Allegro Classical March 2013 New Release Book

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Avie Records

Augustin Hadelich & Pablo Sáinz Villegas Histoire du Tango

Cat # AVR 2280 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Augustin Hadelich: violin Pablo Sáinz Villegas: guitar PIAZZOLLA: Histoire du Tango • PAGANINI: Sonata Concertata for violin and guitar • Moses Fantasy (Variations on the G String) • DE FALLA: 6 popular songs • SARASATE: Zigeunerweisen “An exacting focus; an unerring dramatic sense; and a rich, beautiful tone.” — New York Times Augustin Hadelich has become one of the most respected and admired violinists of his generation. Two critically acclaimed and Billboard Classical chart-topping releases for AVIE, as well as a string of major debuts with the likes of the New York Philharmonic and Boston Symphony, have resulted in major media coverage in the New Yorker, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Philadelphia Inquirer as well as an ever-widening and adoring fan base. On Histoire du Tango, Augustin conjures a dark and sultry night of fiery, hot-blooded dancing alongside award-winning Spanish guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas.

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Avie Records

Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH & Ludwig van BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 3 & String Quartet No. 2 “Rasumovsky” Cat # AVR 2273 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Valentin Berlinsky Quartet SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 3 in F, Op. 73 • BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 2 in E minor, Op. 59 “Rasumovsky” “Astonishing … combines technical perfection with exceptional maturity and musical insight.” — BBC Music Magazine The Valentin Berlinsky Quartet made an auspicious recording debut last year with highly acclaimed readings of Shostakovich’s String Quartets 7 & 8, and Beethoven’s first “Rasumovsky.” Augmenting an already impressive pedigree — Yo-Yo Ma praised their “pure music making,” while David Zinman hailed “a quartet that has a bright future” — this Zurich-based foursome continues their series pairing the two composers on AVIE. Print Advertising in Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, Listen, Strings, The Strad.

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Valentin Berlinsky Quartet Shostakovich & Beethoven String Quartets Cat # AVR 2253 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 d

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Zig-Zag Territoires

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Sonatas Vol. 3

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François-Frédéric Guy: piano BEETHOVEN: Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1 • Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 2, No. 2 • Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2, No. 3 • Sonata No. 26 in E flat major, Op. 81a “Les Adieux” • Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90 • Sonata No. 29 in B flat major, Op. 106 “Hammerklavier” • Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109 • Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110 • Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111 The third, and last, volume of François-Frédéric Guy’s complete recording of the Beethoven sonatas! In addition to the first three (Op. 2), it contains the late sonatas including the celebrated “Hammerklavier.” This sonata is not only one of the cornerstones of the cycle, but also a key work in Guy’s personal musical trajectory; this is the third time he has recorded it. He chose to record the entire series live, in the course of a series of concerts at the Arsenal de Metz, France. He firmly believes that this method, in direct contact with an audience, is the best way to represent his relationship with the sonatas and his interpretation of them.

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Zig-Zag Territoires

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Symphonies 7 & 1 (trans. Liszt) Cat # ZIG 317 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 d

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Yury Martynov: piano BEETHOVEN, trans. Liszt: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 • Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21 Russian pianist Yury Martynov presents the second volume of the complete recording of the cycle of Beethoven’s symphonies, as transcribed for the piano by Franz Liszt. For both the pianist and the listener, this recording constitutes a genuine adventure, combining the creative genius of Beethoven, the inspired vision of these works by composer and pianist Franz Liszt, and a piano with the same sonic resources that were available to Liszt. For these two symphonies, Martynov has chosen the same Érard piano of 1837 on which he recorded the first volume of this series. That CD, featuring Symphonies 6 & 2, received a particularly warm welcome from the press including a “Choc” de Classica in May 2012.

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BEETHOVEN Symphonies 2 & 6 Cat # ZIG 301000 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 d

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Benjamin BRITTEN The Britten Collection Cat # CRO 16107 Price Code: 3Q (SRP $47.99) Number of Discs: 3 Box Set, Box Lot 8 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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The Sixteen Harry Christophers: conductor Choristers of St. Paul’s Cathedral Sioned Williams: harp Ian Partridge: tenor BRITTEN: Hymn to The Virgin • A Hymn of Saint Columba • Hymn to Saint Peter • Antiphon • Te Deum in C • Jubilate Deo • Hymn to Saint Cecilia • Festival Te Deum • Rejoice in the Lamb • A Ceremony of Carols • A Shepherd’s Carol • The Sycamore Tree • Sweet was the Song • Brevis in D • A Boy was Born • Choral Dances from ‘Gloriana’ • Advance Democracy • The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard • A Wedding Anthem • Five Flower Songs • Sacred and Profane “One of the finest choirs of our day.” — Gramophone This superb collection, released in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Britten’s birth, features all three of the The Sixteen’s celebrated Britten recordings. Arguably the most celebrated British composer of the 20th century, Benjamin Britten possessed a formidable talent and distinctive style. His remarkable career spanned over 40 years, and this collection of choral works features a fascinating selection of music from throughout his life.

