Allegro Classical April 2012 New Release Book

APRIL 2012 Release Date: April 10, 2012 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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Clarinet Classics Saxophone Classics Cello Classics Brass Classics Omnibus Classics LIR Classics

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Classics Labels PG 6–7

allegro Classical News Contents Mark O’Connor Cappella Pratensis Inon Barnatan Yakov Kreizberg Antonio Janigro Camillo Sivori

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THE CLASSICS LABELS

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The Classics Labels is a British-based group of record labels owned by three London musicians—Victoria Soames Samek (clarinet), Sebastian Comberti (cello), and Paul Archibald (trumpet)—who together bring many years of experience in all fields of performance. The group is comprised of several specialist instrumental labels—Clarinet Classics, Saxophone Classics, Cello Classics, and Brass Classics—that feature their respective instruments in world-class performances of core repertoire, groundbreaking new recordings, period instrument performances, and historical reissues. In addition, The Classics Labels has expanded to embrace more varied repertoire released on Omnibus Classics and the mid-price LIR Classics. The objective of The Classics Labels is to give the finest musicians the opportunity to fulfill creative ambitions and to extend the boundaries of their musical expression.

The Classics Labels come to Allegro Classical via Launch International.

Royal Flemish Philharmonic

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A modern, stylistically flexible symphony orchestra, the Royal Flemish Philharmonic demonstrates an artistic flair that allows for a variety of styles—from classical to contemporary—in a historically authentic manner.

The orchestra is proud to present its recordings in three high-quality series, each with its distinct character: A-List brings you the great masterpieces interpreted by renowned conductors, Belgian Boutique focuses on major pieces from the Belgian orchestral repertoire, and Cutting Edge introduces contemporary orchestral music by Belgian and foreign composers. RFP comes to Allegro Classical via CODAEX.

FLORA

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Flora unites three friends and personalities of the baroque musical world: François Fernandez, Philippe Pierlot, and Rainer Zipperling—and responsibility, independence, and passion are the master words that guide them. Flora comes to Allegro Classical via CODAEX.

LA BOTTEGA DISCANTICA

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The research of the Edizioni Discografiche of La Bottega Discantica, which began in 1994 with a collection of vocal and instrumental works by Monteverdi, focuses on rare and important pieces not limited to predefined composers or eras, and has expanded to include contemporary chamber music, oratorio, opera, Gregorian chant, Italian & international baroque organ music, and transcriptions for instruments. La Bottega Discantica comes to Allegro Classical via CODAEX.

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Ancalagon Records

The Knights

A Second of Silence [SACD Hybrid] BUZZ ALERT

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The Knights Eric Jacobsen: conductor SATIE: Gymnopédies Nos. 1, 2 • GLASS: Company • SCHUBERT: Gretchen am Spinnrade, D. 118 • Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 “Unfinished” • Symphony No. 3 in D, D. 200 • “Des Baches Wiegenlied” from Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795 • FELDMAN: Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety “The future of classical music in America.” — Los Angeles Times The Knights are an orchestra of friends from a broad spectrum of the New York music world who cultivate collaborative music-making and creatively engage audiences in the shared joy of musical performance. This is the Knights’ second album for Ancalagon Records, and follows their 2011 Juno Award-winning recording of Mozart with Scott & Lara St. John. The album features music of Schubert, Satie, Glass, and Feldman, composers who either influenced or were influenced by the great playwright Samuel Beckett.

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PERFORMANCE DATES US tour April 5–20 includes performances in Troy, NY; Akron & Granville, OH; Richmond, KY; Sewanee, TN; Columbus & Athens, GA; Amherst, MA; and Rockville, NY.

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OMAC Records

Special Street Date: February 14, 2012

Mark O’Connor

special street date: february 14, 2012

American Classics

Cat # OMC 17 Price Code: G (SRP $8.99) Number of Discs: 1 Eco Wallet; Box Lot 100 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Mark O’Connor: violin Rieko Aizawa: piano 21 selections from The American Songbook: Rubber Dolly Rag • Over the Waves • Rippling Water Jig • Hava Nagila • Herman’s Hornpipe • Lazy River • Rain Clouds • Congress Hoedown • Deep River • Liberty • In the Cluster Blues • Jessie Polka • The Entertainer • Grey Eagle • March of the Pharaohs • Daphne • Old Folks at Home • Boil ‘em Cabbage Down • We Shall Overcome • Simple Gifts • America the Beautiful The first collection comprised solely of traditional American songs that Mark O’Connor has released since Soppin’ the Gravy, from his teenage years. It includes beloved folk songs, fiddle tunes, and classic themes from 400 years of traditional American violin playing, and pulls from all regions of North America and from diverse musical styles including classical, folk, Latin, jazz, rock, and ragtime. The music ties into the repertoire for the O’Connor Method, an approach to music education that The New Yorker calls “an American grown rival to the Suzuki method.”

PERFORMANCE DATES February 25 Buffalo, NY – Kleinhans Music Hall March 27 Goshen, IN – Sauder Concert Hall April 21 Johnson City, TN – Mary B. Martin Auditorium June 2 Meridian, MS – MSU Riley Center Grand Opera House

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CORO

Release Date: April 10, 2012

Claudio MONTEVERDI

Selva morale e spirituale Vol. II BUZZ ALERT

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The Sixteen Harry Christophers: conductor MONTEVERDI: Selva morale e spirituale Vol. II: Laudata Dominum (Terzo) • Confitebor tibi Domine (Primo) • O ciechi ciechi • Jubilate • Messa à 4 da cappella • Deus tuorum militum (Secondo) • Sanctorum meritis (Primo) • Crucifixus • Laudate Dominum • Et iterum • Ab aeterno ordinata sum • Dixit Dominus (Primo) Without doubt, Monteverdi was the greatest of the early Baroque European composers. He revolutionized the music of the theatre and the church by his dramatic and imaginative use of voices and instruments, and by his daring harmonies and rhythms. Next to his Vespers of 1610, the Selva morale e spirituale of 1641 is his most significant and virtuosic collection of sacred music. This second volume of The Sixteen’s celebrated series includes the Messa à 4 da cappella; the celebrated first volume is also available on CORO.

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The Sixteen Music from the Sistine Chapel Cat # CRO 16047 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 d

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The Classics Labels

Release Date: April 10, 2012

Allegro classical welcomes the classics labels Julius Klengel, Raphael Wallfisch, and 12 other cellists KLENGEL: Hymnus for 12 cellos • Capriccio on a Theme of Schumann for unaccompanied cello • Suite for 3 cellos • 3 pieces for 2 cellos and organ • Impromptu for 4 cellos • J.S. BACH: Sarabande • TARTINI: Adagio • COSSMANN: Tarantelle • POPPER: Mazurka “A must for cellophiles.” — The Observer A release of newly restored historical recordings of Julius Klengel, featuring a rare recording of the tour-de-force Capriccio played by Raphael Wallfisch!

