Allegro Classical July 2012 New Release Book

JULY 2012 Release Date: July 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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Francesco Piemontesi • BBC Music Magazine

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allegro Classical News Contents Alpha 8–9 Améson 29 Arte Nova Encore 12–13 Atoll Records 16–17 Avanti Classic 3 Avie Records 4–5 Berlin Classics 18–19 Col legno 20 Delphian Records 15 DOMO Records 14 Editions Hortus 32 EXTON 6 Flora 30 Fryderyk Chopin Society 27 Fuga Libera 14 Gramola 31 Indésens 26

La Bottega Discantica LAWO Classics Melodiya Nimbus Alliance Opera d’Oro Encore Passacaille Phi Quartz Querstand Red Priest Recordings SOMM Recordings Stone Records Stradivarius Toccata Classics Winter & Winter Zig-Zag Territoires

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ATOLL RECORDS

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Atoll Records, the premier New Zealand classical record label, has an established reputation for quality recordings featuring leading ensembles, composers, and soloists from New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and more.

Releases include a range of works, from significant remastered historical tracks to high-quality modern recordings from outstanding New Zealand musicians, choirs, orchestras, chamber groups, and soloists.

The historical artists’ catalog includes such New Zealand greats as Oscar Natzka and legendary mid-20th century pianist Richard Farrell in collections re-mastered by the founder and producer of Atoll, Wayne Laird. The contemporary classical catalog is an accessible, challenging, and everdeveloping masterpiece of distinctive musical flavor and juxtaposition.

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Avanti Classic

Francesco Piemontesi Recital [Hybrid SACD]

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Francesco Piemontesi: piano HANDEL: Suite in B-flat HWV 434 • BRAHMS: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24 • J.S. BACH: Partita No. 1 in B-flat, BWV 815 • Fantasy and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542 (tr. Liszt) • LISZT: Vallée D’Obermann, SW 156 from Les Années de Pèlerinage, 1st Year Recently elected Newcomer of the Year by BBC Music magazine, 27-year-old Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi is one of the most sought-after artists of his generation. For his first international recital, Avanti Classic—in collaboration with Radio Svizzeria Italiana and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust—gave him carte blanche. Starting with Handel’s Suite in B-flat major, Piemontesi builds a fascinating program reflecting the influence of Handel and Bach’s music on Brahms’ and Liszt’s works. The narrative quality of his musical discourse, his deep understanding of counterpoint, and his quest for perfection will thrill music lovers around the globe.

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Zig-Zag Territoires

Release Date: July 10, 2012 Midori Seiler: violin Jos van Immerseel: piano BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1–10 After a recording of the great Mozart violin sonatas, which was awarded a Diapason d’Or several years ago, Midori Seiler and Jos van Immerseel present the complete Beethoven sonatas with their dialogue on an equal footing, in which the partners have roles of equal importance.

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN

Complete Sonatas for Violin & Piano

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Avie Records Jeffrey Khaner: flute Charles Abramovic: piano ˚ Flute Sonata SCHULHOFF: Flute Sonata • FELD: Flute sonata • MARTINU: ˇ No. 1 • DVORÁK: Flute Sonatina in G Jeffrey Khaner, Principal Flute of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 1990, is one of the most highly regarded flute soloists in the world. With a half-dozen Avie recordings to his credit, he turns in another virtuosic performance of sonatas

by Czech composers of the late 19th and 20th centuries.

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Jeffrey Khaner

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Avie Records

La Serenissima Venice By Night

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Mhairi Lawson: soprano Simon Munday: trumpet Peter Whelan: bassoon La Serenissima Adrian Chandler: director ANON.: Si la gondola avere (Arriving by Gondola) • Cara Nina el bon to sesto • No stè a condanarme • POLLAROLO: Sinfonia to La Vendetta d’Amore • ALBINONI: Sinfonia in G minor • Sinfonia to Il Nome Glorioso in Terra Santificato in Cielo • VIVALDI: Bassoon Concerto in C, RV 477 • Violin Concerto in E minor, RV 278 • Arias for Marianino Nicolini. Il fidarsi alla spene from L’Olimpiade, RV 725 • VERACINI: Fuga, o capriccio con quattro soggetti in D minor • LOTTI: Motet Alma ride exulta mortalis • PORTA: Sinfonia in D Adrian Chandler and La Serenissima’s 10th release for Avie—coinciding with the label’s 10th anniversary—has all the hallmarks that have made the Vivaldi specialists one of the best-selling and acclaimed period-instrument bands performing today. As with the chart-topping French Connection 2 (AVR 2218), which featured the world-premiere recording of the flute concerto “Il Gran Mogol,” Adrian has once again unearthed numerous works from this period, recorded for the first time.

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EXTON

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Anton BRUCKNER

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Royal Stockholm Symphony Orchestra Sakari Oramo: conductor BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 3 This is the recording of an ambitious performance by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and Sakari Oramo, featuring the third version of Bruckner’s third symphony, the first performance of which was received with triumphant success after the composer’s unrelenting efforts to improve it. The interpretation by Oramo and the RSPO, full of profound insight into the work, recreates the rich sound of Bruckner’s musical world.

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Phi

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Tomás Luis de VICTORIA Officium Defunctorum

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Collegium Vocale Gent Philippe Herreweghe: conductor VICTORIA: Officium Defunctorum (Requiem) • 2 Motets • Domine, non sum dignus a4 • Salve Regina a6 • Vadam et circuibo civitatem a6 Tomás Luis de Victoria is definitely one of the most important composers in the musical history of Spain. His masterpiece is the “Officium Defunctorum,” published in Madrid in 1605. In this requiem—written for the funeral of Maria of Austria, daughter of Emperor Charles V—the composer reached a mystical intensity of expression. Philippe Herreweghe just loves composers “who know how to build entire worlds with sounds, recognizable from the first notes, profound and full of richness.” For him, Tomás Luis de Victoria is “one of the greatest musical minds ever.” So, it was an obvious choice for Herreweghe to make a recording of this heavenly “Officium Defunctorum.” And, of course, the crystal-clear sound of Collegium Vocale Gent is the perfect instrument to perform such music.

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Alpha

Release Date: July 10, 2012 Eric Le Sage: piano François Salque: cello Lise Berthaud: viola Daishin Kashimoto: violin FAURÉ: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15 • Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45 Between 1875 and his death in 1924, Fauré produced around 10 compositions that are among the jewels of the French chamber repertoire, written at a time when opera and symphonic music were the predominant genres. International artist Eric Le Sage, who is a specialist in this repertoire, continues his exploration of Fauré’s complete chamber music with piano, accompanied by a fine team of first-rate artists. This second volume, expertly recorded by Jean-Marc Laisné in the wonderful setting of the MC2 Auditorium in Grenoble, shows extraordinary energy and elegance. The first volume was awarded the highest ratings by music magazine Classica in December 2011.

Gabriel FAURÉ

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Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra Skip Sempé: conductor Café Zimmermann Pygmalion Ausonia Le Poème Harmonique Vincent Dumestra Les Musiciens de St. Julien Selections of French Baroque music by d’Anglebert, Rameau, Moulinié & Corrette The event known as “Les grandes eaux Musicales de Versailles 2012,” when all the fountains are working and accompanied by music, is presented by the Palace of Versailles in collaboration with Alpha.

The music consists of a selection of absolute masterpieces of French Baroque music, from 17th- and 18th-century songs to great classics of the operatic repertoire, performed by some of the label’s leading artists.

Various Artists

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Alpha

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Gustav Leonhardt

A Tribute to Gustav Leonhardt: The Last Recordings

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Gustav Leonhardt: harpsichord Philippe Herreweghe, Elisabeth Joyé, Gilles Cantagrel Café Zimmerman Selections from Renaissance and Baroque keyboard works, plus secular cantatas of J.S. Bach with Leonhardt conducting Alpha pays homage to Gustav Leonhardt in a lavish box set comprising the last five recordings made by this great pioneer. The set also includes tributes from musicians and collaborators such as Philippe Herreweghe, Elisabeth Joyé, and Gilles Cantagrel, and the booklet presents a gallery of unpublished photographs.