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Melodiya

Claude DEBUSSY & Maurice RAVEL Debussy plays Debussy & Ravel plays Ravel

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Claude Debussy: piano Maurice Ravel: piano DEBUSSY: Children’s Corner (1908) • Wind on the Plain (1909) • Minstrels (1910) • La soirée dans Grenade (Estampes No. 2) (1903) • More Than Slow Waltz (1910) • D’un cahier d’esquisses (1903) • RAVEL: Sonatine (1905) • Noble and Sentimental Waltzes (1911) These unique phonographic documents date back to the 1910s and 1920s, when music recording was at its dawn. Among the first pianists to put their own interpretations on record were composers like Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Debussy, and Ravel. Of these, Debussy & Ravel’s recordings are especially significant since their musical style was built on higher attention to detail and the slightest shades of dynamics and rhythm. The composers’ own interpretations are an unquestionable model of how these pieces should sound, for both listener and professional musician.

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Melodiya E. Andreyeva, E. Bulavin, V. Radziyevsky, et al: vocal soloists Choir & Orchestra of the State Moscow Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre Gennady Provatorov: conductor SHOSTAKOVICH: Katerina Izmailova (complete opera) It is hard to name another opera with a fate as complicated and dramatic as that of Katerina Izmailova! In the early 1930s, Shostakovich came up with the idea of composing an opera based on Nikolai Leskov’s novel Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District, perhaps the cruelest work in Russian classical literature. Finished in 1932, the opera shocked some conservative spectators but the majority welcomed it as the first really new word in Soviet and European music theatre. For two years, it was triumphantly staged in many theaters in the USSR and abroad.

However, the opera was condemned after Stalin saw it, and was banned from the stage. The ban was finally lifted in the early 1960s, when Shostakovich realized the second edition of the opera under the name Katerina Izmailova. Now, Melodiya presents the first recording of Shostakovich’s opera, made at the Moscow Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre in 1964, soon after the premiere of the second edition.

Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH Katerina Izmailova

Cat # MYD 1002050 Price Code: 2R (SRP $35.99) Number of Discs: 3 Triple Digipak, Box Lot 15 d

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USSR Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra Yuri Simonov: conductor SHCHEDRIN: Anna Karenina (complete ballet) Melodiya presents a recording of one of the outstanding ballet works of the late 20th century! The title sheet of the score has a dedication “To Maya Plisetskaya, always.” The great ballet dancer (and Shchedrin’s spouse) not only initiated the creation of this work, she was also a choreographer and danced the main part. The premiere took place at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1971. Valeri Levental designed the stage setting, and Pierre Cardin created the costumes. Yuri Temirkanov, chief conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre, was at the stand. The ballet was one of the most successful productions of the Bolshoi Theatre in the 1970s and ’80s, and was shown more than a hundred times during 13 years.

Rodion SHCHEDRIN Anna Karenina

Cat # MYD 1002054 Price Code: 2R (SRP $35.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Digipak, Box Lot 20 d

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Melodiya Galina Vishnevskaya: soprano Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra David Oistrakh: conductor MAHLER: Symphony No. 4 in G major for soprano and orchestra Another rare recording of David Oistrakh as a conductor! The outstanding violinist realized his dream of conducting for the first time in 1962. He conducted some of the well-known orchestras of Moscow, Leningrad, and European cities to enthusiastic reviews from both the public and music critics. This interpretation of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 features Galina Vishnevskaya, who was at the peak of her vocal career at the time. The acute, poignant, and at the same time childishly naïve music of the final movement finds a splendid interpreter in this remarkable singer.

Gustav MAHLER Symphony No. 4

Cat # MYD 1002062 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Grigory Sokolov: piano BEETHOVEN: Diabelli Variations, Op. 120 • CHOPIN: Etudes, Op. 25 • BRAHMS: Three Intermezzi, Op. 117 • Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79 • R. SCHUMANN: Fantasy in C major, Op. 17 • Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22 • SAINT-SAËNS: Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22 for piano and orchestra • TCHAIKOVSKY: Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 for piano and orchestra One of the best contemporary representatives of the St. Petersburg piano school, Grigory Sokolov is well known in Russia and beyond. A master of the now-rare “intellectual” pianism, Sokolov preferred live concerts to studio work. Most of his recordings have been made in concert, including those featured on this set. It reflects not only his repertoire predilection, but also the pianist’s rise to the musical Olympus.