Julius Klengel A Celebration

Cat # TCL CE 11024 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 World Premiere Recordings

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Cello Classics

Philippe Cuper, Philippe Olivier Devaux: clarinets Christine Lagniel: piano Les virtuoses de l’Opéra (Paris) CAHUZAC: Concertino (premiere) • Pastorale cévenole for clarinet & strings (premiere) • Arlequin • Cantilén • Variations sur un air du pays d’Oc • Etude (premiere) • Fantaisie variée sur un vieil air champêtre • Sonate Classique Nos. 1 & 2 • Pastorale cévenole for clarinet & piano (premiere) “Philippe Cuper is one of the best representatives of the clarinet, soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician … in all areas he plays with the same ease, the same comforting serenity.” — Le Monde de la Musique

Louis CAHUZAC The Complete Works Cat # TCL CC 10065 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 World Premiere Recordings

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Clarinet Classics

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An important new recording of the complete works of Louis Cahuzac played

by Philippe Cuper (Principal Clarinet of the Paris National Opera Orchestra and international soloist on his third CD for Clarinet Classics), who has direct professorial lineage from Louis Cahuzac. One of the great clarinet players of the 20th century, Cahuzac was also prolific as a recording artist. His work as a composer is less widely known, so it is with particular pride that Clarinet Classics presents the only current CD devoted to his music.

Release Date: April 10, 2012

The Classics Labels

Clarinet Classics • Saxophone Classics • Cello Classics • Brass Classics • Omnibus Classics • LIR Classics Helen Reid: piano CHOPIN: Nocturne in C-sharp minor • Impromptu No. 1, Op. 29, Impromptu No. 2, Op. 36 • DEBUSSY: Nocturne in D-flat, L. 82 • L’isle joyeuse • FAURÉ: Nocturne No. 6 in D-flat • SCHUMANN: Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26 “A special pair of hands … Reid’s beautifully poised, tenderly imagined, and finely focused playing re-educated and refined the ear.” — The Times Helen Reid first came to public attention when she reached the Keyboard Finals of the BBC Young Musician of the Year. She has given recitals at venues including Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Fairfield & Blackheath Halls, Bridgewater Hall, and the Aldeburgh and Buxton Festivals. In 2006 she was named a “Rising Star” in The Independent. Helen is professor of piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Trinity College of Music Junior Department.

Helen Reid Piano Works

Cat # TCL OM 15005 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

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Omnibus Classics

Also available from the classics labels

Nick Etheridge

Sarah Markham

Lynex & Wells

Cat # TCL BC 13011 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

Cat # TCL SC 14005 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

Cat # TCL LIR 70022 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

This Is Tubagility

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Brass Classics

Run, Sing, Fly

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Saxophone Classics

Cello Elegies and Romances Vol. 1

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LIR Classics

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Challenge Classics

Release Date: April 10, 2012 Annemarie Kremer: soprano Wilke te Brummelstroete: alto Marcel Reijans: tenor Geert Smits: baritone Netherlands Symphony Orchestra Willem de Vriend: conductor BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 “Choral” The final CD in the complete Beethoven Symphonies series performed

by Jan Willem de Vriend and his Netherlands Symphony Orchestra.

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Ludwig van BEETHOVEN

Symphony No. 9 [SACD Hybrid] Cat # CHR SACD 72533 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel w/ O-Card, Box Lot 25 d

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BEETHOVEN Symphonies 1 & 5 Cat # CHR SACD 72364 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1

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Amstel Quartet Remco Jak: soprano saxophone Olivier Sliepen: alto saxophone Bas Apswoude: tenor saxophone Ties Mellema: baritone saxophone J.S. BACH: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 • LAGO: Ciudades • BRAHMS: Symphony No. 3 in F, Op. 90 • NYMAN: Three movements from String Quartet No. 2 • Three movements from Eight Sketches in Hunan Accent • MOZART: Adagio & Fuga, K. 546 • BARBER: Adagio for strings • SWEELINCK: Chromatic Fantasy • RIVIER: Grave et Presto • RAVEL: Pavane pour une infante défunte The most colorful saxophone quartet in the world! Old music, new music, popular music, world music—anything goes with Remco Jak, Olivier Sliepen, Bas Apswoude, and Ties Mellema. But there is one condition: the music played by the Amstel Quartet is good, gripping music, presented in a way that complements, enriches, and clarifies the music. Technical limitations do not exist, and musical boundaries are there only to be crossed!

Amstel Quartet

Amstel Tracks Now! Cat # CHR 72534 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

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Release Date: April 10, 2012

Challenge Classics

Johannes OCKEGHEM & Pierre DE LA RUE Requiems [SACD Hybrid] Cat # CHR SACD 72541 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel w/ O-Card, Box Lot 25 d

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Cappella Pratensis Stratton Bull: director OCKEGHEM: Missa pro defunctis • DE LA RUE: Missa pro fidelibus defunctis For their third CD on the Challenge label, Cappella Pratensis turns the pages back to the very beginnings of the tradition of settings of the Requiem mass. The Requiems by Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1410–1497) and Pierre de la Rue (c. 1452–1518) form an ideal pairing, as they are the first polyphonic versions of the Mass for the Dead from the brilliant composers of the Franco-Flemish school. By bringing these two works together, Cappella Pratensis offers the chance to hear the beginnings of one of the great traditions in Western music as well as two profound musical translations of the words of consolation that mark the passing of our fellow travelers in life.

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Royal Flemish Philharmonic

Release Date: April 10, 2012

Richard STRAUSS

An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64 Cat # RFP 1 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

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Royal Flemish Phiharmonic Edo de Waart: conductor R. STRAUSS: An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64 A modern, stylistically flexible symphony orchestra, the Royal Flemish Philharmonic demonstrates an artistic flair that allows for a variety of styles—from classical to contemporary—in a historically authentic manner. Chief Conductor Edo de Waart is responsible for the orchestra’s main repertoire. Drawing on his vast experience as former Chief Conductor of the Netherlands RPO, San Francisco Symphony, and Hong Kong Philharmonic, he contributes to the unique character of the Royal Flemish Philharmonic.

The Royal Flemish Philharmonic is proud to present its recordings in three high-quality series, each with its distinct character: A-List brings you the great masterpieces, interpreted by renowned conductors, Belgian Boutique focuses on major pieces from the Belgian orchestral repertoire, and Cutting Edge introduces contemporary orchestral music by Belgian and foreign composers.

