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New Release Highlights

This month’s exceptional releases on harmonia mundi include Duruflé’s powerful Requiem with the Choir of Magdalen College (p.4), as well as baritone Matthias Goerne’s second volume of Schubert songs, entitled An mein Herz (p.7).

Alia Vox delights listeners with a SACD re-issue of works by Merula featuring soprano Monserrat Figueras (p.11).

New DVDs from Bel Air Classiques include a monumental Die Walküre with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic (p.13) and a new film featuring three short pieces by contemporary choreographer Bill T. Jones (p.13).

The infallible Tallis Scholars present two volumes of Tudor Church Music this month on Gimell (p.19). New Hyperion recordings include the Takács Quartet’s second disc of Brahms (p.23); volume 46 in the Romantic Piano Concerto series (p.25) and Beethoven Cello Sonatas played by rising star Daniel Müller-Schott accompanied by pianist Angela Hewitt (p.27). Also this month, don’t miss the reissue of Ludovico Einaudi’s fascinating Giorni, a work inspired by a 12thcentury folk song from Mali (p.31). November’s non-classical highlight is the latest release from World Village’s flamenco pianist Diego Amador (p.35).

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Richard Egarr’s Organ Concertos Op. 4 returns to the Billboard Chart After seven weeks on the chart, peaking at No. 4, Richard Egarr’s Organ Concertos returns to the Billboard Top Classical Chart.

“Egarr gives wonderful, insightful, technically solid performances.”

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Kayhan Kalhor & Brooklyn Rider’s Silent City featured in New York Times

“A hypnotic work …The disc opens with Ascending Bird … it begins with melancholy whispers of melody before exploding into an ecstatic frenzy. The disc closes with Beloved, do not let me be discouraged, whose title is taken from a poem by a 16th-century Turkish writer about ill-fated lovers — an evocative blend of courtly medieval Italian music filtered through a Middle Eastern prism.” — N Y T LIGETI: Lux Aeterna, 3 Fantasies, Viola Sonata Susanne van Els, Capella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss harmonia mundi • HMC 901985

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Coming Next Month Daniel Reuss performs Ligeti’s timeless Lux Aeterna Both György Ligeti and Robert Heppener belong to the generation of composers born in the 1920s that formed the basis for the post-war avant-garde. Lux Aeterna, famously used

by Stanley Kubrick in his film 2001: A Space Odyssey, marked the birth of a new musical language. Ligeti’s later Sonata for solo viola simultaneously evokes the polyphony of the fourteenth century and certain types of ethnic music. Heppener’s Im Gestein, a cycle of songs to poems by Paul Celan that was awarded the Matthijs Vermeulen Prize in 1993, is given its world premiere recording.

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LASSUS Cantiones Sacrae

Collegium Vocale Ghent Philippe Herreweghe harmonia mundi • HMC 901984

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Herreweghe conducts Lassus

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The Cantiones Sacrae are the swan-song of one of the great masters of the motet, crowning his life’s work. In them, Orlande de Lassus deploys with sovereign ease the essence of his art. The complex technique of vocal polyphony he employs illuminates the nuances of the text as closely as possible. In these works, we have the ideal balance between ‘head’ and ‘heart’ — a feature found in most of the greatest artistic masterpieces. Philippe Herreweghe has long been considered one of the foremost interpreters of the music of Lassus. Here he leads his hand-picked choral ensemble, Concerto Vocale, in definitive readings of these seminal works of the Renaissance choral repertoire.

Also available harmonia mundi • HMC 901831 (794881798827)

“The perfectly tuned and balanced voices of Collegium Vocale Gent never let us forget that aside from its other impressive features, Lassus’ music is conceived in beauty ... Bravo!”

— ClassicsToday

November 2008

Lassus: Penetential Psalms

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The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford “Magdalen College Choir represent the best of the British collegiate tradition.”— Fanfare In 1480, provision was made at Magdalen for eight singingmen, four chaplains and 16 choristers, creating one of the oldest and largest choral foundations in late-medieval England. With the more recent addition of four clerks and two Organ Scholars, that tradition has been maintained to this day. The choristers are educated at Magdalen College School, while the academical clerks are all undergraduates at Magdalen reading a variety of subjects. The Director of Music, Bill Ives, still retains the ancient Latin title, Informator Choristarum (Instructor of the Choristers). Many notable musicians have held this post, including John Sheppard, Daniel Purcell (brother of Henry), Sir John Stainer, Sir William McKie and Bernard Rose. The main duty of the choir is to sing daily in the college chapel,.

During the university term there are seven choral services each week. The choir also sings at a number of special occasions throughout the academic year, including the great May Day celebrations, an ancient tradition dating back to the 1500s. In recent years, Magdalen College Choir has sung in Japan, the USA, Hungary, Italy, Belgium and France. They have also featured on film and television, most notably in Richard Attenborough’s acclaimed movie, Shadowlands. Other soundtracks and appearances include 20th Century Fox’s Ever After, Channel Four’s millennium production, Longitude and George Fenton’s score for the movie Deep Blue. In 2001, the Choir presented the first public performance of a major new choral work, Ecce cor meum, written especially for them by Sir Paul McCartney. For harmonia mundi, the choir, with Fretwork, recorded With a Merrie Noyse, a programme of Orlando Gibbons, which was nominated for a Grammy® Award.

