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OCTOBER 2014 Release Date: October 14, 2014 A division of Allegro Media Group

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TABLE OF CONTENTS ABC Classics 20–21 Alison Smith Music 34 Ancalagon 12–13 AVIE Records 9–10 BGS Records 34 BMC Records 35 Cameo Classics 28–29 Cantus 37 CAvi-music 24–25 Challenge Classics 15 Cobra 37 Cold Blue Music 30 Discovery Music & Vision 33 Eudora Records 14 Evil Penguin Records 7–8 Hallé 3–4

KAIROS LAWO Classic Lindoro LML Music Lyrita Nimbus Piano Querstand Reference Recordings Regent Records Sheva Collection Silverdoor SOMM Recordings Stone Records Stradivarius Summit Records

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EUDORA RECORDS

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Based in Madrid, Eudora Records is a Spanish label whose aim is to capture the finest performances in the best possible sound quality. Releasing only a small number of very carefully selected recordings each year, they ensure highest standards in terms of sound quality, musicology, and design. They record their world-class artists’ performances as naturally and accurately as possible, in venues with spacious acoustics that help create transparent, precise, and beautiful renditions captured to perfection using the best audio technology. Eudora Records comes to Allegro Classical via Launch Music International Ltd.

ABC CLASSICS

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ABC Classics is the classical music label of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Established in 1987, the label has released over 450 titles and champions the music of Australian composers and artists. The label receives wide international acclaim, and in Australia has won the ARIA Award for “Best Classical Album” on 23 occasions. ABC Classics has relationships with all six Australian symphony orchestras, and over the past 25 years has recorded with leading international artists including Emma Matthews, Yvonne Kenny, Joan Sutherland, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, violinist Richard Tognetti, guitarists Slava Grigoryan and Karin Schaupp, and conductors Sir Charles Mackerras, Richard Bonynge, and Zubin Mehta. ABC Classics comes to Allegro Classical via New Arts International.

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REGENT RECORDS

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Regent is a recording company started in 1988 by Gary Cole, who obtained music degrees and awards from the Royal College of Music and Cambridge University, where he held an Organ Scholarship. The label has produced over 500 CD recordings — many award-winning — for many major companies, as well as releasing their own label and programs for BBC Radio Three. They have produced for many well-known choirs, ensembles, and solo artists. Regent Records comes to Allegro Classical via Launch Music International Ltd.

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Hallé

Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 7 “Leningrad”

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CD: HLE 7537 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Hallé Orchestra Sir Mark Elder: director SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 7 “Leningrad” Following unparalleled success with recordings for orchestra and choir, including awards in recent years from both Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine, the Hallé and Sir Mark Elder present the timely release of a stunning live recording of one of the most iconic works of the symphonic repertoire.

BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE RECORDING OF THE YEAR

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GRAMOPHONE CLASSICAL MUSIC AWARD: BEST CHORAL RECORDING

Hallé

Hallé Orchestra

Hallé Tradition Box Set CD: HLE 8004 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 4 Box Set, Box Lot 6 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Hallé Orchestra Sir Hamilton Harty: conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent: conductor Leslie Heward: conductor ˇ DVORÁK: Carnival Overture • Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 • Nocturne in B major, Op. 40 • BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances 5 & 6 • ELGAR: Enigma Variations • Dream Children • The Dream of Gerontius • The Apostles (excerpt) • Salut d’amour, Op. 12 • BRUCH: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 • MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90 • Hebrides Overture, Op. 26 • SCHUBERT: Concerto in A minor • Rosamunde D. 797 • Overture to Rosamunde These recordings offer a fascinating insight into the playing of the Hallé before and during the Second World War, primarily with its Principal Conductor, Hamilton Harty. Harty’s recorded legacy with the Hallé stretches from early acoustic recordings made in 1920, through when he left Manchester in 1933. The Orchestra did not record again until 1941. It is important to remember the circumstances under which these recordings were made; works needed to be divided up into four to five minute sections, and tempos often reflect this fact. There were no “second chances,” no edits, and no opportunity to hear a finished take without destroying it!

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Lyrita

Various Artists

British Piano Concertos BUZZ ALERT

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Malcolm Binns, Peter Katin, Howard Shelley: piano Peter Wallfisch, John Ogdon, Eric Parkin: piano Piers Lane, John McCabe, David Wilde: piano Philip Fowke, Malcolm Williamson: piano STANFORD: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor • FINZI: Eclogue for piano & string orchestra • FOULDS: Dynamic Triptych for piano & orchestra • BRIDGE: Phantasm • VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Piano Concerto in C • RAWSTHORNE: Piano Concerto No. 1 • SCOTT: Early One Morning • IRELAND: Legend for piano & orchestra • BUSCH: Piano Concerto • MOERAN: Rhapsody in F sharp for piano & orchestra • BERKELEY: Piano Concerto in B flat • HODDINOTT: Piano Concerto No. 1 • WILLIAMSON: Piano Concerto No. 3 in E flat “It is like coming across long-buried treasure, and represents perhaps the finest exhibition our music has ever had.”

— The Telegraph Following the success of the Lyrita 50th Anniversary sets, the label is proud to present this new four-CD compilation box set collecting British piano concertos from the Lyrita catalog!

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Lyrita

Various Artists

British String Concertos BUZZ ALERT

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Alexander Baillie, Raphael Wallfisch, Rohan de Saram, Moray Welsh: cello Lorraine McAslan, Rodney Friend, Yfrah Neaman: violin Violin John Georgiadis, Manoug Parikan, Erich Gruenberg: violin Emmanuel Hurwitz & Kenneth Sillito: violin Cecil Aronowitz: viola COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Violin Concerto in G minor • HOLST: Invocation Op. 19, No. 2 for cello & orchestra • Double Concerto for two violins & orchestra • Lyric Movement for viola & small orchestra • FINZI: Introit for small orchestra & solo violin • BUSCH: Cello Concerto • MOERAN: Concerto for violin and orchestra • RUBBRA: Soliloquy for cello and orchestra • GERHARD: Violin Concerto • FRICKER: Concerto for violin & small orchestra • MACONCHY: Serenata Concertante for violin & orchestra • MORGAN: Concerto for violin & orchestra • BANKS: Concerto for violin & orchestra • HODDINOTT: Nocturnes and Cadenzas for cello & orchestra “It is like coming across long-buried treasure, and represents perhaps the finest exhibition our music has ever had.”

— The Telegraph Following the success of the Lyrita 50th Anniversary sets, the label is proud to present this new four-CD compilation box set collecting British string concertos from the Lyrita catalog!

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Evil Penguin Records

Gabriel FAURÉ Requiem

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Flemish Radio Choir Brussels Philharmonic Soloists Hervé Niquet: conductor FAURÉ: Messe de Requiem, Op. 48 • GOUNOD: Ave Verum • The Seven Last Words of Christ In a new series comprised of five CDs, acclaimed conductor Hervé Niquet leads the Flemish Radio Choir in new recordings of iconic Requiems. This first release in the series features the well-known Messe de Requiem by Gabriel Fauré (1888), recorded in the original chamber version with soloists of the Brussels Philharmonic. The disc also features two rarely recorded works of Charles Gounod.

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Avie Records

The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford Courts of Heaven: Music from the Eton Choirbook Vol. 3 CD: AVR 2314 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford HAMPTON: Salve regina • TURGES: Gaude flore virginali • FAWKNER: Gaude virgo salutata • BROWNE: O mater venerabilis • WILKINSON: Salve regina “A disc to send the spirits soaring. Glorious beyond words.” — Gramophone, Best of 2009 (AVR 2167) This collection of music from the Eton Choirbook, the vast collection of English sacred music from the early Renaissance, is the third in an acclaimed series by Stephen Darlington and the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. A thrilling encounter with the remarkable world of the liturgy of Eton College Chapel in the late 15th century!