This first CD in the A-List series is a live recording of Richard Strauss’ majestic Alpine Symphony. Strauss’ final large-scale symphonic poem is immensely spectacular and haunting. This grandiose orchestral piece was performed and recorded live in May 2011. It was Edo de Waart’s first performance with the Royal Flemish Philharmonic since the announcement of his appointment as Chief Conductor; the recording is therefore a highly symbolic opener for the orchestra’s new label!

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Release Date: April 10, 2012

Royal Flemish Philharmonic

Royal Flemish Phiharmonic Martyn Brabbins: conductor Jef MAES: Overture concertante • Arthur MEULEMANS: Concerto for Orchestra No. 1 • Concerto for Orchestra No. 2 • Norbert ROSSEAU: Concerto for Orchestra No. 1, Op. 37—3rd mvt, Scherzo The Belgian Boutique series focuses on major pieces from the Belgian orchestral repertoire; the Royal Flemish Philharmonic has deliberately chosen to widen its repertoire to include the musical heritage of the whole country, and wants to provoke the listener by confronting similar works by different composers. The first CD in the Belgian Boutique series unites three composers who have worked with the “concertante” possibilities of symphonic orchestras, using the Overture Concertante by Jef Maes as a starting point. Maes was one of the co-founders of the RFP in the 1950s, and this piece was the “club song” of the orchestra for a long time!

Royal Flemish Philharmonic

Concertos for Orchestra Cat # RFP 2 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

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Royal Flemish Phiharmonic Martyn Brabbins: conductor HENDERICKX: Tejas (What does the sound of the universe look like?) • Skriet • Le visioni di paura • Variations The future is everything to the Royal Flemish Philharmonic, and their Cutting Edge series introduces contemporary orchestral music by Belgian and foreign composers. This first CD in the series puts the spotlight on Belgian composer Wim Henderickx, who is not only very familiar with the orchestra, but is also an extraordinary and fascinating composer. The CD consists of four orchestral pieces by Henderickx, opening with the grandiose Tejas. Henderickx composed this piece especially for the Royal Flemish Philharmonic in 2009. In combination with the other tracks on the CD, it gives an overview of the composer’s body of work and challenges the listeners to look for musical differences and similarities.

Wim HENDERICKX

Tejas & Other Orchestral Works

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Avie Records

Release Date: April 10, 2012

Rudens Turku

Sweet Remembrance Rudens Turku: violin/Yumiko Urabe: piano YSAŸE: Solo Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor • 14 short pieces by Paradis, Wieniawski, Paganini, Shostakovich, Elgar, Mendelssohn, Sarasate, Mussorgsky, Kreisler, Glazunov, Brahms & Massenet

Cat # AVR 2223 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Since making his Avie recording debut in 2005, Rudens Turku has amassed a devoted following for his effortless virtuosity. Following albums devoted to solo works, duos, and concertos, Rudens returns with a personal selection of miniatures and encores for violin and piano. Sweet Remembrance—the subtitle of Jascha Heifetz’s arrangement of Mendelssohn’s Song without Words—ranges from the romantic Salut d’amour by Elgar, Schön Rosmarin by Kreisler, and Massenet’s Meditation from Thaïs, to the energetic Scherzo from Brahms’ F-A-E Sonata and Shostakovich’s exhilarating Preludium. Interspersed with miniature masterpieces by great violinist-composers such as Paganini, Sarasate, Kreisler, and Wienawski, the album boldly concludes with Ysaÿe’s commanding Second Sonata, itself written in remembrance of another great violinist, Jacques Thibaud.

Inon Barnatan Darknesse Visible Inon Barnatan: piano RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit • La Valse • ADÈS: Darknesse Visible • DEBUSSY: Suite Bergamasque • STEVENSON/BRITTEN: Fantasy on Peter Grimes

Cat # AVR 2256 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

Brilliant Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan debuts on Avie with Darknesse Visible, an album of colorful and atmospheric masterpieces by French composers Ravel and Debussy, and Englishmen Thomas Adés and Ronald Stevenson. Inspired by the title track, Adés’ Darknesse Visible—a wondrous and dreamlike prism on the John Dowland song “In Darkness Let Me Dwell”—Inon chose works that are linked by different characteristics of darkness in the music.

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

Orchestra of the Swan/Kenneth Woods: conductor GÁL: Symphony No. 4 (Sinfonia Concertante) • SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 2 in C, Op. 61

Cat # AVR 2231 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

Kenneth Woods and Orchestra of the Swan’s world premiere recording of Hans Gál’s Symphony No. 3, coupled with Schumann’s Third, was one of the most lauded classical releases of 2011.

With features on NPR’s All Things Considered and Performance Today, in Gramophone and BBC Music magazine, and dozens of newspaper and online reviews, a new generation is discovering and seeking out Gál’s wide-ranging and extensive oeuvre. Woods, a prolific blogger, further stokes the interest with his extensive posts on A View from the Podium, one of the 25 most-read classical blogs in the world.

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OPMC Classics

Release Date: April 10, 2012

Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 11

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Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra Yakov Kreizberg: conductor SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 11 “Yakov Kreizberg was one of the finest conductors of his generation, a man whose musicianship, intellect, and integrity produced performances of a passion and intensity far superior to those by some better-known names.” — The Independent The Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1856 and gave its first concert on December 14, 1856, with an ensemble of 15 musicians, at the Maison de jeux (a future casino). The orchestra’s most recent principal conductor was Yakov Kreizberg, who was named to the post in October 2007. He held the post until his passing in March 2011. The release of this recording has been made possible thanks to valuable feedback from soloists David Lefèvre, Thierry Amadi, Matthieu Bloch, Nicolas Dosa, Matthias Persson, and Julien Bourgeois. also available

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Ricercar

Release Date: April 10, 2012 Odhecaton Paolo Da Col: conductor MONTEVERDI: Missa in illo tempore • Motet, Salve Regina (2 settings) (premieres) • Motet, Regina caeli (premiere) • DE WERT: Fantasia for organ, Vox in Rama • Ascendente Jesu • Adesto dolori meo • GOMBERT: In illo tempore loquente Jesu Featuring world premiere recordings of three Monteverdi Motets!

Of all Monteverdi’s works, the Missa in illo tempore marks the most important link between the composer and the Franco-Flemish polyphonic tradition. It is presented here alongside motets by Giaches de Wert, maestro di cappella at the Mantuan court when the young Monteverdi was engaged there as a violinist. Also included are world premiere recordings of three recently-discovered Marian motets by Monteverdi, recorded in the splendid acoustic of the Basilica di Santa Barbara in Mantua.

Claudio MONTEVERDI Missa in illo tempore Cat # RCE 322 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 World Premiere Recordings

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Summit Records Washington Trombone Ensemble BOLTER: Fanfare to the Rising Phoenix • Peridots • BRAHMS (arr. Bollinger): Andante (mvt. 2 from Symphony No. 3) • STEPHENSON: “Road Not Taken” Concerto for Bass Trombone & Trombone Ensemble • J.S. BACH (arr.

