MESSIAEN: Cinq Rechants • JOLIVET: Epithalame

Patrick Scheyder performs on an Ignace Pleyel piano from 1846, and gives a fresh look at the tradition of Liszt interpretation.

2008 is the centenary of the births of Olivier Messiaen and Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur. On this occasion, Catherine Simonpietri and the vocal ensemble Sequenza 9.3, whose achievements were awarded a Diapason d’Or in 2006, have decided to honor the composers with this beautiful recording.

Mazeppa

Polyphonies: Jeune France

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CAvi-music

Release Date: April 8, 2008

Cat # AVI 8553067 Price Code: 3N (SRP $38.99) Box Set; Box Lot 14

Cat # AVI 8553022 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

Not Available In Canada

Not Available In Canada

5% Preorder Discount

5% Preorder Discount

Edition Klavier-Festival Ruhr

W.A. MOZART

Robert Levin, Lars Vogt, Peter Serkin, and more: pianos

Carmina Quartett (Matthias Enderle: violin/Suanne Frank: violin/Wende Champney: viola/Stephan Goerner: cello)

Mozart,Variations & New Piano Music (3 CDs)

W. A. MOZART: Sonata for 4 hands, K 19d • Piano concerto No. 26, K 357 • BEETHOVEN: 32 variations, WoO 80 • SCHUMANN: Abegg variations, Op. 1 • MENDELSSOHN: Variations sérieuses, Op. 54 • FRANCK: Prelude, fugue and variation, Op. 18 • RACHMANINOV: Variations on a theme by Chopin, Op. 22 • ROSENBLATT: 10 variations and fugue in A minor on a theme by Paganini • KOMAROVA: Theme with seven variations • RIHM: Piano piece No. 5: Tombeau • CARTER: Intermittences • DOWLAND: Pavane Lachrimae • and more

String Quartets

W.A. MOZART: String quartet K 421 • String quartet K 387 • String quartet K 465 “Dissonant” Famous string quartets from Mozart’s middle period.

Front Cover Sticker: Live recordings 2006—Piano Festival Ruhr.

Features rarely played Mozart pieces.

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W.A. MOZART

Anthony & Joseph Paratore: two pianos/and more

Sabine Meyer: clarinet, bassett horn/Wolfgang Meyer: clarinet, bassett horn/Reiner Wehle: clarinet, bassett horn/Kalle Randalu: piano

Transcriptions & Paraphrases (3 CDs)

TCHAIKOVSKY (arr. Econoumu): Nutcracker Suite for 2 pianos • LISZT: Schubert Lieder transcriptions from Schwanengesang • WILD: Seven Virtuoso Etudes (exc.) • WAGNER (arr. Pavtschinski: Three symphonic Episodes from The Ring • R. STRAUSS (arr.

Thuille): Don Juan, Op. 20 • R. STRAUSS (arr. V. Babin): Sequence of waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier • and more Front Cover Sticker: Live recordings from the Piano Festival Ruhr– Germany 2005. Includes three world premieres from contemporary composers.

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Una voce…per Clarone

W.A. MOZART (arr. Schottstädt): Alla bella Despinetta from Così fan tutte • Three Arias from Don Giovanni • ROSSINI: Una voce poco fa from The Barber of Seville • BEETHOVEN: Variations on La ci clarem la mano from Mozart’s Don Giovanni • BASSI & GIAMPIERI: Fantasy on Verdi’s Rigoletto • WEBER: Variations, Op. 33 • A. & K. DOPPLER (arr. Schottstädt): Fantasy on Verdi’s Rigoletto, Op. 38 Sabine Meyer, “Queen of the Clarinet,” is a household name. This disc features famous opera tunes for small instrumental settings.

CAvi-music

Release Date: April 8, 2008 Antje Weithaas: violin Silke Avenhaus: piano SCHUBERT: Sonatine, D 385 • Violin Sonata, D 574 • Fantasy, D 934 “Both artists contribute to one of the most expressive and artistically wellplayed albums of recent years.” — FonoForum Rarely recorded pieces by two wonderful musicians.