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E-blast to Avie mailing list (c.5,000) PREVIOUSLY available Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford More Divine Than Human CD: AVR 2167 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 d

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Avie Records

Ensemble Epomeo

Works by Penderecki, Kurtág, Schnittke & Weinberg CD: AVR 2315 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Ensemble Epomeo Diane Pascal: violin David Yang: viola Kenneth Woods: cello PENDERECKI: String Trio • KURTÁG: signs, games, and messages • SCHNITTKE: String Trio • WEINBERG: String Trio “Ensemble Epomeo play all four compositions with huge commitment and brilliant flair, revealing every nuance in four wonderful works for string trio. These can sit alongside anything written in this genre.” — MusicWeb International Following their critically acclaimed debut recording of the complete string trios of Hans Gál and Hans Krása, which garnered a Gramophone Editor’s Choice, Ensemble Epomeo turns to music by Eastern European and Russian composers written in the latter half of the 20th century. Each work bears a distinct personal compositional stamp, providing for captivating listening and enlightening contrasts: the Polish Penderecki’s dramatic and lyrical String Trio of 1990–91, the Russian compositional giant Schnittke’s String Trio of 1985, the haunting Trio of the increasingly recognized and respected Weinberg from 1950, and the ever-enigmatic Hungarian Kurtág, whose continuously evolving signs, games, and messages represent a collection of highly individual miniatures.

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Reference Recordings

Joel Fan

Dances for Piano and Orchestra CD: REF 134 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Joel Fan: piano Northwest Sinfonietta Christophe Chagnard: conductor PIERNE: Fantaisie-Ballet, Op. 6 • HERRERA: Vals Capricho, Op. 1 • CHOPIN: Krakowiak in F major, Op. 14 • SAINT-SAËNS: Valse-Caprice in A flat major • WEBER/LISZT: Polonaise Brillante, Op. 72 • GOTTSCHALK/KAY: Grand Tarantelle, Op. 67 • CADMAN: Dark Dancers of the Mardi Gras “Fan is just marvelous … A well-curated, excellently engineered program of this caliber warrants our highest recommendation.”

— ClassicsToday.com Joel Fan’s third release for Reference Recordings, this time with orchestra! Mr. Fan scored two consecutive Billboard Top 10s with his solo CDs, World Keys and West of the Sun, so expect great things from this one!

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Joel Fan West of the Sun CD: REF 119 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 d

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Franz SCHUBERT

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Allegro Classical Welcomes Eudora Records

Fernando SOR

Guitar Sonatas [Hybrid SACD] CD: LNH EUD 1401 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Ricardo Gallén: guitar SOR: Grande Sonata, Op. 25 • Sonata, Op. 15 • Grand Solo, Op. 14 • Grande Sonata, Op. 22 “This is very good music, and it’s extremely well played by Gallén … the music has substance as well as plenty of virtuoso passage work, and the result is thoroughly enjoyable.” — ClassicsToday.com “Ricardo Gallén literally embraces these Sonatas in a musical flow of extreme sensibility, offering rare and precious nuances … this SACD is a small miracle many will hold on to jealously.” — OpusHD.net “This SACD’s stunning sound … makes it the best recorded one with Fernando Sor’s music.” — Ritmo The inaugural release on the new Eudora Records label features the award-winning guitarist Ricardo Gallén, playing Fernando Sor’s complete guitar sonatas on a period instrument. Sor’s guitar sonatas rank among the most important compositions in the guitar repertoire; Ricardo has received over 20 international prizes, including the prestigious Francisco Tárrega International Competition and the Markneukirchen International Instrumental Competition, and has played under the baton of Monica Huggett, Jordi Savall, and Leo Brouwer, among others. He has previously recorded five CDs for Naxos, and his first recording was among Naxos’ 50 top-selling records for 2001, receiving sensational reviews in the specialized press.

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Challenge Classics

Richard STRAUSS & Edgar VARÈSE Ein Heldenleben & Amériques CD: CHR 72644 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 O-Card Jewel, Box Lot 22 d

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Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin Ingo Metzmacher: conductor STRAUSS: Ein Heldenleben • VARÈSE: Amériques An exciting and unique coupling of two orchestral masterpieces by two composers at the beginning of the 20th century! Both works are recorded here in their unusual, original versions. Innovative programs and a passionate commitment to the music of the 20th century have been Ingo Metzmacher’s trademark since the beginning of his career. For more than 67 years the DSO Berlin has distinguished itself as one of Germany’s leading orchestras. The number of renowned music directors, the scope and variety of its work, and its particular emphasis on modern and contemporary music makes the ensemble unique. Founded as the RIAS Symphony Orchestra in 1946, it was renamed the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin in 1956 and has borne its current name since 1993.

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Sheva Collection

Arvo PÄRT

L’Abbé Agathon CD+DVD: SCV 36 Price Code: 2Q (SRP $31.99) Number of Discs: 2 Amaray, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Anna Maria Chiuri: mezzo-soprano Bologna Cello Project Orchestra da Camera delle Marche Roberto Molinelli: conductor PÄRT: L’Abbé Agathon (premiere) • SAINT-SAËNS: Oratorio de Nöel, Op. 12 DVD Specs: NTSC, Region 0, 16:9 (Widescreen), Color, English (Stereo), Not Rated, Run Time: 52 min.

Sheva Collection presents the world premiere recording of Arvo Pärt’s cantata “L’Abbé Agathon,” scored for a soprano and eight cellos, written in 2004. The original score bears the dedication “pour Barbara Hendricks et l’Octuor de Violoncellos de Beauvais.” The protagonist of the narration is the Abbé Agathon, one of the “desert fathers,” a congregation of hermits living around the 4th century A.D. noted for their solitary lives and inspired by the teachings of the Gospel. They left numerous writings as a testimony of their ascetic conduct for later generations. Among these teachings is the legend of Agathon meeting the leper, from which Pärt took his text for this Cantata. The full libretto of the Cantata is included in the booklet.

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Sheva Collection Elisabetta Paglia

My Heart is Like a Singing Bird: Song settings of poetry by Christina Rossetti Elisabetta Paglia: mezzo-soprano/Christopher Howell: piano/Elena Lunghi: horn

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PARRY: My heart is like a singing bird • Brown and Furry • The Wind has such a Rainy Sound • The Peacock • COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Oh what comes over the sea • When I am dead, my dearest • Oh, Roses for the flush of youth • She sat and sang alway • Unmindful of the Roses • Too late for love • A Lament • MACKENZIE: The First Spring Day • When I am dead • A Birthday • COWEN: For a Dream’s Sake • Bird Raptures • Somewhere • A Birthday • STANFORD: The summer nights are short • Ferry me across the water • The Horses of the Sea • HOWELL: In the bleak mid-winter • PEEL: Ferry me across the water • SHAW: Over the Sea • Easter Carol • SCOTT: Looking Back • Lullaby • A Birthday Christina Rossetti has often been seen as a “children’s poet.” Her poems for children, some of which are set here, have stood the test of time. The perfect lyricist, her brief poems each explore a single mood. The composers can therefore dedicate themselves to giving the fullest expression to a single poetic idea, all beautifully captured here.

Peter SEABOURNE

Steps Volume 4: Libro Di Canti Italiano Fabio Menchetti: piano SEABOURNE: Steps Volume 4: Libro di Canti Italiano Sheva Collection presents the latest recording in the critically acclaimed “Steps” piano series written by British composer Peter Seabourne. Volume four in this large-scale piano cycle sees pieces inspired by facets of Italian culture and character. The outstanding young Italian piano virtuoso Fabio Menchetti records his second album here for the label.