These recordings take us on a fabulous journey into the world of keyboard works from late Renaissance to late Baroque, and explore a fascinating diversity of instruments (harpsichords, the hybrid claviorganum, and the extraordinary Dom Bedosorganof Sainte-Croix in Bordeaux). The last one, for which Leonhardt was artistic director and organist, is his final recording; it is devoted to secular cantatas by J. S. Bach, performed by the ensemble Café Zimmermann.

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Opera d’Oro Encore

Release Date: July 10, 2012

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Jules MASSENET

Ruggero LEONCAVALLO

Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Rolando Panerai, Antonio Zerbini, Franco Ricciardi, Giuseppe Morresi, Ida Farina: vocal soloists/Peter Maag: conductor

Beniamino Gigli, Iva Pacetti, Mario Basiola, Giuseppe Nessi, Leone Paci: vocal soloists/Members of the Chorus & Orchestra of La Scala, Milan/Franco Ghione: conductor

MASSENET: Manon (complete opera, omitting the original Act III, Sc. 1)

LEONCAVALLO: Pagliacci (complete opera)

Manon

Pagliacci

A live performance from La Scala 1969, with Pavarotti and Freni at the peak of their early careers. A collector’s treasure! This recording omits the original Act III, Sc. 1, as do many stage performances.

Any recording of Gigli is a treasure, but the special treat here is Mario Basiola, a baritone of great presence and a truly superb singer. Recorded Milan, July 1934.

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Vincenzo BELLINI

W.A. MOZART

Gina Cigna, Ebe Stignani, Giovanni Brevario, Tancredi Pasero, Adriana Perris, Emilio Renzi: vocal soloists/RAI Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Turin/Vittorio Gui: conductor

José Van Dam, Mirella Freni, Frederica von Stade, Tom Krause, Elizabeth Harwood, Jane Barbié, Michel Sénéchal: vocal soloists/ Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus of the Vienna State Opera/Herbert von Karajan: conductor

Norma

Le nozze di Figaro

BELLINI: Norma (complete opera) MOZART: Le nozze di Figaro (complete opera) Gina Cigna was the most famous Norma after the retirement of Rosa Ponselle, and up to the mid-’40s. Also notable here are the young Ebe Stignani, and Gui’s fine conducting. Recorded 1937.

Another full-bore Mozart performance with a tremendous cast and Karajan at the podium in Salzburg, 1974.

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Giacomo PUCCINI

Camille SAINT-SAËNS

Beniamino Gigli, Maria Caniglia, Armando Borgioli, Ernesto Dominici, Nino Mazziotti, Gino Conti, Giulio Tomei, Cenna Marcangeli: vocal soloists/Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Rome/Oliviero De Fabritiis: conductor

Jon Vickers, Oralia Dominguez, Ernest Blanc: vocal soloists/ Netherlands Radio Orchestra & Chorus/Jean Fournet: conductor

PUCCINI: Tosca (complete opera)

An outstanding recording of the most famous opera by Saint-Saëns, and one of the glories of the entire French opera repertoire, in crystalline sound with a top-flight cast. Live broadcast, Amsterdam, February 29, 1964.

Tosca

Samson et Dalila

Recorded September 1938, and described as “superlative” by the Rough Guide to Opera!

SAINT-SAËNS: Samson et Dalila (complete opera)

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Gioachino ROSSINI

Giuseppe VERDI

Giangiacomo Guelfi, Leyla Gencer, Gianni Raimondi, Anna Maria Rota, Enrico Campi: vocal soloists/Teatro San Carlo Orchestra & Chorus/Fernando Previtali: conductor

Giacomo Rimini, Pia Tassinari, Salvatore Baccaloni: vocal soloists/ Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Milan/Lorenzo Molajoli: conductor

William Tell

Falstaff

VERDI: Falstaff (complete opera) ROSSINI: William Tell (complete opera) Turkish soprano Leyla Gencer has long been a favorite of vocal collectors, as she never had a major recording contract and can only be heard in live performances.

Features the outstanding Falstaff of Rimini and the youthful, spirited Alice of Pia Tassinari, described as “the best Alice on record” by Harold Rosenthal, editor of Opera magazine. Recorded in Milan, April 1932.

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Arte Nova Encore

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Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY

Ralph Manno: clarinet/Staatskapelle Weimar/George Alexander Albrecht:conductor

Russian Philharmonic Orchestra/Samuel Friedmann: conductor

Clarinet Concerto & Symphony No. 41

MOZART: Clarinet Concerto KV 622 • Symphony No. 41 At only 29 years old, Ralph Manno became professor for clarinet at the Hochschule für Musik Cologne and leads one of the most successful master classes for clarinet in Europe. He is one of the leading clarinetists of his generation, performing as a soloist at many international festivals and concert halls.

Symphony No. 6 & Sleeping Beauty

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 “Pathétique” • Suite from the ballet The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66a Samuel Friedmann graduated from the Kharkov Conservatory as a violinist in 1964, and from the Leningrad Conservatory as a conductor in 1966. Till 1973, he performed throughout the Soviet Union, then immigrated to Israel and began his international career.

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Frédéric CHOPIN

Johannes VON LUBLIN

Ricardo Castro: piano

René Clemencic: clavicytherium

CHOPIN: Nocturnes Nos. 1–21

VON LUBLIN: Tabulatura 1540 (including motets by Senfl, Brumel, Isaac, Josquin, and anonymous composers; songs by Wolff, Brack, Stoltzer, Verdelot, Festa, Sandrin & Josquin)

Complete Nocturnes

The Tabulature of Johannes Von Lublin

Ricardo Castro studied with Esther Cardoso in Salvador de Bahla, and had his first official piano performance at the age of eight.

He achieved numerous prizes, among them first prize of the International Piano Competition in Leeds in 1993.

René Clemencic is a composer and virtuoso player, founder of the world-famous Clemencic Consort.

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Cesar FRANCK & Gabriel FAURÉ

Felix MENDELSSOHN

Emil Klein: cello/Sorin Melinte: piano

London Festival Orchestra/Ross Pople: conductor

FRANCK: Cello Sonata in A • FAURÉ: Après un rêve • Elegy, Op. 24 • Lamento • Sérénade, Op. 98 • Papillon, Op. 77 • Sicilienne, Op. 78 • Fileuse, Op. 80

MENDELSSOHN: Symphonies 1 & 4

Works for Cello and Piano

Emil Klein was born in Romania in 1955, and studied at the Bucharest Conservatoire and with David Geringas in Hamburg.

Alongside his solo career he spends time playing chamber music, and in 1990 founded the chamber orchestra “Hamburg Soloists.”

Symphonies 1 & 4

Born in New Zealand, Ross Pople first came to London as a gifted 16-year-old cellist. He quickly moved to the top of the profession, successively becoming principal cello of the Menuhin Festival Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. By the 1980s these two contrasting experiences had led to his development as director and conductor of his own orchestra, the London Festival Orchestra.

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Gustav MAHLER

Olivier MESSAIEN

Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria/Adrian Leaper: conductor

Ensemble Incanto/Michaela Paetsch Neftel: violin/Ralph Manno: clarinet/Guido Schiefen: cello/Liese Klahn: piano

Symphony No. 1 “Titan”

Quartuor pour le fin de temp

MAHLER: Symphony No. 1 in D “Titan” MESSIAEN: Quatuor pour la fin du temps After the cool reception of Mahler’s First Symphony (Budapest 1889), he put it away for three years, eventually reworking it for a performance in Hamburg, 1893. This recording does not include the original second movement, marked “Blumen” (“Flowers”), in deference to the composer’s wishes.

Olivier Messiaen was a prisoner in a Nazi war camp in 1940. A German officer gave him paper and pencil, and he wrote this profoundly moving chamber work dedicated “In homage to the Angel of the Apocalypse.”

