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Henry Purcell
THE SIXTEEN HARRY CHRISTOPHERS The Indian Queen
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Henry PURCELL The Indian Queen
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The Sixteen Harry Christophers: conductor PURCELL: The Indian Queen “A performance like this shows dimensions of Purcell’s genius that are all too rarely heard on disc.” — Gramophone (on CRO 16005) Henry Purcell was a brilliant music dramatist, and in The Indian Queen there is a plethora of detail, color, and characterization to be explored in every symphony, air, and dance. Purcell’s instrumental writing leaps off the page with string writing that is second to none, with a wealth of variety capped by exquisite writing for trumpet, oboes, and recorders. Promo Service to U.S. press and radio. Coverage on Classic FM and BBC Radio 3 (available worldwide via digital radio). Advertising in BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone Magazine. PREVIOUSLY available PURCELL The Fairy Queen CD: CRO 16005 Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) Number of Discs: 2 d
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Pieter Wispelwey Rococo
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Pieter Wispelwey: cello Musikkollegium Winterthur Jonathan Morton: conductor TCHAIKOVSKY: Rococo Variations, Op. 33 • C.P.E. BACH: Cello Concerto in A major, Wq. 172 • STRAVINSKY: Suite Italienne, arr. Wallfisch “A cellist in total control of his instrument.” — The Strad “Wispelwey’s mellow tone and mellifluous phrasing colour the music with exquisite refinement and subtle shading.” — The Telegraph An unusual, intriguing coupling of C.P.E. Bach’s “original” Rococo, and the neo-classical ones by Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky. Pieter Wispelwey is equally at ease on the modern or period cello. His acute stylistic awareness, combined with a truly original interpretation and a phenomenal technical mastery, has won the hearts of critics and public alike in a wide-ranging repertoire. Wispelwey plays a 1760 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini cello. PREVIOUSLY available J.S. BACH 6 Suites for Cello Solo CD+DVD: EPR 12 Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) Number of Discs: 3 d
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AVIE Records Laura Buruiana: cello Alexandra Silocea: cello SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Sonata • PROKOFIEV: Cello Sonata • ENESCU: Sonata Movement in F minor “A bona fide virtuoso, drawing a wealth of color, drama, and flowing line from her instrument.” — New York Times (on Laura Buruiana) “This premiere album may turn out to be a revelation.” — Audiophile Audition (on Alexandra Silocea, AVR 2183)
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Pianist Alexandra Silocea joins with fellow Romanian cellist Laura Buruiana in two Russian staples of the repertory — the Sonatas of Prokofiev and Shostakovich — along with a much rarer offering by compatriot George Enescu: the single-movement Sonata in F minor, an early work that only recently came to light. Silocea has distinguished herself on previous AVIE releases in repertoire ranging from Debussy and Ravel to Liszt and, notably, Prokofiev. Among Buruiana’s distinctions is first prize in the New York-based Young Concert Artists competition in 2003, and a PhD summa cum laude from the National University of Music in Bucharest, where she devoted her thesis to the Enescu F minor Sonata.
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Laura Buruiana & Alexandra Silocea
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The Brook Street Band Tatty Theo: baroque cello Carolyn Gilbey: harpsichord J.S. BACH: Sonata for viola da gamba in G major BWV 1027 • Sonata for viola da gamba in D major • Sonata for viola da gamba in G minor • C. P. E. Bach: Sonata for viola da gamba in G minor, Wq. 88 • Sonata for viola da gamba, Wq. 136 • Sonata for viola da gamba, Wq. 137 “Impeccable … the vitality is riveting … delightful.” — BBC Music Magazine (on AVR 2199) The Brook Street Band has easily earned its reputation as “the smartest new baroque band around” (The Times, London). Among today’s most notable Handel specialists, the group’s founder, cellist Tatty Theo, and harpsichordist, Carolyn Gibley, turn their attention for only the second time to the music of J.S. Bach as well as his son Carl Philip Emmanuel. Like father, like son, each wrote three Sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord. These works have long been a valued part of the cello repertoire, but this recording is the first to make use of a regular four-string baroque cello.
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Lucy Schaufer Carpentersville
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Lucy Schaufer: mezzo-soprano BLITZSTEIN: Best Thing of All • I Wish it So • BERNSTEIN: Dream with Me • Greeting • BERNSTEIN/COMDEN & GREEN: 100 Easy Ways to Lost a Man • J.S. BACH: Erbarme (Have Mercy) • WALLACE/KORIE: Lazy Summer Days • GUETTEL: Margaret: The Beauty Is • BROURMAN/MCBROOM: Make Me a Kite • SILBERMAN/MCBROOM: Martha • MCBROOM/HUNT: Errol Flynn • WALLIS: Dinghy Song “Arresting.” — New York Times “Occupies an undefinable space in the ‘who’s who’ of classical music.” — Gramophone Lucy Schaufer is a vocal shape-shifter of an altogether tantalizing, alluring, and aurally enriching sort; a product of the small-town America that gives this solo CD its title. The stirring eclecticism on this recording is cohesively pulled together by Lucy’s vocal versatility and her desire to wed the language of song and storytelling together, reflecting a musical journey that casts one eye on her roots while keeping her artistry moving ever forward. UPCOMING PERFORMANCES January–March 2015 with the Los Angeles Opera July–August 2015 with the Central City Opera September–October 2015 with the Milwaukee Opera November–December 2015 with the Dallas Opera
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ABC Classics Clare Gormley: soprano Jeffrey Black: baritone Sydney Soloists John Harding: conductor, director MAHLER: Symphony No. 4 in G major, 1921 chamber version by Erwin Stein (premiere) • Songs of a Wayfarer, 1920 chamber version by Arnold Schoenberg This remarkable recording pairs the world premiere of the chamber version of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the chamber version of Songs of a Wayfarer. The works on this album, among the favorites in Mahler’s repertoire, are given a new, fresh dimension in these chamber arrangements. Clare Gormley shines as the soprano soloist in the final movement of the fourth symphony, perfectly capturing a childlike vision of paradise, while Jeffrey Black brings wonderful passion to the varied emotions of the four movements of Songs of a Wayfarer. The Sydney Soloists give a wonderful performance, adapting to these pared-back versions with perfect precision, delicacy, and feeling.