Hunsberger): Passacaglia in C minor • DEEMER: Prolegomenon • WAGNER (arr. Landis): Wotan’s Farewell and Fire Music • Prelude to Lohengrin, Act III • CORTAZZO: World Report Simply some of the best trombonists around, from professional orchestras, premier military bands, and university faculty! Washington Trombone Ensemble is made up of the finest trombone players in the Washington DC area. The group’s goal is to become the country’s only large professional trombone ensemble. The WTE is striving to build a repertoire of new music and arrangements written for the group that will allow them to take full advantage of the many voices in their unique ensemble. This recording features the bass trombone concerto the WTE co-commissioned with Matthew Guilford and premiered at the Eastern Trombone Workshop in 2010.

Washington Trombone Ensemble The Road Not Taken Cat # SMT 589 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 d

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DOREMI

Release Date: April 10, 2012 Antonio Janigro: cello Robert Veyron-Lacroix: harpsichord J.S. BACH: 6 Suites for Cello Solo, BWV 1007–1012 • 3 Sonats for Cello & Harpsichord, BWV 1027–1029 • Cello Concerto in G, BWV 592 (arr. Kelemen) • BOCCHERINI: Cello Concerto in B-flat (arr. Grützmacher) Antonio Janigro was one of the greatest, most respected musicians of the 20th century as a cellist, conductor, and a pedagogue. Several pieces here are on CD for the first time!

Antonio Janigro

Plays Bach & Boccherini BUZZ ALERT

Cat # DHR 80146 Price Code: 3R (SRP $53.99) Number of Discs: 3 Box Set, Box Lot 10 First time on CD

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Helmut Walcha: harpsichord J.S. BACH: The Six Partitas for Harpsichord, BWV 825–830 In the 1950s and 1960s, Helmut Walcha was considered the leading interpreter of Bach. He recorded all Bach organ and keyboard works for the leading labels Archiv (DG) and Electrola (EMI). Some of his mono-era recordings, such as these Bach Partitas, have not previously been issued on CD.

Helmut Walcha

J.S. Bach: The Six Partitas Cat # DHR 79856 Price Code: 2R (SRP $35.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Slimline, Box Lot 25 First time on CD

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Flora

Release Date: April 10, 2012

Claudio MONTEVERDI

Il Combattimento di Tancredi & Clorinda Les Sacqueboutiers MONTEVERDI: Il Combattimento di Tancredi & Clorinda • GOEHR: Paraphrase for solo clarinet on the madrigal “Il Combattimento” by Monteverdi • QUAGLIATI: Il carro de fedeltà d’amore, donné sur un char à Rome en 1611

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At the junction of madrigal, opera, and intermezzo, Il Combattimento di Tancredi & Clorinda marks a clear milestone in the evolution of Monteverdi’s full attention to the emotions in the combination oratione–armonia. Shown for the first time at the Carnival of Venice in 1624, and published in 1638 in the “Eighth Book of Madrigals of War and Love,” the Combattimento innovates by its multiplicity of feelings and contradictory moods that are at the heart of the poem “Jerusalem Delivered” by Torquato Tasso. This stunning masterpiece is supplemented by the mini-opera Il carro de fedeltà d’amore by Paolo Quagliati and the “Paraphrase on the madrigal Il Combattimento by Monteverdi,” composed in 1969 by Alexander Goehr.

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Marc Hantaï & Geirges Barthel A Concert for Madame de Sévigné

Marc Hantaï, Geirges Barthel: flutes/Philippe Pierlot: bass viol/Eduardo Egüez: theorbo 27 selections by Lully, de Visée, Marais & Hotteterre This recording presents a revival of a concert attended by Madame de Sévigné in February 1696, where the flute players Descotaux and Philbert were accompanied by Marin Marais and Robert de Visée. The program includes famous tunes by Lully, arranged by contemporaries; an unpublished suite by Marin Marais; and some flute duets by Hotteterre.

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Les Sacqueboutiers The Sackbut

Michel Becquet: sackbut/Les Sacqueboutiers SCHEIDT: Canzon “La Bergamasca” • CASTELLO: Sonatas 4, 5 & 16 • FALCONIERO: Pascalle et Ciaccona • MERULA:Ciaccona • MORALES: Clamabant autem mulieres • ORTIZ: Ricecar • SCHEIN: Pavane Gaillarde Courente Allemande • SCHÜTZ: Es steh Gott auf This program consists of the most representative and virtuoso works of the golden age of the sackbut. The gesture of the musician, who both draws (“sacquer”) and pushes (“bouter”), gives the instrument its name.

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Etcetera

Release Date: April 10, 2012

LOEILLET FAMILY Chamber Music

Les Goûts-Authentiques/Jan de Vlieger: director Jacques LOEILLET: Sonata in B minor • Concerto in D • Jean-Baptiste LOEILLET: Sonata in A minor, Op. 1, No. 1 • John LOEILLET: Sonata in G minor, Op. 1, No. 3 • Dance Tunes • DE VLIEGER: Reflection on a tune by Mr. Loeillet for string quartet Jean-Baptiste Loeillet (1680–1730) was a Flemish baroque composer as well as a performer on the recorder, flute, oboe, and harpsichord. He is called the “London Loeillet” to distinguish him from another famous composer, his first cousin Jean Baptiste Loeillet of Ghent, and he was the elder brother of another composer, Jacques Loeillet. This recording juxtaposes music by all three composers.

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J.S. BACH

Jesu meine Freude Musica Amphion/Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam J.S. BACH: Prelude in E minor, BWV 548 • Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erselget, BWV 64 • Jesu, meine Freude, Motet BWV 227 • Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen, Cantata BWV 81 • Fugue in E minor, BWV 548 Bach in Context—a long-term collaboration series between Musica Amphion and Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam—sheds new light on Bach’s magnificent repertoire. By employing the church organ as continuo instrument and a one-per-part vocal setting, Bach’s sound picture and performing practice is approached as closely as possible. In this way, the audience is offered a new viewpoint on this beloved repertoire. Includes a full-color 88-page booklet.

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Robert SCHUMANN Choral Works

Flemish Radio Choir/Bo Holten: conductor SCHUMANN: Vier doppelchörige Gesänge, Op. 141 • From Romanzen und Balladen, Op. 67 • From Sechs Lieder, Op. 33 • From Vier Gesänge, Op. 59 • From Romanzen, Op. 69 • From Spanisches Liederspiel, Op. 74 The Flemish Radio Choir is a professional chamber choir whose program includes works from the entire repertoire, with particular attention to Flemish and contemporary music. Each season the choir also commissions works from a number of Flemish composers. Conductor Bo Holten is known within Denmark and abroad as a multifaceted musician.