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Fuga Libera

Release Date: July 10, 2012 Didier Poskin: cello KBS Symphony Orchestra Patrick Davin: conductor SERVAIS: Morceau de Concert, Op. 14 (CD premiere) • Fantaisie Burlesque sur le Carnaval de Venise, Op. 9 (CD premiere) • La Romanesca (CD premiere) • Cello Conerto in B minor, Op. 5 Includes three CD premieres! The “Paganini of the cello” was how Berlioz and Rossini rated François Servais, one of the principal architects of the development of cello technique in the 19th century. Like Paganini, he wrote a substantial concert repertoire for his instrument, thus making up for the dearth of specific cello literature in the Romantic period; it is a great joy to discover some of his key concertante works here, performed by one of his most eminent interpreters. Ably supported by the orchestra of the Korean Broadcasting System under the baton of Patrick Davin, who has been much admired for his contribution to the recording of the complete Vieuxtemps violin concertos, here is a discovery that should excite all lovers of panache and diabolical virtuosity!

François SERVAIS

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DOMO Records Fuzjko (Ingrid Fuzjko-Hemming): piano LISZT: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat, S. 124 • GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 (1st mvt) • Other works by Liszt, Beethoven, Chopin, D. Scarlatti, Debussy, Schumann & Schubert “There is no secret to her appeal: Fuzjko is not just playing the piano; she is using the music to make love, seeming to enter a romantic reverie to find and unfold the music’s beauties and intentions.” — Gramophone This box set, which includes the albums Echoes of Eternity, La Campanella, Nocturnes of Melancholy, Live At Carnegie Hall, Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1, and Fuzjko’s self-titled album, contains works by Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Schubert, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Scarlatti, Brahms, and Schumann. Four of these CDs received Classical Album of the Year at the Japan Gold Disc Awards, a feat never before accomplished!

Fuzjko

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Delphian Records

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Gregorio ALLEGRI Masses and Motets

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The Choir of King’s College London David Trendell: conductor ALLEGRI: Missa In lectulo meo (premiere) • Miserere • Missa Christus resurgens (premiere) “A choir as passionate as it is disciplined.” — BBC Music magazine Gregorio Allegri deserves better than for his reputation to rest on just one piece; alongside his iconic Miserere, which never fails to cast its spell on listeners, the Choir of King’s College London presents premiere recordings of two of his five surviving Masses, richly wrought with consummate skill in the prima prattica of Palestrina. Combining David Trendell’s scholarly integrity with great musical intensity, these glowing performances shed new light on a much-loved composer.

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Atoll Records

Release Date: July 10, 2012

New Zealand String Quartet Notes from a Journey

New Zealand String Quartet/Richard Nunns: traditional Maori instruments/Helene Pohl, Douglas Beilman: violins/Gillian Ansell: viola/Rold Gjelsten: cello John PSATHAS: Abhisheka • Ross HARRIS: Variation 25 • Jack BODY: Three Transcriptions • Michael NORRIS: Exitus • Gareth FARR/Richard NUNNS: He Poroporoaki A farewell Winner of Classical CD of the Year 2011 at the New Zealand Music Awards, this diverse and fascinating disc features NZ’s leading quartet with authoritative performances by NZ composers, with Taonga Puoro (traditional instruments of the Maori) played Richard Nunns.

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Boris PIGOVAT Requiem

Donald Maurice: viola/Vector Wellington Orchestra/Marc Taddei: conductor PIGOVAT: Requiem “The Holocaust” for viola & orchestra • Prayer for viola & piano • Silent Music for viola & piano • Nigun for string quartet “This is a most extraordinary release … stunning, impactful, and overwhelming.” — Fanfare

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This live recording based on a concert presented in memory of the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht features Requiem “The Holocaust,” winner of the 1995 Prize of ACUM, Israel. The title track of this extraordinary release includes a dramatic requiem for viola and orchestra that has been called the finest composition for that combination since the Walton concerto. Includes Hebrew and English text.

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Camille SAINT-SAËNS Organ Symphony

Thomas Trotter: organ/Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra /Arvo Volmer: conductor POULENC: Organ Concerto in G minor • SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony No. 3 “Organ Symphony” This common coupling of the two greatest symphonic works for organ and orchestra is distinguished by dramatic live performances from both soloist and orchestra captured in superb sound, enhanced by the wonderful new Klais organ at Auckland Town Hall. Two of the great French symphonic organ works on one disc!

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Release Date: July 10, 2012

Atoll Records

Eve de CASTRO-ROBINSON Releasing the Angel

David Chickering: cello/Tzenka Dianova: piano/Vesa-Matti Leppanen: violin/New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Kenneth Young: conductor CASTRO-ROBINSON: Releasing the Angel • Peregrinations • Other echoes • These arms to hold you • Len Dances New Zealand’s leading female composer’s first recording of orchestral works! Eve de CastroRobinson has a unique ability to imbue her compositions with color. Her works always have a sense of melodic and rhythmic adventure about them, and range from intimate solos to dramatic large-scale orchestral canvases. This is her first full orchestral production specifically for CD release.

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New Zealand Chamber Soloists Elegy

New Zealand Chamber Soloists/Katherine Austin: piano/James Tennant: cello/Lara Hall: violin RACHMANINOV: Trio Élégiaque No. 1 in G minor, Op. posth. • Arno BABAJANIAN: Piano Trio in F-sharp minor • SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67 “Unaffected, but deeply affecting, playing.” — Fanfare Debut CD by the New Zealand Chamber Soloists features a compelling performance of the little-known and recorded Piano Trio in F Sharp Minor by Babajanian, which has been performed on five continents by this group since 2006, sandwiched between two famous 20th-century Russian piano trios.

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Tsenka Dianova Deconstruction

Tsenka Dianova, Sara Watkins: pianos CAGE: The Perilous Night for prepared piano solo • Bacchanale transcribed for prepared piano duet • Charlotte ROSE/Tsenka DIANOVA: First DeConstruction (The Perilous Night) for unprepared piano and electronics • SATIE: Socrate I. Portrait de Socrate • Le piège de Méduse, for paper-prepared piano • Gnosienne IV – simulated quarter-tone piano version • Vexations—celesta version “Very well produced and superbly performed program of some fascinating music.”

— MusicWeb International Atoll is proud to present Tsenka Dianova, considered to be the greatest exponent of prepared piano. The title Deconstruction started just as the name of a sound-recycling piece, written to “unprepare” the piano following Cage’s “Perilous Night.” Later, the word inspired the idea of a collection of “deconstructed” works of Satie and Cage—works reinvented by unusual means!

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Berlin Classics

Release Date: July 10, 2012

The successful BASICS series continues with a cycle of composer best-of releases—double CD sets presented to provide any budding classical music fan with an overview of the standard repertoire!

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Felix MENDELSSOHN Best of Mendelssohn

Peter Schreier: tenor/Louis Lortie: piano/Igor Oistrach: violin/ Günther Herbig: conductor/Kurt Masur, Helmut Koch: conductors/Staatskapelle Berlin/Gewandhausorchester Leipzig MENDELSSOHN: Selected works

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Frédéric CHOPIN

Robert SCHUMANN

Annerose Schmidt: piano/Sebastian Knauer: piano/Marc Laforet: piano/Peter Schreier: tenor/Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Großes Rundfunkorchester Berlin/Robert Hanell, Kurt Masur: conductors

Peter Schreier: tenor/Rundfunkchor Leipzig/Horst Neumann: conductor/Annerose Schmidt: piano/Staatskapelle Dresden/ Siegfried Kurz: conductor/Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

CHOPIN: Selected works

SCHUMANN: Selected works

Best of Schumann

Best of Chopin

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Johannes BRAHMS

Richard WAGNER

Rosemarie Lang: mezzo-soprano/Theo Adam: bass baritone/Peter Rösel: piano/Rolf-Dieter Arens: piano/Berlin Symphony Orchestra/ Günther Herbig, Václav Neumann, Kurt Masur: conductors

Hanne-Lore Kuhse: soprano/Fritz Wunderlich: tenor/Theo Adam: bass baritone/Rundfunkchor Berlin/Thomanerchor Leipzig/ Dresdner Philharmonie/Heinz Fricke, Otmar Suitner: conductors

BRAHMS: Selected works

WAGNER: Selected works

Best of Brahms

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Best of Wagner

Release Date: July 10, 2012

Berlin Classics

Ori Kam: viola TELEMANN: Fantasies Nos. 1–12, TWV 40 Georg Philipp Telemann published his “12 Fantasies” for solo violin in Hamburg in 1735. These pieces place him firmly in the tradition, established in the late 17th century, of such renowned violinists as Carlo Ambrogio Lonati, Francesco Geminiani, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, and Johann Paul von Westhoff, culminating with J.S. Bach, who published his famous cycles of sonatas and partitas for solo violin around 1720. The focal point of such works was to produce rich contrapuntal harmonies on a solo melody instrument in music that went beyond pure practice pieces and captivated its listeners. Telemann succeeded in this by avoiding virtuosic acrobatics by the instrumentalist and instead allowing the catchy tunes and dance rhythms to prevail.