Gustav MAHLER
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Teddy Tahu Rhodes: bass-baritone Sharolyn Kimmorley: piano Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Marko Letonja: conductor MAHLER: Rückert-Lieder • Ich ging mit Lurst durch einen grünen Wald (I went joyfully through the green woods) • Aus! Aus! (Out! Out!) • Nicht wiedersehen! (Never to see you again!) • Winterlied (Winter Song) • Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children) Award-winning New Zealand bass-baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes records the songs of Mahler on his his latest offering for ABC Classics. Rhodes’ unique, rich timbre brings to life the moods in Mahler’s music, from earthy, folkinspired love songs to the aching agony of loss and grief. Equally at home on the opera stage and in the concert hall, Teddy Tahu Rhodes enjoys an international opera and concert career. He has appeared with opera companies across the United States, Europe, and the UK, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Welsh National Opera, and the Hamburg State Opera. International concert highlights have included Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Fauré’s Requiem, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah.
Teddy Tahu Rhodes Mahler
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ABC Classics Peter SCULTHORPE
Complete Works for Solo Piano Tamara-Anna Cislowska: piano SCULTHORPE: Complete Piano Works
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A first recording of Sculthorpe’s complete piano music, encompassing works written across 60+ years from 1945 through 2011. Sculthope is widely acknowledged as the first Australian composer to leave behind the traditions of Britain and Europe, and create a distinctively Australian music. His unique compositional voice is inspired by the land and the history of Australia, and by the cultures of their Pacific Basin neighbors. His solo piano music is prized for its rich elegance and beguiling simplicity, from the mesmerizing beauty of Djilile, based on an Indigenous Arnhem Land melody, to the gentle nostalgia of the Left Bank Waltz.
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W.A. MOZART Mozart Arranged
Julie Adam: piano/Daniel Herscovitch: piano/Australia Ensemble W.A. MOZART: Piano Sonata in C major, K. 545 (arr. Grieg) • Piano Sonata in F major, K. 533/494 (arr. Grieg) • Piano Sonata in G major, K. 283 (arr. Grieg) • Fantasy in C minor, K. 475 • Sonata in C minor, K. 457 (arr. Grieg) • Grand Sextet Concertante in E flat major (Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364) • Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581 • Horn Quintet in E flat major, K. 407
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This double album is full of surprises, putting Mozart’s music into a new perspective that fully realizes its limitless adaptability Mozart Arranged is a journey through adaptations and arrangements of Mozart’s chamber music, from his Grande Sextet Concertante and Clarinet Quintet through adaptations of his piano sonatas for two pianos by Norwegian Edvard Grieg. The performances here are all arrangements of music that Mozart would have most certainly approved!
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Various Artists
Great British Anthems
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HANDEL: La Réjouissance (Rejoicing) from Music for the Royal Fireworks • Zadok the Priest • Hallelujah! from Messiah • Let the Bright Seraphim • Arrival of the Queen of Sheba • HOLST: Jupiter, the bringer of Jollity from The Planets • BINGE: The Watermill • Elizabethan Serenade • WALTON: Crowl Imperial-Coronation March • CLARKE: The Prince of Denmark’s March (Trumpet Voluntary) • COATES: The Princess Elizabeth from the Three Elizabeths Suite • The Dam Busters-March • Knightsbridge-March • DYKES: Eternal Father, Strong to Save (The Royal Navy Hymn) • ALFORD: Colonel Bogey March • VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Greensleeves • The Lark Ascending (excerpt) • Bright is the Ring of Words • Somerset: Folk Songs March • ELGAR: Nimrod from Enigma Variations • Pomp and Circumstance March No. 3 • Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 (Land of Hope and Glory) • Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 • ARNE: Rule, Britannia! • PURCELL: Fairest Isle • SULLIVAN: Pineapple Roll • LENNON/McCARTNEY: The Yesterday Concerto, arr. Lanchbery • GOODWIN: 633 SquadronMain Theme • PARRY: Jerusalem • TRADITIONAL: God Save the Queen • Auld Lang Syne Thirty-nine great tracks, and over 2½ hours of music! Celebrate Britain’s glorious musical heritage with this offering of festive favorites.
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Challenge Classics Frans Ehlhart: piano Michael Gees: piano Marion von Tilzer: piano GEES: Extempore I • Extempore II • Extempore III • Extempore IV • VON TILZER: Counting the Stars • Apollo 14 • Ballade uber die Enttauschung • Little Story about Love • Neighbour’s Delight • Frans EHLHART: Chicken Dance • Floating Stream • In MeMirjam • Reshuffling Things • Autumn Morning Three wonderful pianists playing their own compositions and improvisations, recorded by producer Bert van der Wolf at his Galaxy Studios. Michael Gees is mostly known as an accompanist of Lieder; he has worked intensively with artists such as Christoph Prégardien and Julia Kleiter. As a soloist he mostly improvises, often starting with a single chord and developing the melodies from there. In contrast, Marion von Tilzer is very much a composer, who has previously written both chamber music and orchestral works. Frans Ehlhart comes from the world of theatre, and as a composer is influenced by jazz, pop, and classical music.