Grigory Sokolov

Plays Beethoven, Chopin & More Cat # MYD 1002078 Price Code: 3Q (SRP $47.99) Number of Discs: 4 Digibox, Box Lot 10 d

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Opera d’Oro

Giuseppe VERDI Nabucco

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Maria Callas, Gino Bechi, Gino Sinimberghi, et al: vocal soloists Orchestra & Chorus of the San Carlo Theater Vittorio Gui: conductor VERDI: Nabucco (complete opera) “Callas’ Naples Nabucco … great singing, excitement … the huge two-octave runs are breathtaking; the passion, power, and rage palpable; and an optional high E-flat at the close of the duet with Nabucco (the estimable Gino Bechi) is hair-raising … self-recommending if you adore Callas. It’s part of the picture of who she was on the way to becoming who she wound up being.” — ClassicsToday Live performance, Naples, December 29, 1949. Nabucco, the king of Babylon, goes mad after proclaiming himself a god. While he is imprisoned, the slave girl Abigaille seizes his throne and condemns his daughter Fenena to death. When Nabucco sees Fenena being led to execution, he regains his senses, accepts the god of the Hebrews, and is freed and made king of Judah.

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Alpha Les Witches Siobhán Armstrong: Irish harp A collection of dances and Gaelic laments from the 16th and 17th centuries Les Witches continue their exploration of the music of the British Isles in the 16th and 17th centuries. This series, successfully launched with the disc Nobody’s Jig, sheds new light on songs and dances at the intersection of the art music and folk music repertories. Siobhán Armstrong, a talented harpist specializing in the Irish repertory, joins our team of witches. Together, they recount an alternative history of Great Britain and Ireland, discovering with delight the treasures each of them has in store: spellbinding melodies and vivid titles which, in their evocation of people and places, bring the pages of history back to life.

Les Witches

Lord Gallaway’s Delight: An Excellent Collection of Dances & Gaelic Laments Cat # APH 534 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 d

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Fuga Libera Krzysztof Meisinger: guitar Andrew Haveron: solo violin Academy of St Martin in the Fields José Maria Florêncio: conductor VILLA-LOBOS: Five Preludes for guitar solo • Concerto for guitar and orchestra • Melodia Sentimental for guitar, violin and string orchestra The young Polish musician Krzysztof Meisinger (b. 1984) is one of the most fascinating and charismatic guitarists of his generation. With the legendary Academy of St Martin in the Fields under the direction of Brazilian conductor José Maria Florêncio, he has recorded the famous Guitar Concerto of Heitor Villa-Lobos. In this work from 1951, Villa-Lobos paid eloquent homage to the guitar’s qualities as a concert instrument.

The recording also includes the Five Preludes for solo guitar, and an arrangement of Melodia Sentimental for guitar, violin, and string orchestra.

This program, recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, ideally displays the flexibility of a young soloist ready to conquer the world with his bewitching playing.

Heitor VILLA-LOBOS Melodia Sentimental Cat # FGL 599 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 d

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col legno Pascal DUSAPIN O Mensch!

Georg Nigl: baritone/Vanessa Wagner: piano DUSAPIN: O Mensch! and a collection of other songs combined to create a new lieder cycle

Cat # CNO 20405 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

Georg Nigl and Pascal Dusapin are united by a bond of artistic friendship; they had already collaborated in two opera productions before embarking on the challenge of creating a lieder cycle. When listening to the end result, we are left with the intriguing impression that the musicians share a secret, which shines through their music but can never be fathomed in its entirety. The lyrics of O Mensch! are based on selected poems by Friedrich Nietzsche.

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KAIROS Salvatore SCIARRINO String Quartets

Quartetto Prometeo/Giulio Rovighi: violin/Aldo Campagnari: violin/Carmelo Giallombardo: viola/Francesco Dillon: cello SCIARRINO: Quartet No. 7 • Quartet No. 8 • Six Short Quartets This album presents three string quartets by the renowned Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino, covering a span of five decades and masterfully performed by Quartetto Promoteo.

Cat # KRO 13212 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Enno POPPE Chamber Music

Ensemble Mosaik/Enno Poppe: conductor POPPE: Arbeit • Wespe • Trauben • Schrank • Salz Five new works from fascinating Berlin-based composer Enno Poppe, ranging from solo voice to chamber ensemble to electronic keyboard. Poppe’s own group, Ensemble Mosaik, performs the works brilliantly.

Cat # KRO 13252 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 27 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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CAvi-music Matthias Schorn: clarinet Innviertler Symphony Orchestra Nicholas Milton: conductor MOZART: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622 • BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 8 in C minor (version 1890) “Impressive fireworks … explosive and colorful … standout solo turns by superb clarinetist Matthias Schorn.” — San Francisco Chronicle This new release features Matthias Schorn, first solo clarinet player of the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Nicholas Milton. The orchestra features members of famous orchestras including Vienna, Munich, Milan, and Hamburg.

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W.A. MOZART & Anton BRUCKNER Clarinet Concerto & Symphony No. 8 Cat # AVI 8553279 Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) Number of Discs: 2 Digipak, Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Matthias Grünert: organ Jana Reiner: soprano HAYDN: Five pieces for Mechanical Organ, HOB XIX • BACH: Prelude, BWV 567 • Fantasy, BWV 570 • Fugue, BWV 946 • Erhalt uns, Herr, BWV 1103 • Herzlich lieb, BWV 1115 • Jesu, the jewel of my faith, BWV 472 • The golden sun, BWV 451 • The day has gone, BWV 447 • BASSANI: Sonata • SCHUETZ: Ich will den Herr loben, sacred canata, SWV 306 • MAYR: Gran Preludio • STRADELLA: Aria di Chiesa • HUGL: Preldue et Fugae quarti toni • SCARLATTI: Speranze mi for soprano and organ • MENDELSSOHN: Andante in D • FORNER: March in E-flat The history of this organ is rather peculiar, as it moved from one church to another and then back again. At 250 years old, it is the only working organ of Baroque organ master Donati. This disc features repertoire by Haydn, Bassani, Stradella, Mayr, and more.