This recording features Ori Kam, brother of clarinetist Sharon Kam, playing a version for solo viola in which the pieces have been transposed down by a fifth but are otherwise unchanged. The tone of the viola, warm in the lower register and possessing brilliance in the high notes, lends the works a new dimension of expression in comparison to the original. Ori Kam, playing in the Jesus-Christus Church in Berlin, draws from his instrument a sound that transcends all constraint and lets the listener simply float away with the music.

Georg Philip TELEMANN 12 Fantasies for solo viola

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SOMM Recordings Gould Piano Trio Lucy Gould: violin Alice Neary: cello Benjamin Frith: piano BEETHOVEN: Trio, Op. 1, No. 2 • Allegretto, WoO 39 • Variations, Op. 44 • Trio, Op. 70, No. 1 “Ghost” “The joyous ebullience of the Piano Trio in G, Op. 1 No. 2, with its expansive first movement, set the tone for the evening—the strings filled with warmth, the piano sound exquisite. The Largo con espressione glowed; the Scherzo lived up to its name, and the tempo seemed spot-on for the energetic Finale … Then it was on to the big-name work of the evening: the Ghost Trio. The initial furor of the opening theme was explosive, and there was a real sense of the music wanting to take flight … The terrific Presto was met with cheers suggesting an audience twice the size.” — BBC Music magazine This dynamic group, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, has been exploring the remarkable variety displayed in the Beethoven Trios in many of their concerts over the years. SOMM has recorded them live at the famous St. George’s Concert Hall, Bristol, before capacity audiences and these concerts have been a huge success. Volume 1 will launch the Trio’s 20th anniversary celebrations!

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN

Piano Trios, Vol. 1

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Col legno

Release Date: July 10, 2012

Jelena POPRŽAN & Rina KAÇINARI Catch-Pop String-Strong

Jelena Popržan: viola, voice/Rina Kaçinari: cello, voice 13 selections of Balkan music with interpretations of Weill, J.S. Bach and others

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The ability to build new forms from miscellaneous components, using wit and virtuosity as mortar, is a remarkable skill—one that Jelena Popržan and Rina Kaçinari have honed to perfection. One is a Serbian, the other a Kosovo Albanian, and together they play Bach, traditional music from the Balkans and the Scottish highlands, pop songs, and their own compositions resounding with a multitude of different influences. In their music, they combine stories and interpretations from different places, eras, and angles. Equipped with a cello, a viola, and their voices, they build bridges across centuries and musical traditions, and they do it all with a light-footedness and natural ease that is simply amazing.

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Quadrat:sch Stubenmusic

Quadrat:sch/Barbara Romen: hammered dulcimer/Christof Dienz: zither/Gunter Schneider: guitar/ Alexandra Dienz: double bass/Zeena Perkins: harp/Herbert Pirker: percussion 21 selections, 9 composed by Christof Dienz

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The “Stube” is the parlor in a farmhouse, usually paneled in wood, where people go to rest, to celebrate, to mourn, and to make music. Alexandra Dienz, Christof Dienz, Barbara Romen, and Gunter Schneider guide us into a friendly and sophisticated version of this multi-purpose meeting place. The first CD comprises song-like pieces in various interpretations, while on the second CD the focus is skillfully shifted from structures to sounds. The musicians delve deep into the nature of their instruments, exploring their potential as sound-generating bodies, leading us from seemingly familiar models to free musical moods. Deep-reaching roots are carefully unearthed, grafted, and propagated with great intelligence and devotion, and the result is pure delight.

Winter & Winter Fabio NIEDER Der Bilderfresser

Marino Formenti: piano/Teodoro Anzellotti: accordion/Percussion Quartet, Cologne/WDR Radio Choir, Cologne/WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne/Emilio Pomàrico: conductor NIEDER: Der Bilderfresser [“The Devourer of Images”] (instrumental music from the opera)

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When Stefan Winter first heard Fabio Nieder’s “The Devourer of Images,” he did not know the plot of this opera, which will be premiered in Salzburg in 2015. He was also not aware that the music is but one part of that opera. And Nieder was unknown to him, too. But he made the decision to release the music on Winter & Winter, because Fabio Nieder creates dream sequences that give wings to fantasy. The music, the story, and the sounds seem so thrilling—foreign and at the same time familiar—perhaps because Nieder’s music talks in such an emphatic, beautiful way about love, dreams, loss, death, and life.

Release Date: July 10, 2012

Stone Records

Havergal BRIAN

The Complete Songbook, Vol. 1 Mark Stone: baritone/Jonathan Stone: violin/Sholto Kynoch: piano BRIAN: 21 songs and piano pieces (includes 9 premieres) • Legend for violin & piano “Baritone Mark Stone has it all: a terrific technique, theatrical presence, and a voice guaranteed to tingle bits of your spine never tingled before.” — Classic FM Stone Records is delighted to announce the first CD in a two-disc series that will comprise the first complete recording of the songs of Havergal Brian (1876–1972) for voice and piano. Brian is best known for his vast Gothic symphony, and in fact wrote over 30 symphonies. This disc shows another facet to his complex artistic character, with songs ranging from the lyrically whimsical to the angularly tormented.

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Hugo WOLF

The Complete Songs, Vol. 4: Keller, Fellersleben, Ibsen & other poets Mary Bevan: soprano/Quirijn de Lang: baritone/Sholto Kynoch: piano WOLF: 29 songs including Auf der Wanderschaft II, Der Schwalben Heimkehr, Der goldene Morgen, So wahr die Sonne scheinet, Ständchen, Bescheidene Liebe, Perlenfischer, Andenken, Wanderlied, Auf der Wanderschaft, Auf der Wanderung, Liebesfrühling, Ja, die Schönst! ich sagt es offen, Nach dem Abschiede & Ein Grab (includes 12 premieres) Stone Records is delighted to announce its newest Oxford Lieder Live release, the fourth disc in the first-ever complete edition of the songs of Hugo Wolf (1860–1903). This disc, recorded live at the 2011 Festival, includes 12 premiere recordings of Wolf ’s settings of poems by Chamisso, Hebbel, Ibsen, Roquette, Rückert, Zschokke, and Zusner. The CD features a large number of songs that have yet to be incorporated into the Hugo Wolf editions produced by other record labels, and each is an entertaining and enlightening example of the master song-composer’s craft.

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Quartz Reiko Fujisawa

Bach, Beethoven & Schubert Reiko Fujisawa: piano J.S. BACH: Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826 • BEETHOVEN: Sonata in C, Op. 53 “Waldstein” • SCHUBERT: Impromptus, D. 899 Debut Quartz album for Reiko Fujisawa, who studied under Martino Tirimo and Yonty Solomon.

Reiko has since established herself as an exciting and formidable virtuoso performer, with recital and concerto appearances at prestigious venues and festivals around the world.

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Nimbus Alliance

Release Date: July 10, 2012

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Ludwig van BEETHOVEN

Antonio VIVALDI

London Symphony Orchestra/Yondani Butt: conductor

David Juritz: violin/London Mozart Players

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat, Op. 60 • Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

VIVALDI: The Four Seasons • Concerto in D • Concerto in C

Symphonies 4 & 5

The Four Seasons

Frequently in demand as a guest conductor, Yondani Butt has recorded and performed in the US, Canada, Latin America, Asia, and Europe. He has conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, American Symphony, Hamilton Philharmonic of Canada, Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de Mexico, Singapore Symphony, and Seoul Philharmonic, among many others.

Brilliant, unconventional, and vain, it was Vivaldi’s boast that he could compose a complete concerto in less time than it took to copy out the parts. Ordained as a clergyman, he sported a head of flaming red hair that earned him the sobriquet “the red priest.” As a composer and virtuoso violinist, he was famed throughout Europe.

