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Amalgamated Arts represents the works of Michael Heath. Known originally for his compositions for the theater, Michael recently began writing for the concert platform. This led to a commission for a new string quartet for Londinium IV, the quartet from the London Philharmonic, and the success of the premiere led to the inaugural Amalgamated Arts recording. Amalgamated Arts comes to Allegro Classical via Launch Music International.
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Mark BARDEN
Monoliths [Hybrid SACD] BUZZ ALERT
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Mark Barden: vocals Ensemble intercontemporain Cornelius Meister: conductor Stefan Maier, Max Murray: vocals Klangforum Wien Andreas Eberle: conductor Nicolas Hodges: piano Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin BARDEN: a tearing of vision • Chamber • Alam [Schmerz] • flesh|veil • die Haut Anderer • Monoliths I–V Born in Cleveland in 1980, Mark Barden’s compositional works have won numerous international prizes, including a composer residency at the Berlin Academy of the Arts and a Composer’s Prize from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. His concert works have been performed by leading ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Recherche, Mivos Quartet, and Ensemble Mosaik at renowned festivals for contemporary music such as the Donaueschingen Festival, Wien Modern, and the Witten Festival for New Chamber Music. His work represents a staging of the failures that occur just before and just beyond the limits of what the body can hear and what it can enact. The listener senses, just barely, a loss of themselves in this moment of vulnerability. Early Press Interest from classical media outlets. Extensive Performance History in Chicago, IL. HYBRID SACD IS PLAYABLE IN ALL CD PLAYERS. For optimal sound, use compatible surround sound system.
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Trio Catch Sanh
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Boglárka Pecze: clarinet, bass clarinet Eva Boesch: cello Sun-Young Nam: piano BERTRAND: Sanh for bass clarinet, cello and piano (premiere) • BRAHMS: Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114 • LANG: Monadologie XXVII – Brahms-Variations 1–3 To catch the audience with a virtuosic dialogue between the very different timbres of clarinet, cello, and piano — this is what makes Trio Catch stand out. Boglárka Pecze (clarinet), Eva Boesch (cello), and Sun-Young Nam (piano) met during scholarships at the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt. Their new CD, featuring works from Johannes Brahms, Christophe Bertrand, and Bernhard Lang, will be released in the U.S. on the Col legno label in July 2016. The trio won the Gotthard Schierse Foundation concert award in Berlin in 2011, the Hermann and Milena Ebel prize in 2012, and was awarded with the Berenberg Kulturpreis in 2014.
PREVIOUSLY RELEASED Trio Catch In Between CD: CNO 20424 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 d
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col legno Ensemble Modern Jonathan Stockhammer: conductor Armida Quartett Bamberger Symphoniker Christoph Eschenbach: conductor Birke J. Bertelsmeier: piano, glasses BERTELSMEIER: GIROMANiACO • hineidunke • Quartettstück • folklich • WhirliGigue • Amorette I • Amorette II • Zimzum Cheerful subversion, a predilection for character and characterization, and a sense of double entendre — all are hallmarks of Birke Bertelsmeier’s output. But not for their own sake: her calculated disorientations are indeed intended to stump the listeners, to make them pay attention, and to notice the unexpected.
Birke J. BERTELSMEIER folklich
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Bamberger Symphoniker Christoph Eschenbach: conductor Carolin Widmann: violin Simon Lepper: piano Marisol Montalvo: soprano Anna Clare Hauf: mezzo-soprano Klangforum Wien Clark Rundell: conductor Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin Gergely Madaras: conductor MASON: Clear Night • Learning Self-Modulation: I Dancing through the thunderous night • Learning Self-Modulation: II Azure flashes falling • Learning Self-Modulation: III Through suspended mists of white • Learning Self-Modulation: IVSeeking realms forever bright • Learning SelfModulation: V We hear the timeless calling • Learning Self-Modulation: VI And here at last, we flow like ligh • The Years of Light • Isolarion: Rituals of Resonance - I. Satz • Isolarion: Rituals of Resonance - II. Satz • Isolarion: Rituals of Resonance - III. Satz • Layers of Love
Christian MASON Unseen Light
Radiance comes from Christian Mason’s music in the same way it comes from that of other composers, going back through Gérard Grisey to Guillaume Dufay and the anonymous authors of plainchant. This is so even when Mason — like his nearest musical connections, who include Scelsi, Radulescu, Stockhausen, and Grisey — is dealing with complex, clangorous resonances: the sounds of bells, or of wind blowing through a frost-covered tree. Such luminous congruity may derive from an awareness of spectral music, but the stimulus may equally have been a matter more of acoustic fact and personal experience.