“Magdalen College choir sings with appropriate sensitivity and fervent spirit, with full and fluent mastery of each work.” — ClassicsToday

November 2008

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Byrd: Second Service

harmonia mundi • HMU 907440 (093046744021)

“This disc is a benchmark — of interpretation, scholarship and programming.”

— BBC Music Magazine

Ives: Choral Music

harmonia mundi • HMU 907420 (093046742027)

“Unambiguously welcome and highly recommendable...”

— Fanfare

DURUFLÉ Requiem, Four Motets Messe ‘Cum Jubilo’ Four Pieces for Organ

Magid El-Bushra (counter-tenor) Mark Chaundy (tenor) Peter Harvey (baritone) Martin Ford (organ) Richard Pinel (organ) English Sinfonia, Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford Bill Ives harmonia mundi • HMU 807480

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Duruflé’s masterpiece of spirituality

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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD In 1961, the 59-year-old Maurice Duruflé put the finishing touches to the third and last version of his Requiem, composed fourteen years previously. The work is wholly, one might say consubstantially, built on the Gregorian melodies of the Mass of the Dead. The composer had already transcribed some of these themes for the organ, in works featured here as well. Hence this entire program underlines the artistic and spiritual coherence of Duruflé’s approach. Bill Ives leads the men and boys of the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford and the players of the English Sinfonia in a glorious disc, rich in timbre and deeply spiritual.

— BBC Radio 3

November 2008

“These young choral scholars are an impressive group of musicians.”

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Grieg’s music for cello GRIEG Cello Sonata Op.36, Transcriptions – Lyric Pieces Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) Pascal Amoyel (piano) harmonia mundi • HMC 901986

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Alongside the Sonata Op.36 — one of the monuments of the repertoire for cello and piano — Emmanuelle Bertrand and Pascal Amoyel have transcribed some of the delightful Lyric Pieces as a sort of personal diary. In their own way, they retrace the life of Grieg, from the little Arietta of 1867 to the final backward glance of Remembrances (1901). The program also includes two original pieces for this formation, the Intermezzo and Grieg’s own transcription of the Scherzo from his third violin sonata.

Exquisite choral miniatures MENDELSSOHN Choral Works Opp. 41, 48, 59, 88 & 100

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RIAS-Kammerchor Hans-Christoph Rademann harmonia mundi • HMC 901992

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Mendelssohn once said, “The most natural music of all occurs when four people go out together in the woods or in a boat, and carry the music with them and inside them!” These pieces for chorus, sparkling musical miniatures, are perhaps the finest illustration of this profession of artistic faith. Mendelssohn’s lovely choral music tends to get overshadowed by that of Brahms and by Mendelssohn’s own works in other genres. This disc makes a strong case for a reassessment of the musical merit of his work in this genre. Berlin’s RIAS-Kammerchor has established itself as a world-class ensemble which owes its reputation chiefly to the performance of a cappella works. Led here by their new principal conductor, Hans-Christoph Rademann, the group continues its tradition of heartfelt music making.

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Ma hias Goerne (baritone) Helmut Deutsch (piano) Eric Schneider (piano) harmonia mundi • HMC 902004

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Goerne’s Schubert Edition continues

Matthias Goerne has received worldwide praise for his warm, fluid baritone and his profound interpretations.

Highly respected as a Lieder singer, he is a frequent guest at renowned festivals and prestigious venues like the Carnegie and Wigmore Halls. Goerne has embarked on an ambitious eleven disc Schubert Edition for harmonia mundi, which will be framed by concerts in important venues all over the world. This month marks the release of the second volume in the series. The repertoire speaks of death, the ‘Wanderer’ and of the relationship between Schubert and his poets. For this occasion the singer has called on two traveling companions who have left a lasting artistic impression on the world of lieder and Helmut Deutsch began his career as accompanist for Irmgard Seefried. He also spent twelve years in an intensive collaboration with Hermann Prey and has been the partner of many other celebrated singers. Eric Schneider has appeared notably with Christine Schäfer, Christiane Oelze and Stephan Genz. He is a regular guest with these partners at the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade, Salzburg Festival and the Tanglewood Summer Music Festival.

“Goerne sings with consummate musicality, and his exquisite readings are unsurpassed.”

— American Record Guide

Also available harmonia mundi • HMC 901988 (794881868223)

“Intelligent, thoughtful, with a rich baritone voice deployed with great musicality.”

— International Record Review

November 2008

Schubert: Sehnsucht

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Haydn 1809-2009

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HAYDN A Haydn Celebration

Various Artists harmonia mundi • HMX 2968302

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2009 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Franz Joseph Haydn. The past few years have given musicians and music-lovers a chance to reassess a compositional genius who has been eclipsed by the likes of Mozart and Beethoven for far too long. To further that cause, harmonia mundi celebrates Haydn’s astounding musical achievements with a new, specially-priced series that will include both reissues and new releases. It assembles the work of harmonia mundi’s distinguished musicians in a series of interpretations that are on the cutting edge of musicological research, presented in elegant illustrated digipacks with extensive notes. Discover (or rediscover) the great works of the master who helped create what we now call the Viennese Classical style. Future releases will include symphonies with René Jacobs and string quartets with the Jerusalem Quartet.

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HAYDN Cantatas for Esterhazy

Sunhae Im (soprano) Cappella Coloniensis Andreas Spering harmonia mundi • HMX 2961765

“Beautifully played ...This whole CD makes you wish you were an Esterházy.”

