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Finnish record label Louhi Productions was founded in 2007 by Mikael Bergholm, Jyri Sariola, and Ilmari Räikkönen. The label’s releases span a number of different genres including classical, pop & rock, jazz, spiritual, and film music. Today, Louhi Productions is a successful one-stop sound recording company offering high-class facilities for sound production of all types. Louhi Productions comes to Allegro Classical via Launch Music International Ltd.

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RECENT NEWS & REVIEWS “Recordings of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, Op. 56, by a piano trio rather than by a group of virtuosi (a configuration that almost always misunderstands the work) are not abundant. Still rarer are those like the present release by the Storioni Trio … this performance is especially good at bringing out the work’s playful nature, with the thematic material of the opening movement batted around among the soloists, and between soloists and orchestra, in unpredictable ways.” — All Music Guide HHHH

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Soundbrush Records

The New York Virtuoso Singers 25 x 25: 25 Premieres for 25 Years

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The New York Virtuoso Singers Harold Rosenbaum: conductor DEL TREDICI: Alphabet II • STUCKY: Say Thou Dost Love Me • LERDAHL: Cornstalks • HARBISON: The Pool • ADOLPHE: Obedient Choir of Emotions • RAN: The Humble Shall Inherit the Earth (Psalm 37) • HARTKE: Audistis quia dictum est • CHEN: Let’s Reach a New Height • TSONTAKIS: A Dream Within a Dream • CORIGLIANO: Upon Julia’s Clothes • HIGDON: The Prayer • WYNER: Save me, O God • FELDER: Nomina sunt consequentia rerum • MUSGRAVE: Starlight • SCHWANTNER: Smoke • BOLCOM: Why Was Cupid a Boy? • LANG: the same train • TOWER: Descending • THOMAS: Spells • ZWILICH: Memorial • WERNICK: The Devil’s Game • DANIELPOUR: Lux Aeterna • ADAMO: Here • DAVIDSON: Song to Celia • KERNIS: Song of You “Now this is the way for an ensemble to celebrate an anniversary … It takes confidence for an ensemble to put the word ‘virtuoso’ in its name. The New York Virtuoso Singers have long earned it.” — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times To celebrate its 25th anniversary, The New York Virtuoso Singers commissioned America’s leading composers to each write a work, and the result is a stunning collection of world premieres by arguably the best contemporary composers working today. Comprehensive Press & Radio Campaign by Shira Gilbert. Video Interview Project with interviews of each composer available on the Soundbrush website. Upcoming Performance at NYC’s Merkin Concert Hall, November 3, 2013.

SOMM Recordings Cordelia Williams: piano SCHUBERT: Four Impromptus D899 • Four Impromptus D935 • 17 Ländler D366 SOMM’s verdict on hearing Cordelia Williams play Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto at the finals of the Dudley International Competition two years ago was “absolutely stunning!” Cordelia has an established career that has taken her in recital and concerto performances from Great Britain and Europe to America, China, Thailand, Kenya, and the Gulf States. Piano winner of the 2006 BBC Young Musician Award, she was propelled into an international career as one of the outstanding pianists of her generation, and in 2011 was awarded First Prize at the Concours International de Piano in Aix-en-Provence.

Franz SCHUBERT

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Alexander Baillie: cello John Thwaites: piano BRIDGE Cello Sonata in D minor, H125 • DELIUS: Cello Sonata • IRELAND: Cello Sonata in G minor • CLARKE: Cello Sonata (premiere) • KEYS: Cello Sonata (premiere) • RUBBRA: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 60 SOMM is well known for its promotion of British music, and its catalog boasts many world premiere recordings. This impressive double disc is no exception, featuring the well-loved Cello Sonatas of Bridge, Delius, Ireland, and Rubbra as well as two world premieres — the Cello Sonatas by Rebecca Clarke (1919), and Ivor Keys (1960). Clarke was Stanford’s first female pupil at RCM and became a professional violist, having taken lessons with Lionel Tertis. Listening to her Sonata, described as sensuous, Bacchanalian, intoxicating, and languid by turns, reminds us that she felt closest to the music of both Debussy and Ravel. Ivor Keys was organ scholar at Christ Church, Oxford, and an accomplished musician who made his career as an academic at the Universities of Belfast. Cellist Alexander Baillie is recognized as one of the finest musicians of his generation; his teachers were Fournier, Rostropovich, du Pré, and William Pleeth.

Alexander Baillie

Twentieth-Century Cello Sonatas

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Béla BARTÓK & Zoltán KODÁLY The Complete String Quartets CD: FCL 2009 Price Code: 2O (SRP $27.99) Number of Discs: 3 Triple Digipak, Box Lot 10 d

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Alexander String Quartet Zakarias Grafilo, Frederick Lifsitz: violins Paul Yarbrough: viola Sandy Wilson: cello BARTÓK: String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7, Sz. 40 • String Quartet No. 3, Sz. 85 • String Quartet No. 5, Sz. 102 • String Quartet No. 2, Op. 17, Sz. 67 • String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91 • String Quartet No. 6, Sz. 114 • KODÁLY: String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 2 • String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10 The Alexander String Quartet brings to life the complete quartets of Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály in this new 3-CD release. Contemporaries and fellow ethnomusicologist-composers, Bartók and Kodály wrote some of the most beautiful, beguiling, and ultimately influential string quartet music of the 20th century. Producer and multiple Grammy® winner Judith Sherman captured the recordings of these eight quartets under superb conditions, performed on the Ellen M. Egger Quartet of instruments by luthier Francis Kuttner. Press & Radio Service by Shira Gilbert. Social Media Marketing by David Weuste (Rosebrook Classical). also available Alexander String Quartet In Friendship CD: FCL 2007 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1

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Avie Records The Brook Street Band HANDEL: Trio Sonatas, Op. 2 • Sonata No. 3 in B flat • Sonata No. 2 in G minor • Sonata No. 4 in F major • Sonata No. 5 in G minor • Sonata No. 1 in B minor • Sonata No. 6 in G minor “Impeccable … the vitality is riveting.” — BBC Music Magazine (AVR 2199) “These performances have a powerful stamp of authority about them … Handel himself would have found real cause for celebration.” — International Record Review (AVR 2118) 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 all-girl group follows their first two records — the world-premiere chamber version of Handel’s ‘Oxford’ Water Music (Gramophone Editor’s Choice) and their sparkling rendition of the Trio Sonatas, Op. 5 — with the composer’s other great set of Trio Sonatas, Op. 2. An utterly memorable collection of works that features Handel’s imaginative “re-heating” of his own popular tunes, the recording once again brings forth the band’s sheer pleasure in sharing the composer’s wonderful music.

George Frideric HANDEL Trio Sonatas, Op. 2

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Herwig Zack: violin J.S. BACH: Sonata No. 1 in G minor BWV 1001 • HINDEMITH: Sonata, Op. 31, No. 1 • Sonata in G Minor, Op. 11, No. 6 • Sonata, Op. 31, No. 2 • Prelude and Fragment • STAHMER: “Gerettete Blätter” for Solo Violin (premiere, 2011/13, dedicated to Herwig Zack) • REGER: Chaconne in G Minor for Solo Violin, Op. 117, No. 4 “An absorbing celebration of the solo violin … very special.” — The Strad (AVR 2189) Herwig Zack’s thoughtfully programmed recordings for solo violin have earned him plaudits around the world. In his latest for AVIE, Made in Germany, he turns to his fellow countrymen in repertoire that ranges from the Baroque to the present day. Any overview of German violin music must include J.S. Bach, as Zack’s previous two releases did, and also turn-of-the20th-century titan Max Reger, who clearly based his solo violin output on that of his 17th-century predecessor. Zack includes a world premiere recording of a work dedicated to him by Klaus Heinrich Stahmer, but the crowning achievement of this recording is the Complete Works for Solo Violin by Hindemith, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death.

Herwig Zack

Made in Germany

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Quartz Music Jeremy Limb: piano GLASS: Opening from Glassworks • An Unwelcome Friend, from The Hours • Dead Things, from The Hours • I’m Going to Make a Cake, from The Hours • Something She Has To Do, from The Hours • Tearing Herself Away, from The Hours • The Hours, from The Hours • The Poet Acts, from The Hours • Why Does Someone Have To Die?, from The Hours • Trilogy Sonata: Kneeplay 4, from Einstein on the Beach • Trilogy Sonata: Satyagraha • Trilogy Sonata: Akhnaten • Metamorphosis One • Metamorphosis Two • Metamorphosis Three • Metamorphosis Four • Metamorphosis Five • Modern Love Waltz This is the second album from the best-selling pianist Jeremy Limb, whose recording of The Piano Music of Einaudi for Quartz was a terrific success. This unique double album of Philip Glass piano works encompasses his works from “Metamorphosis One–Five” through music from “The Hours.” There are not many recordings of Philip Glass piano works, so this new recording from Quartz Music is a welcome release, with the added bonus of being two CDs for the price of one.

Philip GLASS

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Grace Francis: piano MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition • RACHMANINOV: Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42 • Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36 “Both these works are delivered with artistry of rare refinement.” — BBC Music magazine (HHHH performance, HHHH recording) “After an invigorating Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition, Francis offers a deeply observant reading of Rachmaninov’s last piano composition, the 1931 Variations on a Theme of Corelli … a new economy of texture is unmistakable, and Francis makes the compact structure fascinating. She follows this satisfyingly with Rachmaninov’s pared down 1931 version of his Sonata No. 2 (1913).” — The Sunday Times The second release from the highly talented Grace Francis focuses on music of Mussorgsky and Rachmaninov.