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Stone Records

Release Date: April 10, 2012

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C.W. ORR

Frederick DELIUS

Mark Stone: baritone/Simon Lepper: piano

Paul Guinery: piano

ORR: 21 songs, including 14 premieres

DELIUS: Three Preludes • Intermezzo from Hassan • Valse • Rêverie • Dance for harpsichord • QUILTER: Dance in the Twilight • Shepherd Song • Rosamund • Pipe and Tabor • SCOTT: Lotus Land • AUSTIN: The Enchanted Palace • BAX: The Maiden with the Daffodil • GRAINGER: The Merry King • MOERAN: Irish Love Song • Summer Valley • Bank Holiday • WARLOCK: Five Folk-Song Preludes

The Complete C.W. Orr Songbook,Vol. 1

Stone Records is delighted to announce the first CD in a two-disc series that will comprise the first-ever complete recording of the songs of C.W. Orr (1893–1976) for voice and piano. This wonderful composer is one of the music world’s best-kept secrets, with whole chapters devoted to him in most books on English song, and yet so few of his songs recorded—until now!

Delius and His Circle

Stone Records is delighted to announce its first release in collaboration with the Delius Society, a CD of solo piano music by Frederick Delius and his composer friends played by the wonderfully talented Paul Guinery, released in time for the 150th anniversary of Delius’ birth.

Zig-Zag Territoires

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Gabriel FAURÉ

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN

Orchestra of the Opera of Rouen Haute-Normandie/Oswald Sallaberger: conductor/Karine Deshayes: mezzo-soprano/ François Salque: cello

Yury Martynov: piano

Pelléas et Mélisande

FAURÉ: Pelléas et Mélisande • Élégie • Mélodies • WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll French ‘lightness’ and ‘charm’? Germanic ‘profundity’ and ‘gravity’? These words sum up in a nutshell what we are offered by the Orchestra of the Opera of Rouen Haute-Normandie conducted by Oswald Sallaberger for their first collaboration with Zig-Zag Territoires! Features Karine Deshayes, winner of the Victoire de la Musique for Opera Singer of the Year 2011.

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Symphonies 2 & 6 (for piano)

BEETHOVEN (tr. Liszt): Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 36 • Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68 “Pastoral” This CD featuring the Sixth and Second symphonies marks the start of a complete recording of Liszt’s transcriptions of the Beethoven symphonies, played by young Russian pianist Yury Martynov on a splendid Érard piano of 1837.

Release Date: April 10, 2012

Nimbus Alliance

FOUR WISSAM BOUSTANY REISSUES FROM NIMBUS ALLIANCE Wissam Boustany has toured North & South America, Europe, the Middle/Far East, and Africa. In 1995 he founded the international initiative Towards Humanity, which uses music as a catalyst to support humanitarian projects on an international scale. Born in Lebanon, Boustany moved to Britain in 1977, where he studied at Chetham’s School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music. Awards include Silver Medal in the 1982 Madeira International Flute Competition, Woodwind Prize in the Royal Overseas League Competition, Silver Medal in the Shell/LSO Competition, and Second Prize winner in the woodwind section of the first-ever BBC Young Musician of the Year. He teaches at Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music.

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Wissam Boustany

Wissam Boustany

Wissam Boustany: flute/Stefan Warzycki: piano

Wisssam Boustany: flute/Peter Manning, Stephen Morris: violins/ Philip Dukes: viola/Tim Hugh: cello/Mary Scully: double bass/ Steven Devine: harpsichord

Sounds from Within

Vivaldi’s Children: Six Concerti Op. 10

MARTIN: Ballade for flute & piano • HOLT: Malastra for solo flute (premiere) • BARTÓK Suite Paysanne Hongroise • BOUSTANY: Improvisation for flute • MARTINU: First Sonata for flute & piano

VIVALDI: Six Concerti, Op. 10, including “La Tempesta,” “La Notte,” and “Il Gardellino”

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Mirror of Eternity

Wissam Boustany

Wissam Boustany: flute/National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine/ Volodymyr Sirenko: conductor

Wissam Boustany: flute/Nigel Clayton: piano/Gabriella Dall’Olio: harp

KHACHATURIAN: Flute Concerto • KHOURY: Mirror of Eternity • STANKOVYCH: Chamber Symphony No. 3

Wandering Winds

YOUNIS: Rising from the ashes • BACH-GOUNOD: Ave Maria • D’HARCOURT (arr.): Chants Peruviens • HARTY: In Ireland Fantasy • GELALIAN: Quatre Jeux • YAMADA (arr. Yashiro): Lullaby from the Chugoko area • IBERT: Entr’acte • TRAD. (arr. Yashiro): Sakura Sakura • BONET: La Partida • SAMELA (arr.): Bailetico de Procesion • ANON.: El Quintapesares • El Frutero • El Cameleon • Camino Pelao

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Alpha

Release Date: April 10, 2012

J.S. BACH

Sonata for Harpsichord and Viola da Gamba Lucile Boulanger: viola da gamba/Arnaud de Pasquale: harpsichord J.S. BACH: Sonata for violin and harpsichord in E minor, BWV 1023 (transcription for viola da gamba in D minor) • Sonata for obbligato harpsichord and viola da gamba in G, BWV 1027 • Toccata for harpsichord in C minor, BWV 911 • Sonata for obbligato harpsichord and viola da gamba in D, BWV 1028 • Sonata for obbligato harpsichord and viola da gamba in G minor, BWV 1029

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Imagined as a concert that Bach could have instigated, this disc explores the Cantor’s art of transcription and reveals the wealth of influences the Germanic empire was exposed to in the first half of the 18th century. The album is the first recorded by two rising stars whose tremendous energy and complicity has conferred greater depth to this concert.

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Fuga Libera ° Bohuslav MARTINU

Violin Concerto No. 2, H. 293 Lorenzo Gatto: violin/National Orchestra of Belgium/Walter Weller: conductor ° Violin Concerto No. 2, H. 293 • Symphony No. 1, H. 289 MARTINU: To graciously round off his time as conductor of the National Orchestra of Belgium, Walter Weller has chosen for his sixth album a composer he holds dear to his heart, offering the listener a chronologically coherent program. The liner notes are written by Harry Halbreich, the undisputed ° authority on Bohuslav Martinu.

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Ramée Corina Marti

I dilettosi fiori: Late 14th Century Instrumental Music Corina Marti: flutes, clavisimbalum Short pieces from the late 14th century

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The late 14th-century instrumental music that forms the core of this release comes from the two most important surviving sources of this repertoire: the London and Faenza codices. On her solo debut, Corina Marti achieves a remarkable variety by juxtaposing the sound of recorders (including the double recorder) with that of a clavisimbalum, a reconstruction of the earliest form of a harpsichord.