— ClassicsToday

HAYDN Symphonies Nos.6, 7 & 8

Freiburger Barockorchester Petra Müllejans harmonia mundi • HMX 2961767

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Haydn Edition

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“Haydn-playing doesn’t come much more colourful or inventive than this.”

— BBC Music Magazine

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Jerusalem Quartet harmonia mundi • HMX 2961823

“This disc strikes me as the ideal gif gift ...I certainly cannot resist its charm.”

— Fanfare

November 2008

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HAYDN String Quartets Op.64 No.5 Op.76 No.2 & Op.77 No.1

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The harmonia mundi Haydn Edition HAYDN The Seasons

Marlis Petersen (soprano) Werner Güra (tenor) Dietrich Henschel (baritone) RIAS-Kammerchor Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs harmonia mundi • HMX 2961829

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“Jacobs is one of the few conductors who succeeds in restoring The Seasons to its rightful place on an equal footing with The Creation.”

— BBC Music Magazine

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HAYDN Keyboard Concertos Hob.XVlll:4, 6 & 11

Andreas Staier (fortepiano) Freiburger Barockorchester Go fried von der Goltz harmonia mundi • HMX 2961854

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“The sounds of the Freiburg orchestra are thrilling in their raw energy and bite.”

— Gramophone

HAYDN Piano Trios Nos.32-37

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Patrick Cohen (piano) Erich Höbarth (violin) Christophe Coin (cello) harmonia mundi • HMX 2968298

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“These performances put others to shame for their sheer musicality.”

— CD Review

Haydn 1809-2009

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Montserrat Figueras (soprano) Hespèrion XX, Jordi Savall Alia Vox • AVSA 9862

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The Heritage series continues

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SACD Hybrid / Stereo & Multi-channel / DSD Previously Available as Naive ES 9964 (3298490099643) Deleted July 2003 Tarquinio Merula was an Italian composer, organist, and violinist of the early Baroque era. He was one of the most progressive Italian composers of the early 17th century.

Merula was a key figure in the early development of several forms which were to mature later in the Baroque era, such as the cantata, the aria, the sonatas da chiesa and da camera and the sinfonia. This album, previously issued on the Naïve Astrée label, is one of the best albums ever recorded by Montserrat Figueras. The unique quality of her voice and the expertise of the ensemble backing her offer a wealth of rare delights. Fully re-mastered for multi-channel SACD, these striking performances are heard with a newfound sonic clarity and depth.

“Figueras has the most ravishing soprano voices in the world today.”

— The Oakland Tribune

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Alia Vox • AVSA 9855 (7619986398556)

“One can almost touch the basilica air, all incense and stained glass.”

— Star Ledger

November 2008

Monteverdi: Vespers, 1610

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A gem of comic opera

DONIZETTI L’Elisir d’amore

Heidi Grant Murphy (soprano) Aleksandra Zamojska (mezzo-soprano) Paul Groves (tenor), Ambrogio Maestri (baritone) Laurent Naouri (bass-baritone), Paris National Opera Orchestra Edward Gardner Bel Air • BAC 040

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133 minutes/ PCM Stereo/ Dolby Digital 5.1/ DTS 5.1/ Region Free Director Laurent Pelly has entertained Parisians with a string of successful comic opera productions. This new L’Elisir d’amore from Bel Air is delightfully fresh and vibrant. It is set in a manner reminiscent of Italian cinema of the 50s and 60s. The simple sets – stacks of hay bales; fields rolling off into the distance and a lone water tower – are bathed in a nostalgic golden hue. For “Una furtive lagrima,” the stars of the night sky are created with bare light-bulbs on wires. Heidi Grant Murphy plays Adina to Ambrogio Maestri’s Dulcamara in this fascinating HD video production from the Opéra national de Paris, conducted by Edward Gardner.

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WAGNER Die Walküre

Eva Johansson (soprano) Eva-Maria Westbroek (soprano) Lilli Paasikivi (mezzo-soprano) Robert Gambill (tenor) Willard White (bass-baritone) Mikhail Petrenko (bass) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Simon Ra le Bel Air • BAC 034

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Bel Air • BAC 434

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DVD: 240 minutes / 16/9 Format / Dolby Digital 5.1 / DTS 5.1 BLU-RAY: 240 minutes / DTS HD Master Audio 5.1 / Format 16/9, 1920 x 1080p AVC / Region Free This Die Walküre from the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence features the second installment of what is both Simon Rattle’s and the festival’s first Ring Cycle.

Filmed in HD last year in the recently built Grand Théâtre de Provence and staged by Stéphane Braunschweig, the opera is performed in modern dress in a modern setting (although the Valkyries do wear helmets). Wotan is played by the great Jamaican bass-baritone Willard White. Fricka is sung byLilli Paasikivi with Robert Gambill as Siegmund and Eva-Maria Westbroek as Sieglinde. Rattle’s Ring Cycle in Aix continues with Siegfried in late 2008 and Götterdammerüng in 2009. The title is available in both standard DVD and also in super high-definition Blu-Ray format.

“From the first bars of the overture, the orchestra’s rich string and booming brass instruments filled the hall, creating the tension and stirring the excitement so often associated with Die Walküre... the result is less dark fairy tale than intense lyrical voyage.”