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The Sixteen Harry Christophers: conductor J.S. BACH: Mass in G minor BWV 235 • Cantata 102 – Herr, deine Augen BWV 102 • Mass in F major BWV 233 “[The Sixteen] performs with outstanding virtuosity and dedication.” — Opera Now “As musically intelligent and invigorating as we have come to expect from this ensemble, with first rate solo singing and orchestral playing.” — BBC Music Magazine It is with great delight that CORO announces the release of the first of two new recordings of J.S. Bach’s Lutheran Masses by The Sixteen. The fact that The Sixteen has not performed or recorded such a wealth of Bach’s music in nearly 20 years makes this a uniquely exciting project! Sometimes called “Missa brevis,” the Masses are almost entirely made up of movements borrowed from Bach’s Cantatas but, while they are often overshadowed by the more famous Mass in B minor, the beauty of these short Masses is that they represent Bach’s own choice of his finest Cantata movements. Despite their exquisite beauty, featuring splendid choruses and deeply moving arias, there are relatively few recordings of the Lutheran Masses. Review Copies sent to U.S. press and radio stations. Radio Coverage on Classic FM and BBC Radio 3 (available worldwide via digital radio). Advertising includes Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, online outlets, and more. Additional Promotion with amateur choirs.

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Handel and Haydn Society Harry Christophers: conductor TRADITIONAL: I wonder as I wander • Joy to the world • In dulci jubilo (original version sung in English) • In dulci jubilo (Hieronymous Praetorius sung in German) • In dulci jubilo (Pearsall version for double choir) • O little town of Bethlehem (traditional) • O little town of Bethlehem (American) • It came upon a midnight clear • Angels we have heard on high • BILLINGS: Shepherds rejoice • A virgin unspotted • CHILCOTT: Shepherd’s Carol • RUTTER: There is a flower • HOWELLS: Spotless Rose • LAURIDSEN: O magnum mysterium • BASSI: Quem pastores laudavere • IVES: A Christmas Carol • LEONTOVICH: Carol of the Bells CORO is delighted to release the first “studio” recording with the Handel and Haydn Society in 2013. This special Christmas disc, which was recorded at the WGBH studios in Boston, features an eclectic selection of Christmas music including traditional carols using American tunes, and Christmas motets by Charles Ives and contemporary American composer James Bassi. The disc also features two carols by the “father of American choral music,” Bostonian William Billings. Review Copies sent to U.S. press and radio stations. Radio Coverage on Classic FM and BBC Radio 3 (available worldwide via digital radio). Advertising includes Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, online outlets, and more.

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Armida Quartet

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Armida Quartet Martin Funda: violin Johanna Staemmler: violin Teresa Schwamm: viola Peter-Philip Staemmler: cello LIGETI: String Quartet No. 1 “Métamorphoses nocturnes” • KURTÁG: String Quartet No. 1 • BARTÓK: String Quartet No. 4, SZ 91 Winners of the prestigious ARD Competition 2012, the Armida Quartet presents an unusual debut CD featuring three composers with roots in Hungary, all of whom were very interested in traditional folk music. The ensemble has received musical inspiration from Natalia Prischepenko as well as Alfred Brendel, Ferenc Rados, Tabea Zimmermann, Eberhard Feltz, Walter Levin, Martin Spangenberg, and Heime Müller. In addition, the musicians have taken part in master classes taught by the Alban Berg as well as the Guarneri & Arditti Quartets.

Sleeveless Records Warren Mailley-Smith: piano LISZT: Mephisto Waltz No. 1 • Liebestraum No 3 • Concert Study: “GnomenReigen” • Concert Study: “Il Lamento” • Concert Study: “Un Sospiro” • Les Jeux d’Eaux à la Villa d’Este (from Années de Pèlerinage, Troisième Année) • Rigoletto Paraphrase • Consolation No. 3 • Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 “Warren Mailley-Smith plays these well-worn Liszt favorites as if discovering their special quality for the very first time, with a beguiling, velvet-glove sonority.” — BBC Music Magazine “‘Il Lamento’ is probably the finest I have heard on CD in a long time … the clarity of the playing and pedalling is very evident in the sparkling trills … this pianist obviously thinks a great deal about the music he is playing.” — Liszt Society This impressive solo disc of Liszt’s piano music is British pianist Warren Mailley-Smith’s most recent solo recording, made to celebrate the composer’s bicentenary in 2011. The disc includes a well-contrasted overview of a number of Liszt’s most popular and challenging works by the great Hungarian pianist and composer, including the devilish Mephisto Waltz No. 1 and the wonderfully characterized Rigoletto Paraphrase, set against works such as the Consolation No. 3 and Un Sospiro. Standout tracks include a finger-breaking rendition of the immortal Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, and a breathtaking account of the rarely performed Concert Study “Il Lamento.”

Franz LISZT Depictions

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Matt Jones: violin Annabel Thwaite: piano GERSHWIN: It Ain’t Necessarily So, arr. Heifetz • MASSENET: Meditation (from Thaïs) • CHOPIN: Nocturne No. 20, Op. Post • ELGAR: Salut D’Amour, Op. 12 • FAURÉ: Après un Rêve, arr. Bachmann • PONCE: Estrellita (My Little Star), arr. Heifetz • CASPI: La Trenza (premiere) • MONTI: Czardas • SCHUBERT: Impromptu Op. 90, No. 3 • HAHN: Nocturne • IRELAND: Cavatina • SIBELIUS: Romance Op. 78, No. 2 • CHOPIN: Nocturne Op. 27, No. 2 • KREISLER: Praeludium and Allegro • TRADITIONAL: Suo Gân (premiere) “Hauntingly lovely … thoughtful and accomplished music-making.” — Gramophone “Outstanding … magnificent performance throughout.” — International Record Review A sumptuous blend of popular works and lesser-known gems, Salut d’Amour celebrates the beauty of two instruments: violin and piano. Kreisler, Gershwin, and Monti are played here with flair and exuberance; by contrast Massenet, Fauré, Manuel Ponce, and Sibelius are honest and moving. The touching beauty of Annabel Thwaite’s piano playing comes to the fore in solo works by Chopin and Schubert. Uniquely, this disc fuses the familiar with rarely performed masterpieces by Reynaldo Hahn and John Ireland, and two premiere recordings: Caspi’s “La Trenza” and a simple, sublime arrangement of Welsh lullaby “Suo Gan,” well known (if not by its title) from the film Empire of the Sun.

Matt Jones

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KAIROS International Contemporary Ensemble Daniel Lippel: guitar Jayce Ogren: conductor Matthew Ward: conductor FUJIKURA: Sparks • ice • Phantom Splinter • Abandoned Time • I dreamed on singing flowers • Sparking Orbit This CD presents music for various ensemble configurations and electronics by British-Japanese composer Dai Fujikura, one of the most strikingly original composers of our day, masterfully performed by the New York-based International Contemporary Ensemble featuring guitarist Daniel Lippel. Targeted Promotion at contemporary music festivals. Online Promotion via KAIROS newsletter and social networking.

Dai FUJIKURA ice

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Silverdoor Roger Doyle: keyboards, programming, electronics Tim Brady, Paul Nash: electric guitars Jo O’Grady, Leo Barnes, Ned Bennett: saxophones Ger Flanagan, Juliette Kang: violins Elena López, Séverine Angel, Barbara Gogan: vocals Anne Lapierre, Olwen Fouéré, Lee Heuermann: vocals Michael Seaver, Cindy Cummings: clarinets/and more DOYLE: Babel “This astonishing set marks the culmination of his most ambitious work to date, recorded over a ten-year span of time … works of true genius that combine the finest elements of Pierre Henry and Nurse With Wound.” — Other Music Babel is a large-scale musical structure, with each piece of music (or CD track) thought of as a “room” or place within an enormous city, this aural building being the embodiment of a modern-day Tower of Babel. In the main section are three CDs, where each track corresponds to a virtual architecture. As a supplement, we have two CDs of KBBL, the Tower’s fictitious radio station. Each of its four “shows” has its own style and atmosphere. Collaborating with DJs, actors, writers, and singers, KBBL is made to sound like a real radio station complete with ads, traffic reports, phone-ins, and more.

Roger DOYLE Babel

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Robert SCHUMANN

Bernard FOCCROULLE

Ensemble Contraste/Arnaud Thorette: viola/Jean-Luc Votano: clarinet/Johan Farjot: piano

Melanie Diener: soprano/Sophie Karthäuser: soprano/Tatiana Samouil: violin/Justus Grimm: cello/Carlos Bruneel: flute/Nicolas Stavy: piano/Liège Royal Philharmonic/Jean Deroyer: conductor

Schumann’s Fantasy

Am Rande der Nacht

SCHUMANN: Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70 • Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 • Drei Romanzen, Op. 94 • Märchenbilder, Op. 113 • Märchenerzählungen, Op. 132 This recording contrasts two crucial periods in the creative life of Schumann, with the works of his maturity in dialogue with those of his twilight years.

FOCCROULLE: Am Rande der Nacht II • Wie ein Wort das noch im Schweigen reift... • Ich soll silbern erzittern • Wer du auch seist Following in the footsteps of Philippe Boesmans and Benoît Mernier, Bernard Foccroulle shows his love of German poetry in a cycle based on the words of the most musical of poets, Rainer Maria Rilke.