Michael Gees, Frans Ehlhart & Marion von Tilzer
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Elbipolis Baroque Orchestra Hamburg Jürgen Gross: conductor DELALANDE: Première Caprice, Caprice de Villers-Cotterets • Première Suite • Troisème Suite • Cinquième Suite • Grande piece en G re sol In these new reconstructions of Delalande’s all-too-rare “table music” for the French court of Louis XIV — on CD for the first time — the music is performed in the original five-part textures and on period instruments. Immediately after starting in his post as Superintendent of the House Music in 1689, Delalande began composing instrumental movements. These suites were chiefly intended for the king’s suppers which, in reality, were “performances” before an audience. It was an honor to be allowed to watch the king eat, a greater honor to be spoken to during the meal, and a supreme honor to be invited to serve him his food or eat with him. In this context, instrumental music played an important role, its magnificence reflecting the regent’s powerful self-image. Since new works were continually being demanded, this practice resulted, over the course of the years, in an impressive body of works.
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HERMESensemble Mireille Capelle: mezzo-soprano Karin De Fleyt: flutes Marc Tooten: viola Gaetan La Mela: percussion Orsolya Horvath: violin Stijn Saveniers: cello Peter Merckx: clarinet, bass clarinet Jorrit Tamminga: electronics Wim Henderickx: conductor HENDERICKX: Disappearing in Light • Raga III • The Four Elements HERMESensemble is an Antwerp-based collective for contemporary music and art. The repertoire and performance practice of the classical avant-garde are the starting points of the productions, but the ensemble consciously aims to cross artistic borders. “Composing is a quest for suitable musical structures in which all parameters are controlled equally well. For me, music should touch the audience, overwhelm people and uplift them. There is a metaphysical force to music, which I want to use to create a form of communication between myself as composer, and the listener” (Wim Henderickx, 2010). Full Media Campaign by Jo Carpenter PR Agency.
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Allegro Classcial Welcomes Resonus Classics The Queen’s Six Daniel Brittain: countertenor Timothy Carleston: countertenor Nicholas Madden: tenor Dominic Bland: tenor Andrew Thompson: bass Simon Whiteley: bass BYRD: O Lord, make thy servant, Elizabeth • Haec dies• Attend mine humble prayer • MORLEY: Laboravi in gemitu meo • Haec dies • O amica mea • TOMKINS: Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom • When David heard • Turn unto the Lord • TALLIS: Videte miraculum • O sacrum convivium • WEELKES: O how amiable • When David heard • O Jonathan, woe is me • GIBBONS: Almighty and everlasting God • O Lord in thy wrath • Lift up your heads The Queen’s Six make their commercial recording debut with an album of sacred Tudor music for men’s voices. The group all sing in the choir at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle — the Queen’s royal residence — where this album was recorded. They also perform regularly with leading groups including The Sixteen, Tallis Scholars, and Polyphony, among others.
The Queen’s Six
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David Watkin: cello J.S. BACH: Cello Suites “Hushed and flawless Bach.” — The Observer “He not only brings that dedicated scholarly view of playing characteristic of period instrument specialists, but he plays with such huge commitment. He is a great inspiration to me.” — Sir Charles Mackerras in BBC Music Magazine Bach’s cello suites are renowned as the pinnacle of the instrument’s repertoire, and are performed here in period performances by internationally acclaimed cellist David Watkin. The Suites are performed on two gut-string cellos: Suites 1–5 on a Francesco Ruggieri from 1660, and Suite No. 6 on the five-stringed ‘Cremona’ cello by A. & H. Amati from c.1600, both tuned to Baroque pitch. This is thought to be the first time that the five-stringed Amati has been used to record the sixth suite, and is the only original five-string cello in existence in the UK. Press Releases to all leading music and national media contacts. Review Copies to music magazines, national media, radio, and broadcast outlets. Extensive Social Media Campaign including sponsored Facebook posts. Advertising in Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine.
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SOMM Recordings Innovation Chamber Ensemble Richard Jenkinson: director VAN WASSENAER: Concerto No. 1 in G major • Concerto No. 2 in B flat major • Concerto No. 3 in A major • Concerto No. 4 in G major • Concerto No. 5 in F minor • Concerto No. 6 in E flat major
Count Wilhelm van WASSENAER 6 Concerti Armonici
The set of Six Concerti Armonici for strings and basso continuo, published without ascription in The Hague in 1749, is such good music that it has seldom been out of circulation since, through its authorship has been a mystery until recently. The Italian violinist Ricciotti, Handel, Birkenstock, and even Pergolesi became candidates for authorship, but it wasn’t until 1980 — when Dutch musicologist Alfred Dunning carried out research in the library of the Dutch aristocratic van Wassenaer family — that he found an actual MS of the Concerti with a preface by the composer, the distinguished Dutch diplomat Count Wilhelm van Wassenaer, known and admired as much for his musical as his political talents. The Concertos’ range of expression and technique is remarkable, and the variations in style between movements mark him as a gifted and original musician. Above all, it is the beauty of these works and the composer’s uniquely individual voice that continue to earn them a high place among the instrumental music of the early 18th century. Candidate for Classic FM Radio’s “CD of the Week.” Review Copies to media, including Early Music press and BBC Radio 3.
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Peter Donohoe: piano Raphael Wallfisch: cello PROKOFIEV: Sonata No. 9, Op. 103 in C major • Sonata No. 10, Op. 137 in E minor (fragment) • Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 119 in C major • Sonatina No. 1, Op. 54 in E minor • Sonatina No. 2, Op. 54 in G major Pianist Sviatoslav Richter and cellist Mstislav Rostropovich were among Prokofiev’s friends during the last years of his life. They inspired the composer to continue his work and he, in turn, dedicated his 1947 Ninth Piano Sonata to Richter. For Rostropovich he wrote an amazing group of late works, among which was the Sonata for Cello and Piano. Both the Ninth Piano Sonata and the C Major Cello Sonata are considered masterpieces, finding Prokofiev at the height of his powers. The two Sonatinas, Op. 54 are delightful miniature Sonatas, each lasting less than 10 minutes. The two illustrious artists featured on this disc, Donohoe and Wallfisch, partner each other affectionately and in perfect harmony in this recording. Press Release & Review Copies sent to media, including Gramophone, International Record Review, The Strad, BBC Music Magazine, Musical Opinion, and Radio 3.