— The New York Times November 2008

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A ballet spectacular TCHAIKOVSKY Tchaikovsky Gala

Roberto Bolle, The Ballet and Orchestra of the Teatro Alla Scala, Milan David Coleman Bel Air • BAC 037

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DVD: 114 Minutes/ PCM Stereo/ Dolby Digital 5.1/ 16x9 Format/ Region Free BLU-RAY: 114 Minutes/ DTS HD Master Audio 5.1 / Format 16/9, 1920 x 1080p / Region Free Bel Air’s Tchaikovsky Gala is a showcase of virtuosity that is not to be missed. Led by Roberto Bolle, resident star of La Scala, the disc features international guest artists such as Polina Semionova, Nadja Saidakova and Ronald Savkovic. Some of the most exacting and demanding moments from Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker are presented, showing to great effect the prowess of the corps de ballet and stars alike. David Coleman also conducts these highlights from the three Tchaikovsky’s ballets in versions that are held in high esteem in the hearts and minds of ballet fans: Swan Lake in Vladimir Bourmeister’s version, Sleeping Beauty as choreographed by Marius Petipa and The Nutcracker in Patrice Bart’s version. This perfect gift for any ballet lover is also available in Blu-Ray HD format for the best quality video and audio available.

November 2008

Recently released

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Minkus: Don Quixote

Bel Air • BAC 036 (3760115300361)

“Those looking for passion, Latin or otherwise, will find it in this idiosyncratic 1988 version of the 19th-century ‘Don Quixote.’ But most of all, they will see the classical dancing, even academic precision, on which Ms. Alonso and her ballet mistress Josefina Méndez insist.”

— The New York Times

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A Bill T. Jones Documentary

Bill T. Jones Solos A film by Don Kent & Christian Dumais

Bill T. Jones Bel Air • BAC 039

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52 Minutes/ PCM Stereo/ Region Free A major figure on the contemporary choreography scene, Bill T. Jones is also a remarkable dancer and a performer with an electrifying stage presence. Here, alone in a studio and filmed from a totally cinematic point of view, he speaks to us of violence, gentleness and emotion in three short pieces: Ionization to music by Edgar Varèse, Chaconne, from Bach’s partita for solo Violin and the timeless classic, Tea for two. Bonuses include interviews with the choreographer, master classes and dance excerpts.

— The Chicago Tribune

November 2008

“Bill T. Jones is a dancer abundantly blessed with musicality.”

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Boismortier’s flute concertos

November 2008

Soprano Lucy Crowe sings Bach

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BACH Cantata BWV209 - Non sa che sia dolore, Triple Concerto BWV1044 TELEMANN Concerto in A Major from Tafelmusik Part I

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Lucy Crowe (soprano), Florilegium Channel Classics • CCS SA 27208

SACD Hybrid / Stereo & Multi-channel / DSD The paths of Telemann and Bach crossed in Leipzig; yet the different directions their lives would take was evident from early on. Telemann chose the new galant style, whereas Bach remained steadfast in his quest to perfect his contrapuntal skills. Regular performances in some of the world’s most prestigious venues have confirmed Florilegium’s status as one of Britain’s most outstanding period instrument ensembles. Soprano Lucy Crowe studied at the Royal Academy of Music. She received the Royal Overseas Gold Medal in 2002, won the Second Prize at the 2005 Kathleen Ferrier Awards and was made a Wigmore Young Artist.

BOISMORTIER Concertos for Five Flutes Stephen Schultz (flute) Dorian • DSL 90803

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On this brand-new Dorian release, Stephen Schultz takes on the daunting task of playing all five parts of the six Concerti for Five Flutes by French Baroque composer Joseph Bodin de Boismortier — a feat never before attempted or accomplished. The transverse flute was Boismortier’s favorite instrument and his compositions considerably expanded its early repertory. He was purely a composer and one of the first to have no patrons; he made his living simply by writing new works of music. Stephen Schultz, called “among the most flawless artists on the baroque flute” by the San Jose Mercury News, and “flute extraordinaire” by the New Jersey Star-Ledger, is solo and co-Principal flutist with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.

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ARNELL The Great Detective, The Angels

BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates Dutton Laboratories • CDLX 7208

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Arnell ballets revived

Richard Arnell’s ballets, The Great Detective and The Angels, were unheard complete since the 1950s. This music is a tuneful must for the many collectors who have enjoyed the Dutton Epoch Arnell symphonies series. In fact, at the beginning of the score of The Angels Arnell has written, “The Angels is an abstract, symphonically structured work. The form is intricate and is as carefully considered as if the work had been designed for the concert hall. It is, in fact, a symphony.” The Sherlock Holmes inspired ballet The Great Detective is uproarious and supremely melodic and another glorious work unearthed and resurrected by Dutton Epoch. Both works are presented here for the first time on CD.

Epoch’s Light Music series continues

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British Light Music Premieres

Royal Ballet Sinfonia, BBC Concert Orchestra Gavin Sutherland Dutton Laboratories • CDLX 7209

November 2008

The fifth installment in Dutton Epoch’s ongoing series focusing on British light music features sumptuous works by Paul Carr and conductor Gavin Sutherland, along with the suite from Richard Addinsell’s incidental music for Jean Anouilh’s play Ring Round the Moon and orchestral delights by film music legend Roy Budd and Francis Chagrin. The concertos by Gavin Sutherland (for clarinet) and Paul Carr (for oboe) are both real finds. Sutherland writes essentially in a lighter vein, taking a melodic route through a variety of idioms. Carr’s Oboe concerto, played by its dedicatee Nicholas Daniel, highlights the increasing reputation of this composer.