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Albert HUYBRECHTS

Musiques Nouvelles

Monnaie Wind Quintet Soloists

Musiques Nouvelles/Stacy Smith: soprano/Jean-Paul Dessy: conductor

HUYBRECHTS: Suite for wind instruments and piano • Pastorale for six wind instruments • Quintet for wind instruments • Concertino for cello and piano • Sonatine for flute and viola • Pastourelle for cello and piano

BARTHOLOMEE: Le Rêve de Diotime • BOESMANS: Chambres d’à côté • BOSSE: Obstinatissimo • COLLIN: L’Âme et la Danse • FOCCROULLE: Gestes • FONTYN: Méandres • FOURGON: Micro-concerto • KISSINE: Partita • MICHEL: Terza Rima • POUSSEUR: Movement 1 2 • RENS: Zap • TODOROFF: Réminiscences • ZHANG: Extraits de Luo Gu Jing • DE JAER: Eclerectic Attracta • and more

Chamber Music III

50 Years – 25 Composers

This new 2-CD set provides a survey of Albert Huybrechts’ art, tragic in its colorings but with an austere genius that makes him the Belgian composer who most strongly defies definition.

This set features works by 25 composers who exemplify the 50-year career of the Musiques Nouvelles ensemble, all of who were born between 1929 and 1971.

Winter & Winter Calefax Reed Quintet Asko Schönberg Ensemble Reinbert de Leeuw: conductor ABRAHAMSEN: Bei Anbruch (Musique concrète) • Walden • In den Wäldern (Musique concrète) • Wald • Zur Nacht (Musique concrète) On this disc, the music of “Wald” and “Walden” are embedded in field recordings by Stefan Winter. The title was borrowed from American philosopher Henry David Thoreau, who wrote about a life of solitude in the woods, where he spent two years in an attempt to abandon all artificial, society-grown needs and rediscover the oneness of the human being with nature. Similarly, “Walden” was composed in a style of “new simplicity,” in which unnecessary material was peeled back in order to make space for other characteristics such as conciseness and clarity.

Hans ABRAHAMSEN Walden/Wald

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Stone Records Robert Costin: organ J.S. BACH: Goldberg Variations “Costin’s playing is honest and stylistically sensitive … The organ is the 1980 Mander instrument (with some pipework dating back to 1708) at Pembroke College, Cambridge; probably the first attempt in the UK to partially reconstruct a lost historic organ. Thirty-plus years later it sounds fresh, engaging, and well-matched to the ringing acoustics of Wren’s chapel.” — Choir and Organ Bach’s 1741 masterpiece played on the organ of Pembroke College, Cambridge (dating from 1708). Performed by international organ recitalist Robert Costin, this is a thrillingly exuberant recording played on an authentic instrument, and the booklet includes detailed notes by the artist.

J.S. BACH

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Stone Records Mark Stone: baritone Sholto Kynoch: piano IRELAND: Songs • Sea fever • The bells of San Marie • The Vagabond • Hope the Horn Blower • The East Riding • In praise of Neptune • Here’s to the ships • Song from o’er the hill • The Lent lily • Ladslove • Goal and wicket • The vain desire • The encounter • Epilogue • The heart’s desire • We’ll to the woods no more • In boyhood • Spring will not wait • Hawthorn time • Spring sorrow • The soldier • Blow out, you bugles • Blind • The cost • A garrison churchyard • Love’s window (premiere) • Billee Bowline (premiere) • When I grow old (premiere) • Hillo, my bonny (premiere) • Porto Rico (premiere) “Baritone Mark Stone has it all: a terrific technique, theatrical presence, and a voice guaranteed to tingle bits of your spine never tingled before.” — Classic FM This is the first CD in a four-disc series that will comprise the first complete recording of the songs of John Ireland (1879–1962) for voice and piano. There are a considerable number of omissions in the Ireland discography, and this complete survey will rectify that, presenting every song with the full texts and detailed notes that have become the trademark of Stone Records’ releases. This first volume includes five premiere recordings: the excellent ballads that Ireland composed under the pseudonym Turlay Royce. These rarities are presented alongside some of his most famous settings of Masefield (Sea fever), Housman (The heart’s desire), and Brooke (Spring sorrow). Ireland’s songs are well loved by singers and listeners alike; hauntingly poignant and beautifully melodious, they are the epitome of English song.

John IRELAND

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Birgid Steinberger: soprano Anna Huntley: mezzo-soprano Benjamin Hulett: tenor Marcus Farnsworth: baritone Sholto Kynoch: piano WOLF: Lenau & Spanisches Liederbuch (Geistliche Lieder) “This recording shows what can be done with enterprise, enthusiasm, dedication, and bold artistic vision. An inspiration for all!” — Classical Iconoclast The sixth disc in the first-ever complete Hugo Wolf song series includes the sacred part of Wolf ’s Spanish songbook and his rarely heard Lenau settings, including four world premiere recordings. Part of the Oxford Lieder Live series, this unique collaboration between the famous Oxford Lieder Festival and Stone Records was recorded live at the Oxford Lieder Festival in 2012. The songs are performed by four talented and prize-winning UK Lieder singers, accompanied by Oxford Lieder’s artistic director Sholto Kynoch. The booklet includes translations and detailed notes by Richard Stokes.

Hugo WOLF

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Louhi Productions Marjukka Tepponen: soprano Ilmari Räikkönen: piano RACHMANINOV: V molchan’ji nochi tajnoj Op. 4, No. 3 • Vesennije vody Op. 14, No. 11 • Ne poj, krasavica pri mne Op. 4, No. 4 • Chto tak usilenno serdce bol’noje Op. 21, No. 6 • Zdes’ khorosho Op. 21, No. 7 • Ja ne prorok Op. 21, No. 11 • U mojego okna Op. 26, No. 10 • Margaritki Op. 38, No. 3 • Arion Op. 34, No. 5 • KUULA: Suutelo Op. 8, No. 1 • Ave Maria Op. 23, No. 2 • Sinipiika Op. 23, No. 1 • Jääkukkia Op. 24, No. 2 • Purjein kuutamolla Op. 31a, No. 1 • POULENC: Airs chantés • Fiançailles pour Rire The debut album of young Finnish soprano Marjukka Tepponen, winner of the 2010 National Singing Competition in Lappeenranta, Finland. For First Prize, Louhi Productions awarded the making of a lieder record for the label. The album contains an interesting collection of Russian, Finnish, and French songs from the composers Rachmaninov, Kuula, and Poulenc.

Marjukka Tepponen Airs chantés

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Berlin Classics Ludwig Güttler: trumpet, conductor Leipzig Bach-Collegium Concentus Vocalis Wien Hallenser Madrigalisten Thüringer Akademischer Singekreis Virtuosi Saxoniae Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble Friedrich Kircheis: conductor SUSATO: Renaissance Dances from ‘The Danserye’ • VON HESSEN: Canzon à 8 • FRANKE: Chagall Impressions • DE GANT: Sonata for Trumpet and Organ, Op. 3/9 • ALBINONI: Concerto in C • G. GABRIELI: Canzon quarti toni à 15 • EBEN: Theme and Variations • EWALD: Quintet, Op. 5 • VIVALDI: Gloria in D, RV 589 • J.S. BACH: Brandenburg Concert No. 2, BWV 1047 • Suite No. 4, Ouverture and Menuets, BWV 1069 • and more Celebrating the 70th birthday of Ludwig Güttler, this three-CD set is an exclusive edition featuring a very individual selection by the virtuoso himself. Every recording represents a part of the life of this prolific musician, who is not only known as a soloist but also as an accomplished chamber musician and conductor.

Ludwig Güttler The Jubilee Edition

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Berlin Classics Claire Huangci: piano TCHAIKOVSKY: Concert Suite (Sleeping Beauty) • Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker) • PROKOFIEV: Ten Piano Pieces (Romeo and Juliet) A debut full of lust for life and soulful feelings! Russian repertoire suits her very well at the moment, because she has a very personal approach to it, concludes Claire Huangci. Not just because of the virtuosic vigor that the dainty pianist brings to her playing, but because of the wealth of images and emotions. Concertgoers who have seen the young Chinese-American perform live will understand at once. It is simply that she has a special energy, powerful yet flexible, with which she can give intelligent context and nimble form to the smallest detail or fling wonderful arches across time and space. No surprise, then, that she decided on “The Sleeping Beauty” as the title of her CD debut featuring music by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev: the selections from the ballets Sleeping Beauty and Romeo and Juliet admirably capture the youthful freshness of a pianist in her early twenties.

Peter Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

The Sleeping Beauty

September 28 Columbus, GA – River Center for the Performing Arts December 31 Santa Fe, NM – Santa Fe Concert Hall

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Sharon Kam: clarinet Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn Ruben Gazarian: conductor ROSSINI: Aria from Cenerentola • Aria from Bolero • Aria • VERDI: 4 Romances: Deh, pietoso, oh Addolerata • Ad una stella • In solitaria stanza • Lo spazzacamino • PONCHIELLI: Paolo e Virginia • PUCCINI: Lieder and Arien: Storiella d’amore • La Rondine – Walzerarze der Magda • Sole e amore (Studie zu La Boheme) – Musette Walzer (La Boheme) • WOLF-FERRARI: Suites from Operas: Intermezzo, from “Susannas Geheimnis” • Serenata, from “Der Schmuck der Madonna” • Intermezzo II from “Die vier Grobiane” • Danza Napoletana from “Der Schmuck der Madonna” Sharon Kam loves opera. More, maybe, than one would expect of a world-class clarinetist — unless you know that she has been married for many years to an opera conductor, and so feels quite at home with music drama. Then you will also understand that her new CD Opera! fulfils a long-held dream and, at the same time, adds several interesting pieces to the instrument’s relatively limited concert repertoire. In any case, this recording goes far beyond what one normally expects of arrangements. Together with Andreas Tarkmann, Sharon went through the Italian repertoire, not afraid to veer off the beaten track, and found suitable pieces that the famous arranger could tailor to the artist and her instrument. Music by Romantic opera composers comes across differently here, imaginatively adapted to the potential of clarinet and chamber orchestra.