Matthias Grünert The Donati Organ

Cat # AVI 7771039 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 33 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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SOMM Recordings Gould Piano Trio Lucy Gould: violin Alice Neary: cello Benjamin Frith: piano BEETHOVEN: Trio in E-flat major, WoO 38 • Trio in C minor, Op. 1, No. 3 • Trio in E-flat major, Op. 70, No. 2 “The Gould Piano Trio, established players in this repertoire, prove masterly: nimble, agile, and intense.” — Sunday Observer Celebrating their 20th Anniversary, the Gould Piano Trio has a glittering career that places them among the top piano trios internationally. The trio is currently actively engaged in recitals in which Beethoven’s Complete Piano Trios take pride of place.

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Vol. 2

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Cat # SMM 120 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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London Handel Players Rachel Brown: recorder, flute Adrian Butterfield: violin Oliver Webber: violin Katherine Sharman: cello Laurence Cummings: harpsichord GEMINIANI: Sonata No. 1 in A major • Sonata No. 2 in D minor • Sonata No. 3 in A major • Allegro in D major arr. for harpsichord • Sonata No. 5 in B flat major • Sonata No. 6 in G minor arr. for harpsichord • Sonata No. 6 in G minor • Sonata No. 7 in D minor arr. anonymous for treble recorder • Allegro No. 7 in C minor arr. for harpsichord • Sonata No. 8 in B minor • Sonata No. 9 in F major (1739) • Sonata No. 9 in F major (1756) • Sonata No. 10 arr. Pietro Chaboud in D major for flute • Sonata No. 10 in E major arr. Francesco Barsanti • Sonata No. 11 in A minor arr. Franceso Barsanti • Sonata No. 12 in D minor The 250th anniversary of Italian composer Francesco Geminiani (1687–1762) has gone by largely unnoticed by other record labels, and it is with great pleasure that SOMM celebrates this important anniversary of a great composer, contemporary of and admired by Handel, with whom he sometimes performed. The 12 Sonatas, Op. 1 are largely premiere recordings; only the odd Sonata has been recorded before, largely lost in discs with multiple other repertoire and composers, so this is quite a spectacular coup!

Francesco GEMINIANI

The Complete Sonatas Op. 1 Cat # SMM 248 Price Code: 2R (SRP $35.99) Number of Discs: 2 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT includes world premieres

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CRD Records Christopher TYE

The Western Wind Mass, Anthems & Motets The Choir of New College, Oxford/Edward Higginbottom: conductor TYE: Western Wind Mass • My trust, O Lord, in thee is grounded • Christ rising again from the dead • Omnes gentes plaudite manibus • Peccavimus cum patribus

Cat # CRR 3405 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

Another benchmark recording from The Choir of New College, Oxford directed by its distinguished conductor Dr. Edward Higginbottom! Christopher Tye was a chorister at Kings College, Cambridge from 1508–1513, and subsequently gained a doctorate in Music at the University. He wrote most of his music while organist and master of the choristers at Ely Cathedral. Although much of his music has been lost, his extant compositions reveal a master rivaling his contemporaries, Tallis and Taverner.

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Georg Philipp TELEMANN Violin Fantasias

Maya Magub: violin TELEMANN: 12 Fantasias for Violin This recording sheds new light on these neglected gems of the solo violin repertoire. Maya Magub brings her experience of older performance style to this essentially modern recording. The Fantasias are Telemann at his best, and this recording should convince any skeptic both of the quality of his writing for the instrument, and of the musical depth of these works.

Cat # CRR 3530 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Franz SCHUBERT

Trout Quintet & Notturno The Nash Ensemble SCHUBERT: Trout Quintet • Notturno The internationally celebrated Nash Ensemble performs Schubert’s famous Trout Quintet, with the added bonus of the beautiful Notturno. This disc received a BBC “Critics Choice” notation in the UK!

Cat # CRR 3352 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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LAWO Classics Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Woodwind Trios

Oslo Philharmonic Chamber Group/Per Flemstrøm: flute/Leif Arne Pedersen: clarinet/Per Hannisdal: bassoon/Elise Båtnes: violin/Henninge Landaas: viola/Bjørn Solum: cello/Gonzalo Moreno: piano BEETHOVEN: Trio in G major, WoO 37 for flute, bassoon and piano • Serenade in D major, Op. 25 for flute, violin and viola • Trio in B flat major, Op. 11, “Gassenhauer” for clarinet, cello and piano

Cat # LAW 1034 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 32 d

This chamber music recording takes as its point of departure Beethoven woodwind trio movements.