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James FRISKIN

Frith Piano Quartet

Rasumovsky Quartet/Catherine Dubois: piano

Frith Piano Quartet

FRISKIN: Piano Quintet in C minor • Phantasie for String Quartet • Elegy for viola & piano • Phantasy for Piano Quintets

WALTON: Piano Quartet in D minor • BRIDGE: Phantasy in F-sharp minor • LEKEU: Piano Quartet

James Friskin was born in Glasgow in March 1886. His early musical talent as pianist and composer resulted in a piano scholarship to the Royal College of Music at the age of 14; five years of piano study with Edward Dannreuther followed. He was an original faculty member of the Juilliard Graduate School, where he taught until his death.

The Frith Piano Quartet was formed in 2001, and since its inception has played concerts throughout the United Kingdom.

One of the Quartet’s goals has been to perform new and unjustly neglected works. In 2009 they gave the premiere of Michael Finnissy’s Piano Quartet, and in 2012 the world premiere of the Piano Quartet by Richard Roderick Jones.

Piano Quintet

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Release Date: July 10, 2012

Stradivarius

John CAGE

Imaginary Landscapes Ensemble Prometeo/Marco Angius: conductor CAGE: Imaginary Landscapes Nos. 1–5 • Sixteen Dances Landscape and dance, the two themes proposed by this CD—conceived as the prolongation of the homage to John Cage performed on October 22, 2009 in Parma—intersect with a natural circularity in the mysterious world of the great musician, who once declared graphically: “Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death.”

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Alessandro SCARLATTI

Ardo è ver: Sonatas & Cantatas with Flute Valentina Varriale: soprano/Tommaso Rossi: recorder/Ensemble Barocco di Napoli/Raffaele Di Donna: recorder/Ugo Di Giovanni: archlute/Marco Vitali: cello/Patrizia Varone: harpsichord A. SCARLATTI: Sonatas in G & F • Mentre Clori la bella • Ardo è ver per te d’amore • Filli, tu sai ch’io t’amo • Clori mia, Clori bella • Augellin, vago e canoro In the context of Alessandro Scarlatti’s immense musical production, the recorder repertory certainly plays an important role, the fruit of an interest spanning the entire career of the composer both in his instrumental works and in larger orchestral groups of serenades and musical dramas.

This CD proposes cantatas with the soprano voice requiring one or two recorders, besides two sonatas for recorder and basso continuo. It is a homogeneous musical corpus, not by chance almost all contained in two manuscripts preserved in the extraordinary Santini collection, preserved in the Diözesanbibliothek Münster, with the exception of the cantata “Ardo è ver per te d’amore,” a manuscript copy of which is in the library of the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella in Naples.

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Marco DI BARI

… di un mirabile gioco sonoro Luisa Castellani: soprano/Jeffrey Swann, Bruno Canino, Massimiliano Damerini: pianos/Tempo reale Firenze (Giomi-Meacci): live electronics/RAI National Symphony Orchestra/Pascal Rophé: conductor/Quartetto Accademia/Eduard Brunner: clarinet/Walter Grimmer: cello DI BARI: … di un mirabile gioco sonoro • All Is Lost • Bird’s Fractal Voice The highly refined work of Marco Di Bari reveals a cultured individual who is fully aware of the traditions to which he refers. Piano is a constant presence in the work of this composer. The tradition of the instrument is interpreted through the investigation of objects and technical formulas that are used to generate new sonorous ideas and deep emotions. The relation between past and future, between usual and unusual techniques, is approached from a contemporary point of view, thus creating a successful and paradigmatic synthesis.

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Toccata Classics

Release Date: July 10, 2012

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Hans GÁL

Karel REINER

Alfia Nakipbekova: cello/Jakob Fichert: piano

Sebastian Foron: cello/Matti Raekallio: piano/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra /Zdenek Macal: conductor

Music for Cello

Cello Concerto

GÁL: Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 109a • Suite for Solo Cello, Op. 109b • Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 89 Vienna-born Hans Gál (1890–1987) settled in Edinburgh after fleeing from the Nazis in 1938, and became a much-loved figure in his adoptive town. But he never lost his Viennese fondness for melody, as these three works demonstrate—the Sonata with piano composed in 1953, and the two works for solo cello composed in 1982, when he was 92 years old, almost the last music he wrote.

REINER: Cello Concerto, Op. 34 • Sonata Brevis, Op. 39 • Elegy and Capriccio • Verses Karel Reiner (1910–79), a major missing voice in Czech music, suffered under both of 20th-century Europe’s major tyrannies (Nazism and Communism). This first CD of a series reviving Reiner’s music presents the large-scale Concerto he completed just before his internment in Terezín—first heard, in this live performance, only in 2010.

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Georg Philipp TELEMANN

Igor RAYKHELSON

Bergen Barokk

Yuri Bashmet: viola/Nikolay Sachenko: violin/Novaya Rossiya Orchestra/Claudio Vandelli, Alexander Slatkovsky: conductors

Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst,Vol. 4

Concertos for Viola and Violin

TELEMANN: 6 cantatas This is the fourth CD in the first complete recording of the 72 cantatas from Telemann’s collection Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst, published in Hamburg in 1726—the first complete set of cantatas for the liturgical year to appear in print. The cantatas are designated for voice, an obbligato instrument, and basso continuo, and generally take the form of two da capo arias with an intervening recitative. Although intended for worship, Telemann’s cantatas are a masterly blend of tunefulness with skilled counterpoint and vocal and instrumental virtuosity.

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RAYKHELSON: Violin Concerto in C minor • Viola Concerto in A minor In the words of his friend, violist and conductor Yuri Bashmet, composer-pianist Igor Raykhelson “possesses a superb mastery of both classical and jazz idioms.” The unashamed Romanticism of Raykhelson’s Violin Concerto (2007) and its emphasis on melody place it downstream from Korngold, and though the Viola Concerto (2005) has its darker moments, its vigorous, jazz-tinged finale has the knock-about good humor of Shchedrin.

Release Date: July 10, 2012

Toccata Classics

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Gerard SCHURMANN

ˇ Vytautas BACEVICIUS

Alyssa Park: violin/Mikhail Korzhev: piano

Gabrielius Alekna, Ursula Oppens: pianos/Matthew Lewis: organ

SCHURMANN: Duo for Violin and Piano • Leotaurus: Theme and Variations for Piano • Autumn Leaves for Violin and Piano • Contrasts for Piano

ˇ BACEVICIUS: The Complete Mots (6)

Music for Violin and Piano

Piano Music,Vol. One

Anglo-Dutch composer Gerard Schurmann, born in the East Indies in 1924 and based in the US since 1981, first made his mark in Britain in the 1940s and ’50s as a pianist and composer, particularly of chamber music and film scores. His concert output is intense, passionate, tightly argued, and charged with energy, but also infused with lyricism, as these four pieces demonstrate.

Lithuanian pianist and composer Vytautas Baceviˇcius (1905–70) is one of the undiscovered pioneers of 20th-century music. His series of seven Mots (‘Words’) for keyboard—five for solo piano, one for organ, and one for two pianos—were written between 1933 and 1966, and show the evolution of his musical language from the post-Scriabin style of the early works, via the influence of Prokofiev and Stravinsky, to a highly individual modernism akin to that of two fellow radicals, Varèse and Wolpe.

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Myroslav SKORYK

John McCabe

Solomia Soroka: violin/Arthur Greene: piano

John McCabe: piano

SKORYK: Melody from the High Pass • Violin Sonata No. 1 • Allegretto and Dance from Hutsulian Triptych • Caprice for solo violin • Carpathian Rhapsody • Poem • Violin Sonata No. 2 • Spanish Dance

SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata in A minor • HOWARD: Sky and Water • CASKEN: The Haunting Bough • RAVEL: Valses nobles et sentimentales • McCABE: Tenebrae • BRIDGE: Heart’s Ease

Music for Violin and Piano

Today’s leading Ukrainian composer, Myroslav Skoryk, grew up in Siberia, where his family was deported after WWII, and he began to write music under the tutelage of other political prisoners there.