Release Date: April 10, 2012

Stradivarius

Ottorino RESPIGHI

Arianna: Liriche da camera Monica Bacelli: mezzo-soprano/Aldo Orvieto: piano MONTEVERDI-RESPIGHI: Lamento di Arianna • RESPIGHI: E se un giorno tornasse… • Sei melodie • Canzone sarda • Le funtanelle • Sei liriche • Four Scottish Songs In this new chapter of the series dedicated to Ottorino Respighi’s chamber lyrics, pianist Aldo Orvieto accompanies the great mezzo-soprano Monica Bacelli!

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Stefano Grondona

Sin palabras: The Romantic Transcriptions for Guitar by Miguel Llobet Stefano Grondona: guitar LLOBET: 22 transcriptions of works by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Bizet, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Chaminade, Rubinstein, Schumann, Villar, Grieg, Vives, & Anonymous A new album by Stefano Grondona, considered one of the best Italian guitarists, entirely devoted to the Romantic Transcriptions for guitar by Miguel Llobet.

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Salvatore SCIARRINO Le stagioni artificiali

Daniel Gloger: contraltist/Ciro Longobardi: piano/Marco Rogliano: violin/Algoritmo/Marco Angius: conductor SCIARRINO: Le stagioni artificiali • Centauro marino • Studi per l’intonazione del mare A new monographic album devoted to the great Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino, including a new version of “Studi per l’intonazione del mare.”

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Tactus

Release Date: April 10, 2012

Camillo SIVORI

Violin and Piano Works Mauro Tortorelli: violin/Angela Meluso: piano SIVORI: Tarantelle, Op. 21 • Rêverie • Fiori di Napoli, Op. 22 • Variations sur Nel cor più non mi sento, Op. 2 • Romanza in E-flat, Op. 23 • Romanza in A-flat, Op. 23 • Introduzione e Variazioni brillanti

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Almost unknown to most, Camillo Sivori was Paganini’s only and greatly beloved pupil. In his composition, one detects several modes of writing: a brilliant style with great attention to technical virtuosity, and a more transcendental writing, where the pupil sparks off the most frenetic virtuosity typical of Paganini.

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BUZZ ALERT

Lino LIVIABELLA & Nino ROTA Works for viola and piano

Luca Sanzo: viola/Maurizio Paciariello: piano LIVIABELLA: Prima Sonata in un tempo • Seconda Sonata • ROTA: Sonata in G • Sonata in D • Intermezzo Great contemporary chamber music by two Italian masters/composers: Nino Rota (famous worldwide for his soundtracks) and Lino Liviabella!

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Paolo CAVALLONE Confini

Nicholas Isherwood: voice/Magnus Andersson: guitar/Roberto Fabbriciani: flute/and many more CAVALLONE: (Dis)tensioni • Confini • Trompe l’o(r)eil(le) • Scenderò a patti • Milagros • Frammenti lirici • D’après Schumann • Polimorfie • Confronto • Teatri

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In the contemporary music scene, Paolo Cavallone represents a latter-day Renaissance man, with an intimate love for all forms of art. This CD features pieces interpreted by such refined performers as Nicholas Isherwood, Magnus Andersson, Roberto Fabbriciani, Lorna Windsor, Tony Arnold, Luca Sanzò, and many more.

Air Note

Release Date: April 10, 2012

J.S. BACH Partitas

Racha Arodaky: piano J.S. BACH: Partitas Nos. 1, 2 & 3 • Sarabande in D minor • Largo, BWV 973 • Arioso • Suscepit Israël from Magnificat (tr. Arodaky) Racha Arodaky entered at the Paris Conservatoire Nationnal Superieur de Musique at age 13. She studied with Neuhaus disciple Yevgueni Malinine and, in 1993, became a pupil of Murray Perahia and remained with him for six years.

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CAvi-music W.A. MOZART

Sonatas for fortepiano & violin, K. 296, 302, 303, 306 Giorgio Tabacco: fortepiano/Francesco D’Orazio: violin MOZART: Sonatas for fortepiano & violin in C, K. 286, in G, K. 301, in C, K. 303, & in D, K. 306 Giorgio Tabacco and Francesco D’Orazio are highly regarded musicians on period instruments. These four sonatas are called the “Mannheim” sonatas, from the middle period of Mozart’s short life.

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Jana Büchner

Thoughts of Love Jana Büchner: soprano/Hans-Peter Fieber: French horn/Eckart Sellheim, Brita Wiederanders: fortepiano MOZART: 6 songs • SCHUBERT: 7 songs • MENDELSSOHN: 3 songs • HENSEL: 3 songs • LEWY: Freundschaft oder Liebe, Op. 7 This disc focuses on lieder & songs with the key subject of love—both joy and suffering. The accompanying fortepiano fits perfectly to the human voice, and sounds much warmer than the modern grand.

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La Bottega Discantica

Release Date: April 10, 2012 Zara Dimitrova, Anna Bessi, Gianluca Ferrarini, Gianluca Buratto: vocal soloists Coro Claudio Monteverdi di Crema Ensemble Pian & Forte Antonio Frigé: organ Bruno Gini: conductor GNOCCHI: Magnificats 1 & 2 • Ave Maris Stella • Mass in D • Concerto 2 • Mass in F Pietro Gnocchi (1689–1775) was an Italian composer, choir director, historian, and geographer of the late Baroque era. In addition to composing an abundance of eccentrically titled sacred music, all of which remains in manuscript, he wrote a 25-volume history of ancient Greek colonies.

Pietro GNOCCHI

Sacred Music for Brescia’s Churches Cat # BDI 234 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

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Marinella Pennicchi: soprano Gloria Banditelli: mezzo-soprano Mirko Guadagnini: tenor Sergio Foresti: bass Coro Canticum Novum di Solomeo Accademia Hermans Fabio Ciofini: conductor MOZART: Requiem, K. 626 • Ave Verum Corpus, K. 618 A new recording of Mozart’s Requiem with an Italian cast, played with period instruments. The recording took place in the baroque church of Solomeo, a small town near Perugia.

W.A. MOZART

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Release Date: April 10, 2012

LAWO Classics

Torsten AAGAARD-NILSEN Dynamis: Music for Brass Band

Manger Musikklag/Bjørn Sagstad: conductor AAGAARD-NILSEN: Chant • Cantigas • Dynamis Manger Musikklag launches its newest CD, Dynamis! The recording contains music by Norwegian composer Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen. It was recorded in April 2008, with Bjørn Sagstad conducting and the composer himself in the role of producer. Both are former members of Manger Musikklag.