Carr’s Air for Strings is uniquely compelling, an orchestral love song that bids to supplant Barber’s celebrated Adagio.

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Rare music for flute Fire Island Music for Flute by Yates, McDowall, Heath & Piazzolla

Anna Noakes (flute), Caroline Palmer (piano) Justin Pearson (cello) Dutton Laboratories • CDLX 7210

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Flutist Anna Noakes has compiled this disc of rarely-heard music. McDowall’s The Moon Dances and Not Just a Place will delight all who have been captivated

by Dutton Epoch’s previous McDowall releases. Yates’s two extended flute works, the Sonata and Sonatina, reveal a rewarding personal voice, while the occasional suggestions of Debussy-esque sonorities add to the music’s sensuous impact. The disc is closes with Piazzolla’s sultry tango Oblivion, heard here in José Bragato’s gorgeous arrangement for flute, cello and piano.

Mayerl’s charming piano music MAYERL A Miscellany for Solo Piano

November 2008

Leslie De’Ath (piano) Dutton Laboratories • CDLX 7211

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Canadian pianist Leslie De’Ath presents an unmissable and toe-tapping survey of the light-hearted and jazzy piano music of British composer Billy Mayerl. De’Ath’s virtuosity and light touch are on display throughout these twenty-four charming selections, all of which demonstrate his affinity with Mayerl’s charming music.

De’Ath points out in his typically eloquent liner note accompanying the CD, “His music is masterfully crafted and full of imaginative melodic, harmonic and rhythmic detail. But its great strength lies in its utter lack of pretence. This is light music at its finest.”

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The World of Epoch

Various Artists Dutton Laboratories • CDSPA 2008

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The World of Epoch is a mid-priced sampler containing twenty tracks that highlight the classical and light music repertoire featured in Dutton’s Epoch series. Composers represented include Richard Arnell, Elgar, York Bowen, Julius Harrison, Alan Rawsthorne, Robert Farnon, Eric Coates, Cecilia McDowall, Ronald Corp and Joseph Horovitz. The disc also showcases many of the UK’s eminent conductors, orchestras, chamber ensembles, soloists and choirs. With its astounding tally of accolades and long list of CD premieres, Dutton’s Epoch series is clearly at the forefront of British classical music.

Rare British film music

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Music From The Movies Music by Alwyn, Vaughan Williams, Walton & Ireland Various Artists Dutton Vocalion • CDEA 6146

November 2008

This release celebrates the wonderful music written for British films during the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s by composers better-known for their works in the classical realm and for the concert hall. Vaughan Williams’ rousing music from the films The Loves of Joanna Godden and The 49th Parallel is heard, as is Walton’s famous Spitfire Fugue from The First of the Few. John Ireland’s incidental music from The Overlanders is also included, as is Alwyn’s music from The Rake’s Progress and Cure for Love. Much of the material heard here is making its first appearance on CD.

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Beethoven with the Busch BEETHOVEN String Quartets Vol.3 Op.59 No.1 & Op.127

Busch Quartet Dutton Laboratories • CDBP 9786

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Founded in Vienna in 1912, this legendary ensemble was known for its first six years as the Wiener Konzertvereinquartett and consisted of Adolf Busch, various second violinists, Karl Doktor and Paul Grümmer. In May 1919 it was reorganized as the Busch Quartet in Berlin, and in the autumn of 1920 gave its first Beethoven cycle in the composer’s birthplace Bonn. The famous formation of Busch, his Swedish pupil Gösta Andreasson, Doktor and Grümmer was first heard in Amsterdam at the end of that year. Recognized as being among the 20th century’s greatest Beethoven interpreters, on this disc they are heard giving typically inspiring performances of the seventh and twelfth quartets, recorded during the 1930s and early ‘40s.

Spanish sounds from Arbós

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ARBÓS Noche de Arabia & music by De Falla, Albéniz, Granados, Turina & Bretón

Madrid Symphony Orchestra Enrique Fernández Arbós Dutton Laboratories • CDBP 9782

The Spanish conductor Enrique Fernández Arbós came from a family of military bandmasters and had been a child prodigy. He was celebrated at different times as violinist, violin teacher, composer and conductor. After the First World War, he became associated with conducting modern Spanish repertoire. This release compiles various recordings Arbós made with the Madrid Symphony Orchestra during 1928, in which he championed then comparatively little-known Spanish music, many of the composers having been his friends. Of special note on this disc is Arbós’ own atmospheric orchestral picture-postcard Noche de Arabia, which has remained unplayed since the composer’s death.

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German Composers Conduct – Künneke, Schrecker, von Schillings, Egk & Wagner

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Staatskapelle Berlin Berlin Opera Orchestra, Eduard Künneke Franz Schrecker, Max von Schillings Werner Egk, Siegfried Wagner Dutton Laboratories • CDBP 9787

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German composers conduct

This disc features transfers from 78-rpm discs of German composers conducting their own music. The celebrated operetta composer Eduard Künneke conducts his Tänzerische Suite, a pioneering 1929 combination of jazz band and orchestra.

In contrast, Franz Schreker conducts his Little Suite for chamber orchestra, again written specifically for the microphone in 1929. Musically intriguing, Werner Egk’s wartime ballet Joan von Zarissa is unknown outside Germany. Siegfried Wagner conducts his father’s “Prelude and Liebestod” from Tristan und Isolde, which crowns this fascinating compilation recalling a forgotten musical world.