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W.A. MOZART & Antonio SALIERI Piano Concertos

William Grant Naboré: piano/Brixi Chamber Orchestra of Prague/Christoph Meister: conductor W.A. MOZART: Piano Concerto in E flat, K.482 “Queen” • SALIERI: Piano Concerto in C major

CD: SCV 107 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

Mozart’s well-known Piano Concerto K.482 is coupled here with the more unfamiliar Salieri Concerto written in 1773. Although Salieri is essentially known as an opera composer, he did write some fine instrumental and orchestral works. In fact, his only two piano concerti were both written in the same year and dedicated to a “signora nobile” of Vienna (probably an excellent amateur pianist). These concerti were neither intended nor prepared for publication. William Grant Naboré has prepared this beautiful performing edition, and plays Bruno Pietri’s Mozart cadenzas.

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LML Music

Brian Asawa & Diana Tash Spirits of the Air

CD: LML 281 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Brian Asawa: countertenor Diana Tash: mezzo-soprano Arthur Omura: harpsichord Frédéric Rosselet: cello HANDEL: Conservate, raddoppiate, HWV 185 • Oh, worse than death…Angels ever bright and fair from Theodora, HWV 68 • Se tu non lasciamore mio cor ti pentirai, HWV 193 • Cara Speme from Giulio Cesare, HWV 17 • PURCELL: My dearest, my fairest from Pausanias, the Betrayer of his Country Z 585 • No, no resistance is but vain from Maid’s Last Prayer, Z 601/2 • We the spirits of the air from The Indian Queen, Z 630 • Sound the trumpet: from Come ye Sons of Art, Z 323 • SCARLATTI: Son tutta duolo from La donna ancora è fedele • Se tu della mia morte • Gia il sole dal Gange from L’honestà negli amori • MONTEVERDI: Maledetto sia l’aspetta from Scherzi musicali SV246 • Io che armato sin hor from Scherzi musicali SV249/2 • Quel sguardo sdegno setto from Scherzi musicali SV247 • Pur ti miro from L’incoronazione di Poppea, SV308 • ANONYMOUS: Si, si mio cor • GAGLIANO: Fanciuletta ritrosetta DC 65v-67r “Radiant.” — LA Times A rare opportunity to hear a collaboration between a mezzo-soprano and a countertenor! Brian Asawa and Diana Tash are both Metropolitan Opera winners; Brian is the first countertenor in history to win the Metropolitan Opera National council Auditions at the top level.

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Stone Records

Roger QUILTER

The Complete Quilter Songbook Volume 2 CD: SNR 8030 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Mark Stone: baritone Stephen Barlow: piano QUILTER: Five Jacobean lyrics • Two songs (1903) • Fairy lullaby • Three songs of William Blake • Island of dreams • At close of day • The answer • Five English love lyrics • My heart adorned with thee • Three songs for baritone or tenor • April love • Two songs (1897) • Spring voices • Four songs of the sea • Tulips • To Julia “Stone’s engagingly natural style and immaculate diction are supported by Barlow’s sympathetic playing.” — Sunday Times Following their critically-acclaimed first disc of the songs of Roger Quilter (Gramophone Editor’s Choice), English song enthusiasts Mark Stone and Stephen Barlow present the second volume in their four-disc series, which will comprise the first complete edition of Quilter’s songs. Volume two includes a number of his greatest works — such as his only song cycle, To Julia, and his William Blake songs — together with world premiere recordings, including all the settings of his own poetry. It is a wonderful selection of English song, which will delight aficionados and novices alike. The booklet gives the complete texts, detailed notes, and part two of the composer’s biography.

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Allegro Classic Welcomes ABC Classics Sally Whitwell: piano GLASS: Opening • Metamorphosis I–V • Mad Rush • Dead Things • Wichita Vortex Sutra Philip Glass is that rarest of contemporary classical composers: a musician who has revolutionized the way art music is composed, and found a massive audience in doing so. As much a pop and cult phenomenon as he is a descendant of Beethoven, Glass’s music has been used in classic films like Koyanisqaatsi and The Hours. But it’s in his music for solo piano that the essence of his art is revealed. In this groundbreaking album from Australian pianist Sally Whitwell, the first of its kind ever to be recorded in Australia, all of Glass’s finest solo piano music is represented. The fabulous Australian Stuart & Sons piano has been deployed for this recording, its crystalline tones ideally suited to Glass’s hypnotically beautiful music.

Philip GLASS

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Garrick Ohlsson: piano Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Tadaaki Otaka: conductor BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 • Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83 Brahms’ Piano Concertos 1 & 2, in thrilling live performances by soloist Garrick Ohlsson and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Tadaaki Otaka! According to Robert Schumann, Brahms was “a player of genius who can make the piano an orchestra,” and though he wrote only two piano concertos, both are masterpieces. Since winning the Gold Medal at the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. His repertoire ranges over the entire piano literature, and he has come to be noted for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert as well as the Romantic repertoire, with more than 80 concertos at his command.

Johannes BRAHMS Piano Concertos 1 & 2 CD: ABA 4810409 Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) Number of Discs: 2 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

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Allegro Classic Welcomes ABC Classics Australian World Orchestra Zubin Mehta: conductor STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring • MAHLER: Symphony No. 1 In 2012, conductor Alex Briger brought together Australia’s orchestral diaspora for the first time — musicians born, bred, or trained in Australia, now largely working overseas — and the Australian World Orchestra was born. Based out of Sydney, AWO is now an annual event, and this recording is the result of the orchestra working under Zubin Mehta in 2013. These performances take Briger’s original idea to a whole new level, achieving a quality that unites musical and artistic aspirations. Under Mehta, the AWO produces a richly colored reading of The Rite of Spring, heard here in a revelatory pairing with Mahler’s first symphony in its original five-movement version.

Igor STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring

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Emma Matthews: soprano Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Benjamin Northey: conductor COPLAND: Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson • Appalachian Spring (version for 13 instruments) Emma Matthews is one of Australia’s most acclaimed sopranos, and Copland’s Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson are the perfect vehicle for her technical brilliance. In this recording there is a wonderful sense of the humane, of vulnerability, and of exquisite tenderness, her expressive genius delivering these one-way conversations most convincingly. The orchestration for the Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson is in a chamber style calling for small orchestral forces, so Copland’s Appalachian Spring for 13 instruments proves the ideal coupling. This is a work that defines the essence of America in music: the wide open skies, the pioneering spirit, and the values of simplicity and directness.

Aaron COPLAND

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Allegro Classical Welcomes Regent Records Robert Woolley: organ HANDEL: Overture to Ottone, HWV 15 • Jesu, meine Freude, HWV 480 • Air in B flat, HWV 469 • Fugue in G minor, HWV 605 • Fugue in B flat, HWV 607 • Air in F major from the Water Music, HWV 348 • Fantasie in C, HWV 490 • Fugue in A minor, HWV 609 • Voluntary on a Flight of Angels, HWV 600 • WALOND: Voluntary X in A minor • Voluntary II in G major • JAMES: Voluntary VI in E minor • W. GOODWIN: Voluntary VII in G major • BOYCE: Voluntary V in D major • S. GOODWIN: Voluntary VII in D major • ROSEINGRAVE: Voluntary in G minor • STANLEY: A Voluntary for the Trumpet Stop • GREENE: Voluntary VII in E flat • Voluntary XIX in C minor • NARES: Voluntary in A minor A selection of organ music by Handel and his English contemporaries, played by internationally respected keyboard artist Robert Woolley in his first recording on the Regent label. The disc includes both original organ music and contemporary 18th-century transcriptions of works by Handel, together with original works for organ by the most renowned British composers of Handel’s time: William Boyce, Starling Goodwin, Maurice Greene, John James, James Nares, Thomas Roseingrave, John Stanley, and William Walond.

The music is played on the 1766 Thomas Parker organ in the church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas, Leatherhead. This instrument was reconstructed from original casework and pipework by organ builders Goetze & Gwynn in 2007, and is a rare example of organs from this period in England. This is the first recording of this delightful 18th-century instrument.