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Sergei RACHMANINOV
Vespers (All-Night Vigil, Op. 37) BUZZ ALERT
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Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, Fifth Avenue, New York John Scott: conductor Ory Brown: mezzo soprano David Vanderwal: tenor RACHMANINOV: Vespers (All-Night Vigil), Op. 37 “A beacon of excellence in Anglican worship … The abiding impression is one of intimacy, innocence, and wonder.” — BBC Music Magazine HHHHH Resonus Classics is pleased to present the second in a series of six recordings from the internationally renowned Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys and their late, celebrated director John Scott. Made over the course of Scott’s tenure with the choir and released commercially for the first time, the series continues with an inspiring and striking reading of Rachmaninov’s Vespers (All-Night Vigil), Op. 37. Review Copies to all major newspapers, specialist retailers, and radio stations. Advertising in Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine. PREVIOUSLY RELEASED J.S. BACH Motets CD: RSN 10152 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 d
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St. Catharine’s Girls’ Choir, Cambridge Ave Maria: Music for Upper Voices CD: RSN 10170 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT
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St. Catharine’s Girls’ Choir, Cambridge Edward Wickham: conductor BURRELL: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis • REBECCA CLARKE: Ave Maria • LEIGHTON: Missa Cornelia • JUDITH BINGHAM: God be in my head • TAVENER: Missa Brevis • MCDOWALL: Ave Maria “St. Catharine’s […] acquit themselves well in some tricky music in the lustrous wood surroundings of the college’s little chapel.” — Gramophone Following their acclaimed recording debut Nova! Nova!, the St. Catharine’s Girls’ Choir makes their solo debut with a full album of recent works for upper voices. Entitled Ave Maria after the two settings of this text by Rebecca Clarke and Cecilia McDowall recorded here, this disc consists almost entirely of world premiere recordings. Also featured is Kenneth Leighton’s Missa Cornelia and John Tavener’s challenging Missa Brevis, alongside sacred works from Diana Burrell, Joanna Marsh, and Judith Bingham. Review Copies to all major newspapers, specialist retailers, and radio stations. Advertising in Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine.
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Stone Records Cyrill Ibrahim: piano BACH: Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826 • SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata in A major, D. 664 • DEBUSSY: Images Book 1 • SCHUMANN: Allegro in B minor, Op. 8 “One of the most exciting pianists of his generation.” — The Daily Telegraph Dialogue, the debut album of pianist Cyrill Ibrahim, features Bach’s second Partita, Schubert’s A major Sonata (D. 664), Debussy’s first book of the Images, and Schumann’s Allegro, Op. 8. These pieces from the core piano repertoire show the different approaches to the instrument and explore the enormous potential in sound, color, and expression. Cyrill has selected these works because, at different times in his life, they all played an important role. Cyrill has performed both as soloist and a chamber recitalist on the national and international stage for such halls as the Berliner Philharmonie and Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Cyrill Ibrahim Dialogue
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Allegro Classical Welcomes Amalgamated Arts Londinium IV Katherine Tinker: piano Alison Arnopp: soprano HEATH: Suit Suite • Arcady • Three Dance Duets • Wave Songs Written for Londinium IV, the string quartet from the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Suit Suite is a new four-movement string quartet by composer Michael Heath. The success of the premiere of this work led to the recording of this CD, for which Michael then composed the Three Dance Duets for solo violin and cello. The CD is completed by Michael’s suite for solo piano, Arcady, and the soprano song cycle Wave Songs. Media Campaign managed by Karen Pitchford.
Michael HEATH Suit Suite
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DOREMI Leonard Rose: cello Nadia Reisenberg: piano Eugene Istomin: piano Orchestre National de l’ORTF Charles Dutoit: conductor Radio Luxembourg Orchestra Louis de Fromeny: conductor DVORˇÁK: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 • SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33 • TCHAIKOVSKY: Rococo Variations for Cello & Orchestra, Op. 33 • BEETHOVEN: Sonata for Cello & Piano No. 5 in D major, Op. 102, No. 2 • Sonata for Cello & Piano No. 3 in A major, Op. 69 • BRAHMS: Sonata for Cello & Piano No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38 Leonard Rose was the most respected American cellist of the 20th century; all of these items are live performances and are being released for the first time. Advertising with Gramophone.
Leonard Rose Cello Concertos
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Isaac Stern: violin Leonard Rose: cello Eugene Istomin: piano Cleveland Orchestra Georg Szell: conductor BEETHOVEN: Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C major, Op. 56 • BRAHMS: Double Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, Op. 102 Three of the greatest classical performers of all time, conducted by one of the greatest conductors of all time! These historic live performances see their first release ever on the venerable DOREMI label. Advertising with Gramophone.
Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose & Eugene Istomin Beethoven & Brahms CD: DHR 8047 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d
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Winter & Winter Teodoro Anzellotti: accordion Chistophe Desjardins: viola PESSON: Peigner le vif • SAUNDERS: ...of waters making moan • STROPPA: Il peso di un pensiero (5 reflections for solo viola) • Nous somme l’air, pas le terre • ZENDER: Ein Wandersmann… zornig (Hölderlin lesen V) • HARVEY: Chant for viola “Anzellotti’s agility … at times defies belief.” — Gramophone Accordion and viola do not seem a likely pair, yet numerous composers for contemporary music have written for these two extraordinary instruments. At the center of this new album is Rebecca Saunders’s piece “…of waters making moan,” which uses words from a poem by James Joyce. Premiered in 2013 by Teodoro Anzellotti in Munich, this contemporary solo jewel shines in the technically experienced hands of this astonishing musician.
Teodoro Anzellotti & Chistophe Desjardins … of waters making moan CD: WTR 236 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 28 d
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BMC Records Camerata Salzburg Sándor Végh: conductor SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 1 in D major, D. 82 • Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major, D. 125 • Symphony No. 3 in D major, D. 200 • Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D. 417 “Tragic” “Pungent, characterful, and lovingly played performances.” — Gramophone The music of Schubert played a special role in Sándor Végh’s life; he approached it with deep respect and worked painstakingly with it. At the helm of the Camerata Salzburg, he conducted all of Schubert’s symphonies. When his illness became more serious at the end of 1996, he studied the score of Schubert’s incidental music for Rosamunde (D. 797) while in the hospital, but sadly did not live to conduct it. Of Schubert’s eight symphonies, the first four have not been available in Sándor Végh’s interpretation until now. This compilation contains previously unpublished recordings made in the concert hall of the Cologne Philharmonic during the Camerata Academica’s Schubert cycle, in which all the composer’s symphonies were played, between May 26 and June 2, 1996.
Franz SCHUBERT
Végh Conducts Schubert CD: BMH 201 Price Code: 2I (SRP $21.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Digipak, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT
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Alexander Wilson Volti Subito
CD: SMT 682 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT
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Alexander Wilson: trumpet Miriam Hickman: piano Garrett Klein: flugelhorn GRIEG: Anitra’s Dance (arr. David Hickman) • PAGANINI: Violin Concerto No. 2 (arr. Alex Wilson) • CLARKE: Funiculi Funicula • FAURÉ: Après un rêve (arr. David Hickman) • ARBAN: Air Varie on a Folk Song ‘The Little Swiss Boy’ • COLLINS: Concert Gallop • RACHMANINOV: Elegie in E-flat minor (arr. Miriam Hickman) • BELLSTEDT: Carnival of Venice For young trumpet player Alex Wilson, Volti Subito (or “turn the page quickly”) began as a fascination with the recent trend of arranging violin music for trumpet. It turned into a melding of styles with some fine arrangements and wonderful playing! Wilson is presently a visiting Trumpet Professor at Grand Valley State University, and plays regularly with the Shen Yun Performing Arts series as principal trumpet. His time is now! Promo Service to classical & instrument journals, reviewers, and programmers. Social Media Campaign includes email awareness mailing. Focused Mailings to special interest/instrument groups. Advertising with Fanfare and American Record Guide.
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Music & Media Christina McMaster: piano FOWLES: Knossienne No. 1 • Knossienne No. 2 • Knossienne No. 3 • Biqui No. 1 (Andante) • Biqui No. 1 (Lento) • Sea-Bird • A Walk To Le Chat Noir on a Snowy Day • Biqui No. 2 (Andante) • Biqui No. 2 (Lento) • Monsieur le Pauvre • The Velvet Gentleman • Biqui No. 3 (Andante) • Biqui No. 3 (Lento) • Sylvie “Wonderful! Some of the best music Erik Satie never wrote! Richard Fowles’ pieces are clever, beautiful, and witty.” — Alistair McGowan This music has been written for all fans of Erik Satie’s work. Now, 150 years after the composer’s birth, Richard Fowles has tried to keep Satie’s creative spirit alive so that new pleasure can be found in his distinctive sound. Un Hommage à Erik is Fowles’ debut album as a composer, and the ideas for the pieces came from the life of Satie himself. Fowles wrote a couple of Satiean pieces during his time at Brunel University, and he was encouraged to publish the compositions because “everyone loves Satie’s music, but has heard it a million times before.” Fowles heeded this advice, and with 2016 being the 150th anniversary of Satie’s birth, it seemed an appropriate time to celebrate his unique music.