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Johannes BRAHMS Organ Works

Anders Eidsten Dahl: organ BRAHMS: Prelude & Fugue in A minor, WoO 9 • Prelude & Fugue in G minor, WoO 10 • Fugue in A minor, WoO 8 • Chorale Prelude & Fugue on “O Traurigkeit, o Herzelied,” WoO 7 • 12 Chorale Preludes, Op. 122 • C. SCHUMANN: Prelude & Fugue for Organ, Op. 16, No. 3 LAWO Classics presents a new recording with the collected organ works of Johannes Brahms (1833–1897). The recording focuses on the influence of Clara Schumann (1819–1896) on the young composer, and includes one of her preludes and fugues.

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Annabel Guaiti L’Altra Beltà

Annabel Guaita: piano VALEN: Four Piano Pieces, Op. 22 • Intermezzo, Op. 36 • Preludes Op. 29, Nos. 1 & 2 • Variation, Op. 23 • SCHOENBERG: Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19 • Fünf Klavierstücke, Op. 23 (exc.) • Klavierstück, Op. 33a • BERG: Sonata, Op. 1 • WEBERN: Variationen für Klavier, Op. 27 On this CD, pianist Annabel Guaita explores the performance tradition that emerged around composers Schönberg, Webern, and Berg. Underlying the project has been a wish to discover whether something new might be generated in the encounter of Fartein Valen’s music with another performance tradition. Thus, this CD shows how Valen’s music relates to the music of these distinguished composers.

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Piano 21

Release Date: April 10, 2012 Cyprien Katsaris, Frank Braley, François-Joël Thiollier, Alexei Volodin: pianos Soloists of the Salzburg Chamber Philharmonic Yoon Kuk Lee: conductor MÉREAUX: 60 Grandes études en caprices caractérisques dans le style libre et dans le style sévère (sel.) • SÈVÉRAC: Où l’on entend une vielle boite à musique • NOËL-GALLON: Le petit mendiant • GALLON: Thème varié • PLÉ-CAUSSADE; Le chant du pâtre • DAMASE: Dédicace • LAUBRY: Prélude No. 4 • TARDIEN: Pièce pour piano • BERTHELOT: Valse lointaine • WIENER: Polke lente • Java • SOGNY: Études pour piano, quatrième série, dans le style hongrois (sel.) • and more

Cyprien Katsaris

With his second Piano Rarities album, Cyprien Katsaris honors an outpost of the French School little heeded on disc or in concert. This album offers up the sarcastic humor of Jean Wiener, the finesse of Jean-Michel Damase, and the charm of Jean-Jacques Laubry and René Berthelot. Placing these with contemporary compositions by the likes of Stéphane Blet and young composer Jacob Tardien, Katsaris demonstrates the enormous diversity of the current musical language.

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Phaedra Tatiana Loguinova: piano GLINKA: Variations on Alyabyev’s Song “The Nightingale” • Mazurka in C minor • Mazurka in F • Farewell Waltz in G • Barcarolle in G “Ah, se to fossi meco Sulla barchetta bruna” • Mazurka in C • Mazurka in F • Waltz in E-flat • Variations on a Theme from Mozart’s opera “Die Zauberflöte” in E-flat • Tarantella on a Russian Folk Song “In the Field There Stands a Birch Tree” • Reminiscence on the Mazurka “Sans illusions adieu la vie!” • Nocturne in E-flat • Polka in D minor • Nocturne in F minor “La Séparation” • Variations on a Russian Folk Song “Among the Gentle Valley” in A minor Glinka’s piano works are part and parcel of Russian Romanticism. They are few in number, and most are yet to be explored. But they are fascinating, thanks to their honesty, sincerity, nobility, and elegance of sound.

Mikhail GLINKA

Treasures for the Pianoforte Cat # PHA 292026 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Phaedra

Release Date: April 10, 2012 Liliana Pociecha: soprano Szczepan Kosior: tenor Andrzej Zawisza, Marcin Wolak: baritones Angrzej Bialko: organ Polish Radio Choir Herman Engels: conductor ELSNER: Ave Maria • FRANCK: Domine, non secundum • PENDERECKI: O gloriosa virginum • VAN NUFFEL: In convertendo Dominus • NEES: Trois complaintes • TINEL: Psalm 150 • KILAR: Agnus Dei • VAN DER ROOST: Contemplations • DOBRZYNSKI: Modlitwa Panska • GÓRECKI: Euntes ibant et flebant Founded in 1948, the Polish Radio Choir performs works in all styles and from all epochs, with particular attention to Polish music. Conductor Herman Engels studied at the Lemmens Institute (Leuven) and at the conservatories of Antwerp and Brussels. He then studied choral conducting with Hans Grischkat (Stuttgart) and Wilhelm Ehmann (St. Moritz), and orchestral conducting with Otmar Suitner (Mozarteum Salzburg) and Pierre Dervaux (Paris). As an assistant to Vic Nees, he completed a stint as second conductor of the BRTN radio choir in Brussels.

Polish Radio Choir

Choir Music from Poland and Belgium Cat # PHA 92072 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Jan Guns: bass clarinet Anastasia Koszushko: piano Rita Rommes: marimba, vibraphone, bells Moscow Chamber Soloists FAVOREEL: Zebus • WESTERLINCK Van Heinde en Verre • BOWEN: Fantasy Quintet • CRAENS: Experience • BROSSÉ: Suite • DEVREESE: Tango Jan Guns is the most prominent bass clarinet player in Belgium, which resulted in his 1983 nomination as bass clarinet soloist at the BRT Philharmonic Orchestra. He makes frequent guest appearances at various festivals, both in Belgium and throughout the world. Moreover, he is active as conductor of “Coro de Clarinetes de Valencia.” Besides his teaching as professor in bass clarinet and basset horn at the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Antwerp, he gives master classes in many European countries, Japan, and South America.

Jan Guns

Flowers for the Bass Clarinet

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Querstand

Release Date: April 10, 2012 Bernhard Hofstötter: lute WEISS: Sonata in B • Prelude in D • Courante in D • Sonata in D minor Four rarely recorded solo lute works by Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687–1750), one of the titans of European baroque music almost forgotten by later generations and only rediscovered in recent centuries!

Sylvius Leopold WEISS Dresden Moscow

Cat # QUE 1011 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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La Gioconda Lucia Froihofer, Mónica Tóth: baroque violins Barbara Julia Reiter: baroque cello Anne Marie Dragosits: harpsichord, organ FUX: Trio Partitas, K. 320, K. 323, K. 322, K. 319, K. 326, K. 321 (exc.)

La Gioconda’s second CD for the Querstand label contains works by one of the most important baroque composers who, as conductor of the Habsburgian court orchestra, held one of the most important musical posts in Europe for 25 years and whose works have been recently rediscovered.