Historic Sibelius SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos.2 & 5

London Philharmonic Orchestra Basil Cameron, Erich Leinsdorf Dutton Laboratories • CDBP 9788

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Celebrated conductors Basil Cameron and Erich Leinsdorf are heard here in two magnificent readings of Sibelius symphonies. Cameron’s reading of the second symphony was admired in its day, even by comparison with versions by starrier names such as Koussevitzky and Ormandy. Erich Leinsdorf recorded Sibelius’s fifth symphony in 1946. The choice of which was a good one as England had not had a new recording of the work since the old Kajanus and Koussevitzky sets of the 1930s. Leinsdorf was not regarded as being particularly a Sibelius specialist, but his approach — swift, unequivocal, in its conciseness perhaps showing the influence of Toscanini — met with a wholehearted response from the LPO and was counted a great success.

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Tudor glories from the Tallis Scholars Tudor Church Music Vol.1

Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips Gimell • CDGIM 209

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Of all the polyphonic choral music the Tallis Scholars have recorded, the early English style featured on these two discs, with its dazzling high treble parts and luminous sonorities, must rank among the finest work they have done to date. It is truly atmospheric — Henry VIII would have known this sound from childhood and may well have included some of the music recorded here at his coronation. Encompassing four discs, these two sets feature composers from John Browne to Robert White and offer the listener over five hours of truly captivating music.

“Experienced, authoritative singers who’ve made a career not only performing this repertoire, but taking the time and committing the effort to get it right.”

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BRAHMS String Quartets Op.67, Op.51 No.1

Takács Quartet Hyperion • CDA 67552

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New recordings by the Takács Quartet have become important landmarks in the musical calendar. This second disc of Brahms string quartets looks set to repeat all the commercial and critical success of their first. It took twenty years for the famously self-critical Brahms to release his Op. 51 string quartets for publication. Despite frequent requests, they were held back until they had reached his requisite standard of perfection. It is clear that Brahms’ struggle with the string quartet medium eventually led him to find an intensely personal language for it, with an unmistakable originality of melody and texture. The supreme virtuosity and musicality of Takács Quartet is heard here in all its glory, shining new light on these evergreen masterworks.

“The Takács Quartet is one of the most gifted chamber ensembles currently recording.”

— Gramophone

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Hyperion • CDA 67585 (034571175850)

“A worthy contender among the elite of Schubert string quartet recordings.”

— Fanfare

Brahms: String Quartet Op.51/2 Piano Quintet

Hyperion • CDA 67551 (034571175515)

“This is music making of a very high order.”

November 2008

Schubert: Death & The Maiden

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Piano music of Stenhammar STENHAMMAR Piano Music

Martin Sturfält (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67689

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Wilhelm Stenhammar was the most outstanding musical personality in Sweden of his time. As a pianist, he brought high-quality music-making to audiences throughout the country through several hundred solo recitals and chamber music concerts. As music director of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, he created Sweden’s first truly professional ensemble. As a composer, he created some of the most important and carefully crafted music ever to come out of Sweden, ranging from symphonic works and operas to chamber music and lieder. This collection, featuring Martin Sturfält, explores the riches of Stenhammar’s music for piano.

Of special note here is Nights of Late Summer, which was one of Stenhammar’s last works. The pastoral title and miniaturist structure belie the enormous emotional range of the piece. It is a deeply romantic exploration of moods of introspective gloom and wandering desolation. This beautifully played disc is the perfect introduction to Sweden’s ‘national composer’.

A Roslavets world premiere ROSLAVETS Violin Concertos Nos.1 & 2

November 2008

Alina Ibragimova (violin) BBC Sco ish Symphony Orchestra Ilan Volkov Hyperion • CDA 67637

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Roslavets’ first violin concerto was thought to exist only in piano reduction form until 1989 when the full score was unearthed in the archives of the State Music Publishers in Moscow. It is an ambitious work, laid out on a large scale. Roslavets’ mastery of a leaner symphonic idiom, virtuosic and elegant, is immediately apparent. It ranks as one of the most important Russian works of its era. His second violin concerto was completed in 1936 and until recently it has remained in total obscurity. These notes were heard for the first time in Glasgow’s City Hall in January 2008, performed by Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and joined by the brilliant young violinist Alina Ibragimova. The performance on this disc is in fact the world premiere.

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The concertos of York Bowen BOWEN Piano Concertos Nos.3 & 4 The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.46 Danny Driver (piano) BBC Sco ish Symphony Orchestra Martyn Brabbins Hyperion • CDA 67659

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Hyperion’s virtually single-handed rehabilitation of the music of York Bowen (known in his time as ‘The English Rachmaninov’), continues apace with this recording of the third and fourth piano concertos. Bowen’s third is a vigorous one-movement work with three well-defined sections of varying tempos in fantasia style. The fourth concerto (said by Sorabji to be the greatest work for piano and orchestra ever written by an Englishman) is a large-scale, romantic, virtuoso work featuring impressionistic solo passages alternating freely with Straussian orchestral textures. Bowen considered the work his best composition for the piano and an important addition to the concerto literature. It has not been given a studio recording until now. The young British pianist Danny Driver, a Bowen specialist, gives a virtuoso performance with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins.

“Driver boasts an impressive technique and a clear musical intelligence.”

— The Observer

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“Simply stunning.”