Sharon Kam Opera!

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Berlin Classics

BERLIN CLASSICS SELECT The new mid-price series from Berlin Classics! With the SELECT series, Berlin Classics breaks new ground with the best repertoire from the Brilliant Classics catalog from the past ten years, and a fresh look that sets a new standard for quality mid-price releases! The repertoire contains everything from the great classics, like Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, to more unfamiliar repertoire, like the piano works of Anatoly Lyadov, all presented in high-quality recordings by internationally recognized artists. With the SELECT series, classical aficionados and casual listeners alike can rediscover their favorite classical composers in unique combinations!

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J.S. BACH & Antonio VIVALDI

Berlin Classics SELECT

VIVALDI: The Four Seasons • J.S. BACH: Brandenburg Concertos 1–6

MOZART: Piano Concertos 9 & 21 • HAYDN: Piano Concerto in D major, Hob. XVIII:11 • BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 73 • HUMMEL: Piano Concerto in G major, Op. 73

Precious Baroque

From Vienna With Love

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Johannes BRAHMS

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BRAHMS: Liebeslieder-Walzer Op. 52, Nos. 1–18 • Neue Liebeslieder-Walzer Op. 65, Nos. 1–15 • 3 Quartets, Op. 31 • 3 Songs, Op. 42 • 3 Quartets, Op. 64 • 4 Quartets, Op. 92 • 6 Quartets, Op. 112: Sehnsucht; Nächtens • and more

DEBUSSY: Deux Arabesques • Estampes • L’isle joyeuse • RAVEL: Jeux d’eau • Sonatine • Miroirs • Menuet sur le nom de Haydn • DUKAS: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice • Piano Sonata in E flat minor • Prelude Elegiaque sure le nom de Haydn • and more

Brahms Lovesongs

Piano Music grand-mondain

Berlin Classics

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Modest MUSSORGSKY

Bedˇrich SMETANA

MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition • plus Russian piano music by TCHAIKOVSKY, LYADOV, SKRIABIN, and PROKOFIEV

ˇ SMETANA: My Homeland • DVORÁK: Czech Suite • Three Concert Overtures • Symphonic Variations, Op. 78

Pictures at an Exhibition

The Moldau

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Franz LISZT

W.A. MOZART

LISZT: The Piano Concertos • Hungarian Rhapsodies

W.A. MOZART: Va, dal furor portata K. 21 • Conservati fedele K. 23 • Or che il dover – Tali e cotanti sono K. 36 • Cara, se le mie pene, K. deest • Ah, lo previdi! – Ah t’invola – Deh, non varcar K. 272 • Basta, vincesti – Ah non lasciarmi, no K. 486a • and more

The Piano Concertos and Hungarian Rhapsodies

Concert Arias

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Giovanni Battista PERGOLESI

GUILIANI: Concerto No. 1 for guitar and orchestra • SCARLATTI: Sonatas K 32, 213, and 292 • SOR: Fantasia Elegiaca • BOCCHERINI: Quintet for guitar and string quartet No. 4 in D major • plus works by VILLA-LOBOS, ALBENIZ, BARRIOS, and PUJOL

PERGOLESI: Stabat Mater • MONTEVERDI: 7 Motets • plus choral & organ music by FRESCOBALDI

Essential Guitar

Stabat Mater

col legno Ulrich Alexander KREPPEIN Spiel der Schatten

Danish String Quartet/Ensemble Modern/Oswald Sallaberger: conductor/White Rabbit Ensemble/Eric Hewitt: conductor/Franck Ollu: conductor/Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra/Matthias Pintscher: conductor KREPPEIN: Streichquartett • Phantasiestücke I: Windinnres • Phantasiestücke II: Nachtschattenwirbel • Phantasiestücke III: Abendlied • Départ • Spiel der Schatten

CD: CNO 40406 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, col legno presents three ambitious new CDs featuring portraits of young rising composers. This volume focuses on works of remembrance and polyphony by Ulrich Alexander Kreppein.

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David Phillip HEFTI Changements

Thomas Grossenbacher: cello/Ensemble Modern/ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna/ German Symphony Orchestra Berlin/German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern/David Philip Hefti: conductor HEFTI: Éclairs • Moments lucides • Changements • Gegenklang • Klangbogen On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, col legno presents three ambitious new CDs featuring portraits of young rising composers. In the echo chambers of tradition, this disc features award-winner David Pilip Hefti. CD: CNO 40407 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Marko NIKODIJEVIC dark/rooms

Benjamin Kobler: piano/ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna/Jonathan Stockhammer: conductor/Nieuw Ensemble/Micha Hamel: conductor/Ensemble musikFabrik/Clement Power: conductor NIKODIJEVIC: cveti´c, ku´cica.../la lugubre gondola • music box/selbstportrait mit ligeti und strawinsky (und messiaen ist auch dabei) • chambres de ténèbres/tombeau de claude vivier • gesualdo dub/raum mit gelöschter figur • GHB/tanzaggregat

CD: CNO 40408 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, col legno presents three ambitious new CDs featuring portraits of young rising composers. This disc focuses on award-winner Marko Nikodijevic.

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The Classics Labels Hillel Zori: cello Arnon Erez: piano BIZET/ZORI: Carmeniana (premiere) • TORTELIER: Sax, Spirales • POPPER: Spinning Song • Serenade Espagnole • Barcarole Venetienne • FITZENHAGEN: Capriccio • BOTERMUND/STARKER: Paganini Variations • STUTCHEWSKY: Dance Orientale • CASSADÒ: Suite for cello solo • Dance of the Green Devil• ROSTROPOVICH: Humoresque • PIATTI: Tarantella Inspirales features works written and inspired by the great cellist-composers of the past, from Fitzenhagen and Popper to Tortelier and Rostropovich. Hillel Zori himself has a contributed a dazzling “Carmeniana” based on Bizet’s Carmen, recorded here for the first time. Hailed by the renowned cellist Bernard Greenhouse to have “all of the wonderful attributes of a young Emanuel Feuerman,” Hillel Zori has distinguished himself by winning coveted prizes in many international competitions, and enjoys a distinguished career as a soloist as well as a member of the Israel Piano Trio.

Hillel Zori Inspirales

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cello classics

Roger Heaton: clarinet Kreutzer String Quartet RADULESCU: The Inner Time (premiere) • TRANDAFILOVSKI: Magnets, Lava, Crystals (premiere) • BOULEZ: Domaines • SCELSI: Ixor Contemporary music specialist Roger Heaton’s new CD focuses on three important modernist works from the mid-20th century along with a brand-new clarinet quintet specially written for the artist by composer and second violinist in the Kreutzer Quartet, Mihailo Trandafilovski. Radulescu’s groundbreaking solo work was written for Heaton in 1983; lasting 28 minutes without a break, it explores an incredible soundworld of multiple sonorities based on the harmonic series. Bonus film features a performance of the whole piece, with the score and explanation and discussion by Heaton. The CD also includes fascinating notes by the world’s leading Boulez specialist, Robert Piencikowski, and the chance to see a large full-color page of Boulez’s sketches from the Paul Sacher Archive.

Roger Heaton The Inner Time

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clarinet classics

Tactus

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Francesco Cera

Baroque from South to North: Italian roots of the German Baroque Francesco Cera: organ FRESCOBALDI: Toccata ottava, dal primo libro di toccate • PASQUINI: Variazioni capricciose • Passacagli in G minor • ZIPOLI: All’Elevazione • MUFFAT: Toccata prima • VIVALDI: Concerto in C major, Op. 3 • BUXTEHUDE: Passacaglia in D major BuxWV 161 • BACH: Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier BWV 731 • Toccata and fugue in D minor BWV 538 This disc chronicles the development of Baroque music from Rome in the first decades of the 1600s to mid-17th century Vienna, continuing north towards Lübeck in the 1680s.

Nimbus Alliance

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Riccardo ZANDONAI

Chamber Music and Works for Small Orchestra Orchestra da Camera di Trento “Ensemble Zandonai”/Trio Guarino ZANDONAI: Sinfonietta settecentesca for small orchestra RZ 231 • Berceuse for strings RZ 207 • Serenata medioevale for small orchestra RZ 219 • Spleen, canto for solo cello and small orchestra RZ 228 • Il flauto notturno, poemetto for flute and small orchestra RZ 226 • Concerto andaluso for solo cello and small orchestra RZ 227 • Quartet for strings in G major RZ 210 • Trio, Serenade in three tempos for violin, cello and piano RZ 217 • Sera RZ 211 • Tempo di valzer RZ 212 • Telefunken RZ 21 • and more Riccardo Zandonai was a well-known musical figure in Italy in the mid-18th century, principally for his melodramatic operas.

Nimbus Records

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David Gordon Trio

Maurice RAVEL & Gabriel FAURÉ

David Gordon: piano/Jonty Fisher: double bass/Paul Cavaciuti: drums

Hagai Shaham: violin/Arnon Erez: piano/Raphael Wallfisch: cello

FARRES: Quizás, Quizás, Quizás • TRADITIONAL: La Chipola, arr. by David Gordon • Duerme Negrito, arr. by David Gordon • JARA: Angelita Huenumán • GORDON: Sambova • GILBERTO: Como são Lindos os Youguis • GISMONTI: Baião Malandro • MAYS: Chorinho • CAPÓ: Piel Canela • CASTELLANOS: La Puñalada, arr. by Horacio Salgain • CAFRUNE: Bajo un sauce Ilorón • POWELL: Deixa, arr. by Hamilton de Holanda • DÍAZ: Tonada de la luna Ilena • DE ABREU: Tico Tico no Fubá

RAVEL: Piano Trio • DEBUSSY: Cello Sonata • Violin Sonata • FAURÉ: Piano Trio, Op. 120

French Piano Trios

Speaks Latin

This disc explores Latin music, from the great Chilean songwriter Victor Jara to Argentine Jorge Cafrune and Venezuelan Simón Díaz.