Johann FUX Trio Partitas

Cat # QUE 1108 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 28 d

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Querstand

Jörg HERCHET

Das geistliche Jahr [SACD Hybrid] Meißner Kantorei 1961/Ensemble Vocal Modern/Christfried Brödel: conductor HERCHET: Das geistliche Jahr (The Spiritual Year) One of the most important composers in Germany today! This disc contains four large works from his cycle Das Geistliche Jahr (The Spiritual Year), begun in 1977 and not yet finished even today, performed by two specialist ensembles for the interpretation of modern church music.

Playable in all CD players. For optimal sound, use compatible surround sound system.

Cat # QUE 1113 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 2 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

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Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

Edition Gewandhausorchester Leipzig,Vol. 1 Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Hermann Abendroth: conductor/Adolf Steiner: cello R. STRAUSS: Festive Prelude, Op. 61 • D’ALBERT: Cello Concerto in C, Op. 20 • HUMPERDINCK: Moorish Rhapsody This first CD in a planned series of historical recordings by Gewandhausorchester Leipzig contains recordings from 1940, 1944, and 1945. The disc includes d’Albert’s cello concerto and Humperdinck’s Moorian Rhapsody, which is rarely heard today. It also contains the only known recording of the Walcker organ in the Second Gewandhaus, destroyed in an air raid in 1944.

Cat # QUE 1109 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Special Digipak, Box Lot 17 d

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Johannes Unger

The Organ of St. Mary’s Church, Lübeck Johannes Unger: organ BUXTEHUDE: Toccata in D minor • 3 Chorale Arrangements • TUNDER: Canzona in G • DANDRIEU: Magnificat • ALAIN: Variations on the Hymn Lucis Creator • J.S. BACH: Toccata in G, BWV 916 • HOLST: Venus from The Planets • KARG-ELERT: Chorale Improvisation on “Nearer, my God, to Thee” • LISZT: Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H The first CD to feature all three organs in St. Mary’s, Lübeck, and the first recording of Johannes Unger in his new position as St. Mary’s organist, demonstrates the wide variety of sound possibilities at the three organs. Among other pieces, the recording contains works by Franz Tunder and Dieterich Buxtehude, who placed Lübeck on the musical map in the 17th century.

Cat # QUE 1122 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Special Digipak, Box Lot 15 v d

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Delphian

Release Date: April 10, 2012

Lay Clerks of St. George’s Chapel The Lamentations of Jeremiah

Lay Clerks of St. George’s Chapel/Timothy Byram-Wigfield: director TALLIS: The Lamentations of Jeremiah • FERRABOSCO THE YOUNGER: Lamentations • BYRD: Lamentations • PARSLEY: Lamentations • MUNDY: De Lamentationes Jeremiae (premiere) “Their freshness is an asset … demonstrates the choir’s versatility.” — Gramophone

Cat # DPH 34068 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

Not since the early 1600s have the refulgent strains of John Mundy’s Lamentations setting been heard in Windsor. It has been reconstructed especially for this recording, made in Windsor Castle’s Albert Memorial Chapel by gracious permission of Her Majesty The Queen. The men’s voices resonate in the resplendent chapel acoustic, transcending the desolation of the texts’ anguished laments in singing of extraordinary conviction and certainty.

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Rory BOYLE

Solo Piano Music and Phaethon’s Dancing Lesson James Willshire: piano/Bartholdy Trio BOYLE: Arrivals and Departures • Reeling • Sonata • Capriccio on the Anniversary of a Beloved Master • Studies for the one in the middle • Tatty’s Dance • Phaethon’s Dancing Lesson (Piano Trio No. 2)

Cat # DPH 34098 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

This year, 2010 British Composer Award winner Rory Boyle celebrates his 60th birthday.

Young virtuoso pianist James Willshire’s debut recording explores the full gamut of Boyle’s compositional personality, from the cragginess of his finely wrought Sonata to the intensely human lyricism of Tatty’s Dancing (itself a 60th birthday present for Boyle’s wife).

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W.A. MOZART

Coronation Mass in C and Vesperae solennes de confessore Laurence Kilsby: treble/Jeremy Kenyon: alto/Christopher Watson: tenor/Christopher Borrett: bass/Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum/Charivari Agréable/Benjamin Nicholas: director MOZART: Coronation Mass in C, K. 317 • Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339

Cat # DPH 34102 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum and Charivari Agréable come together for the first time in vividly communicative interpretations of three of Mozart’s sacred masterpieces. The forces are very much as Mozart intended—a period orchestra, an all-male chorus, and soloists drawn from the choir (including 2009 BBC Chorister of the Year Laurence Kilsby). Under Benjamin Nicholas’s spirited direction, these performances bristle with energy and the invigorating freshness of youth.

Release Date: April 10, 2012

Fryderyk Chopin Society

Frédéric CHOPIN

24 Preludes, Op. 28 & Sonata in B minor Tatiana Shebanova: piano CHOPIN: 24 Preludes, Op. 28 • Sonata in B minor • Prelude in A • Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 45 Realized shortly before the pianist’s death, one could say that this CD comprises the credo of her performance art and artistic testament. It is also a moving testimonial to the dignity with which she committed herself musically to the realization of the project, despite her long battle with illness.

This unique publication of the National Fryderyk Chopin Institute allows us to trace the evolution of Chopin’s style and reassess Tatiana Shebanova’s interpretations of Chopin, and her personal contribution to the composer’s anniversary year.

Cat # FCS 21 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Frédéric CHOPIN

Mazurkas, Waltz & Polonaise Janusz Olejniczak: piano CHOPIN: Mazurkas, Op. 17, No. 4; Op. 24, Nos. 1 & 2; Op. 41, No. 1; Op. 24, No. 2; Op. 68, No. 2; Op. 30, No. 4 • Nocturnes, Op. 48, No. 1; Op. 72; 1830 in C minor (no opus no.) • Polonaises, Op. 40, No. 1; Op. 53 • Waltzes, Op. 69, No. 1; Op. 64, Nos. 1 & 2 • Ballade, Op. 23 This is a recording of the Chopin Special Recital that closed the Chopin Year 2010, made at the Royal Castle, Warsaw, on February 27, 2011. It is also the first presentation of the period piano Erard (1838) from the Fryderyk Chopin Institute collection.

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

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Bel Canto Society Joseph Schmidt

A Star Fell from Heaven [DVD] Joseph Schmidt: tenor A Star Fell from Heaven (complete 1936 film) Reissue of this popular title, now with an updated booklet containing an article about the Aryanization of Lux Films, the studio that produced the film. DVD Specs: NTSC, Region 0, 4:3 (Full Screen), B&W, English (Mono), Not Rated, Run Time: 91 min.

Cat # BCS DVD 406 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 Amaray, Box Lot 30 Previously available

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