We hear a somewhat unusual configuration of instruments performing seldom-recorded music of the great master. By virtue of its unassuming and entertaining character, it is more cheerful music and presents the wind players’ instruments in an exceedingly light-hearted manner. This is the third album in a series of chamber music recordings by the Oslo Philharmonic Chamber Group.

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Ludwig van BEETHOVEN

For Wind Octet: Symphony No. 7 Oslo Kammerakademi BEETHOVEN: Parthia in E flat major, Op. 103 • Rondo in E flat major, WoO 25 • Symphony No. 7, Op. 92 Oslo Kammerakademi, led by Oslo Philharmonic solo oboist David Friedemann Strunck, presents chamber music by Beethoven for wind octet on its debut CD. This repertoire ranges from the “Storm and Stress” compositions of the young Beethoven to the mature composer’s Symphony No. 7, transcribed for wind octet with double bass.

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Eirik Gjerdevik

Music for Blue Days Eirik Gjerdevik: tuba/Anneke Hodnett: harp/Pleven Philharmonic Orchestra/Bjørn Breistein: conductor KOCH: Tuba Concerto (premiere) • VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Concerto for bass tuba • AAGAARD-NILSEN: The Cry of Fenrir: Concerto for tuba and orchestra • Music for Blue Days for tuba and harp

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Eirik Gjerdevik met Pleven Philharmonic Orchestra as guest soloist in 2010. The chemistry between soloist and orchestra was electric from the start, and plans were soon underway for a recording with the orchestra and conductor Bjørn Breistein. Besides the magnificent tuba concertos of Vaughan Williams and Aagaard-Nilsen, the CD features the latter’s exquisite composition “Music for Blue Days” for tuba and harp. The great Swedish composer Erland von Koch’s Tuba Concerto also receives its recording premiere on this album.

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Summit Records Joe Burgstaller: trumpet Antony Newman: harpsichord Hector Martignon: piano Margaret Kampmeier: piano J.S. BACH: Concerto in D major (after Vivaldi) • GERSHWIN: Porgy and Bess • HIGDON: Trumpet Songs • LIAN TAN: Ming (premiere) • KREISLER: Gypsy Caprice • COREA: Children’s Songs • BURGSTALLER: Within • Lullaby • TRADITIONAL: Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child • PIAZZOLLA: Oblivion • EISLER/STING: The Secret Marriage “Dashing … dazzled like sheet-lightning.” — Washington Post Trumpet titan Joe Burgstaller (formerly of Canadian Brass) presents a compendium including baroque, classical, contemporary classical, traditional spiritual, diazole, Chick Corea, and Sting! This wonderful disc includes a piece by Grammy® winner Jennifer Higdon, plus the world premiere of “Ming” from Su Lian Tan.

Joe Burgstaller License to Thrill

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an allegro crossover title

Flora Les Sacqueboutiers ANONYMOUS: Bombarde • ORTIZ: Recercada prima • Recercada quarta • Recercada septima • Recercada segunda • VASQUEZ: Con que la lavaré • ROSSI: Toccata settima • MERULA: Su la cetra amorosa • FALCONIERO: Passacaille Ciaccona • SCHÜTZ: Es steh Gott auf • FLECHA: El Fuego Le Jazz et la Pavane reveals the happy marriage of two effervescent traditions: jazz and early music. Although belonging to ages long apart, and with very different aesthetics, these two movements have the same musical identities including the aspect of improvisation. The recording juxtaposes early instruments (cornet and sackbut) with modern ones (trumpet and trombone) to showcase the capacity of jazz instruments to make themselves suitable for the music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

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æon Mdi Ensemble RepertorioZero Pierre-André Valade: conductor VERRANDO: Dulle Griet • Third Born Unicorn, remind me what we’re fighting for • First Born Unicorn, remind me what we’re fighting for • Quartet No. 3 • Second Born Unicorn, remind me what we’re fighting for • Il ruvido dettaglio celebrato da Aby Warburg • Triptych #2 Born in Sanremo in 1965, Giovanni Verrando is one of the principal representatives of the young generation of Italian composers. After studying with Franco Donatoni, he worked on music informatics and composition with Tristan Murail and Brian Ferneyhough in the Cursus Musical at Ircam in Paris. This recording, which assembles his principal pieces for ensemble and electronics, gives insight into the current creative tendencies in Italy: a very Italian combination of lyricism and elegance. The album takes its title from “Dulle Griet,” the famous painting by Brueghel representing the mouth of Hell.

Giovanni VERRANDO Dulle Griet

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BNL Georges Bessonnet: organ Teddy Pentsch: contrabass Chorale Franco-Allemande de Paris Bernard Lallement: conductor DUBOIS: 3 short masses for choir and organ Born in 1837 at Rosnay, Théodore Dubois was the son of a schoolteacher in the region of Rheims. He died in Paris in 1924. At an early age he entered the Conservatoire de Musique de Paris, where he was a pupil of Marmontel for piano and of Ambroise Thomas for fugue and composition. He obtained a First Prize for organ in 1859. Although he is one of the lesser-known French composers, he left a great many works including operas, one ballet, symphonic music, piano & organ pieces, and chamber music.