Franz SCHUBERT

Violin Works

SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 1/Trockne Blumen

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Urtext Digital Classics Gustavo Martín: violoncello Alethia Lozano: flute Juan Carlos Laguna: guitar Juan Antonio Santoyo: piano VILLA-LOBOS: O canto do cisne negro, for cello and piano • GNATTALI: Sonata for cello and guitar • PONCE: Sonata for cello and piano • KAVINDU: Ludicata 2, for flute and cello • GAMBOA: Muy cerca, for cello and guitar • VILLA-LOBOS: Assobio a Jato, for flute and cello A collection of chamber works for cello and piano, cello and flute, and cello and guitar by composers both from Brazil and Mexico. Features the Sonata for cello and piano by Manuel M. Ponce, one of Mexico’s foremost composers. Cellist Gustavo Martín collaborated in the correction of the new edition of the score made by the Mexico’s National University. Also includes two pieces by Heitor Villa-Lobos: the Black Swan’s Song for cello and piano, very much in the spirit of Saint-Saën’s The Swan, and a very challenging work for flute called The Jet Whistle.

Heitor VILLA–LOBOS

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Arte Nova Classics

Release Date: April 8, 2008

W.A. MOZART

Clarinet Concerto/Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter” Staatskapelle Weimar/George Alexander Albrecht: conductor/Ralph Manno: clarinet W.A. MOZART: Clarinet Concerto KV 622 • Symphony No. 41 KV 551 “Jupiter” George Alexander Albrecht is counted among the leading conductors of his generation.

Through his many guest appearances, he is known to all the major German orchestras.

Internationally acclaimed clarinetist Ralph Manno, prizewinner of the German Music Competition, is a professor at the Cologne Conservatory.

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Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY

Symphony No. 2/Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture Russian Philharmonic Orchestra/Samuel Friedmann: conductor TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 2 Op. 17 (second version, 1879) • Fantasy-Overture Romeo and Juliet (third version, 1880) Samuel Friedmann graduated from the Kharkov Conservatory as a violinist in 1964 and from the Leningrad Conservatory as a conductor in 1966. In 1973 he immigrated to Israel and began his international career. During this time, Friedmann took over the positions of the Musical Director or Chief Conductor of the Haifa Symphony in Israel (1973–75), the Württembergische Philharmonie in Germany (1979–83), and the St. Gallen Opera House in Switzerland (1983–89).

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J.S. BACH

Cello Suites (2 CDs) Guido Schiefen: cello J.S. BACH: Suite No. 1 BWV 1007 • Suite No. 3 BWV 1009 • Suite No. 6 BWV 1012 • Suite No. 2 BWV 1008 • Suite No. 4 BWV 1010 • Suite No. 5 BWV 1011 Born in 1968, Guido Schiefen was a student at the Cologne Conservatory with Alwin Bauer and took courses with Maurice Gendron and Siegfried Palm. Besides his engagements as soloist with renowned orchestras, Schiefen is dedicated to chamber music, performing with the Ensemble Incanto and the Trio con Flauto.

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Arte Nova Classics

Lan Rao: soprano Micaela Gelius: piano BRAHMS: Lieder Soprano Lan Rao studied with Arleen Augér at the Frankfurt Music Academy and attended master classes with Reiner Hoffmann, Hartmut Höll, Erik Werba, and Helmut Deutsch. Her reputation as one of the most outstanding Lied performers of the younger generation has been cemented by her numerous radio and television appearances in Europe, the US, and Asia, as well as by her CD recordings with Arte Nova. Pianist Micaela Gelius studied at the Munich Conservatory, specializing in song accompaniment under Erik Werba and Helmut Deutsch. She was a regular accompanist in the singing classes of Brigitte Faßbaender, Reri Grist and in master classes led by Hans Hotter, Hanno Blaschke, and Charlotte Kaminsky.

Johannes BRAHMS

Lieder

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Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano “Giuseppe Verdi” Alun Francis: conductor STRAVINSKY: Jeu de cartes (The Card Party) • Le baiser de la fée (The Fairy’s Kiss) “The Milano Orchestra under the baton of Alun Francis remains wellcoordinated even through the most ambitious passages … An artistically and musically well-balanced recording.” — Classics Today, Germany Alun Francis has conducted the major English orchestras including the BBC Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and the London Mozart Players. A composer himself, he composes for theater and film. Since the beginning of the 1996/97 season he has been Chief Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano “Giuseppe Verdi.”