These four works, by perhaps the three most commanding figures in French music in the early part of the 20th century, were all composed within the space of eight years, and are among their composers’ definitive contributions to the chamber music genre.

Stradivarius

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Antonio VIVALDI

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Frederico GARDELLA

Concerto for two organs

Livre d’arabesque

Margherita Gianola: organ/Silvio Celeghin: organ/Accademia di San Rocco/Francesco Fanna: director VIVALDI: Concerto for two organs, two violins and strings in F major, RV 584 • Concerto for organ, violin and strings in D minor, RV 541 • Concerto for violin and strings in G major, RV 299 (trans. for organ by J.S. Bach, BWV 973) • Concerto for organ, violin, and strings in F major, RV 542 • Concerto for violin and strings in E major, RV 265 (trans. in C major for organ by J.S. Bach, BWV 976) • Concerto for flute and strings in G minor “La Notte”, RV 439 (trans. in D minor for two organs by Bellotti)

Divertimento Ensemble/Luca Avanzi: oboe/Lorenzo Gorli: violin/Martina Rudic: cello/Maria Grazia Bellocchio: piano/ Sandro Gorli: conductor GARDELLA: Livre d’arabesques • Estroso/Innerlich • Im Freien zu spielen • Islands • Tre studi sulla notte • Tre studi per riscoprire l’alba • Nebbiæ Single parts are united in the music of Gardella, whose most characteristic feature is the extreme economy of linguistic means.

A collaboration between organists Margherita Gianola and Silvio Celeghin with Francesco Fanna, conductor and director at the Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.

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Benjamin BRITTEN

Georg Phillip TELEMANN

Stefano Grondona: guitar

Tommaso Rossi: recorder

BRITTEN: Nocturnal after John Dowland, Op. 70 • WALTON: Five Bagatelles • BENNETT: Five Impromptus • TAKEMITSU: All in Twilight • Muir Woods

TELEMANN: 12 Fantasies for solo flute

Nocturnal

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12 Fantasies for solo flute

An homage to Julian Bream for his 80th birthday, this CD collects some of the most important 20th-century pieces for guitar performed by Stefano Grondona, who plays three legendary guitars made by Jose Romanillos (one of which belonged to Julian Bream himself).

The 12 fantasias that Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) published in Hamburg in 1732 is a collection with extraordinary importance in the repertory for the solo instrument in the first half of the 18th century.

Columna Música

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Xavier MONTSALVATGE

Emili Brugalla, Raimon Garriga, Katia Mitchell, Alfredo Armero, Carlota Garriga, Dagmar Muñiz, Mac McClure, Marta Zabaleta: pianos

Ala Voronkova: violin/Slema Gokcen: cello/Mac McClure: piano

Complete Works for Piano

Complete Works for violin, cello & piano

MONTSALVATGE: Tres divertimentos • Quatre diàlegs • Sonatine for Yvette • Cinc ocells en llibertat • Tres piezas por la mano izquierda This CD gathers the piano works of Xavier Monsalvatge, providing an excellent reflection of his multiple influences: French impressionism, Russian composers, Antillean music, and jazz.

MONTSALVATGE: Madrigal • Sketch • Duettino • Lullaby • Variations on a theme by Farnaby • Tres Policromias • Sonata Concertante • Microrapsodia • Evocacion • Invencio a la Italiana Born in Girona, Spain, Xavier Montsalvatge (1912–2002) became a major figure in the musical world of Barcelona, where he lived for most of his life. He is one of the most representative figures of what is called the “lost generation” in Spain, who came of age during the Franco regime.

CD: CMO 221 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 32

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Luigi BOCCHERINI

Eduard Fontbona

Artaria String Quartet

Eduard Fontbona: piano

BOCCHERINI: Quartet No. 1, G. 165 • Quartet No. 2, G. 166 • Quartet No. 3, G. 167 • Quartet No. 4, G. 168 • Quartet No. 5, G. 169 • Quartet No. 6, G. 170

CASANOVES: Sonata No. 1 in A major • Sonata No. 5 in F major • Sonata No. 2 in A major • Sonata No. 4 in F major • BRELL: Sonata No. 1 in C major • Sonata No. 2 in C major • Sonata No. 1(II) in F major • Sonata No. 3(II) in C major • GALLÉS: Sonata No. 8 in G minor • Sonata No. 21 in A major • Sonata No. 3 in C minor • Sonata No. 14 in D major

Quartets, Op. 8

12 Catalan Sonatas

This CD contains Luigi Boccherini’s Quartets, Op. 8 dedicated to enrapture the ears and taste of his future protective Infante Don Luis de Borbón. The lavishly expressive slow movements suggest a musical tribute to the well-known melancholy of the Borbons and distinguish the Op. 8 quartets from the compositions that came before them.

The historical trajectory of these sonatas shows us the presence of classical and pre-Romantic styles in Catalonia, with an appreciable output associated with the monastery of Montserrat.

Reference Recordings Kansas City Symphony Michael Stern: conductor VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Wasps • Greensleeves • ELGAR: Enigma Variations “Stern characterizes each variation with great skill … the eloquent cello playing in Variation XII and the superb room-shaking organ in the Finale makes this a performance and recording to relish.” — Graham Williams, Classical CD Choice A new multi-channel SACD hybrid version of this magnificent symphonic recording featuring the Kansas City Symphony conducted by Michael Stern! The disc contains both 5.1 Surround and Stereo SACD layers, as well as a stereo compact disc layer made with the HDCD process for higher fidelity. This colorful, beloved English music was recorded and mastered by RR’s own Grammy®-winning engineer Keith O. Johnson. The Kansas City Symphony garnered tremendous critical acclaim for their first project on Reference Recordings, incidental music for The Tempest by Sullivan and Sibelius, and their second release Britten’s Orchestra received a Grammy® for Best Surround Sound for both engineer and producer.

Edward ELGAR

Engima Variations [SACD Hybrid] CD: REF SACD 1292 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Evil Penguin Records Dietrich Henschel: baritone Boris Berezovsky: piano MAHLER: Wunderhorn Songs Recordings of the Wunderhorn Songs are extremely rare, and even concerts and recordings devoted to Wunderhorn materials are unusual. Mahler translated the clash between the fairytale surface and deeper significance into some of the most exotic, visionary, and uncomfortable music he ever wrote. Acclaimed German baritone Dietrich Henschel presents a rare fusion of the dramatic content and vocal import of these songs, teaming up with Russian piano virtuoso Boris Berezovsky. The unique detail of this new CD is in the fact that Dietrich sings all the songs himself, though they were intended for male and female singers. The album is a special release to mark the future launch of a film project about the War Compromises, titled Wunderhorn.

Gustav MAHLER

Complete Wunderhorn Songs CD: EPR 13 Price Code: R (SRP $17. 99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Louth Contemporary Music Society The Hilliard Ensemble EQ Ensemble Elisaveta Blumina: piano John Feeley, Pavlos Kanellakis: guitars SAY: Black Earth • Princess of Lykia • SHARAFYAN: Ter, vor i mej le-rinn • Tsov Kentsaghuis • KHALIL: Dreams of a Dying City • HOVHANESS: To Hiroshige’s Cat • SURMAN: Mimosa • Leylek Geldi • CLEARY: Chaconne Named CD of the Week on New York’s WNYC Q2! In Search of the Miraculous is the latest release from the Louth Contemporary Music Society, a small, hardworking musical organization that has engaged an enthusiastic new audience with its richly ambitious programming, bringing inspirational musicians such as Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass, and John Zorn to the East Coast of Ireland over the last seven years. From the EQ Ensemble, which brings together some of Ireland’s finest string players, to Russian pianist Elisaveta Blumina and the revered Hilliard Ensemble, this enchanting new album brings together distant musical cousins to reveal their common ground as much to complement each other through contrasts. Among other gems, the album features works by English saxophone player and composer John Surman, Lebanese composer Rabih Abou Khalil’s soaring “Dreams of a Dying City,” and two very different sides of Turkish composer Fazil Say.

The Hilliard Ensemble, et al. In Search of the Miraculous CD: LCM 1301 Price Code: R (SRP $17. 99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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BNL Percussions Clavier de Lyon SATIE: Gymnopédies • Gnossiennes • Airs à faire fuir • Trois véritables préludes flasques pour un chien • Descriptions automatiques • Toutes petites danses pour le piège de la méduse • Croquis et agaceries d’un gros bonhomme en bois • Embryons desséchés • Sports et Divertissements • Cinq grimaces pour le songe d’une nuit d’ete • Sonatine bureaucratique Celebrate the new, the quirky, and the unexpected with Satie’s Sports et Divertissements presented by Percussions Claviers de Lyon! This release features the famous “Gymnopédies” next to rare works such as “Croquis et agaceries d’un gros bonhomme en bois.” Raphaël Aggery’s musical transcriptions offer a reading full of freedom and invention, just like the composer himself.