Richard FOWLES Un Hommage à Erik CD: MME 111 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT
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David Pollock: hardpsichord PURCELL: Suite 5 in C • Ground in C minor • Prelude in A minor • Suite in G minor • A New Ground • Suite 6 in D • BYRD: The Carman’s Whistle • Hughe Ashton’s Grownde • The Mayden’s Songe • Will Yow Walk The Woodes Soe Wylde • All in a Garden Greene • BLOW: Suite in A minor • Ground in D minor • CROFT: Suite 10 in E minor With this CD, David Pollock’s aim is to offer a personal anthology of English harpsichord music, perhaps imagining himself as a contemporary of William Croft reviewing the previous 150 years. He took a cue from Croft’s older colleague John Blow, who created his own anthology of favorite pieces (though in his case the preferred composers were contemporary Germanspeaking harpsichordists).The booklet for this CD contains detailed notes by David Pollock on each piece featured on the CD, and their relevance to each other.
David Pollock
English Harpsichord Works CD: MME 112 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT
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Music & Media Andrew Gregory: piano GREGORY: Into the Trees • The Two Towers • Riversong • Glimpses • White Cliffs • The Fading Light • Aurora • Letter From Home • The Perfect Sky • Esther’s Favourite Place • Scarlet • Say Goodbye The Silver Dial was a story Andrew Gregory first heard as he was growing up, in which a young English soldier goes to war and takes with him an old silver pocket watch that has the power to recall 12 special memories. What we’ve ended up with in the 12 pieces that make up The Silver Dial collection remains very faithful to his original concept. That was always very important to him, and he was determined that the finished album would reflect the theme he had started out with as his inspiration. Thus, the 12 pieces blend imagined memories a WWI soldier might carry with him on the battlefield.
Andrew GREGORY The Silver Dial
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The Classics Labels Martyn Shaw: flute Jonathan Gooing: piano NICHOLSON: Fantasia No. 7, On A Theme By Rode • DROUET: Prelude No. 11 in G and Six Cadences • HUMMEL: Sonata in D major, Op. 50 • CLINTON: Eulalie’ Fantasia for the Flute, Op. 118 Charles Nicholson (1795–1837) was one of the most important figures in the evolution of the flute. He was England’s first-ever concert flautist, flautist to the king, and made significant contributions to flute design through his “Improved” Flute. On this new CD, Martyn Shaw celebrates Nicholson’s bold, dynamic style through a recording upon the instrument that inspired the modern flute. Such was Nicholson’s reputation for dynamic virtuosity in his playing that the term “the Nicholsonian effect” was coined.
Martyn Shaw
The Nicholsonian Effect CD: TCL OM 15009 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT
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Regent Records Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge Ely Cathedral Girls’ Choir Timothy Parsons: organ Alexander Berry: organ Sarah MacDonald: director HOSKING: Te Deum • The Chester Service • Ave Maria • Missa Brevis in D • Ave verum corpus • The Bangor Service • Requiem • A Royal Blessing “Sensitive, precise and well-balanced.” — Gramophone
John HOSKING
An inspirational collection of world-premiere recordings featuring the liturgical choral music of John Hosking, this disc of choral works by a new voice brings an exciting and dynamic approach to writing for the church. This is melodious and memorable music, and the pieces range from exquisite miniatures, such as A Royal Blessing, written for the birth of Prince George of Cambridge in 2013, to the massive setting of the Te Deum. Also included is Hosking’s short Requiem setting. This is the eighth CD Regent has made with the Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and the third where they have joined forces with Ely Cathedral Girls’ Choir under the direction of Sarah MacDonald.
CD: REG 438 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25
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All Angels Cry Aloud
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Paul Walton: organ PICKARD: Tesserae • GIBBS: Pastorale (‘…green and pleasant land’) • WINTERS: Evening Voluntary • KINGMAN: Three Pieces – Homage à Jehan Alain • FISHER: Scherzo • WILBY: For the Iron Voice • BRIGGS: Song without Words • The Legend of St. Nicholas “Total and entirely unselfconscious commitment, and a palpable sense of belief in both instrument and repertoire … Very recommendable.” — Choir & Organ
Paul Walton
For the Iron Voice: 21st Century Organ Music CD: REG 483 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d
An unusual collection of contemporary organ music, ranging from the searing virtuosity of works by John Pickard and Nicolas Kingman, to the lyrical beauty of Paul Fisher, Alan Gibbs, and David Briggs. The disc takes its name from the three-movement showpiece suite for organ “For the Iron Voice” by Philip Wilby, here receiving its first complete recording. The organ of Bridlington Priory is one of the largest and finest parish church organs in the UK. It was built by the Belgian firm Anneessens and installed in the Priory in the spring of 1889. In 2005/6 the organ was rebuilt by Nicholsons & Co. from the ground up with a new building frame and tonal modifications and additions to produce a reliable, comprehensive, perfectly balanced instrument. It was dedicated by Archbishop John Sentamu in April 2006. Promo Service to choral & organ review journals, publications and broadcasters. Advertising with Choir & Organ, Organists’ Review, and Church Music Quarterly.
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