Igor STRAVINSKY

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Tactus

Release Date: April 8, 2008

Carlo Alessandro LANDINI Orchestral Works

MBS Symphony Orchestra/Jason Tipple: director/Budapest Philharmonia/János Erdélyi: director/Orchestre Régional de Poitou-Charentes/Renaud Picard-Lalanne: director/ Orchestra da Camera “Milano Classica”/Massimiliano Caldi: director LANDINI: Sinfonia in A for symphony orchestra (abridged) • Time On Target for symphony orchestra • Sinfonia in B for symphony orchestra • Midrash Temurah for 13 strings First Tactus recording of this extremely talented contemporary Italian composer (born in 1954), who recently received the first prize of the “W. Lutoslawski” Award in Warsaw.

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Antonio VIVALDI Italian Adagios

Giuliano Giuliani: oboe, oboe d’amore, English horn/Constance Frei: violin/Emanuela Degli Esposti: harp/Andrea Macinanti: organ/Angela Troilo: voice ALBINONI: Adagio • MARCELLO: Adadio • VIVALDI: Largo e cantabile • SEBASTIANI: Fenesta che lucivi • DONIZETTI: Larghetto • Solo • RESPIGHI: Aria • RAVANELLO: Prelude & Berceuse • RANZATO: Preghiera della sera • MULÉ: Largo • ROTA: Piccola suite natalizia • GIARDA: Elegia • MORRICONE: Gabriel’s Oboe • SALVADORI: Danza notturna • Danza meridiana A very interesting and unique compilation of Italian adagios by some very famous composers, from Baroque to Contemporary.

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Baldassarre GALUPPI

Pastime of the Cembalo Sonata Annalisa Martella: harpsichord GALUPPI: Sonatas I–VI

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In January 1782, an important Russian Granduke on a visit to Venice with his wife received in homage a collection of six sonatas for harpsichord. The personage in question was Paul Petrovich, the son of the czarina Catherine, who was destined to succeed his mother in 1796. The author of the sonatas was Baldassarre Galuppi, who had served the czarina in St. Petersburg until 1768. Galuppi had begun his career at the age of 20 as a virtuoso harpsichordist and composer for that instrument (the musical connoisseur Charles Burney called him “a good harpsichordist”) and he wrote no fewer than 130 sonatas for the keyboard.

Release Date: April 8, 2008

Tactus

Antonio VIVALDI

Keyboard Rarities by and after Vivaldi L’Orfeo Ensemble di Spoleto (Angelo Silvio Rosati, Luca Scandali: organ/Olivia Giubboni: harpsichord/Angelo Cicillini, Luca Venturi: violins)/Fabrizio Ammetto: violin, director VIVALDI: Movement from the Concerto in D minor, Rv 541 • Concerto in F, Rv 775 (reconstructed by Fabrizio Ammetto) • Concerto in D, Rv 774 (reconstructed by Fabrizio Ammetto) • Sinfonia in A, Rv Anh. 85J • Concerto in C minor, Rv 766 • Concerto, Rv 310 from Gruytters Carillon’s Book • Movement from Concerto in D, Rv Anh. 76 (reconstructed by Michael Talbot) • Large & Andante in A, Rv 746 • Concerto in F, Rv 767 • J.S. BACH: Concerto in B minor, BWV 979, after Vivaldi, Rv Anh. 10 • WALTHER: Concerto in B minor, after Vivaldi, Rv 275 Vivaldi’s works, which number well over 800 by the most recent count, include nothing written originally for solo keyboard. The works for ensemble that employ obbligato keyboard do so in one of two ways. The first is to employ broken chords in the right hand of the instrument as a coloristic effect, while the second is to write for the keyboard instrument strictly (or nearly so) in two parts.