Erik SATIE

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Querstand

Anton BRUCKNER

Complete Symphonies [Hybrid SACD] CD: QUE SACD 1230 Price Code: 10U (SRP $199. 99) Number of Discs: 9 Box Set, Box Lot 2 d

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Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Herbert Blomstedt: conductor BRUCKNER: Symphonies 1–9 “The completion of Blomstedt’s Bruckner cycle coincided with the conductor’s 85th birthday, and here he is bestowing a gift on us. This is a fine performance … the Gewandhaus Orchestra plays magnificently for him, with lustrous strings and ravishing brass.” — Fanfare This complete Bruckner cycle with Herbert Blomstedt and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra contains some versions that are rarely heard today — for example, the first version of Symphony No. 2 from 1872 edited by William Carragan not before 2005, and the first version of Symphony No. 3 from 1873, which contains numerous Wagner quotes erased in the later versions. PLAYABLE IN ALL CD PLAYERS. For optimal sound, use compatible surround sound system.

Querstand J.S. BACH

Leipzig Edition Vol. 3 Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/St. Thomas Boys Choir Leipzig/Thomaskantor Leipzig/Karl Straube: conductor BACH: excerpts from cantatas BWV 11, BWV 177, BWV 97, BWV 173, BWV 104, and more This third CD in Querstand’s series featuring historical recordings by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra contains recordings from 1931–1939, most published for the first time. The set includes nearly all surviving recordings of the famous Bach Cantata Cycle broadcast by MIRAG, sung by the St. Thomas Boys Choir and performed by the Gewandhaus Orchestra. This is a unique document of Bach performances from the 1930s, packaged in a hardcover book the size of a DVD, with texts in English and German! CD: QUE 1111 Price Code: 2R (SRP $35. 99) Number of Discs: 2 Book+CDs, Box Lot 10 d

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Johann Ludwig KREBS

Complete Works for Organ Vol. 11 Felix Friedrich: organ KREBS: Prelude and Fugue in D major • Sonata in A minor • Four Chorale Preludes • Six Fugues • Six Sonatas Celebrating Johann Ludwig Krebs’ 300th birthday in 2013, Querstand presents the first complete recording of Krebs’ organ compositions! Felix Friedrich plays at the Eule organ in Zeitz Cathedral, which was built after the model of the organ in service there in the 18th century, when Krebs himself was organist (1744–1755). CD: QUE 1123 Price Code: R (SRP $17. 99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

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Opus 4 Trombone Quartet Canticum Sacrum

Opus 4 Trombone Quartet/Denny Wilke: organ MARINI: Canzona GABRIELI: Piano Sonata • Canzon Sol La Sol Fa Mi a 8 • GUSSAGO: Sonata La Leona a 8 • GUAMI: Canzon La Luccesina a 8 • DES PREZ: In te Domine Speravi • SELLE: Domine Exaudi (Motette No. 346) • HASSLER: Intrada • BRAUN: Canzonata • CESARE: La Bavare • J.S. BACH: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 • Air in D major, BWV 1068 • LISZT: Prelude and Fugue on the name BACH • KROL: CANTICUM SAC-RUM, Op. 188

CD: QUE 1301 Price Code: R (SRP $17. 99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Opus 4 in 2013 (with two of the founding members still active), the group presents their fourth album on the Querstand label. The quartet consists of two trombonists from the renowned Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and two freelance trombonists. This CD also features guest musician Denny Wilke, organist at St. Mary’s in Muehlhausen/Thuringia, the town where J.S. Bach worked in 1707 and 1708.

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Hérisson Ensemble Pasticcio Barocco David Walter, Hélène Gueuret: oboe Fany Maselli: bassoon Esther Brayer: bass Mathieu Dupouy: harpsichord Rémi Cassaigne: theorbo ZELENKA: Sonata No. 6 in C minor • Sonata No. 5 in F major • Sonata No. 4 in G minor Jan Dismas Zelenka was born in 1679 in Lounovice in Bohemia. Between 1709 and 1711 (the dates are uncertain), he was engaged as a double bass player in the celebrated Dresden orchestra, one of the best orchestras in Europe at the time. The date of the composition of the Trio Sonatas is usually placed between 1720 and 1722. We do not know who first performed them, but since the Dresden orchestra included some of the best instrumentalists of the time, there is no lack of candidates: oboe players La Riche and Richter, bassoon players Böhme and Cadet, Pisendel or Volumier for the violin part of Sonata III, Weiss on the theorbo perhaps… Above all, one can imagine Zelenka himself playing the violone part, enjoying making music with friends…

Jan Dismas ZELENKA Sonatas in Trio

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Ensemble Nomos Christophe Roy: cello Rohan de Saram: cello Sylvie Drouin: piano Jean-Charles François: percussion Michel Pozmanter: director KAGEL: Motetten • General Bass • Match • Siegfried P. • Unguis incarnatus est • For Us: Happy Birthday to you • Magic Flute “Modernity is 600 years old,” said Kagel; at the heart of his conception of tradition is what Baudelaire called correspondance, or the illumination of the past by the present and vice-versa. Kagel’s development was Promethean, only comparable to that of someone like Stravinsky. One of the reasons for this is his lifelong heightened sensitivity to repetition. We understand Kagel in the same way we understand a foreign language we do not speak fluently. We may know a certain word, but one of its multiple meanings will remain hidden.

Mauricio KAGEL Works for Cello

CD: HRN 6 Price Code: R (SRP $17. 99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Cantus Flavio Ferri-Benedetti & Ensemble II Profondo Passo di pena in pena: Italian Cantatas

Flavio Ferri-Benedetti: countertenor/Ensemble Il Profondo SCARLATTI: Ombre tacite e sole • BONONCINI: Ecco, Dorinda, il giorno • LOCATELLI: Sonata No. 3 in F minor Op. 8, No. 9 • PORPORA: Venticel che tra le frondi • VIVALDI: Amor hai vinto, RV 683

CD: CUS 9636 Price Code: R (SRP $17. 99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 20 d

There are few occasions when a record producer has the great pleasure and honor to present a truly unique artist such as Italian countertenor Flavio Ferri-Benedetti. In his recording debut, we fall in love with his beautiful voice, which is sensual, round, and firm. Flavio is joined in this extraordinary recording by the Ensemble Il Profondo, a group specializing in the interpretation of the basso continuo. They offer a colorful accompaniment: robust, sensitive to every nuance, attentive to detail, and a true a pleasure to the ears. A benchmark in the early music discography!

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Odhecaton

De Passione: Flemish Motets published by Petrucci (Venice, 1503) Odhecaton/Paolo Da Col: director OBRECHT: Parce Domine • COMPÈRE: In nomine Iesu (Officum de Cruce) • DESPREZ: O Domine Iesu Christe (Officium de Passione) • Qui velatus facie fuisti • Miserere mei, Deus • WEERBECKE: Tenebrae factae sunt • ANONYMOUS: O tristu fatale die

CD: CUS 9637 Price Code: R (SRP $17. 99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 20 d

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Odhecaton, the wonderful Italian vocal ensemble directed by Paolo Da Col, is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary vocal ensembles in the world, with plenty of international awards to their credit. Their performances are an exquisite blend of the expressive fervor, the amazing declamation of the text that has become their fingerprint, and their undeniable technical powers. In their first album for Cantus, they offer readings of a breathtaking beauty: a dazzling version of Josquin’s Miserere mei, Deus and an impressive recreation of Compère’s Officium de Cruce are just two examples.

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Delta Classics Markus Schäfer

Songs of the Mozart Era Markus Schäfer: tenor/Christine Schornsheim: piano, harpsichord KRUFFT: Der Papagoy • Lied aus der Ferne (Matthisson) • Erster Verlust • Rastlose Liebe • Der Liebende • Mailied • SALIERI: Der Zufriedene • HUMMEL: Meine Geliebte • MOSCHELES: Frauenwürde • EBERL: Nähe des Geliebten • Glückliche Fahrt • Romanze (Der Fischer) • TOMASCHEK: Lied (Steigentisch) • Molly‘s Werth (Bürger) • Die Ergebung (Bouterwerk) • Cidli (Klopstock) • HUGO VON DALBERG: Würde der Frauen • F.X. MOZART: An Emma • CRELLE: Sehnsucht • KIELMANN: Gruppe aus dem Tartarus CD: DLT 90072 Price Code: R (SRP $17. 99) Number of Discs: 1 O-Card Jewel, Box Lot 22 d

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Tenor Markus Schäfer studied singing and church music with Armand McLane in Karlsruhe and Düsseldorf, and was the prizewinner in Berlin (Federal Singing Competition) and Milan (Caruso Competition). After attending the Opera Studio in Zurich, he held his debut there and received his first engagement. Positions followed as an ensemble member of Hamburg State Opera, and at the German Opera on the Rhine in Düsseldorf. The lyrical tenor has acquired an excellent reputation, especially in opera roles by Mozart, as an evangelist in Johann Sebastian Bach’s Passions, and in the great oratorios of the 19th century.

Editions Hortus Pavel Kohout

Prague in the Baroque Age Pavel Kohout: Hans Heinrich Mundt organ (1673) SEGER: Prelude and fugue in C major • Fantasy and fugue in D minor • Prelude and fugue in C minor • Toccata and fugue in D minor • Fugue in B minor • Toccata and fugue pastorale • FISCHER: Aria • KERL: Canzone III in D minor • Passacaille in D minor • MUFFAT: Aria sub ˇ elevatione • KOPRIVA: Fugue in D minor supra congnomen DEBEFFE

CD: HOR 953 Price Code: R (SRP $17. 99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

From Prague’s historic Mundt organ, Pavel Kohout brings forth a superb anthology of pieces by Bohemian composers such as Josef Seger, one of the organ’s first titulars. The Mundt organ is considered to be the most important historical organ of this kind in Bohemia. It is unique not only from the point of view of its exceptionally high value and refined sound, but also as an object of art due to the fact that it has survived almost in its original state.