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CAvi-music Ewa Marcieniec: alto Domkantorei St. Martin Boys of the Cathedral Choir Mainz Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz Daniel Raiskin: conductor MAHLER: Symphony No. 3 in D minor In this great program of music, Daniel Raiskin and his Koblenz Orchestra prove they are at the highest standard, producing superb sound and very musical playing.
Gustav MAHLER Symphony No. 3
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Winter & Winter Tamara Stefanovich: piano WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne Jonathan Stockhammer: conductor ABRAHAMSEN: Four Pieces for Orchestra • Concerto for piano and orchestra • Studies for Piano
Hans ABRAHAMSEN Zählen und Erzählen CD: WTR 910216 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 28 d
Hans Abrahamsen’s musical language, full of echoes and memories, fascinates and captivates the listener. His music is celebrated on the big concert stages of the world, with the Berlin Philharmomic, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and conductors like Andris Nelsons and Kent Nagano performing his compositions in their programs. His first collaboration with Winter & Winter, 2009’s Schnee, was followed by 2013’s Walden/Wald. Now comes the anticipated third album, Zählen und Erzählen (“Counting and Recounting”). Three pieces can be heard on Zählen und Erzählen, which form a unit: Four Pieces for Orchestra, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, and 10 Studies for Piano. The Piano Concerto, the album’s centerpiece, was written a few years ago after a long creative break. The musical source of the Piano Concerto, as well as of the Four Pieces, are the 10 Studies for Piano from the years 1983–1998. Abrahamsen dedicates this program to his most important instrument, the piano, thus expressing his constant commitment to the German Romantic repertoire. Hans Abrahamsen creates music that speaks from the depths of the soul.
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EM Records The Bridge Quartet Colin Twigg: violin Catherine Schofield: violin Michael Schofield: viola Lucy Wilding: cello BRIDGE: Phantasie for String Quartet • HOLST: Phantasy on British Folk Songs, Op. 36 (premiere) • GOOSSENS: Phantasy Quartet for Strings, Op. 12 (premiere) • HOWELLS: Phantasy String Quartet, Op. 25 • HOLBROOKE: First Quartet Fantasie in D minor, Op. 17b • HURSTONE: Phantasie for String Quartet (premiere)
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The Bridge Quartet’s new release celebrates the rich variety of the Phantasy String Quartet, one of the forms most characteristic of the English Musical Renaissance of the early 20th century and a genre re-invigorated by Walter Wilson Cobbett. The disc comprises six “Cobbett” phantasies, based upon the single-movement (but tripartite) 17th century Elizabethan viol “Fantasia” model perfected by Henry Purcell, including three sparklingly carefree contributions from the very first competition in 1905 by William Hurlstone, Frank Bridge, and Joseph Holbrooke. The remaining three, by Gustav Holst, Herbert Howells, and Eugene Goossens, date from 10 years later, composed during the Great War. Holst’s Phantasy on (Four) English Folk Songs is beautiful and nostalgic; Howells’s prize-winning entry from 1918 is darklytinted with an austere modality; and Goossens’s contribution, dating from 1915, loosens the bonds of 19th-century tonality and challenges the listener with more 20th-century sonorities.
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Quartz Records Boris Andrianov: cello Rem Urasin piano SHOSTAKOVICH: 15 Preludes from Op. 34 • RACHMANINOV: Songs transcribed for cello and piano This album is a follow-up to Boris Andrianov & Rem Urasin’s criticallyacclaimed album of Sonatas by the same composers. The works have been transcribed by Urasin, who writes, “Soon after Boris Andrianov and I recorded the album of cello sonatas by Rachmaninov and Shostakovich, we decided to add a few of Rachmaninov’s romances to the repertoire … We were inspired to make the next CD a follow-up from the previous one, and to dedicate it to the music of the same composers. However, in contrast the second CD would consist of miniatures. As Shostakovich’s large musical catalog doesn’t contain any miniatures for cello and piano, transcriptions needed to be made. Our choice fell on the Preludes from Op. 24 (for piano), which are some of the most impressive pieces of piano music of the 20th century.”
Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH & Sergei RACHMANINOV Preludes & Romances
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Boris Andrianov Sonatas for Cello & Piano CD: QTZ 2053 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1
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ICSM Records Ivo Varbanov: piano BRAHMS: Piano Sonata Op. 1 in C major • Scherzo, Op. 4 in E flat minor • Ballades, Op. 10 All three of these piano works were performed at crucial moments in Brahms’s life; the Piano Sonata in particular was the focus of one of the most romantic “first encounters” in musical history. The handsome 20-year-old unknown from Hamburg presented himself at Robert Schumann’s house in Düsseldorf on October 1, 1853. Schumann invited him to play something, and he sat down to begin the C Major Sonata. “Visit from Brahms, a genius,” wrote Schumann in his diary. The Scherzo, Op. 4 was one of the first works Brahms showed to Franz Liszt, and to Schumann in 1853. Liszt found the piece so congenial that he played it to an assembled company at Weimar. Lastly, the Ballades emerged at a fateful juncture in the 21-year-old Brahms’s life, shortly after his revered friend and patron Schumann had attempted suicide and been confined in a sanatorium near Bonn. Brahms had thus suddenly been thrust into the role of protector and comforter of Schumann’s wife Clara and her children, and was simultaneously wrestling with the fact that he had fallen in love with her. The Ballades, his first group of short lyric pieces, are prophetic of the compressed masterpieces of his later years. Pianist Ivo Varbanov’s visionary choice of pieces is matched by his powerful rendition. This recording will impress the listener for its supreme sound beauty and the interpreter’s unusual choices.