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Domenico GABRIELLI

St. Sigismond, King of Borgogna: oratorio for 5 voices with instruments Ensemble Les Nations (Elena Biscuola, Laura Antonaz, Patrizia Vaccari: soprano/Fabio Furnari: tenor/Andrea Favari: bass/Davide Monti, Katia Ciampo: violin/Emanuele Marcante: viola/Marco Dal Bianco: cello/Maurizio Less: violone, lirone/Maurizio Piantelli: guitar/Marina Scaioli: organ)/Maria Luisa Baldassari: clavicembalo, director GABRIELLI: S. Sigismondo re di Borgogno (complete oratorio) The oratorio as a genre enjoyed particular favor in Bologna, flourishing first in the hands of Giovanni Paolo Colonna (a pupil of Carissimi), and later in those of his worthy Bolognese successors Vitali, Ariosti, Gabrielli, Pistocchi, Degli Antonii, and Perti. In 1618 Pope Gregory XV gave the Padri Filippini permission to use the church of S. Maria di Galliera for their devotional activities. Before this time, the Congregazione dell’Oratorio filippino, founded in Bologna in 1615, held its spiritual exercises in the small church of S. Barbara.

The musical activities of the Congregation were led by a praefectus musicae, who would have been for the most part an internal member of the Congregation itself.

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Giovanni MENEGHETTI Concertos & Sonatas

Giovanni Guglielmo: violin/Enrico Zanovello: harpsichord/Archicembalo Ensemble (Matteo Zanatto, Alessia Turri: violin/Mariano Doria: viola/Stefania Cavedon, Carlo Nerini: cello/Fabio Conte: violone) MENEGHETTI: Violin Concerto in G • Violin Concerto in F • Violin Sonata in A • Violin Concerto in C • Violin Concerto in F • Violin Concerto in D • Harpsichord Sonata in Bflat • Harpsichord Sonata in G minor The Archicembalo Ensemble offers a portrait of Meneghetti’s instrumental writing. This recording presents five of his six concertos for violin and strings, preserved in the Fondo Malaspina of the Archivio di Stato in Verona. The concertos adhere to the traditional form of three movements—allegro-adagio-allegro—inherited from Vivaldi and kept alive in the following century, albeit with a myriad of variations and exceptions.

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Bel Canto Society

Release Date: April 8, 2008

Beniamino Gigli

Ave Maria (2 DVDs) Cat # BCS DVD 494 Price Code: 2O (SRP $27.99) Double Amaray; Box Lot 30 Not Available In Canada

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Beniamino Gigli: tenor Erna Berger: soprano Selections from La boheme, La traviata • Various songs by Ernesto De Curtis and Alois Melichar “One gains a wonderful idea of the disarming simplicity and generosity of the man which wholly exonerates him from a charge of ham acting. The voice itself pours out of him in that well-known, heartfelt manner, uniquely his, the honeyed mezza voce a thing to wonder at.” — Gramophone A collector’s edition! This two-DVD set includes both the German and Italian versions of Ave Maria. Each has English subtitles and two PCM audio tracks. One track is the original, the other is restored. Booklet includes a biography of Erna Berger as well as a feast of rare photos of Beniamino Gigli. Region 0 (playable in all regions). Approx run time: 154 min.

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Beniamino Gigli et al Mad About Opera Cat # BCS DVD 493 (S) Not Available In Canada

Nuova Era

Release Date: April 8, 2008

Ruggero LEONCAVALLO La bohème (2 CDs)

Lucia Mazzaria/Jonathan Summers/Martha Senn/Mario Malagnini/Bruno Praticò/ Silvano Pagliuca/Pietro Spagnoli/Romano Emili/Orchestra e Coro del Teatro la Fenice di Venezia/Jan Latham Koenig: conductor LEONCAVALLO: La bohème (complete opera) The lesser-known version of La bohème, which was unfairly eclipsed by Puccini’s hugely successful version. The score features interweaving scenes of charming, light music and more aggressive ariosi.

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Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU Le Devin du Village

Eva Kirchner/Dongkyu Choy/Thomas Müller de Vries/René Clemencic: conductor ROUSSEAU: Le Devin du Village (complete opera) One of the very few versions of this opera, conducted by the legendary René Clemencic.

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Francesco Paola TOSTI Romanze (2 CDs)

Renato Bruson/Robert Kettelson: piano TOSTI: Romanze (songs) A unique collection of Italian romanzas.

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