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Richard WAGNER Return from Bayreuth

Loïc Mallié: Cavaillé Coll organ in La Madeleine Church (Paris) Eleven organ improvisations on themes by Richard Wagner A veritable gold mine, the Wagnerian leitmotifs inspire Loïc Mallié’s free improvisations; a surprising meeting between the worlds of theatre and organ! Mallié is a regular guest of various festivals as a jury member, clinician, or recitalist. He has also composed numerous pieces for organ, piano, chamber ensemble, orchestra, and choir. In addition, he has made a number of records, mostly devoted to 20th-century music and improvisation. CD: HOR 917 Price Code: R (SRP $17. 99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

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Sir Edward ELGAR

A Land of Hope and Glory Jean-Luc Étienne: organ A collection of organ pieces composed by Sir Edward Elgar

CD: HOR 103 Price Code: R (SRP $17. 99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

Few are aware that Sir Edward Elgar was an organist in his youth, and that he composed two major pieces for his instrument: the refined Vesper Voluntaries and a large, lyrical Sonata for Organ in G major, which is on a par with the great works of the repertoire flourishing in France and Germany at the approach of the 20th century. Aware of the richness of organ music from its very beginnings, Jean-Luc Étienne takes on a broad repertoire, manifesting a particular interest in Baroque music, especially that written in 17th-century France and Italy.

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LAWO Classics Eli Kristin Hanssveen

Sempre Libera: Opera arias Eli Kristin Hanssveen: soprano/The Opera Orchestra

CD: LAW 1041 Price Code: R (SRP $17. 99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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VERDI: La Traviata: È strano • Ah, fors’è lui • Sempre libera • PUCCINI: La Rondine: Ch’il bel sogno di Doretta • Manon Lescaut: Je suis encore tout étourdie • Intermezzo • Gianni Schicchi: O mio babbino caro • DONIZETTI: La Fille du Régiment: C’en est donc fait • Par le rang et par l’opulence • Salut à la France! • Lucia di Lammermoor: Regnava nel silenzio • Quando rapito in estasi • RAVEL: L’Enfant et les Sortilèges: Arrière! Je réchauffe les bons • W.A. MOZART: Zaïde: Ruhe sanft mein holdes Leben • Die Zauberflöte: Der Hölle Rache • STRAUSS: Die schweigsame Frau: Sento un certo non so che • CHARPENTIER: Louise: Depuis le jour An intense debut by Norway’s new opera diva! Soprano Eli Kristin Hanssveen’s spectacular voice has been the catalyst for a steadily rising career, and she is known for her unique charisma and acting talent. With Sempre libera, her first solo recording as an opera singer, Eli Kristin wishes to communicate something of the same intensity and spontaneity that the audience experiences during a performance. The program introduces listeners to a number of strong female characters through a varied and discriminating selection of arias from some of music history’s most exciting operas.

Elisabeth Holmertz

Sounds, Sweet Airs and the Art of Longing Elisabeth Holmertz: soprano/Fredrik Bock: theorbo, Baroque guitar/Poul Høxbro: low whistle VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Orpheus with his lute • Let beauty awake • Take, o take • The sky above the roof • VAUGHAN WILLIAMS/PURCELL: A clear midnight/Evening hymn • LAWES: Bid me but live • Sweet stay awhile • Slide soft you silver floods • Wert thou yet fairer than thou art • Transcendent beauty • TORGET: Divine • Oh, dream where art thou now • Diving • Lullaby • LANIER: No more shall meads be deck’d with flow’rs/Love’s constancy • Weep no more • CORBETTA: Prelude • TAYLOR: Tell me not that I die or live by thee • DOWLAND: Mr. Dowland’s Midnight CD: LAW 1042 Price Code: R (SRP $17. 99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

Holmertz and Bock are a soprano-lute duo that prefers taking the less-trodden path. On their previous CD, they created their own musical universe of pop and baroque. On this album they continue their quest, joined by virtuoso Danish musician Poul Høxbro on low whistle.

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L’Encelade Tomaso ALBINONI Sonatas for Violin

Guillaume Rebinguet-Sudre: violin/Claire Gratton: cello/Jean-Luc Ho: harpsichord ALBINONI: Sonatas Op. 6: II, VI, X • Sonata VI (1717) • Sonata “Per il Signore Pisendel”

CD: LDL 1102 Price Code: R (SRP $17. 99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

The latest release from L’Encelade features a selection of sonatas for violin and basso continuo by Tomaso Albinoni (1671–1751), who was a rather unusual character. He produced highly refined works using a finely-honed structural architecture and an outpouring of melody lines that are seductive, fluid, and unpredictable, making them a wonderful musical representation of early 18th-century Venice.

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Louth Contemporary Music Society Celli Monighetti Octet YANOV-YANOVSKY: Viderunt Omnes (premiere) • ALI-ZADEH: Shyshtar Metamorphoses (premiere) • GUBAIDULINA: On the Edge of the Abyss • Mirage: The Dancing Sun (premiere) • KNAIFEL: O, Comforter (premiere) This disc from cellist Ivan Monighetti and his group Celli Monighetti features new pieces for cello octet by four composers from the former Soviet bloc: Sofia Gubaidulina, originally from the Tatar Republic; Russian Alexander Knaifel; Uzbekistani Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky; and Franghiz Ali-Zadeh from Azerbaijan. The cello octet Celli Monighetti was founded by the Russian cellist in 2002 from his current and former students at Basle Academy of Music. All the members of Celli Monighetti are prizewinners of international competitions. The group has performed at international festivals such as Schleswig Holstein in Germany, Viva Cello in Switzerland, Madrid Festival in Spain, and the Viana de Castello Destival in Portugal. Collaborating with great living composers such as Gubaidulina, Knaifel, and Yanov-Yanovsky is an essential part of Celli Monighetti’s vision, and an endless source of inspiration.

Celli Monighetti Metamorphoses

CD: LCM 1202 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 Includes world premieres

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Phaedra Jan Guns: bass clarinet Rita Rommes: vibraphone, marimba I Solisti del Vento Moscow Chamber Soloists String Quartet Emanon Ensemble CRAENS: Interlude to the Sea (1994) • Mystery (1995) • Experience (1992) • Oase (1998) • Three Summer Pieces (2008) It is impossible to describe Alain Craens’ music in one word: it can be tonal at times, atonal or free tonal at others. It often exhibits characteristics of impressionism, minimalism, or jazz. Sometimes it suggests certain tones or tonal centers, but above all it wants to be accessible. After the era of complex modernism, in which experiment occupied a central place, Craens believes that returning to a normal relationship with the audience is essential. Music may again be “just beautiful,” without ulterior motives. In this way, the composer strives to build bridges between his own individual expression, and his audience.

Alain CRAENS

A Portrait of the Composer CD: PHA 92078 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Editions Hortus Jean-Baptiste Dupont: organ REGER: Fantasy and Fugue in C minor, Op. 29 • Zwölf Stücke, Op. 59 “Jean-Baptiste Dupont is one of today’s rare organists who can maintain his inspiration right to the end.” — Diapason (review for Vol. 1) “A complete rendition with an original, proper tone which may well figure amongst the greatest.” — Classica (review for Vol. 1) Max Reger is one of the major composers of the German organ school. He is greatly appreciated by Anglo-Saxon organists, but his music has been long looked down on by French organists. Now, Jean-Baptiste Dupont gives us a taste of Reger’s music with this second volume of the composer’s complete organ works. The goals of the project are twofold: on the one hand, to fill a certain discographic insufficiency; on the other hand, to attract the attention of organists and music lovers to this music by the originality of the undertaking.

Max REGER

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REGER The Complete Organ Works Vol. 1 CD: HOR 8687 Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) Number of Discs: 2

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Les Lunes du Cousin Jacque Aurore Bucher: soprano Annabelle Brey: cello Diego Salamanca: theorbo Frédéric Hernandez: harpsichord Benoît Toïgo: flute, director HANDEL: Sonata in C major for flute and continuo, HWV 365 • “Non possi dir di più” Italian aria (premiere) • Adagio in F major “concertised” (from the Great suite in F major, HWV 427) • Sonata in A minor for flute and continuo, HWV 369 • “Nel dolce dell’oblio” cantata for soprano, flute and continuo, HWV 134 • Sonata in B-flat major for flute and continuo, HWV 377 • “Son d’Egitto” Italian aria (premiere) • Sonata in D minor for flute and continuo, HWV 367 Outstandingly attuned to human passions, Handel possessed uncanny skill in musically portraying the psychology of complex characters, revealing a humanity teetering between inner strife and public outpourings. Les Lunes du Cousin Jacques, for their first disc, bring together two unpublished Italian arias — “Son d’Egitto” and “Non posso dir di più” — with four sonatas for flute and continuo and “Nel dolce dell’oblio,” the master’s sole cantata for soprano, flute, and continuo.

George Frideric HANDEL

Théâtre Intime: Cantatas and Sonatas CD: HOR 101 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 Includes world premieres

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Editions Hortus François Marchal: bagpipes Rouen Conservatory Symphonic Orchestra Claude Brendel: conductor CHAMOUARD: Symphony No. 8 • Poème du Vent Born in Paris in 1952, Philippe Chamouard has always tried to separate himself from all influences and schools. This is why, in 1987, he decided to destroy all of his earlier compositions! This new recording features the composer’s Eighth Symphony, a panoramic work with infinite landscapes. In the third movement a bagpipe rings out to the tune of “Amazing Grace,” played beautifully by soloist François Marchal. Similarly, the Poème du Vent (“Poem of the Wind”) invites a naturalistic meditation. These works are presented by the Rouen Conservatory Symphonic Orchestra, conducted by the eminent Claude Brendel.