Johannes BRAHMS
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Just Accord Music Ian Partridge: tenor Peter Savidge: baritone Jennifer Partridge: piano The Song and Supper Club HILL: Cycling Song • GALLATLY: A Rugger Song • DRUMMOND: The Eton Boating Song, arr. Tapp • WATSON: The Glorious Twelfth • PRESTONTHOMAS: The Cricketer’s Carol • ARDELLE: Won’t You Come Over and Play Croquet • KENDALL: A Game of Tennis • PETHER: Our Football Supper • BARRI: The Rival Blues • BALL: The Newmarket Coat • MACY: Little Tommy Went A Fishing • SCHARTAU: Caddie • COOTE: I Won Her Heart at Billiards • CORBETT: Captain Webb The Champion Swimmer • KERBUSCH: Mountaineer Song • CHIVERS: Boxing Song • SILVER: A Hunting Morning “Super stuff.” — Humphrey Carpenter, BBC Radio 3 “Enchanting.” — Natalie Wheen, Classic FM
Ian Partridge & Peter Savidge Play the Game
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Play the Game is a unique CD of songs about sport from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the well-known and quintessentially British “Eton Boating Song.” All the major sports are represented, from football, rugby, golf, cricket, and tennis to hunting, shooting, and fishing. The renowned tenor/ piano duo of Ian Partridge CBE and Jennifer Partridge are joined by baritone Peter Savidge and male voice octet The Song and Supper Club. A 31-page illustrated booklet accompanies the CD with a short article on the history of sport, a background note on each song, pen-portraits of the composers and lyricists, and the full text of each song.
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Tˆy Cerdd Stuart Burrows: tenor John Samuel: piano RICHARDS: Toriad y Dydd • Ar Hyd y Nos • Llwyn Onn • Eryri Wen • Llandovery (Yn Iach I ti Gymru) • Erddigan Hun Gwenllian • Merch Megan • Pe Cawn i Hon • Clychau Aberdyfi • Dafydd y Garreg Wen • Hela’r Ysgyfarnog • Anhawdd Ymadael • Rhyfelgyrch Gwyr Harlech • Difyrwch Gwyr Dyfi • Yr Hen Sibyl Neu Winiffreda • Rhyfelgyrch Capden Morgan • Hob y Deri Dando • Bugeilio’r Gwenith Gwyn • Y Fwyalchen • Dyffryn Clwyd (Yn Nyffryn Clwyd) • Y Ferch o’r Sger • Y ‘Deryn Pur • Tros y Garreg • Mentra Gwen • Ffanni Blodau’r Ffair • Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau Stuart Burrows is remembered as one of the UK’s finest lyric tenors. This release features Stuart singing Brinley Richards’ Songs of Wales (a famous collection of Welsh traditional melodies), and is a digital remaster of an archive recording originally made in 1986.
Brinley RICHARDS Songs of Wales
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Willowhayne Records Dominic John: piano BARBER: Sonata for Piano, Op. 27 • WILD: Fantasy on Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess • KREISLER: Praeludium and Allegro, arr. Vaneyev • BUSONI: Nine Variations on a Chopin Prelude, BV213a • RAVEL: Sonatine Recorded in Rosslyn Chapel in Hampstead, London, this album features a dazzling display of virtuosity through a broad selection of repertoire, including the rarely recorded transcription of Fritz Kreisler’s Praeludium & Allegro by N. Vaneyev, and Earl Wild’s mighty Fantasy on Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess. Dominic John’s artistry has won him several prizes, including First Prize in the 22nd Brant International Piano Completion, British Music Society Awards, a Royal College of Music Chappell Gold Medal, a Director’s Golden Jubilee Award from the Royal College of Music, and a laureate of the Corpus Christi International Competition for Piano and Strings. Wild About Transcription... is his first commercially available recording.
Dominic John
Wild About Transcription… CD: LNH WLW 19705 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT
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IBS Classical Claudio Constantini: piano DEBUSSY: Images, Book I • Images, Book II • Nocturne • Valse Romantique • La Plus que Lent • Danse • D’un Cahier d’Esquisses • Berceuse Héroïque • L’isle Joyeuse • Pièce Reflets dans l’Eau is first volume of IBS Classical’s release of the complete piano works of Claude Debussy. In his interpretations, pianist Claudio Constantini captures the freshness and spontaneity of the music as if it had been composed yesterday. In this recording, the internationally acclaimed Peruvian pianist makes use of his profound knowledge, intuition, and impeccable technique, bringing to life such well-known works as the Images or L’isle Joyeuse just as well as lesser-known pearls like the Nocturne, Danse, or Berceuse Heroique. The repertoire selection spans over 25 years of Debussy´s compositional life, and offers an excellent opportunity for listeners to get acquainted with the music of one of the greatest composers in history.
Claude DEBUSSY
Reflets dans l’Eau: Piano Works Vol. 1 CD: IBC 72014 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT
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col legno Klangforum Wien SIGMA PROJECT MOVIO: Di fragili incanti • Incanto III • … come spirali … • Zahir V Simone Movio’s music is simultaneously a skin and a shell, and inside we find layers of meticulously carved surfaces, overlapping sonic textures of the most delicate kind, and an ingenious web of repeating elements draped around a nameless, unacknowledged kernel. In this sense, Tuniche represents the sensory manifestation of a mental — even spiritual — experience, namely the preliminary yet necessary image of what can only be truly experienced through contemplation.