Théodore DUBOIS

3 short masses for choir and organ Cat # BNL 112973 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

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Tactus Marco Enrico BOSSI

Complete Organ Works Vol. VIII Andrea Macinanti: organ BOSSI: Fantasia for two organs, Op. 64a (1889) • Marche Héroïque, Op. 72 (1891) • Osanna, Studio for organ (Finale) (1903/8) • Fatemi la grazia • Marcia dei Bardi • Ave Maria (1924), [Letizia celeste] (ca. 1920) • Alla Marcia (1920) • Solo di clarinetto (1920) • Aria da chiesa (1908) • Entrata Pontificale for two organs, Op. 104a (ca. 1890) The eighth volume of this monumental work by Andrea Macinanti, dedicated to the greatest Italian organ composer and virtuoso: Marco Enrico Bossi!

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Andrea GABRIELI & Claudio MONTEVERDI Madrigals adapted for use as sacred music

Alice Borciani: first cantus/Elena Modena: second cantus/Julio Fioravante: alto/Marco Mustaro: tenor/Yiannis Vassilakis: first bass/Marcin Wyszkovski: second bass/Nicola Lamon: organ MONTEVERDI: Domine Deus • O gloriose martyr • Iesu dum te • Plagas tuas • Rutilante in nocte • Plorat amare • Anima miseranda • Qui laudes • Anima quam dilexi • Qui pietate • Te Iesu Christe • Pulchrae sunt • Gloria tua • GABRIELI: Bonum est • et suave • Lucia sponsa Christi • Ego flos campi • In tribulatione Dominum • Veni o Jesu • Iesu dulcissime • Surge formosa mea

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At the beginning of the 17th century, several collections of rather unusual madrigals appeared in northwestern Italy. The definition of this new musical genre was given by one of its major authors, Aquilino Coppini: “music drawn from madrigals and rendered spiritual.” What actually happened was that a well-defined circle of writers and musicians ventured upon the feat of transforming some madrigals by replacing their original texts with lines of sacred verse in Latin. It was not a translation, as in some English versions of Italian madrigals, but an actual replacement of the text based on a completely different subject matter.

Stefano NASCIMBENI

Messa Paradis del Amours, 1612 Loredana Bigicantus, Silvia Frigato: cantus/Alberto Allegrezza: alto/Vincenzo di Donato: tenor/ Davide Benetti: bass/Doron Sherwin: cornet/Marco Vincenzi, Umberto Forni: organs/Luigi Lupo: flutes/Jon Etxabe-Arzuaga: tenor/Claudia Pasetto: viola da gamba/Béatrice Pornon: archlute

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ANONYMOUS: Toccata II tono • NASCIMBENI: Kyrie • Gloria • Credo • Quam pulchri sunt, Mottetto à 4 • Sanctus • Agnus Dei • Ingeniosus amor, à 8 • FRANZONI: Canzon à 4, 1611 • CARDI: Anima mea liquefacta est, à due Canti e Basso • BARAGNANI: Canzon XVI à 5 • PALLAVICINO: Toccata La Gonzaga • CONTINO: Non mi duol di morire (intavolatura di M. Vincenzi) • SANCI: Amo Christum, Alto solo • DOGNAZZI: Nigra sum, à Canto e Tenore • RASI: Vulnerasti cor meum, à due Canti • MALGARINI: Quam pulchra es, Basso solo • FRANZONI: Canzone La Gonzaga Stefano Nascimbeni, a musician who was Mantuan by birth and had received a sound education in Northern Italy, became kapellmeister of the Palatine Basilica of Santa Barbara when Gian Giacomo Gastoldi died in 1609. He filled a post that had been aspired to by Claudio Monteverdi himself; both left Mantua in the same period in 1612. The Mass featured here is Paradis del Amours, whose title and theme had probably been inspired by a chanson of which no trace has been found.

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London Schubert Players

J.S. BACH

London Schubert Players

Vladimir Feltsman: piano

MENDELSSOHN: Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quintet • SAINT-SAËNS: Septet Op. 65 for trumpet, piano and string quintet • ENESCU: Chamber Symphony, Op. 33 (1954) for 12 solo instruments • RYNKOVA: Three Allegories: Cat on Laurels • The Ox and the Gadfly • Father Hare • OSTLUND: From Three Poems: Pierrot, too tired to sleep • Remembrance • WILSON: Nocturne with Cloudscape • AVRAM: Ten Romanian Songs from Béla Bartók’s folk music collection • REEMAN: Tableau • and more

J.S. BACH: Partita No.1 in B flat major, BWV 825 • Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826 • Partita No. 4 in D major, BWV 828 • Partita No. 3 in A minor, BWV 827 • Partita No. 5 in G major, BWV 829 • Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830

A European Odyssey

Six Partitas BWV 825–830

A new entry in the catalog from pianist Vladimir Feltsman.