Robert Woolley

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The Choir of Saint Peter’s Church, Saint Louis William Aitken: director ROREM: All glorious God • MANNING: A wonder of angels (premiere) • Evening Canticles in D minor (premiere) • SOWERBY: Eternal light • SPIRITUAL: Wade in the water • WIDOR: Tu es Petrus • Surrexit a mortuis • AITKEN: Here, O my Lord • STANFORD: Beati quorum via • WHITE: Saint Teresa’s bookmark • WEELKES: Hosanna to the son of David • LEIGHTON: Drop, drop slow tears • LUIS DE VICTORIA: Vere languores nostros • GOODMAN: Laudate Dominum • BAYNON: When rooks fly homeward Continuing Regent Records “A Year” series, we move to the U.S. with an unusual collection of music from the choir of Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church, Saint Louis, directed by William Aitken, in their first commercial recording.

In addition to some perennial favorites, the program includes first recordings of new works written for the choir by British composer Sasha Johnson Manning, along with a selection of recent and contemporary American choral works by Ned Rorem, Leo Sowerby, Louie White, Joseph Goodman, Arthur Baynon, and director William Aitken himself.

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Allegro Classical Welcomes Regent Records George Lacey: organ Adam Mathias: organ The Choir of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Richard Latham: director NAYLOR: Vox dicentis: Clama • Behold, God is great (premiere) • Te Deum Laudamus in A • Jubilate Deo in A • We have heard with our ears (premiere) • Magnificat in A • Nunc dimittis in A • I will cause the shower to come down (premiere) • This is the month, and this the happy morn (premiere) • Benedicite in G • O Jerusalem, look about thee (premiere) • And there shall be signs (premiere) • Christ both died, and rose (premiere) • Final Responses: Ferial • Final Responses: Festal

E.W. NAYLOR

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Edward Woodall Naylor (1867–1934) was Organist of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, from 1898 until his death. Apart from his well-known anthem Vox dicentis: Clama and a few canticle settings, very little of his music is in the repertoire of choirs today, and this recording presents a wide range of unknown choral works. This is the first recording entirely devoted to his choral works, and, appropriately, is sung by the present-day choir of Emmanuel College, Cambridge directed by Richard Latham, in their first recording on the Regent label. In addition to Vox dicentis, the Morning and Evening canticles in A, and the Benedicte in G, this new recording contains seven first recordings, and forms an ideal introduction to the composer’s sacred choral works.

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Thomas Trotter: organ HANDEL: Concerto in B flat Major Op. 4, No. 2 (arr. Trotter) • Three Dances • BOYCE: Trumpet Voluntary in D, No. 1 • TROTTER: The tune of Holsworthy Church Bells • WESLEY: Holsworthy Church Bells • ELGAR: Sonata in G, Op. 28 • NYMAN: Fourths, Mostly • WALTON: Crown Imperial DVD Specs: NTSC, Region 0, 16:9 (Widescreen), Color, English (Surround), Not Rated, Run Time: 74 min.

Thomas Trotter

Thomas Trotter, one of the world’s greatest organists, presents a program of music to mark the 250th anniversary of the organ in St Laurence’s Church, Ludlow — the church where the ashes of A.E. Housman, writer of A Shropshire Lad, are buried. With a specially-tailored program to showcase the historic stops by Snetzler, as well as the more recent additions in the 19th and 20th centuries, the performance includes Elgar’s monumental Sonata in G, Op. 28 and a stunning demonstration of supreme virtuosity in Nyman’s Fourths, Mostly. The DVD features a performance video of the program including footage of the church, Ludlow, and the surrounding countryside, and the music is accompanied by quotations from the works of A.E. Housman. In extra features Thomas Trotter talks about the music he performs on the recording, and Shaun Ward, Director of Music at St Laurence’s Church, gives a tour of the organ.

A Shropshire Idyll

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CAvi-music Cathy Krier: piano RAMEAU: Suite in G • Pièces de Clavecin des Concerts • La Dauphine • LIGETI: Musica Ricercata “Krier steers her own path between sentimental and spiky, with a bright, forthright tone.” — Boston Globe In 2014 we celebrate Jean-Philippe Rameau’s 250th anniversary. To highlight his wonderful compositions, this disc also presents works by 20th-century musical pioneer Ligeti. Rameau and Ligeti have a similar approach to generating music, and their short pieces are of similar drama and effect.

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Christian Tetzlaff, Alissa Margulis, Byol Kang: violins Tanja Tetzlaff, Gustav Rivinius, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker: cellos Lars Vogt, Aaron Pilsan: pianos Tatjana Masurenko: viola ˇ DVORÁK: Dumky for piano, violin and cello, Op. 90 • Cypresses for string quartet B 152, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 11, 9, 12 • SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, Op. 8 Live recordings from the reputed Spannungen Festival and Artistic Director Lars Vogt! This disc offers highlights of the 2013 program, performed by the younger generation and their mentors.

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Trio Neuklang

Frédéric CHOPIN

Trio Neuklang/Nikolaij Abramson: clarinet/Jan Jachmann: accordion/Arthur Hornig: cello

Sophie Pacini: piano

Lost in Tango

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Lost in Libertango • Lost in Fugato • Lost in Beethoven • Lost in Oblivion • Lost in Mozart • Lost in Adios Nonino • Lost in Angel • Lost in Brahms • Lost in Buenos Aires • Lost in Schubert • Lost in Sur • Lost in Seoul • Lost in Piazzolla This album combines the classical tango nuevos of Astor Piazzolla with “tangories” of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Schubert.

CHOPIN: Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 • Nocturne in E Flat major Op. 9, No. 2 • Scherzo No. 2 in B Flat minor, Op. 31 • Nocturne in B Flat minor Op. 9, No. 1 • Nocturne in D flat major Op. 27, No. 2 • Fantasy Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op. 66 • Nocturne in C sharp minor Op. 27, No. 1 • Nocturne in C minor Op. 48, No. 1 • Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat major, Op. 61 • “Surprise” (hidden track) At age 22, Sophie Pacini has a special sense of touch and brilliant pianistic technique on this mix of Nocturnes, Scherzos, and Ballades.

Querstand

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Robert & Clara SCHUMANN

Leipziger Vokalromantiker/Jürgen Opfermann: organ/Andreas Fischer: tenor/Thomas Ratzak: tuba/OPUS 4

Saxon Vocal Ensemble/Matthias Jung: conductor

Wie ist die Welt so stille

An die Sterne

GREGORIAN: Pater noster • Mucis creator optime • Aeterne rerum conditor • Procedamus in pace • STRAVINSKY: Pater noster • VICTORIA: Ecce quomodo moritur • GESUALDO: Salmi delle compiete • JOSQUIN: Tu pauperum refugium • MONTEVERDI: Gloria (1641) • MENDELSSOHN: Beati mortui Op. 115, No. 1 • Periti autem Op. 115, No. 2 • and more To celebrate their 27th anniversary, the Leipziger Vokalromantiker present their eighth CD!

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R. SCHUMANN: Four Songs, Op. 141 • Romances and Ballads, Op. 67 • Romances and Ballads, Op. 75 • C. SCHUMANN: Drei gemischte Chöre nach Gedichten von Emanuel Geibel On January 5, 1848 Robert Schumann founded a mixed choral music society in Dresden. After only writing a cappella compositions for male voices throughout the year, he started writing compositions for mixed chorus from March 1849. The idea of creating a new genre inspired the composer, as well as his wife Clara. The compositions presented here are mostly results of this creative period.