— International Record Review

Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.45

Hyperion • CDA 67655 (034571176550)

“Skillfully rendered beauty from a little-known romantic.”

— Audiophile Audition

November 2008

Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.44

Hyperion • CDA 67630 (034571176307)

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Gerhardt & Rutherford perform Honegger HONEGGER Une Cantate de Noel, Horace victorieux Cello Concerto, Prélude, Fugue et Postlude

Alban Gerhardt (cello) James Rutherford (baritone) BBC National Chorus of Wales BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer Hyperion • CDA 67688

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Honegger’s Une Cantate de Noël is Christmas music with a difference. His last work and one of his most popular compositions, it was written for the Basle Chamber Choir and Orchestra in 1953. The text of the cantata is derived from liturgical and popular texts. A notable feature is the intertwining of traditional carols in French and German. This combination of the different texts and forms creates a wonderfully uplifting effect. This recording from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Thierry Fischer also includes a selection of other works

by Honegger, including his Cello Concerto which was premiered in Boston in 1930.

It is a charming, urbanely lyrical work, with a distinct tinge of jazz. It is played here by the brilliant young cellist Alban Gerhardt,, celebrated for his performances of little-known cello concertos in Hyperion’s Romantic Cello Concerto series.

Garrick Ohlsson’s Chopin re-issued CHOPIN Complete Works

November 2008

Garrick Ohlsson (piano), Various Artists Hyperion • CDS 44351

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Previously issued as separate discs on the Arabesque label Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson, has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. Ohlsson said of this set, “This monumental recording project first came about when the American record company Arabesque approached me with an irresistible offer to record the complete works of Chopin. I accepted with enthusiasm and an awareness of the magnitude of the task. My total immersion in the Chopin project was enhanced by a concurrent series of recitals of the complete solo works in the US and several European capitals from 1995 to 1997. I am delighted that these recordings are now available again as a boxed set on Hyperion.”

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play Beethoven BEETHOVEN Cello Sonatas Vol.1 – Op.5 Nos.1 & 2, Op.69

Daniel Müller-Scho (cello) Angela Hewi (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67633

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Angela Hewitt has taken time out from her impossibly busy solo concert schedule to record a dazzling chamber disc with one of the greatest young cellists of today. Daniel Müller-Schott’s rise to fame has been well documented in the world’s press. His fastidious, clean-lined, yet energetic playing is the perfect foil for Angela’s particular artistry. In their first Hyperion CD together, they present their first volume of Beethoven cello sonatas. Beethoven’s first three cello sonatas astonished his contemporaries with their dramatically innovative qualities. Before he wrote them, there were virtually no works in which the cello fully broke away from its subservient role of basso continuo to become an equal partner to the piano. They are works of extraordinary breadth and grandeur.

Praise for Daniel Müller-Scho

“A fearless player with technique to burn... even more impressive were his gorgeous, plush tone and his meticulous attention to expression.”

— The New York Times

Hewi ’s Beethoven sonatas

Hyperion • CDA 67518 (034571175188)

“Hewitt meets Beethoven head on.”

— American Record Guide

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 3, 8 & 15

Hyperion • CDA 67605 (034571576053)

“If you could only have one, this is the one you should have.”

— Fanfare

November 2008

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp.7 & 57

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The Binchois Consort Andrew Kirkman Hyperion • CDH 55288

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“This is musicianship of a very high order, transcending specialisms.”

— Gramophone

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BACH Cantatas BWV54, 169 & 170

James Bowman (counter-tenor) The King’s Consort, Robert King Hyperion • CDH 55312

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“James Bowman is on impressive form and his admirers need not hesitate here.”

— The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs

RACHMANINOV Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

November 2008

Corydon Singers, Ma hew Best Hyperion • CDH 55318

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“Impeccable, their sense of timing just right — leisurely, tender and reverential.”

— BBC Music Magazine

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TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade GRIEG Holberg Suite MOZART Eine kleine Nachtmusik

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String music favorites

Moscow Soloists, Yuri Bashmet Onyx Classics • ONYX 4037

The fourth release on Onyx from Yuri Bashmet and the Moscow Soloists is a disc of string favorites that have been in the group’s repertoire from the very beginning. The Grieg and Tchaikovsky are homages to the forms of baroque and classical music, and in many ways were inspired by Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik. The Moscow Soloists have enjoyed a very successful run. Their first two discs won a G ® Nomination and G® Award respectively, and their most recent recording of Tan Dun and Takemitsu has got great reviews so far.

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BRAHMS Viola Sonatas, Trios

Maxim Rysanov (viola) Katya Apekishiva (piano) Jacob Katsnelson (piano) Boris Brovtsyn (violin) Kristine Blaumane (cello) Onyx Classics • ONYX 4033

Maxim Rysanov has been named Gramophone Young Artist of the Year 2008

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This exciting release gathers together in one neat package the two viola sonatas with the trios for Clarinet and Horn in versions transcribed for viola. Violist Max Rysanov also plays the Klengel arrangement of the first violin sonata.