The fruit of the London Schubert Players’ international project “Invitation to Composers.”

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EM Records

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Stevenson Winds

David Owen NORRIS

Stevenson Winds

The Waynflete Singers/Over-The-Bridge Close-Harmony Group From Clare College, Cambridge/The Choristers Of New College, Oxford/Edward Higginbottom: director/David Owen Norris: conductor

Blow the Wind Northerly

Prayerbook

FRANÇAIX: Sept Danses from Les Malheurs de Sophie • Le Gay ˇ Paris • JANÁCEK: Mladi’ for Wind Quintet and Bass Clarinet • KLEIN: Divertimento for Wind Octet Stevenson Winds is the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s prestigious wind ensemble, created to promote the outstanding talent in the Woodwind Department at the RCS.

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NORRIS: Prayerbook Part I: Faith • Prayerbook Part II: Hope • Prayerbook Part III: Charity David Owen Norris, celebrated around the world as a pianist and broadcaster, is increasingly recognized as a composer with a distinctive tone of voice. Prayerbook is an oratorio about tradition and change.

Musica Ficta

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Il Festino

Herman-François DELANGE

Il Festino

Ensemble Solstice

MOULINIÉ: Non ha sott’il Ciel • O stelle homicide • Dove ne vai, crudele? • Orilla del claro Tajo • O che gioia ne sento mio bene • Seguir più non voglio • BOESSET: Segua chi vuol, iniquo amore • Se vedessi le piaghe • Non speri pietá • L’Anemone fastosa • BATAILLE: Credi tu per fuggire • El bajel está en la playa • Passava Amor • FRESCOBALDI: Canzona per basso solo detta “La Superba” • SANZ: Canarios • BALLARD: Première Entrée

DELANGE: Trio Sonata V in C major • Sonata II in D major, Op. 1 • Sonata V in A major, Op. 1 • Trio Sonata II in E minor • Sonata I in C major, Op. 1 • Sonata III, in F minor, Op. 1 • Trio Sonata in A major

Italian airs at the time of Louis XIII

Sonatas & Trio Sonatas

With period instruments, musicological knowledge, and interpretative freedom, Ensemble Solstice presents the incredibly diverse repertoire covering the period 1700–1830, from the late baroque to the rococo.

This collection of airs published in France by Ballard between 1608 and 1643 contain 17 airs on Italian words.

Indésens

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Quatuor Vendôme

Jean FRANÇAIX

Quatuor Vendôme

Eric Aubier: trumpet/Philippe Cuper: clarinet/Lola Descours: bassoon/Jean Françaix, Pascal Gallet: piano/Nicolas Prost: alto sax/ Octuor de France/Octuor à vent de Paris/Orchestre de Bretagne

Ground IV: French Music for Clarinet Quartet

BEFFA: Feux d’artifice • ESCAICH: Ground IV • CONNESSON: Prelude and funk • MANTOVANI: Face à Face Four world premieres of the most active French composers of the early 21st century!

Le Gai Paris: Concerto for clarinet and orchestra

FRANÇAIX: Le Gai Paris • Concerto for clarinet • Divertimento for flute and piano • Sonatine for trumpet and piano • Cinq Danses exotiques for saxophone and piano • Theme and Variations for clarinet and piano • Divertimento for bassoon and string quintet Jean Françaix personified grace and humor, clarity and modesty, tenderness and intelligence. He aspired to be the continuation of a line that, after Debussy and Ravel, is not encumbered by bias.

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La Bottega Discantica W.A. MOZART

Piano Quartets K.478 & K.493 Artaria Piano Quartet/Ivar Gotkovsky: piano/Nell Gotkovsky: violin/Clyn D. Barrus: viola/Roger Drinkall: cello W.A. MOZART: Piano Quartets K.478 & K.493

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The Piano Quartet K.493 was the first work Mozart composed after the premiere of his opera.

It should therefore not be surprising if both of the works on this recording exhibit certain relationships to Figaro! After having reached such heights of perfection with these compositions, Mozart must have been terribly disappointed by Hoffmeister’s reaction to them: he found them (especially the Piano Quartet in G minor) to be too difficult for audiences. In light of the resulting disillusion, it is understandable why Mozart failed to complete this series of compositions.

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Johann PACHELBEL Hexachordum Apollinis Edoardo Bellotti: organ PACHELBEL: Hexachordum Apollinis

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Because of his musical education and the contact he had with musicians throughout Europe, Pachelbel is one of the most important figures of German Baroque music. He was the heir to an old and consolidated contrapuntal tradition, but at the same time, attentive and sensitive to new directions of music at the end of the century, especially in Italy. The collection of 1699 was entitled “Esacordo di Apollo,” which presents six arias for organ or harpsichord, to whose simple melodies are added variations for the pleasure of music lovers.