Nimbus Records Raphael Wallfisch: cello John York: piano South West German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim Niklas Willen: conductor R. SCHUMANN: Concerto in A minor for cello and string orchestra, Op. 129 • Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102 • Romanzen, Op. 94 • Phantasiestücke, Op. 73 • Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70 • “Mondnacht” Liederkreis Op. 39, No. 5 • “Frühlingsnacht” Liederkreis Op. 39, No. 12

Robert SCHUMANN

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The latest work on this CD is the Cello Concerto in A minor, from 1850. In the worrying years leading to the composer’s death he was having trouble getting works published, but a welcome approach came in 1853 from the publishing house Breitkopf, with a fee of 20 Louis d’or for a few of Schumann’s latest pieces, including the cello concerto, which they particularly liked. The composer tantalizingly offered them a version with string quintet, and a piano reduction along with a full orchestral score, but the last two never materialized. Raphael Wallfisch was inspired by this intriguing concept, and asked distinguished Swiss composer Arthur Lilienthal to adapt the full score for strings. The result, heard on this recording, lends fresh clarity and lightness to the texture, allowing the soloist even more freedom, especially at the low dynamic levels the composer calls for.

Raphael has played it with very small orchestras, often without conductor, which emphasizes the pure chamber qualities of this wonderful work.

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Nimbus Alliance Fred Hemke: saxophone Tony Arnold: soprano Jennifer Hoult: harp Katie Hyun: violin Mihai Marica: cello The New York Virtuoso Singers Harold Rosenbaum: conductor New Haven Symphony Orchestra William Boughton: conductor THOMAS: Two E.E. Cummings Songs for girls’ chorus • Hemke Concerto “Prisms of Light” (premiere) • Prayer and Celebration • Absolute Ocean • Silent Moon • Of Paradise and Light • Spells

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Bold, passionate, urgent — Augusta Read Thomas writes music that is wholly and completely alive. The first two volumes of this recording series focused on orchestral and chamber/piano music, collecting performances by various ensembles. This third volume is something a bit different: a recording of a live 50th birthday concert presented by the New Haven Symphony Orchestra under the direction of William Boughton. One of the two large-scale works on the recording is also one of Thomas’s most recent (and was premiered on the concert), the dramatic Hemke Concerto “Prisms of Light” (2014). This concerto was commissioned as a retirement gift for legendary saxophonist and pedagogue Frederick L. Hemke by many of his students, past and present. The other large-scale composition is Absolute Ocean (2008), a song-cycle for soprano and orchestra with a significant obbligato harp part.

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Dmitri Borisovich KABALEVSKY

Dmitri Borisovich KABALEVSKY

Kirsten Johnson: piano

Kirsten Johnson: piano

KABALEVSKY: Seven Good-Humoured Variations on a Ukrainian Folksong Op. 51, No. 4 • Children’s Dreams, six pieces for piano, Op. 88 • From Pioneer Life, five pieces for piano, Op.14 • Five Happy Variations on a Russian Folksong Op. 51, No. 1 • Nineteen Pieces from Thirty Children’s Pieces for piano, Op. 27 • Six Variations on a Ukrainian Folksong Op. 51, No. 5 • and more

KABALEVSKY: Three Preludes for piano, Op. 1 • Variations for piano in D major Op. 40, No. 1 • Variations for piano in A minor Op. 40, No. 2 • Six Preludes and Fugues, Op. 61 • Rondo in A minor, Op. 59 • Spring Games and Dances for piano, Op. 81 • Recitative and Rondo, Op. 84 • Variations on an American Folk Song Op. 87, No. 1 • Variations on a French Folk Song Op. 87, No. 2 • Variations on a Japanese Folk Song Op. 87, No. 3 • Lyric Melodies for piano, Op. 93A

Piano Pieces for Children Young & Old

A Recital of Concert Pieces

A prolific composer, Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky (1904–1987) wrote four piano concerti, three piano sonatas, four symphonies, five operas, and many other works, all inspired, charming, and very playable.

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Kirsten Johnson has made her name recording undiscovered corners of the classical piano repertoire. A highly skilled pianist with great musical depth, she has received rave reviews internationally.

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Frédéric CHOPIN

Eirik Gjerdevik

Ángeles Iglesias: piano

Eirik Gjerdevik: tuba/Stavanger Brass Band/Bergen Tuba Quartet

CHOPIN: Sonata No. 1 in C minor, Op. 4 • Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58

AAGAARD-NILSEN: Eirik the Viking • Bloodaxe’ Lament • GUDIM: Tuba Libre • TRAD./LINDBER: Torn-Erik’s Song, arr. Farr • BULL: La Melancolie: I ensomme Stunde, arr. Halvorsen/Røed • THINGNAES: Concertino for tuba, arr. Giske • KOCH: Monologue No. 9 for tuba • MONTI: Czardas, arr. Røed • CLARKE/LEVY/ BELLSTEDT/STAIGERS: Carnival of Venice, arr. Røed

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Eirik the Viking

Without a doubt, Frederic Chopin is the poet of the piano. With Beethoven, the piano already held a dominant position among musical instruments, but with Chopin it achieved poetic status.

Chopin explored every possible genre for the piano; his work list includes a wide range of compositions (preludes, waltzes, mazurkas, polonaises, and more), as well as large-scale pieces like his two concertos for piano and orchestra, or complex and highly original pieces such as his four scherzos and his four ballades.

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“Eirik the Viking” has been the stage name of Eirik Gjerdevik since his student days, and is also the name of his new CD, with a title track composed by Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen, with whom he has collaborated for years.

Cameo Classics Panagiotis Trochopoulos: piano HOLBROOKE: Rhapsodie-Etude Op. 42, No. 1 • Nocturne Op. 121, No. 1 • Rhapsodie-Etude Op. 42, No. 2 • Nocturne Op. 121, No. 2 • Rhapsodie-Etude Op. 42, No. 3 • Nocturne Op. 121, No. 4 • Rhapsodie-Etude Op. 42, No. 4 • La Fantastique • Rhapsodie-Etude Op. 42, No. 10 • Barrage, Op. 78 • Fantasie-Sonata No. 1 “The Haunted Palace,” Op. 124 • First Barcarolle Op. 17, No. 6 • Fantasie-Sonate No.2 “Destiny,” Op. 128 Panagiotis Trochopoulos was born in Greece in 1982. He was a student of legendary virtuoso pianist Nikolai Petrov at Moscow Conservatory, and graduated in May 2006. His repertoire includes 15 solo programs and 30 concertos for piano and orchestra, including the complete concertos of Rachmaninov, the Busoni Piano Concerto, and concertos by Prokofiev, Brahms, and Liszt. Trochopoulos has performed in the United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, Austria, Belarus, Croatia, Greece, and the U.S. In November 2011 he took part in the very special “Musicians for Peace” concert at Moscow’s Church of Christ the Saviour, and was chosen to participate in a gala concert tribute to Marc-Andre Hameli as one of the “new stars of the Russian piano school” in Moscow’s House of Music. In 2013 he gave the Russian premiere of Alkan’s monumental Concerto for Solo Piano in the Tchaikovsky Museum in Moscow.