He later studied with Kabalevsky in Moscow before settling back in his native city, where he soon became an important teacher and is now a major figure in Ukrainian cultural life.

Farewell Recital

In August 2010, at the Presteigne Festival on the Welsh borders, John McCabe gave his last public piano recital, bringing to an end a career as solo pianist that had lasted half a century. McCabe—born in Liverpool in 1939 and a composer-pianist in the tradition of Beethoven and Rachmaninov—has always championed the music of his contemporaries alongside his own and that of the masters of the past, and this farewell recital included two works by friends and colleagues as well as his own grandiose “Tenebrae.”

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Red Priest Recordings

Release Date: July 10, 2012 Piers Adams: recorder Howard Beach: harpsichord, organ David Watkin: cello Musica da Camera Robert King: director VIVALDI: Concerto in F, RV 433 • Concerto in A minor, RV 445 • Concerto in C minor, RV 441 • Concerto in D, RV 428 • Concerto in G minor, RV 439 • Concerto in C, RV 443 • HANDEL: Sonata in G • Sonata in G minor • Sonata in C • Harmonious Blacksmith Variations • Sonata in D, HWV 378 • Sonata in D minor, Op. 1, No. 1 • Sonata in D minor • Sonata in F • Sonata in D minor “A dazzling virtuoso star.” — BBC Music magazine “The reigning recorder virtuoso in the world today.” — Washington Post

Antonio VIVALDI & G.F. HANDEL Recorder Music

Cat # RPR 8 Price Code: 2Q (SRP $31.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Slimline, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Piers Adams is widely regarded as one of the greatest recorder players of our time. He has worked tirelessly to develop the recorder’s reputation as a serious solo instrument, in particular through his research into forgotten corners of the instrument’s repertoire and his numerous arrangements and transcriptions from a wide range of genres. In 1997 Piers founded his now world-renowned baroque quartet Red Priest, with whom he has toured the globe several times, performing over 1,000 concerts on four continents in some of the most prestigious music festivals. The group has appeared frequently on TV and radio—including hour-long televised features on LWT’s The South Bank Show (UK)—and recorded several acclaimed discs for Red Priest Recordings.

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Indésens Marco Pedrona: violin Ensemble Guidantus TESSARINI: Violin Concertos, Op. 1 (12) The first half of the 18th century was largely dominated by the innovative genius of Antonio Vivaldi, but one of his most talented younger contemporaries was Carlo Tessarini. His complete 12 Concertos, Op. 1, are presented here in their first modern recording.

Carlo TESSARINI

Complete 12 Violin Concertos, Op. 1 Cat # IDS 1207 Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) Number of Discs: 2 Digipak, Box Lot 25 World Premiere

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Fryderyk Chopin Society

´ Wojciech Switała: piano CHOPIN: Ballade in F, Op. 38 • Ballade in A-flat, Op. 47 • Ballade in G minor, Op. 23 • Ballade in F minor, Op. 52 • Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48, No. 1 • Nocturne in F-sharp minor, Op. 48, No. 2 • Scherzo in B-flat minor, Op. 31 Recorded by one of the best Polish pianists specializing in the music of Chopin, this program was recorded on a period piano (Pleyel from 1848) in Warsaw’s Polish Radio Concert Studio in in February 2011.

Frédéric CHOPIN

4 Ballades (on Pleyel, 1848)

Cat # FCS 26 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 33 d

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´ Wojciech Switała: piano CHOPIN: Ballade in F, Op. 38 • Ballade in A-flat, Op. 47 • Ballade in G minor, Op. 23 • Ballade in F minor, Op. 52 • Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48, No. 1 • Nocturne in F-sharp minor, Op. 48, No. 2 • Scherzo in B-flat minor, Op. 31 Another recording by one of the best Polish pianists specializing in the music of Chopin, this recording was made on a contemporary piano Steinway D, 578221 in Warsaw’s Polish Radio Concert Studio in May 2011.

Frédéric CHOPIN

4 Ballades (on Steinway) Cat # FCS 211 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 32 d

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La Bottega Discantica

Release Date: July 10, 2012 Gabriella Costa, Veronica Lima: sopranos Elena Biscuola: mezzo-soprano Les Eléments Baroque Orchestra Piero Cartosio: director A. SCARLATTI: Venere, Amore e Ragione • Sinfonia from Concerto Grosso No. 10 Alessandro Scarlatti was undoubtedly the greatest composer of vocal music in Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries. However, despite his grandeur being recognized by historians, it’s only recently that his music can be heard and appreciated in concerts. The “serenata” could be considered the form that lies between opera and cantata, a kind of mini-opera with the usual alternation between arias and recitatives but without the effects of staging. A characteristic of the beautiful and rare serenata recorded here is the presence of a general dancing nature of many of the arias along with real instrumental dances that, towards the end, intertwine with the arias.

Alessandro SCARLATTI Venere, Amore e Ragione Cat # BDI 209 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 d

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Málaga Chorus Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra Aldo Ceccato: conductor DE SABATA: Il Mercante di Venezia [The Merchant of Venice] (complete incidental music to Shakespeare’s play) The complete incidental music for William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, recorded for the first time! Aldo Ceccato conducts the Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga in a brilliant score by legendary Italian conductor Victor De Sabata. Ceccato is a conductor of international fame. He studied music at the “G. Verdi” Conservatoire in Milan, his birthplace, and later attended specialization courses held by Sergiu Celibidache. He has conducted many great symphonic and operatic masterpieces in the most important Theatres—from Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, Naples’ San Carlo Theatre, and Florence’s Maggio Musicale Fiorentino to London’s Covent Garden, the Paris Opera, the Vienna Staatsoper, and the Hamburg Staastoper. He has been invited as guest conductor at the principal international music festivals in Glyndebourne, Edinburgh, Berlin, and Prague.

Victor DE SABATA Il Mercante di Venezia Cat # BDI 228 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 World premiere

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Améson

William BYRD & John DOWLAND Ye Sacred Muses

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Jean-Michel Fumas: countertenor Eliza Consort Liam Fennely, Martin Bauer, Lucile Boulanger, Sylvia Abramowicz: viols Thomas Dunford: Renaissance lute BYRD: The man is blest • Ye Sacred Muses • Fair Britain Isle • Rejoice unto the Lord • Fantasy Quartet • Lullaby, my sweet baby boy • DOWLAND: In darkness let me dwell • Go, nightly cares • I saw my lady weep • Flow my tears • Now, O Now I needs must part • ROSSETER: What then is love • COPRARIO: Fantasia • O Sweet flower • PARSONS: Pour down, you pow’rs • ANON.: Willow song This new recording features Jean-Michel Fumas’ warm, radiant voice accompanied by Thomas Dunford on Renaissance lute. The magnificent program of Elizabethan ballads, songs, and elegies includes remarkable works, all recorded in the original key.

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Flora

Release Date: July 10, 2012 Nils Økland: Hardanger fiddle Elisabeth Seitz: drum Philippe Pierlot: bass viol Traditional Norwegian folk music, interspersed with short works

by Carl Friedrich Abel, Giardini, Mattheson, Robinson, Fischer, Brade & Lupo Carl Friedrich Abel goes to Norway, where the famous bass viol virtuoso meets a player of the Hardanger fiddle (a violin fitted with sympathetic strings typical of the Hardanger region). This meeting occurs during a wedding and every circumstance is an opportunity for nice music: walking to church, the religious ceremony, the ball and its aristocratic and popular dances, the telling of anecdotes and confidences around the fire, and a good pint of beer, ending up in an early-morning frenzy with a last dance that marks the end of the festivities.

Various Artists

Abel en Norvège (Abel in Norway) Cat # FLO 1307 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Les Sacqueboutiers Ensemble Clément Janequin 15 selections of Early Music by Josquin, Janequin, Lejeune, and more Cheerful and nostalgic pieces, bawdy and poetic, mark the track of Gargantua, the gentle giant, from his birth to the founding of the Abbey of Theleme with his wise moto “Do what thou wilt”—a lesson of good living!