Simone MOVIO Tuniche
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LAWO Classics Caroline Eidsten Dahl: recorder THORESEN: Mirandas Flourish for solo recorder • HOVLAND: Cantus II: Variations on a Noël for descant recorder and piano Op. 83, No. 1 • SOMMERFELDT: Sonatina for treble recorder, Op. 47 • JOHANSEN: Cantus for solo recorder • GAATHAUG: Fugler i min natt: Improvisata for one recorder player with five recorders • Seashore meditations • THOMMESSEN: The Blockbird for tenor recorder • KARLSEN: Choralsonate No. 1 Jesus Christus, unser Heiland for treble recorder and organ Blockbird features works written for recorder in Norway, from 1969 up to the present day. The recorder experienced a renaissance in the 1960s, when composers once again began to show an interest in the instrument. A number of them — such as Olav Anton Thommessen in the title track “Blockbird” — used associations with birds, a common theme on this recording. The recorder is heard both unaccompanied and, as in the three chamber music works, with piano, guitar, and organ. Since receiving Concerts Norway’s prestigious recording grant “Intro-klassisk,” Caroline Eidsten Dahl has distinguished herself both as soloist and chamber musician. This is her debut as a recording artist.
Caroline Eidsten Dahl
Blockbird: Norwegian Recorder Music CD: LAW 1069 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d
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Christiania Mannskor Marius Skjølaas: conductor MOSTAD: I butikkenes skoger • Pusteøvelse • KRUSE: O, from what power • HABBESTAD: Hymni et sequentiae • NYSTEDT: Beata nobis • PLAGGE: Nattens sanger • KARLSEN: Qui degis in praesidio altissimi • NAESS: Veldig reiser landet seg • ØDEGAARD: Og her er guten • Fri This new release by Christiania Mannskor is history’s first CD recording of new Norwegian music for male choir! The works on the CD were written over the last 40 years, and reflect the desire of Christiania Mannskor to renew the male choir repertoire and make it more accessible for more singers. The recording presents music spanning a broad range: from melodious Gregorian-inspired hymns to more modern, instrumental means of expression. Christiania Mannskor was founded in 2009, and comprises both professional and semi-professional singers under the leadership of conductor Marius Skjølaas. In close association with the country’s leading composers, the group is spearheading the effort to revitalize the male choir tradition in Norway.
Christiania Mannskor
Something New: Contemporary Music for Male Choir CD: LAW 1076 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d
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Cantus Frédéric CHOPIN
24 Etudes, Opp. 10 & 25 Gianmaria Bonino: piano CHOPIN: 12 Etudes, Op. 10 • 12 Etudes, Op. 25
CD: CUS 9635 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d
This album is the first attempt to restore the sound of Chopin’s studies as the composer conceived them, not only by the use of a formidable Pleyel fortepiano dated 1839, but because the performer, Gianmaria Bonino, is a musician with a deep knowledge of Chopin’s language and, by extension, the language of the keyboard music of the period. If we add on top an extraordinarily clear, transparent, and closely recorded sound (the main aim was that the listener could hear the instrument almost like the performer does when playing), surely this CD is absolutely unique!
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Javier Núñez
A modo Italiano: Italian Music for Harpsichord ca. 1600 Javier Núñez: harpsichord VALENTE: Fantasia • Tenore del passo e mezzo & La Romanesco • DE MACQUE: Capriccieto • Seconde Stravaganze • LUZZASCHI: Ricercara del secondo tuono • PASQUINI: Ruggieri • Ancor che col partie • TRABACI: Consonanze stravaganti • Gagliarda Quarta a 5. alla spagnola • Io mi son giovinetto • FRESCOBALDI: Capriccio di durezze • MAYONE: Toccata Quinta • SALVATORE: Canzone Francese Seconda, del Nono Tuono Naturale • STROZZI: Sonata di basso solo • STORACE: Monica • ANONYMOUS: Colascione CD: CUS 9615 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d
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The repertoire of this album is truly fascinating. The great importance that instrumental music had in the late 16th century was continued in the 17th century. It was the era in which it emancipated from vocal music, and at that time the keyboard repertoire freely developed from Renaissance models: dances with variations, variations on vocal melodies or on bassi ostinati and tenors, improvisatory forms like toccate, and stricter forms based on imitative counterpoint, as ricercare, fantasia, canzona, and capriccio.
Xavier Diaz-Latorre La guitarra dels lleons
Xavier Diaz-Latorre: historical guitars/Pedro Estevan: percussion Tracks include works by Albéniz, Sanz, Sor, Murcia and Guerau
CD: CUS 9623 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d
One of the key moments in the history of this fascinating CD happened in 2010 when the Chief Curator of the Music Museum of Barcelona called on Xavier Díaz-Latorre to make a choice from among ten instruments that he had previously selected. Those chosen would be restored and then used in the recording. It was an impressive selection of 16th- to 19th-century guitars that had not been played in modern times, all in very good condition and all with interesting features that made them worthy to be selected. After a long process involving the selection and restoration of the instruments, the choice of a repertoire, the study of the guitars, and the recording and production of the CD, the task entrusted to him has been, in Xavier Díaz-Latorre’s own words, “one of the most fascinating experiences in my entire musical career.”
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Regent Records Margaret Phillips Capriccio
Margaret Phillips: organ ROGG: Hommage à Franz Liszt • SIXTEN: Prelude and Fugue In Memoriam Maurice Duruflé • FORBES: Haec Dies • Capriccio • ROGG: Partita sopra Nun freut euch • CHAPPLE: Six Bagatelles • HAGEN: Shalom “Superb musicianship.” — Gramophone
CD: REG 419 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25
Following her triumphant, critically-acclaimed Bach series, international concert organist Margaret Phillips plays music from the late 20th and early 21st centuries in a program featuring a number of works written for, or premiered by, her. This is the first solo recording of the new four manual Beckerath organ in Marlborough College Chapel.