Josef HOLBROOKE Music for Piano 1

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Panagiotis Trochopoulos: piano HOLBROOKE: Rhapsodie-Etude Op. 42, No. 5 • Nocturne Op. 121, No. 3 “Juliet” • Rhapsodie-Etude Op. 42, No. 6 “Nocturne le Soir” • Nocturne Op. 121, No. 5 “Bridal Ballad” • Rhapsodie-Etude Op. 42, No. 7 “Toccata” • Nocturne Op. 121, No. 6 “Bronwen” • Rhapsodie-Etude Op. 42, No. 8 “Fantoches” • Nocturne Op. 121, No. 7 “Ariel” • Rhapsodie-Etude Op. 42, No. 9 “Valse Fantaisie” • Nocturne Op. 121, No. 8 “Ulalume” • Celtic Suite Op. 72 • Talsarnau (Concert Valse), Op. 79 Joseph Charles Holbrooke was born in 1878, and his earliest grounding in music came from his father, a fine pianist and a touring musician in the music halls. Holbrooke later adopted the German spelling of his name, and most of his works were published under that appellation, as were many of his articles and other publications. In 1893, when he was fifteen, Holbrooke’s father decided he had nothing more to teach him and entered him as a student at The Royal Academy of Music. There, he won many honors and wrote some fine music, despite finding himself not infrequently at loggerheads with his tutors. In 1900, after Augustus Manns gave the first performance of Holbrooke’s tone poem “The Raven” at one of his Saturday Afternoon Concerts at Crystal Palace, his career began to take off. From 1897 to 1899 pieces for solo piano, or violin and piano, flowed from his pen. However, it is not until we reach Op. 42 that we discover a really important piano work by Holbrooke: the set of Ten Rhapsodie-Etudes. Some of these are reminiscent of the sort of virtuoso studies produced by Henselt or Moscheles in the mid-19th century, but others are more contemporary in style.

Josef HOLBROOKE Music for Piano 2

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Cameo Classics Havergal BRIAN

The Complete Music for Piano Peter Hill: piano BRIAN: Prelude and Fugue in C minor • Double Fugue in E flat major • March from Turandot • Prelude, John Dowland’s Fancy • Four Miniatures • Prelude and Fugue in D minor/major • Three Illuminations

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William Havergal Brian was virtually self-taught in composition, and in the early 20th century began to make a name for himself. Some of his music was admired by Elgar, works of his were performed by conductors such as Henry Wood and Thomas Beecham, but the musical establishment — with the exception of his good friend Sir Granville Bantock — passed him by and his growing body of mature work remained almost entirely unknown and unperformed. With the death of Bantock in 1946, Brian lost his last advocate for performances of his music. Then, in the early 1950s, his work came to the attention of a young BBC music producer named Robert Simpson, who gradually brought about a growing number of performances (mostly in radio broadcasts), which began to initiate recognition of Brian’s achievement.

St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir

Music for the Royal Occasion from St. Paul’s Cathedral, London St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir

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SMITH/WELSH HYMN MELODY: Hymn: Immortal, invisible, God only wise • BRAHMS: From A German Requiem: How lovely is thy dwelling place • PURCELL: Rondeau from Abdelazar (organ solo), arr. Dearnley • STANFORD: Nunc Dimittis from Evening Service in B flat • STRUTHER/ TRAD IRISH MELODY: Hymn: Lord Of All Hopefulness • BUSH: Trumpet March (organ solo) • BRITTEN: Jubilate Deo in C • J.S. BACH: From Cantata No. 147: Jesu joy of man’s desiring • WHITLOCK: From Seven Sketches on verses from the Psalms Exultemus (organ solo) • RICE/ HOLST: Hymn: I vow to thee, my country • MATHIAS: Let the people praise thee, O God • CLARK: Trumpet Voluntary (organ solo), arr. Dearnley • HANDEL: From Samson: Let their celestial concerts all unite The music on this record comes to you from St. Paul’s Cathedral, the majestic setting for so many great Royal Services in recent years. Designed in the English Baroque style by Sir Christopher Wren, St. Paul’s Cathedral is one of the most famous and recognizable sights of London.

Dreamtiger

East-West Encounters Dreamtiger/Kathryn Lukas: flute/Rohan de Saram: cello/Douglas Young: piano/Peter Hill: piano MCPHEE: Balinese Ceremonial Music • YOUNG: Trajet / Inter / Lignes • MESSIAEN: Canteyodjaya • CRUMB: Vox Balaenae (The Voice of the Whale) • MAYAZUMI: Extract from Bunraku

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It is reported that the island of Sri Lanka, off the coast of India, was sending ambassadors to the Greek and Roman courts as early as the 1st century B.C. Reciprocal influences that scholars have detected between Indian and classical Greek art may lead us to speculate on a time when music of the Orient and the Occident were as one. Whatever their common origins, the respective worlds of Asian and Occidental music moved to opposite poles during the ensuing millennia. Nevertheless, Colonial expansion was bound to bring a cultural awakening in the course of time. From “fairy lands forlorn” to Mallarme’s brise marine, from Rousseau’s “noble savage” to Gauguin — these are but short steps.

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Cold Blue Music Derek Stein: cello Michael Jon Fink: piano FINK: Invocation • Hieroglyph • Melos • Aftersong • From a Folio • Over • Exit “Metaphysically tinged … lustrous.” — Los Angeles Times “Of ethereal simplicity … refined … spare.” — L.A. Weekly This suite of seven works — six for cello & piano and one for six cellos — is mesmerizing in its elegant beauty. The performers are cellist Derek Stein, a member of noted Los Angeles new-music ensembles wild Up and gnarwhallaby, and the composer, a revered fixture on the Southern California new music scene for many years.

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Michael Jon FINK From a Folio

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Thomas Newman: piano, violin, toy accordion, digital processing Rick Cox: prepared guitar, xaphoon, cello, voice, digital processing Jeff Elmassian: clarinet NEWMAN/COX: A Well Staring at the Sky • Exit 3 • Slate • Rouge • Smith’s Arcade • Eyes of Blue • Goldmine Nectarine • Telegraph Vine • Ashland Schine • Pluton Creek • Mort • Negative Rhythm • Venice Mule • Paper Thin • Grind the Bone and Bury It • Carapace • Then Deeper • Stair • Dulciana-stop “[Newman is] a versatile talent … fond of experimentation … The result is distinctive, often haunting music that can be lush and melodic or stark and edgy.” — Los Angeles Times “Rick Cox is a hidden master of the crepuscular and the diaphanous.”

— Ry Cooder This jointly composed and performed collection of 19 often quiet and entrancingly enigmatic electro-acoustic works has been slowly developing throughout the past 25 years of collaboration between popular 12-time Oscar® nominee and six-time Grammy® winner Thomas Newman, and noted new-music composer-performer Rick Cox.

Thomas NEWMAN & Rick COX 35 Whirlpools Below Sound

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KAIROS Tora Augestad: soprano Hélène Fauchère: soprano Sébastien Brohier: baritone Eva Furrer: flute Uli Fussenegger: double bass Vadislav Pesin: violin Mikahail Dubov: piano Klangforum Wien Trio Catch FURRER: Wüstenbuch • ira-arca • Lied • Aer Beat Furrer’s new opera Wüstenbuch is based on several texts, from ancient Egyptian writings to contemporary authors. The Wüste (“desert”) provides a base where Furrer can place his drama without a plot. The music and texts create a rich and complex atmosphere full of history and poetry. In addition to the opera, this set also includes three pieces on the second disc, giving an more detailed insight in the composer’s music.

Beat FURRER Wustenbuch

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Piano 21 Cyprien Katsaris: piano Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Sir Neville Marriner: conductor BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5 (original) • Piano Concerto No. 5 for solo piano, arr. Katsaris (premiere)

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN

This CD sees Cyprien Katsaris and Sir Neville Marriner conducting the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields united in a performance of Beethoven’s Concerto No. 5, Op. 73. The title “Emperor” is suggestive of a powerful counter-offensive impulsion on the part of Beethoven — the composer was living in Vienna — in reaction to the depredations of the Napoleonic hordes.

He actually started composing it in 1809, just at the time that Austria was preparing to wage war on Napoleon, which does much to explain the military tone of the Concerto. Familiar from a very young age with a vinyl recording of the “Emperor” Concerto by Vladimir Horowitz with the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fritz Reiner, Cyprien Katsaris had always felt a degree of frustration regarding the orchestral passage. He was appalled not to find them in the piano score, hence his determination, at 55 years of age, to produce this transcription.