Les Sacqueboutiers

Rabelais: Fay ce que vouldras Cat # FLO 2410 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 14 d

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Gramola

Release Date: July 10, 2012

Alexander ZEMLINSKY, Carl GOLDMARK & Hans GÁL Piano Trios

Thomas Albertus Irnberger: violin/Attilia Kiyoko Cernitori: cello/Evgueni Sinaiski: piano ZEMLINSKY: Piano Trio, Op. 3 • GOLDMARK: Piano Trio, Op. 33 • GÁL: Piano Trio, Op. 49b Trio compositions by great admirers of Brahms are the subject and contents of this new CD by successful young Austrian violinist Thomas Albertus Irnberger and his chamber music partners Attilia Kiyoko Cernitori (cello) and Evgueni Sinaiski (piano). Like a leitmotif, both stylistic elements and the spirit of the great master of German Romanticism link the works of this compilation, whose dates of publication mark a period of 70 years, from 1879 to 1949, and whose composers fell prey to censorship and suppression by the Nazi regime due to their Jewish origins.

Cat # GLA 98933 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel w/ O-Card, Box Lot 20 d

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Wilfried Gottwald Facets of the Clarinet

Wilfried Gottwald: clarinet/Libor Meisl, Maiko Enomoto, Johannes Flieder, Kentaro Yoshii, Franz Schaden, Anna Wagner: assisting artists MOZART: Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622 (arr. clarinet & string quartet) • POULENC: Clarinet Sonata • GARSON: Jazz Variations on a Theme of Paganini • Ballad • Jazz Etude With this recording, versatile Austrian clarinetist Wilfried Gottwald traces a wide arc from W.A. Mozart up to jazz. The Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622 is presented for the first time in an arrangement for clarinet and string quartet. Besides this classic of the clarinet repertoire, you can also hear the Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, and a late work by Francis Poulenc. In classical jazz trio instrumentation, i.e. together with piano and double bass, the long-standing Vienna Symphony Orchestra member impressively shows—with Mike Garson’s Jazz Variations on a Theme of Paganini—that this genre is often closer to classical music than imagined, and that he feels equally at home in both.

Cat # GLA 98939 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel w/ O-Card, Box Lot 20 d

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J.S. BACH

Partitas 2 & 4 Wolfgang Dimetrik: accordion J.S. BACH: Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826 • Partita No. 4 in D, BWV 828 • Chorale Prelude “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme” BWV 140 With this new recording for Gramola, the exceptionally gifted Wolfgang Dimetrik once more draws on the highly comprehensive and impressive pool of the literature for solo piano by J.S. Bach. After the Goldberg Variations and the English Suites, the award-winning accordionist presents Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826 and Partita No. 4 in D, BWV 828 from the compendium of piano music by the Baroque maestro casually termed “Clavierübung” in a technically perfect and musically convincing manner.

Cat # GLA 98945 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel w/ O-Card, Box Lot 20 d

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Editions Hortus

Release Date: July 10, 2012 Yoann Tardivel: organ Marion Ralincourt: flute ALAIN: Deuxième Fantaisie • Trois Mouvements for flute & organ • Suite • Deux Danses à Agni Yavishta • Première Fantaisie • Variations on a Theme of Clément Janequin • Le Jardin suspendu • Litanies

Jehan ALAIN Jardin suspendu

Born in 1982, Yoann Tardivel teaches organ alongside Bernard Foccroulle at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. His principal teachers were Michel Bouvard, François Henri Houbart, and Olivier Latry. After studying at the Regional Conservatories of Paris and RueilMalmaison, he completed his studies at the National Conservatory in Paris. In 2008 he was awarded the First Grand Prize in Interpretation at the Xavier Darasse International Competition in Toulouse, and was the E.C.H.O. Young Artist of the Year for 2009. Marion Ralincourt is laureate of a number of international competitions: first prize in the Krakow International Flute Competition and special prize for the best interpretation in the Pendercki Competition (April 2005), third prize in the Carl Nielsen International Competition (Denmark 2006), special mention in the Jean-Pierre Rampal Competition, and laureate in the Festival Musical d’Automne.

Cat # HOR 92 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 d

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Kotaro Fukuma: piano ALBÉNIZ: Iberia Born in Tokyo, Kotaro Fukuma started learning piano at the age of five. He studied music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Bruno Rigutto and Marie-Francoise Bucquet, then at the Universität der Künste Berlin with Klaus Hellwig and at the International Piano Academy Lake Como in Italy. He also has studied with several pianists, including Leon Fleisher, Mitsuko Uchida, Richard Goode, Alicia de Larrocha, Maria Joao Pires, Leslie Howard, Dominique Merlet, and Aldo Ciccolini. In 2003, at the age of 20, Kotaro won both First Prize and the Chopin Prize at the 15th Cleveland International Piano Competition. Since then, his concert career has developed on five continents including performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, and many more.

Isaac ALBÉNIZ Iberia

Cat # HOR 93 Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Slimline, Box Lot 18 d

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LAWO Classics

Bergen Domkantori Magnar Mangersnes: conductor Tør Grønn: organ Nils Ole Oftebro: narrator KARLSEN: St. Luke Passion Kjell Mørk Karlsen’s St. Luke Passion was composed in 2006. The main textual source is the Passion of Christ according to St. Luke, Chapters 22–23. In Mørk Karlsen’s work, the text is recited with accompanying organ sequences, while the dramatic narrative is reinforced by additional concertizing organ parts. Nine greater Latin choral hymns function as commentaries to the Gospel text, the words having been taken from early liturgical texts for Good Friday, still in use in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions. While the large-scale, chiefly eight-part choral compositions have their musical roots both in Russian Orthodox church music and in Gregorian chant, the melodic character and particular sound of our own times are also clearly present in Mørk Karlsen’s work. This is how the composer himself describes the structure and design of the St. Luke Passion, a work that startles, moves, and engages the listener.

Kjell Mørk KARLSEN St. Luke Passion

Cat # LAW 1020 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 d

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Harald Rise: organ HABBESTAD: Gaudeamus, Op. 79 • Introduction & Passacaglia, Op. 18 • A Solis Ortus Cardine, Op. 78 • Organ Chorale • Organ Suite, Op. 22b • Fanfare and Blues, Op. 57 • Almighty God and Loving Father On this CD from LAWO Classics, the organist—Harald Rise, Professor of Church Music at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim—performs most of the organ works of composer Kjell Habbestad, which were written during the period 1976–2007. The compositions include works commissioned for the dedication of new organs, works dedicated to performers, and works composed in honor of other composers. The largest composition is a grandly conceived Introduction & Passacaglia based on themes of Norwegian composer Fartein Valen. Other works include an organ suite, some organ chorales, and even wedding music, from a composer whose compositional and technical repertoire is very extensive.

Kjell HABBESTAD Gaudeamus

Cat # LAW 1031 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

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Melodiya

Release Date: July 10, 2012 Tikhon Khrennikov, Fikret Amirov, Yuri Favorin, Nikita Mdoyants: pianos Lev REVUTSKY: Song (premiere) • Vsevolod ZADERATSKY: Sonata No. 2 (premiere) • Nikolai ROSLAVETS: 5 Preludes • 2 Poems • Samuil FEINBERG: Sonata No. 5 • Sergei PROTOPOPOV: Sonata No. 3, Op. 6 • Vladimir DESHEVOV: Rails Firma Melodiya and the Tikhon Khrennikov Charitable Foundation present a joint project—the Anthology of Piano Music, by Russian and Soviet composers! The project was conceived as a series of 30 discs featuring recordings of recognized masterpieces as well as a revival of unjustly forgotten compositions.

Various Artists

Anthology of Piano Music,Vol. 3 Cat # MYD 1001965 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 32 Includes World PremiereS

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Tikhon Khrennikov, Fikret Amirov, Yuri Favorin, Nikita Mdoyants: pianos Edison DENISOV: Variations • Andrei VOLKONSKY: Musica stricta • Yuri BUTSKO: Partita • Alexander VUSTIN: Lamento • Nikolai KARETNIKOV: Two pieces • Rostislav BOIKO: Cypriot Sketches • Sonatina • Edvard MIRZOYAN: Poem • Sofia GUBAIDULINA: Chaconne This amazing series provides a 21st-century outlook on the previous two centuries of piano music, featuring young virtuosos. But these young artists did not just perform—they actually took part in compiling the series, searching in the music archives for the compositions that deserved to find a way back to the listeners.