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The Choir of York Minster St. Peter’s Day at York Minster
David Pipe: organ/The Choir of York Minster/Robert Sharpe: director SHEPHARD: Bell and Aisle Prayer • PURCELL: Christ is made the sure foundation (tune: Westminster Abbey) • BRIGGS: Missa Brevis (premiere) • DURUFLE: Tu es Petrus • TALBOT: Psalm 150: Chant • SHEPHARD: Preces (for Salisbury Cathedral) • Responses and Collects (for Salisbury Cathedral) • ARNOLD: Venite: Chant • JACKSON: Psalm 71:1–6, 15–17: Chant • STANFORD: Te Deum Laudamus in C • MOORE: Jubilate Deo • HENRY HARRIS: Holy is the true light • ATTWOOD Psalm 138: Chant • HOWELLS: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for New College, Oxford CD: REG 439 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT
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This disc presents a sumptuous musical celebration of St. Peter’s Day, the Patronal Festival of York Minster and one of the most important days in the life of this great church. The music is tailored to the theme of the St. Peter’s Day Celebration, and covers the three Sunday services: Matins (Morning Prayer), the Eucharist or Holy Communion, and Evensong (Evening Prayer). The disc includes the first recording of David Briggs’ new Missa Brevis, commissioned by York Minster in 2013, together with music for St. Peter and all the Saints.
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The Choir of Ely Cathedral A Year at Ely
Edmund Aldhouse: organ/Alex Berry: organ/Choir of Ely Cathedral/Paul Trepte: direcor BENNETT: Out of your sleep • KIRKPATRICK: Away in a manger (premiere) • WESLEY: Ascribe unto the Lord • WOOD: Nunc dimittis in B flat • PARRY: Prayer (premiere) • TOMKINS: When David heard • HADLEY: My beloved spake • MENDELSSOHN: Laudate pueri • STANFORD: Coelos ascendit hodie • THORPE DAVIE: Come, Holy Ghost, the Maker • MARTIN: A Hymn to St Etheldreda (premiere) • STANFORD: Beati quorum via • Justorum animae • SUMSION: Fear not, O land • GRIER: Death be not proud (premiere) • RUTTER: O clap your hands CD: REG 441 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25
The sixth of the English Cathedrals to take part in Regent’s popular A Year at… series! The Ely Cathedral Choir, in their first recording on the Regent label, sings a selection of music charting a journey through the church’s year as is it observed in the awe-inspiring surroundings of this historic building.
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Stradivarius Delilah Gutman & Rephael Negri ITalYa
Delilah Gutman: voice/Rephael Negri: violin ALONI: Love Song • ANONYMOUS: Kyriah Yefeifiah • Fire Dance • Sheyibanè • Kuando el rey Nimrod • Durme, durme • Sing mir ein Liedele • Shalom Aleichem • Yedid Nefesh • Hinné ma tòv • Adio Kerida • Nani nani • Tarantino • Hevenu Shalom Aleichem • Shalom Aleichem • Shemà • GUTMAN: Ossé Shalòm • La memoria parla un canto • ENGEL: Numi numi • SECUNDA: Dona dona • GALAY: Partita: Andante con moto • JANOWSKI: Avinu Malkeinu • COHEN: Hatikva • LEV: Prok Yas Anach • WEBER: Wiegala • SSAMINSKY: Ani’ Hadal: Melodie der Jemenniten CD: STV 33985 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 d
The ancient voice of the Jewish people has been transmitted through oral tradition, faithfully recording the sounds and feelings that have given it life. From the first notes of this new CD, we feel the deep mysticism of religious hymns, which the voice of Delilah Gutman calls up from the past.
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Adriano Fazio Thinking Bach
Adriano Fazio: cello J.S. BACH: Cello Suite I • Suite III: Prelude • Suite III: Bourrée I and Bourrée II • Suite III: Gigue • Suite II: Prelude • Suite II: Sarabande • SUPRIANO: Toccata X • GABRIELLI: Ricercare VII • VITALI: Toccata-Ruggiero • DALL’ABACO: Capriccio I This recording retraces the baton pass in the history of the virtuous cello, from the great Italian Masters, exemplified by the names listed amongst Bach’s compositions, to Master Eisenach who is in his early 40s. CD: STV 37006 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 d
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Friedrich KUHLAU Rondeau d’une folie Stefano Parrino: flute KUHLAU: Fantasie Op. 38, Fantasia 1, 2 and 3 • KUHLAU: Femmes voulez vous eprouver • Lasset Frieden uns Stiften • Capriccio • Es kann schon nicht alles so bleiben • In des waldes duersten gruenden • Capriccio • Rondo • Was ist der mensch • Capriccio • On ne saurait trop embellir: Rondeau d’une folie • Mich fliehen alle freuden • Allegro assai
CD: STV 37007 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25
Most of Kuhlau’s chamber production is dedicated to the flute and, several decades from his death, he was described as “the Sultan of the classical sonatina” or “the Beethoven of the flute.” The solo flute works contained on this CD make clear the value of the technical-virtuosic element, and represent an anthology of what was in fashion in the society of the time.
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Aliud Records Johan Brouwer
Plays the Taskin Harpsichord, 1769 Johan Brouwer: harpsichord COUPERIN: L’art de toucher le clavecin • La Superbe ou La Forqueray • FORQUERAY: La Couperin • La Sylva • BÖHM: Suite in F minor • J.S. BACH: Ricercar a tre voci BWV 1079 • French Suite in C minor BWV 813 • Preludium, Fugue and Allegro in E flat major BWV 998
CD: AUC 76 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d
Johan Brouwer (1943) studied organ under Wim van Beek and music theory under Frans van Eeden at the Groningen Conservatory of Music, then harpsichord at the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music. After his soloist exam he took up further studies with Gustav Leonhardt, and followed masterclasses by Ton Koopman, René Saorgin, and Jos van Immerseel. Brouwer has given concerts across Europe, and as leader/harpsichordist formed part of the Groningen baroque orchestra Collegium Musicum.