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Felix MENDELSSOHN & Franz SCHUBERT String Quartets

Quartetto di Roma/Marco Fiorini & Biancamaria Rapaccini: violin/Davide Toso: viola/Alessandra Montani: cello MENDELSSOHN: Quartet in A major, Op. 13 • Four Pieces, Op. 81 • SCHUBERT: Quartettsatz in C minor, D703

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Mendelssohn composed his Quartet, Op. 13 in 1827 when he was only 18 years old and still a student in Berlin, at a point when some of his best-loved and appreciated instrumental and chamber works already counted among his compositions. This CD also includes a composition Franz Schubert was particularly fond of: the Quartettsatz. It was written in 1820 and maintains the lyric fervor of the Trout Quintet (which preceded it by a year), corroborated by the deep and passionate quality of his lieder compositions of the same period.

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Querstand Charles-Marie WIDOR Papillons Bleus

Ulrike Fulde: soprano/Andreas Hartmann: violin/Irmtraut Friedrich: piano/Felix Friedrich: organ WIDOR: Sonata No. 1 for piano and violin, Op. 50 (1881) • Vier Klavierstücke (Ersteinspielung) • Romanze for violin and piano, Op. 46 • Mélodies Italiennes, Op. 32 (premiere) • Trois nouvelles pièces, Op. 87 for organ Recorded in celebration of the 75th anniversary of Charles-Marie Widor’s death in 2012, this disc contains world premiere recordings of several pieces including the highly original “Mélodies Italiennes” and some piano pieces full of technical difficulties.

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Norbert BURGMÜLLER Songs and Chamber Music

Ulrike Fulde: soprano/Manja Raschka: mezzo-soprano/Andreas Fischer: tenor/Felix Plock: baritone/Kristin Henneberg: piano/Andreas Hartmann: violin/Rolf-Dieter Arens: piano/Anna Wie-Schebrink: guitar/Matthias Sannemüller: viola/Alexander Roske: clarinet BURGMÜLLER: Sechs Lieder, Op. 3 • Rhapsody in B minor for piano, Op. 13 • Fünf Lieder, Op. 6 • Ständchen, Allegretto for clarinet, viola and guitar E flat major (premiere) • Duo for clarinet or violin and piano in E flat major, Op. 15 (version with violin, premiere) • Fünf Lieder, Op. 12 Cat # QUE 916 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 32 Includes world premieres

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One of the most gifted composers in the first half of the 19th century, Norbert Burgmüller had a close connection with Felix Mendelssohn (who premiered several of Burgmüller’s works) and Robert Schumann (who wrote great reviews about Burgmüller’s works). This disc includes the world premiere recording of two of the chamber music pieces (Duo and Allegretto).

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Zdeneˇ k LUKÁŠ Requiem

Dresdner Motettenchor/Matthias Jung: conductor ˇ LUKÁŠ: Requiem • TUCAPSKÝ: Veni Sancte Spiritus • Five Lenten motets • ORBÁN: Stabat mater • Cor mundum A specialist ensemble for rarely performed choir works! This recording includes a cappella choral works from the 1980s and 1990s by two Czech composers and one Hungarian composer, all of whom are widely popular in their home countries and yet nearly unknown abroad.

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Querstand Günter RAPHAEL Raphael Edition Vol. 5

Rainer Moog: viola/Kammerorchester der Christine Raphael Stif-tung/Fuad Ibrahimov: conductor/ Willy Schwegler: flute/Günter Gugel: violin/Erwin Milzkott: flute/Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin/Karel Ancerl: conductor RAPHAEL: Sonata for viola in C minor, Op. 7 • Concertino in D for viola and small orchestra (1941) • Trio in B major for flute, violin and viola, Op. 48 • Concertino for flute and small orchestra, Op. 82 (1956)

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The fifth CD of the Günter Raphael Edition, created in order to present the works of one of the most important German composers of the 20th century, contains a fine combination of orchestral and chamber music, often characterized by the viola. The music is performed by renowned musicians and conductors including Rainer Moog (viola professor at Cologne Conservatory), Erwin Milzkott (flute professor in Berlin), and Karel Ancerl (conductor of the Czech Philharmonic).

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Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Missa solemnis Op. 123

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Simone Schneider: soprano/Gerhild Romberger: alto/Richard Croft: tenor/Jochen Kupfer: bass/MDR Rundfunkchor/Herbert Blomstedt: conductor BEETHOVEN: Missa solemnis in D major, Op. 123 A new recording of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis by the renowned Gewandhausorchester Leipzig conducted by Herbert Blomstedt.

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Eberhard BÖTTCHER Cantate Domino

Chorus Ars Brunensis/Dan Kalousek: conductor/Marek Pala: organ BÖTTCHER: Zwei Lateinische Hymnen for choir • Aus Drei Intermezzi for organ • Drei Venerid-Motetten for choir and organ • Fünf Frühchristliche Choräle for choir and organ • Hymn for six-part choir This fourth CD on the Querstand label of one of the most important living composers in Norway contains a cappella works, works for choir & organ, and organ solo works as well as new settings of five early Christian chorales.

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