Various Artists

Anthology of Piano Music,Vol. 4 Cat # MYD 1001966 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 32 d

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Melodiya

Release Date: July 10, 2012 Arthur Rubinstein: piano CHOPIN: Polonaise in F-sharp minor, Op. 44 • Polonaise in A–flat, Op. 53 “Heroic” • Impromptu in G-flat, Op. 51, No. 3 • Nocturne in D-flat, Op. 27, No. 2 • Sonata No. 2 • Barcarole in F-sharp, Op. 60 • Etude in A-flat, Op. 25, No. 1 • Etude in G-flat, Op. 10, No. 5 • Etude in E minor, Op. 25, No. 5 • Etude in C-sharp minor, Op. 10, No. 4 • Waltz in A minor, Op. 34, No. 2 • Waltz in A-flat, Op. 34, No. 1 In 2010 the world celebrated the 200th anniversary of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849). This romantic composer was a genuine poet of grand piano. He composed neither symphonies nor operas—his whole creative life was dedicated to piano works. Chopin considered this instrument ideal for expressing feelings and ideas; his nocturnes, waltzes, ballads, mazurkas, polonaises, etudes, and scherzos are the recognized masterpieces of piano art, played here by a true master.

Frédéric CHOPIN

Arthur Rubinstein plays Frédéric Chopin Cat # MYD 1001684 Price Code: 2R (SRP $35.99) Number of Discs: 2 Digipak, Box Lot 20 d

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Daniil Shafran: cello J.S. BACH: Suite Nos. 2, 4 & 6 • CHOPIN: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65 • RACHMANINOV: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19 • BRAHMS: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 • SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Sonata, Op. 40 • PROKOFIEV: Cello Sonata in C, Op. 119 • Symphony-Concerto in E minor, Op. 125 • BOCCHERINI: Cello Concerto No. 9 • HAYDN: Cello Concerto No. 2 • TCHAIKOVSKY: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33 “The Paganini of the 21st century” whose “art reaches the borders of supernatural”—these are some of the enthusiastic epithets that domestic & foreign music critics endowed upon Daniil Shafran, whose creative career, which spanned more than 60 years, made up a whole era in the Russian performing arts of the 20th century.

Daniil Shafran Cello

Cat # MYD 1001938 Price Code: 3R (SRP $53.99) Number of Discs: 5 Box Set, Box Lot 5 d

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Melodiya

Release Date: July 10, 2012 Galina Vishnevskaya, Valentina Petrova: sopranos Evgeni Belov: baritone Sergei Lemeshev: tenor Bolshoi Theatre Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra Boris Khaikin: conductor TCHAIKOVSKY: Eugene Onegin (complete opera) Firma Melodiya presents one of the most famous and beloved works of great Russian composer Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky—the opera Eugene Onegin! This 1955 staging featured some of the leading artists of the operatic stage as well as the soloists, choir, and orchestra of the USSR Bolshoi Theatre conducted by Boris Khaikin.

Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY Eugene Onegin

Cat # MYD 1001945 Price Code: 2R (SRP $35.99) Number of Discs: 2 Digipak, Box Lot 20 d

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Vera Davydova, Elizaveta Shumskaya, Natalia Shpiller: vocal soloists Bolshoi Theater Orchestra & Chorus Nikolai Golovanov: conductor RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Sadko (complete opera) The recording of Sadko featured on these three discs is archival, and historic. Its special value comes from the fact that it is one of the best recordings put on tape by outstanding music director Boris Pokrovsky, who realized it for the USSR Bolshoi Theatre in 1949. For this recording, the director, conductor, art directors, and main performers were awarded the Stalin Prize of the First Degree. At that time, it was one of the most honorable decorations, later given the same status as the USSR State Prize.

Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sadko

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Melodiya

Release Date: July 10, 2012 Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra & Chorus Algis Zuraitis: conductor KHACHATURIAN: Spartacus (complete ballet) Spartacus was conceived as a monumental narration about the mighty avalanche of the antique slaves’ uprising, who defended a person’s freedom and to whom. The music, the creation of which took eight & a half months, was the centerpiece in Khachaturian’s creative work. In 1959 Khachaturian was awarded the highest title of the Soviet epoch—the title of Lenin laureate—for the music of the ballet.

Aram KHACHATURIAN

Spartacus

Cat # MYD 1001530 Price Code: 3R (SRP $56.99) Number of Discs: 3 Double Digipak, Box Lot 14 d

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London Symphony Orchestra Mariinsky Orchestra Valery Gergiev: conductor Igor Fedorov: clarinet SHAKHIDI: Sado • Death of Usurer (exc.) • Siyavush (exc.) • RUBAI HAYAM (exc.) • Clarinet Concerto • Darius • The March This album is addressed to judges of symphonic and academic ballet music, with its basis on melodies and intonations of eastern folklore.

The recording features one of the best orchestras in the world, the London Symphony Orchestra, with Valery Gergiev conducting.

Tolibkhon SHAKHIDI

Orchestral Music

Cat # MYD 1002007 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 32 d

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Passacaille

Release Date: July 10, 2012 Damien Guillon: countertenor Marcus Ullman: tenor Lieven Termont: baritone Il Gardellino Marcel Ponseele: director ZELENKA: Lamentationes I & II • J.S. BACH: Cantata “Schauet doch und sehet, ob irgendein Schmerz sei” BWV 46 • “Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben!” BWV 102

Jan Dismas ZELENKA & J.S. BACH

The two Bach cantatas presented here were written three years apart (1723 and 1726) for the same Sunday of the liturgical year, the tenth Sunday after Trinity. The Gospel for the day reports Jesus weeping over Jerusalem, and announcing its destruction. Marcel Ponseele thought it was very interesting to juxtapose these cantatas against two lamentations composed by Zelenka in 1722. In a span of four years, geographically closely connected, we have three musical settings of the same subjects. One lamentation is for baritone solo and the other for alto voice, performed on this recording by the French countertenor Damien Guillon.

Lamentationes

Cat # PAS 977 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 d

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Lorenzo Ghielmi: harpsichord J.S. BACH: French Suites Nos. 1–3, BWV 812–814 • Italian Concerto, BWV 971 • Aria Variata in A minor, BWV 989 “In the Italian Style” Until recently, Lorenzo Ghielmi has made solo recordings with Passacaille mainly as an organist. However, as a performer he is continuing the tradition of the 18th century, where musicians were masters on all keyboard instruments that were available. This new recording presents him as a harpsichord player. Two instruments were used for this recording: for the French Suites a harpsichord by Keith Hill inspired by an anonymous 18th century German harpsichord, and for the pages reflecting the Italian influence, a harpsichord by Andrea Restelli inspired by the Christian Vater harpsichord held in the Nuremberg Museum.

J.S. BACH

French Suites I–III Cat # PAS 984 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Querstand

Gernoth Süßmuth: violin Frank-Immo Zichner: piano SCHUBERT: Sonata in D, D. 384 • Sonata in A minor, D. 385 • Sonata in G minor, D. 408 • Sonata in A, D. 574 All of Franz Schubert’s early works for violin and piano on one CD, performed by renowned chamber musicians Gernot Süßmuth (violin) and Frank-Immo Zichner (piano). The two artists have performed with the Aperto Piano Quartett, Vogler Quartett, Petersen Quartett, and other important chamber music formations, as well as with numerous orchestras.

Franz SCHUBERT

Sonatas for violin and piano Cat # QUE 1128 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 35 d

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Ercole Nisini: trombone Rebecca Maurer: harpsichord Monika Fischaleck: baroque bassoon Instrumenta Musica ALBINONI: Concerto a cinque No. 2 • TELEMANN: Sonata I • Sonata • Exc. from Sonata 4 • MARCELLO: Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3 • D. GABRIELLI: Ricercar 2 On Ercole Nisini’s fourth CD on the Querstand label, the renowned specialist of historical trombone playing presents the second disc in a series presenting the trombone repertoire from the mid-16th century to the mid-19th century. All pieces are recorded with a trombone for the first time!

Ercole Nisini

The Historical Trombone, Vol. 2: The Baroque Trombone Cat # QUE 1204 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 35 d

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