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Silverdoor Roger Doyle: piano DOYLE: Baby Grand • Salomé’s Entrance • Banquet Medley • The Temptation of John the Baptist • Salome’s Dance • Salome’s Lament • Budawanny 1990 • Budawanny 2003 • Housekeeper • Mansard • Ten Themes (all is bright) Baby Grand is a compilation of Roger Doyle’s best piano music over a 30-year span, with tracks personally selected and performed by the composer. Roger Doyle says: “In 1986 filmmaker Bob Quinn asked me to compose music for his film Budawanny. The music was to play a central role in the film, which was shot as a silent film in black and white with captions appearing when people spoke. It required 70 minutes of music, uninterrupted by anyone talking over it (a composer’s dream). In 1988 I was commissioned by the Gate Theatre, Dublin, to compose and perform music for a production of Oscar Wilde’s play Salomé, directed by Steven Berkoff, which required a piano player onstage throughout the show, playing non-stop for almost two hours in a 1920s banquet-style setting. The track Mansard is a childhood memory room and comes from a five-CD set Babel, where each track corresponds to a room or place in an imagined Tower City.”

Roger DOYLE Baby Grand

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SOMM Recordings London Symphonic Concert Band Tom Higgins: conductor SOUSA: Imperial Edward March • SAINT-SAËNS: Coronation March, Op. 117 (arr. Retford) • MACKENZIE: Coronation March (arr. Mackenzie-Rogan) • GODFREY: Coronation March (arr. Godfrey) • ELGAR: Coronation March, Op. 65 (arr. Higgins) • The Crown of India, Op. 66 (arr. Winterbottom) • GERMAN: Coronation March (arr. Godfrey) • WALTON: Crown Imperial (arr. Duthoit) • Orb and Scepter (arr. Richardson) • BAX: Coronation March (arr. Pollen) • BLISS: Welcome the Queen (arr. Duthoit)

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Britain witnessed four coronations in the 20th century. The 11 marches recorded here display an excitement and grandeur appropriate to an important state and religious occasion, and highlight some of the finest ceremonial music composed in the 20th century. Many composers were either commissioned or inspired to commemorate these events, ranging from the ever-popular Elgar and Walton to the less familiar Alexander Mackenzie and Percy Godfrey. Bax, Bliss, and Sousa also caught the spirit of the moment with their legendary marches. The newly formed London Symphonic Concert Band consists of seasoned, experienced players who have played for years in British orchestras and relish the chance to record repertoire that they obviously enjoy performing.

Upcoming Review on BBC Radio 3.

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Discovery Music & Vision Keziah Thomas: harp ARNOLD: Fantasy for Harp, Op. 117 • BEAMISH: Awuya • SCOTT: Crossing Waves • WATKINS: Suite for Harp • BRITTEN: Suite for Harp in C, Op. 83 • YOUNG: Varying Rule Brittania

Keziah Thomas

Crossing Waves: British Works for Solo Harp

Keziah Thomas issues her first solo album for Discovery Music and Vision with works by Sir Malcolm Arnold, Sally Beamish, Andy Scott, Huw Watkins, James Young and Benjamin Britten. Arnold’s Fantasy for Harp, Op. 117 was commissioned for harpist Osian Ellis, who was also the inspiration for Britten’s Suite for Harp. Sally Beamish’s inspiration for Awuya is unusual in that it celebrates the medical research into the African Sleeping Sickness undertaken by Professor Keith Vickerman, and was commissioned by him.

Beamish took inspiration from African drumming, pentatonic music for Central African harp, and a haunting lullaby sung by the tribe devastated by the disease. Andy Scott composed Crossing Waves as a commission from Keziah, inspired by the epic journey taken by Roz Savage, who rowed solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 2005. Huw Watkins’ Suite was commissioned by the Presteigne Music Festival, and premiered in 2006. Keziah commissioned James Young to write a work to commemorate the year 2012, which not only saw the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee but also the Olympics held in London.

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Christopher Gunning: conductor GUNNING: Symphony No. 6 • Night Voyage • Symphony No. 7 After his Fifth Symphony, Christopher Gunning felt the need to tackle something on an altogether smaller scale; something simpler, more direct, clearer in its orchestration, and in a way more “classical” than its predecessors. With his Sixth Symphony, he returned to the idea of a single span incorporating several sub-sections, a form which he had already explored in his First, Third, and Fourth Symphonies. As a result, the work feels more like a tone-poem than a conventional symphony. Night Voyage is a sea piece, and was born on a rainy evening standing by the Mersey River.

A patch of orange lit the darkening sky and seabirds called mournfully as he watched a large grey freighter slipping majestically out to sea. The result is a tone poem that has obvious parallels with life, depicting a journey through an emotional crisis to a resolution of sorts. The theme of journeying is carried through to his Seventh Symphony. Like the Sixth, the music is continuous but this time falls into six main sections, or “phases,” all founded in various ways on the rising whole-tone scale heard at the very start. This affects the harmonic language, but the Seventh is also the most directly tonal of all of Gunning’s recent pieces.

Christopher GUNNING Symphony No. 6

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Alison Smith Music Alison Smith Incandescent

Alison Smith: guitar ALBENIZ: Asturias (Leyenda) No. 5 • Suite Española • COTTAM: Caprice for Masa • GIULIANI: Variations on a Theme of G.F. Handel, Op. 107 • J.S. BACH: Andante and Allegro (Sonata II) BWV 1003 • TARREGA: Fantasia on Themes from La Traviata • RYAN: Lough Caragh • LOVELADY: Incantation No. 1, No. 2, No. 6 and No. 7 • MERTZ: Fantaisie Hongroise Op. 65, No. 1

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Incandescent has two meanings: an intense glow, which can generate colors, or “being full of high emotion and passion.” Beethoven described the guitar as “an orchestra at your fingertips” because of the many different colors that can be achieved while playing it. The music on this album displays the guitar’s abundant colors and nuances, and is highly expressive. This new CD is sure to delight listeners with its enchanting mix of well-known guitar works and new compositions.

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BGS Ana Vidovic

The Croatian Guitar Prodigy Ana Vidovic: guitar J.S. BACH: Flute Partita in A minor BWV 1013 (arr. Despalji) • PAGANINI: Grand Sonata, MS3 • KLOBUCAR: Sonata • CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Sonata (Omaggio a Boccherini) Recorded when Ana Vidovic was 15, this disc marks the debut recording of the internationally renowned guitarist following her win at the first Albert Augustine Memorial International Guitar Competition.

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Stephen DODGSON

Follow the Star: The Music of Stephen Dodgson Eden-Stell Guitar Duo/Mark Eden: guitar/Christopher Stell: guitar DODGSON: Concertino for two guitar and strings “Les Dentelles” • Riversong: Rhapsody for two guitars • Promenade I • Pastourelle • Follow the Star: Fantasy on an old Dutch Christmas Hymn

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The late Stephen Dodgson (1924–2013) was a unique compositional voice in Britain’s musical landscape, who created a prolific output of work across a variety of genres. This collection marks a longstanding collaborative engagement between duo and composer, including Dodgson’s first work for guitar duo (of which Eden-Stell gave the premiere UK performance), and highlighted by the 1998 Concertino for Two Guitars and Strings commissioned by Eden-Stell.

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Zoltán KODÁLY

Gustav MAHLER

MR Children’s Choir/MR Choir/Ádám Fischer: conductor

Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra/Zoltán Kocsis: conductor

Choral Works

Symphony No. 1 in D major “Titan”

KODÁLY: St. Gregory’s day • King Ladislaus’ men or Magyars and Germans • Whitsuntide • Ode to Franz Liszt (words by Mihály Vörösmarty) • The Te Deum of Sándor Sík • Jesus and the traders (words by St. John 2.13) • The aged (words by Sándor Weöres) • Transylvanian lament • Mátra pictures On December 1, 1924, Zoltán Kodály’s Psalmus Hungaricus was performed for the first time in a version that also featured a children’s choir. This was a significant turning point in his career; though he had already composed choral works, from 1925 choral music became the central genre of his oeuvre.