Philippe CHAMOUARD Symphony No. 8

CD: HOR 548 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Jean-François Vaucher: organ ˇ DVORÁK: New World Symphony No. 9 in E minor, trans. for organ • LISZT: Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude, trans. for organ The best known of the great romantic symphonies of the late 19th century, played on a prestigious, historic organ with inimitable orchestral colors! Born in Bern, Jean-François Vaucher began studying piano with François Riat; he pursued work in this instrument on the shores of the Léman with private instruction from the Swedish pianist Inger Wikström, who had been fortunate to receive counsel from the great Arthur Rubinstein. His repertory extends from early music to the music of the 20th century, and has been at the heart of various recordings for radio as well as for record.

ˇ Anton DVORÁK

New World Symphony No. 9 CD: HOR 102 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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LAWO Classics Rune Alver: piano RIVERTZ: Tre Folkeviser, Op. 3 • Nordlansk Folkevise • Vals til Annemor • Jappusdanser, Op. 1 • Vuggesang til Jappus • Spill og Dans, Op. 2 Rescued from obscurity — the collected piano music of Johannes M. Rivertz! Johannes Midelfart Rivertz (1908–1988) is a very special composer in the history of Norwegian classical music. His style is markedly personal, but like many of his colleagues of the same generation, his music was destined for obscurity. Thanks to pianist Rune Alver’s interest and efforts, Rivertz’s original piano compositions are once again beginning to receive attention. The pieces are often found in his concert program, and here for the first time ever we have a complete recording of the composer’s collected piano works! Rune Alver made his debut as pianist at the age of 20. He was born in Bergen and educated at Bergen Music Conservatory and the Norwegian Academy of Music, where he received his diploma in 1986. Alver is active as soloist and chamber musician and maintains a rigorous concert schedule, with recent performances in Germany, France, Russia, China, and South Africa.

Johannes M. RIVERTZ Spill og Dans: Piano Music CD: LAW 1043 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Ensemble Allegria GRIEG: Holberg Suite, Op. 40 • KVANDAL: Sonata for Strings, Op. 79 • GRÜNER-HEGGE: Elegiac Melody for Strings • NYSTEDT: Concerto Arctandrie for Strings, Op. 128 The sparkling debut of a young Norwegian orchestra! “Allegria” is Italian for “merriment,” and indeed it was the pleasure of playing together that led a group of music students to launch the Ensemble Allegria in 2007. For its rapid and resolute development over the past five years, Ensemble Allegria was awarded the 2012 Statoil Talent Award for Classical Music. The group has been managed independently by its own members since its founding, and the Norwegian Academy of Music has played a significant supportive role. Its permanent concertmaster and artistic director is Maria Angelika Carlsen. The ensemble is celebrating its fifth anniversary with the release of its debut album, a recording that pays tribute to 19th- and 20th-century Norwegian composers from Edvard Grieg to Knut Nystedt.

Ensemble Allegria

Norwegian String Music CD: LAW 1044 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Royal Flemish Philharmonic Royal Flemish Philharmonic Edo de Waart: conductor ˇ DVORÁK: Symphony No. 8 • American String Quartet (arr. for Wind Quintet by David Walter) When Dvoˇrák premiered his Eighth Symphony in 1890 in Prague, the audience witnessed one of the most beautiful symphonies from the high romantic era. This generous and brilliant symphony is not only a truly melodic composition, but also an original contribution to the symphonic repertoire. Also on this CD is an adaptation of Dvoˇrák’s famous American string quartet for woodwinds, recorded by the Royal Flemish Philharmonic Wind Quintet. A modern and stylistically flexible symphony orchestra, the Royal Flemish Philharmonic demonstrates an artistic flair that allows for a variety of styles, from classical to contemporary, in a historically authentic manner. Chief Conductor Edo de Waart is responsible for the orchestra’s main repertoire. Drawing on his vast orchestral experience, as former Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (among others), he contributes to the unique character of the Royal Flemish Philharmonic. He works in close cooperation with Principal Conductor Philippe Herreweghe; Martyn Brabbins is Principal Guest Conductor.

ˇ Anton DVORÁK Symphony No. 8

CD: RFP 5 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Royal Flemish Philharmonic Martyn Brabbins: conductor SAMUEL: Symphony No. 6 • JONGEN: Three Symphonic Movements The second CD in the Belgian Boutique series combines works by two composers from the south of Belgium. First there is the mystical, Wagnerian Sixth Symphony by Jewish composer Adolphe Samuel, in which he presents the story of the Creation. Then there is Joseph Jongen’s last orchestral piece, the neo-impressionist Three Symphonic Movements. A modern and stylistically flexible symphony orchestra, the Royal Flemish Philharmonic demonstrates an artistic flair that allows for a variety of styles, from classical to contemporary, in a historically authentic manner. Chief Conductor Edo de Waart is responsible for the orchestra’s main repertoire. Drawing on his vast orchestral experience, as former Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (among others), he contributes to the unique character of the Royal Flemish Philharmonic. He works in close cooperation with Principal Conductor Philippe Herreweghe; Martyn Brabbins is Principal Guest Conductor.

Adolphe SAMUEL Symphony No. 6

CD: RFP 6 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Delta Classics David Frühwirth: violin Milana Chernyavska: piano SHOSTAKOVICH: Romance from the music to the film “The Gadfly,” trans. Fraser • Eight concert pieces from ballets by Dmitri Shostakovich: The Golden Age, The Bolt, The Limpid Stream, trans. Feighin • Reminiscence on Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, trans. Feighin • Eight Album Pieces: Romance from “The Limpid Stream,” Barrel Organ, The Wound-Up Doll, Small March, Dance Scherzando, Elegy from “La comédie humaine,” Spring Waltz from Michurin, Romance from the music to the film “The Gadfly,” trans. Fortunatov However rewardingly Dmitri Shostakovich endowed pianists with chamber music, Russian violinists felt somewhat neglected by their giant with his only late Sonata, Op. 134 of 1968. So, it seemed obvious to compose arrangements of works for violin and piano. Some of these have established themselves in concert life, but others, although of no lesser quality, have remained largely unknown. David Frühwirth started his training at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Paul Roczek, Jürgen Geise, and Rugiero Ricci. He continued his studies in Lübeck with renowned pedagogue Zakhar Bron, where he graduated at 20 years old before Pinchas Zukerman invited him to New York to work on additional postgraduate diplomas. His partner on this disc, Ukrainian pianist Milana Chernyavska, has established herself as one of the leading pianists of our time. The legendary Alfred Brendel once commented, “Complete happiness is to listen to Milana Chernyavska perform.”

Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH Transcriptions

CD: DLT 90076 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 O-Card Jewel, Box Lot 22 d

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Paraty Marie Vermeulin: piano MESSIAEN: Eight Préludes • Vingt Regards • Esquisses d’oiseaux Olivier Messiaen contributed veritable monuments to the piano literature, and it is not for nothing that so many young pianists dedicate themselves to these works today. In December 2007 Marie Vermeulin won a magnificent Second Prize at the Olivier Messiaen Competition, following her brilliant studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Lyon and further studies with Lazar Berman. However, this was only the first step in her journey to explore all of the challenges of Messiaen’s work, in which Roger Muraro, the preeminent proponent of Messiaen’s works, has encouraged her.

Olivier MESSIAEN

Preludes, Regards & Esquisses CD: PTY 612118 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Hérisson Jean-Pierre DROUET Vie de Famille

Ensemble ALEPH/Monica Jordan: voice/Dominique Clement: clarinet/Christophe Roy: cello/Sylvie Drouin: accordion, synthesizer/Françoise Matringe: piano/Jean-Charles François: percussion DROUET: Charmes (tradition Romanian text) • Labe • Therese • Solo for voice • Lieux • Solo for clarinet • Heureux • Overture • En Plein Vide • These

CD: HRN 7 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

Vie de Famille presents a series of snapshots in sound, inspired by behavior that seems familiar and at first sight, harmless. But suddenly, there are moments of madness; virtuoso explosions of a sort. The composer unrolls his story like a string of beads; thanks to his complete control of the trajectory, he leads us as though hypnotized into the hidden recesses of this composite and paradoxical work.

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Joseph HAYDN

Last Sonatas and Variations Mathieu Dupouy: fortepiano HAYDN: Sonata in C major, Hob. XVI: 50 • Sonata in E flat major, Hob. XVI: 52 • Sonata in D major, Hob. XVI: 51 • Variations in F minor, Hob. XVII: 6 • Variations on the hymn “God Save Emperor Francis,” Hob. XVII: Anhang

CD: HRN 8 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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When Joseph Haydn arrived in London on January 2, 1791 at the age of 58, it was as a composer at the height of his powers who had already left an indelible mark on the piano sonata, string quartet, and symphonic genres. Once liberated by the death of his employer Prince Esterházy, he left for England almost immediately. He knew his stay could bring him international fame, and to achieve this he wrote with incredible frenzy, producing his final masterpieces in genres to which he would not return: symphonies, trios with piano, and the three London sonatas played here. Mathieu Dupouy plays an original fortepiano by Jakob Weimes (Prague, 1807).

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Disc Auvers Sergei RACHMANINOV

Etudes-Tableaux Op. 33 & Op. 39 Sanja Bizjak: piano RACHMANINOV: Etudes-Tableaux Op. 33 & Op. 39 On this disc, Disc Auvers’ new discovery Sanja Bizjak’s choice to record Rachmaninov’s Etudes-Tableaux reveals her great artistic qualities: intelligence of the line, the art of phrasing, beautiful sound, great technical knowledge, and a subtle and colorful touch! CD: DAV 11 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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