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Michael Eversden Out of Bounds
Michael Eversden: bass trombone/Anita Jongerman: violin/Menno Bosgra: percussion/Pamela Wallen: flute/Gaudi String Quartet/Amsterdam Wind Quintet/NNO Brass RIDDLE: Five Pieces • MCCARTY: Sonata • HIDAS: Below the Star Stretched Sky • KAZIK: Introduction and Allegro • MCGINTY: Soundscapes • STEARN: Northern Dances • VOGEL: Pas de Deux
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Out of Bounds contains interesting and little-known 20th- and 21st-century music for bass trombone in a chamber music setting. The instrument is rarely heard as the soloist with chamber ensembles, and most of the pieces on this disc are rarely performed or not previously recorded. The bass trombone can be heard running as a rich thread through the works.
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Phaedra Werner van Mechelen Allerseelen
Werner van Mechelen: bass-baritone/Lucas Blondeel: piano SCHUBERT: Litaney auf das Fest aller Seelen • Beim Winde • Totengräbers Heimweh • Nachtstück • Auflösung • MAHLER: Urlicht • Um Mitternacht • Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen • R. STRAUSS: Im Spätboot • Vom künftigen Alter • Und dann nicht mehr • Im Sonnenschein • Zueignung • Die Nacht • Allerseelen • Morgen CD: PHA 292030 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d
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This new CD contains songs about the dark side of life; about suffering, despair, loneliness, and death, with only love to light the way. The scope of bass-baritone Werner van Mechelen’s musical activities is all-encompassing. On the one hand he has sung many of the major parts in the opera repertoire; on the other hand he loves lieder and oratorios. His repertoire has included major opera roles in Mozart (Figaro, Don Giovanni), Puccini (Gianni Schicchi), Verdi (Falstaff, Aïda), Alban Berg (Wozzeck, Lulu) and Ligeti (Le Grand Macabre) as well as world premieres of works by Philippe Boesmans, among others.
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Querstand Capella St. Marien
Vocal and Instrumental Works for St. Mary’s, Lubeck Hanna Zumsande, Cornelia Samuelis: soprano/Stefan Kahle: alto/Tobias Hunger, Benjamin Glaubitz: tenor/Joachim Hochbauer: bass/Capella St. Marien/Johannes Unger: organ, director HASSE: Praeambulum ex F pedaliter for organ • Missa 7 vocum (premiere) • Motet “Ach das ich hören solt” • TUNDER: Sinfonia à 7 Viole (premiere) • Sacred Concerto “Helft mir Gott’s Güte preisen” • Choralphantasie “Christ lag in Todesbanden” for organ • Sacred Concerto “Wend’ ab deinen Zorn, lieber Herr” • Sacred Concerto “Ein’ feste Burg ist unser Gott” • Cantata “Hosianna dem Sohne Davids” • Choralbearbeitung “Jesus Christus, wahr’ Gottes Sohn” for organ • BUXTEHUDE: Cantata “Ihr lieben Christen, freut euch nun” BuxWV 51 CD: QUE 1411 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 DVD-Sized Digipak, Box Lot 30 d
This selection of music for voice, instruments, and organ composed by Petrus Hasse, Franz Tunder, and Dieterich Buxtehude was recorded on the occasion of the 400th birthday of Franz Tunder, organist and administrator of St. Mary’s Church in Lübeck from 1632–1667.
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Tobias Koch & Gesine Adler Haendeliana Hallensis Vol. 2
Tobias Koch: piano/Gesine Adler: soprano TÜRK: Sonata in G major • Sonata in A major • Selections from 120 Handpieces for aspiring pianists • REICHARDT: Grand Sonata in F minor for piano • LOEWE: Grand Sonata in E major for piano, Op. 16 • Klavierstück über eine Petrarchische Ode
CD: QUE 1420 Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Digipak, Box Lot 20 d
The central intention of the Haendeliana Hallensis is to preserve and present the richness and variety of the music culture and tradition around Halle. Volume two demonstrates the capacity of treasures selected from the collection of historical keyboard instruments at the Handel House. The double CD brings together the keyboard work of three composers affiliated to Halle who, around 1800, spent an important period of their lives in the city and, thus, each distinctly informed the regional music culture.
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Rainer Goede
Organs in Thuringia Vol. 5 Rainer Goede: organ
CD: QUE 1425 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d
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BUTTSTEDT: Praeludium and Capriccio in D minor • Praeludium and Ricercar in C major • Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr Organ Chorale • Christ lag in Todesbanden, Trio • Von Himmel kam der Engel Schar Organ Chorale • Wo Gott zum Haus nicht gibt sein Gunst Partita • VETTER: Fugue in C major • Fugue in G major • Fugue in A major • Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr Organ Chorale • Christ lag in Todesbanden Organ Chorale • Alio modo: Chorale fugue mit abschliessender Pedaldurchführung • Jesu, meine Freude Partita • ARMSTROFF: Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr • Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ • Jesu, meines Leben Leben Partita • Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend, Trio • Mitten wir im Leben sind mit dem Tod umfangen, Trio • Der Herr ist mein getreut Hirt Johann Georg Fincke’s (1680–1749) artistic bequest enables researchers to judge him, without doubt, as one of the most important organ builders of his time. This CD presents three essential instruments: the organs of St. Johannis in Neustadt/Orla, of the Protestant “Filialkirche” in Altenbeuthen, and of the Protestant Parish Church Vierzehnheiligen.
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