MAHLER: Symphony No. 1 in D major “Titan” Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 originally consisted of five movements, but Mahler made many major revisions until the piece reached its definitive four-movement form. However, a subsequent fivemovement version is still in existence. The Blumine movement of this version was inserted as the second movement in the final version, and it is in this form that Zoltán Kocsis conducted the piece on this CD.

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Franchino GAFURIO

Schola Hungarica

Schola Hungarica/Janka Szendrei, László Dobszay: conductors

Schola Hungarica/Judit Fehér, László Dobszay: conductors

GAFURIO: Gloria • Credo • Sanctus • Agnus • Kyrie • ANONYMOUS: Ingressa • Psalmellus • Hallelujah • Antiphona ante Evangelium • Evangelium • Indictio Paschalis • Antiphona post Evangelium • Offertorium • Confractorium • Transitorium • Antiphona ad Lucernarium • Hymnus • Responsorium cum infantibus • Antiphona cum psalmo • Antiphona ad Magnificat • Oratio • Psalmellus • Responsorium in baptisterio • Antiphona ad Benedictus • Oratio • Psalmellus

ANONYMOUS: Dominica II in Adventu • Nativitas Domini, missa in aurora • Epiphania • Dominica III post Pascha • Dominica V post Pascha • Dominica XVIII post Pentecosten • Dominica XXII post Pentecosten • In festo Sancti Pauli Eremitae

Ambrosian Chants for Epiphany

Post-Tridentine Gregorian Chant in Hungary

The city of Milan traces its liturgical music back to the doctor of the church, Saint Ambrose. The Ambrosian liturgy is a sister to the Roman, with many common but many differing traits.

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In the mid-16th century came a turning point for Gregorian chant in Europe. Although the Synod of Trent dealt with music hardly at all, it established uniform liturgical texts for the continent. These dated back to an old tradition, and were not obligatory for churches, yet they were adopted sooner or later practically everywhere.

Stradivarius

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Giacinto SCELSI

Salvatore SCIARRINO

Roberto Fabbriciani: flutes/Jonathan Faralli: percussion

Mario Caroli: flute/Neue Vocalsoliste /Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra/Marco Angius: conductor

Scelsi Collection Vol. 6

Cantare con silenzio

SCELSI: Maknongan • Pwyll • Hyxos • Quays • Tetratkys • Maknongan Roberto Fabbriciani has enjoyed a long musical career, always in search of new instrumental possibilities, new ways of expression, and unusual horizons in sound. His collaboration with Giacinto Scelsi dates from the 1960s, when they met in Rome at the festival Nuova Consonanza. From that time, Roberto has been fascinated by the language and poetics of Scelsi, and has interpreted all his flute works at different international festivals.

SCIARRINO: Cantare con silenzio • Berceuse • Libro notturno delle voci The three works by Salvatore Sciarrino on this CD are from live performances in Rome (2007) and Tokyo (2012). By chance, their date of composition creates a kind of numerical rhyme (1969, 1999, 2009).

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Esaias REUSNER

J.S. BACH

Paul Beier: baroque lute

Luca Guglielmi: piano, organ, clavichord, harpsichord

REUSNER: Suite I in D minor • Suite X in G minor • Suite II in F major • Suite XII in B flat major • Allemanda from Suite VI in E minor (bonus track)

J.S. BACH: Praeludium and Fuge in E BWV 533a • Fantasia super Christ lag in Todes Banden choralis in alto manualiter BWV 695 • Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott BWV 721 • Praeludium and Fuge in C per il Padre Martini di Bologna BWV deest • Sonata I in G BWV 1001 • Partita in E BWV 1006a • Ciaccona in D BWV 1004/5 (Partia II) • Bonus Track: Aria in G BWV 988/1 [Goldberg-Variation]

Delitiae Testudinis Vol. 2

The New Bach Image

The second part of the most important work by Esaias Reusner, Delitiae Testudinis, a published collection of solo lute suites in Brzeg in 1667. For this recording Paul Beier played a lute by Stephen Gottlieb (1945–2014), a great luthier who recently died.

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In 1982, an extremely interesting little book appeared, published by Rusconi, entitled La nuova immagine di J.S. Bach (“The New Image of Bach”), written by a brilliant author. Piero Buscaroli honored the tercentenary of Bach’s birth with his powerful biography, which is still considered a cornerstone of Bach literature in Italian.

Summit Records John Ericson, Deanna Swoboda & Doug Yeo Table for Three

John Ericson: horn/Deanna Swoboda: tuba/Douglas Yeo: bass trombone/Gail Novak: piano J.S. BACH: Wenn Sorgen auf mich Dringen from Cantata No. 2, arr. Lockwood • GOTTSCHALK: The Dying Poet, arr. Geese • MCMILLIAN: Fleeting Visions • NEHLYBEL: Trio • RAUM: Relationships for horn, bass trombone and tuba • REICHA: Selections from 24 Horn Trios, Op. 82 • SCHMIDT: Sonatina • FERGUSON: Table for Three at Chez Janou • HARMON: Silhouette • ISSAC: Selections, trans. Singleton CD: SMT 642 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Three world renowned players. Three diverse instruments. Three friends. And a new concept in brass chamber music. Table For Three brings together John Ericson, Douglas Yeo, and Deanna Swoboda in a group combining horn, bass trombone, and tuba for a scintillating album of music spanning 450 years.

Renaissance, baroque, classical, contemporary, and third-stream works — none of which have ever been recorded and which include several newly commissioned and newly arranged compositions — combine for an engaging, thought-provoking program.

includes world premieres

Cantus Ensemble Gilles Binchois

Cours et Cathédrales: Medieval French Music Ensemble Gilles Binchois/Dominique Vellard: director Tracks include a collection of Medieval French music

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In 2014, Ensemble Gilles Binchois celebrate their 35th anniversary, and to mark such happy occasion Cantus is proud to release a specially-priced seven-CD set containing their best-ever recordings!

Dominique Vellard and his Ensemble Gilles Binchois are unanimously considered among the best early music artists in the world, and have received dozens of international awards. Their legendary set devoted to the figure of Guillaume de Machaut (1300–1373) has been hailed as the absolute keystone in the discography of the most important medieval French poet and composer, but we cannot forget their other respected recordings including their marvelous readings of the repertoires associated with the first Notre Dame School polyphonies, their colorful performances of 13th century trouvères music, or their serene recordings of authentic Gregorian chant.

Cobra Records Musica Temprana

Misa Criolla and Popular Devotion in Early Music Adrian Rodriguez Van der Spoel: vocal soloist/Alvaro Pinto Lyon: vocal soloist/Musica Temprana CONDE: Apachita • TRAD: Tono de la Virgen • Bailecito • COMES: Gozos a Nuestra Señora de la Antigua • HERRERA: Hijos de Eva tributarios • ANONYMOUS: Dios es ya naçido • Sã qui turo zente pleta • ARAUJO: Veni Sponsa Christi • Kyrie. Pater exaudinos (Minuete) • CEREROLS: Serafín que con dulce armonía • DOMÍNGUEZ: Campanitas • VALDEBENITO: Ciruelita • RAMÍREZ: Misa Criolla CD: CBA 44 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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This new recording of the ever-popular Misa Criolla was made to mark the 50th anniversary of its creation in 1964. It’s a sparkling, genuinely Latino version, reminiscent of the original recordings. In this vibrant new edition Ramirez’s popular mass is embedded in the 17th- and 18th-century vespers, villancicos, and hymns, all examples of spontaneous expressions of popular religion and folk culture.

Ramirez’s composition indeed draws upon an ancient tradition of popular devotion and is deeply rooted in Latin America’s folk music. Surprisingly, no new recorded versions of any importance have seen the light since the early nineties!

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