Rysanov, one of the world’s most charismatic violists, has been awarded Editor’s Choice from Gramophone Magazine for his first two discs. Here, he is accompanied by several of Russia’s most exciting younger generation of players, including Kristine Blaumane who has recently been appointed principal cellist of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Kelessidi sings Russian songs Russian Romance

Elena Kelessidi (soprano) Malcolm Martineau (piano) Onyx Classics • ONYX 4031

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Greek soprano Elena Kelessidi is one of opera’s most touching and fiery artists. Here she makes her recital debut with this heartfelt program of songs from a country whose language is natural to her. Born in Kazakhstan of Greek parentage, Kelessidi sprang to International attention in 1996 when she made a highly auspicious stage debut at London’s Royal Opera House and was hailed as an important new discovery by the British musical press. Elena’s accompanist is the ever-superb Malcolm Martineau. He appears in Susan Graham’s recital, releases from Amanda Roocroft and Barbara Bonney and a forthcoming recital from the outstanding Austrian bass-baritone Florian Boesch.

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Glass soundtrack transcriptions GLASS Soundtracks – Piano Transcriptions Michael Riesman (piano) Orange Mountain • OMM 0051

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Michael Riesman is the conductor and producer of nearly every Philip Glass soundtrack recording. Riesman has artfully served Glass’ music as a producer, conductor, transcriber and pianist. This disc presents his own transcriptions for solo piano of some of the best Philip Glass film scores. Included are the entire scores to The Hours and the Glass score to Dracula, which in concert, he performs live-to-film. Philip Glass Soundtracks includes many new suites and transcriptions including music which has never been heard before including No Reservations, A Brief History Of Time, Anima Mundi, Neverwas, Candyman and much more.

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Einaudi’s romantic minimalism

EINAUDI I Giorni

Ludovico Einaudi (piano) Ponderosa • CD 030

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The inspiration for Ludovico Einaudi’s I Giorni was a 12th-century folk song from Mali about a hippopotamus who was cherished by the residents of a nearby village but killed by a hunter. “The song,” writes Einaudi in his succinct liner note, “is sung as a lament for the death of a king or a great person or for the loss of a loved one.”

The result is a tender & introspective set of fourteen piano pieces. This work was written after hearing the kora playing of Toumani Diabate whilst traveling in Mali.

“A minimalist, one with classical training, and at the same time of a deeply romantic sensibility. “ — Absolute Sound

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“A beautiful CD from start to finish.”

— Film Score Monthly

November 2008

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Praga pays homage to Dohnányi DOHNÁNYI Variations on a nursery song, Konzertstück for cello, Piano Concerto No.2 Ernst von Dohnányi (piano) Janós Starker (cello) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Adrian Boult, Philharmonia Orchestra Walter Susskind Praga • PRD 250231

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SACD Hybrid / Stereo / DSD Dohnányi has in recent years been unduly neglected, although at one time his music formed a regular element in concert programs. In part this neglect is due to the sheer success of ‘new music’ composers like Bartók and Kodály, while Dohnányi was seen as belonging to the past and the German tradition. This homage to Dohnányi, “The Hungarian Brahms,” features the composer at the piano for his second piano concerto and Variations on a nursery song and the great Janos Starker in the Konzertstück for cello.

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Jansons’ Mahler cycle continues MAHLER Symphony No.5

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons RCO Live • RCO 08007

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SACD Hybrid / Stereo & Multi-channel / DSD To celebrate the group’s 120th anniversary, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra offers a new episode in the Mariss Jansons Mahler cycle: the majestic Symphony No. 5. The history of this world class orchestra and the Gustav Mahler composer are closely intertwined. It was Willem Mengelberg who championed Mahler’s music with his Amsterdam orchestra, and this music has retained a fixed place been on their music stands ever since. Mahler with the RCO is always like coming home. In this recording Jansons underscores more than ever the Fifth’s narrative, poetic side.

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Joanne Lunn (soprano) Robin Tyson, Daniel Taylor (counter-tenors) Christoph Genz (tenor), Brindley Sherra , Go hold Schwarz (bass) The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner Soli Deo Gloria • SDG 147

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John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach cantata series continues with this new release featuring cantatas for the eighth and tenth Sunday after Trinity. The set begins with a performance of BWV 178, Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält, which was premiered in Leipzig in July 1724. Derived from the Gospel reading (Matthew 7:15-23), the cantata warns against hypocrites and false prophets. In contrast, hope and belief permeate the following two cantatas, BWV 136 Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz and BWV 45 Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch, was gut ist. Next up is Bach’s first Leipzig cantata for the tenth Sunday after Trinity, BWV 46, Schauet doch und sehet, ob irgendein Schmerz sei. Here the Gospel (Luke 19:41-48) tells us how Jesus predicted the imminent destruction of Jerusalem. The antithesis between God’s anger and mercy resurfaces in Bach’s two later cantatas for this Sunday; BWV 101 Nimm von uns Herr, du treuer Gott and BWV 102 Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben! With their customary brilliance and expert musicianship, the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists triumph, making this the ideal next installment in what many have already come to regard as the first choice of recorded Bach Cantata series.

“This is Bach at a very high level — a match for anything else currently available on disc.”

— BBC Music Magazine

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“A set that rivals his Gramophone Record of the Year Award-winning disc that launched this amazing series.”

— Gramophone

November 2008

Soli Deo Gloria • SDG 144 (843183014422)

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From Galicia to Brazil and back again

Eterno Navegar

Uxía World Village • 498024

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File in: World / Europe / Portugal Eterno navegar is the title of Uxía’s new recording. Rooted in her native Galicia’s tradition and atmosphere, Uxía reshapes music sounds that binds countries such as Portugal, Brazil and Cape Verde and makes them her own. The album was produced by Uxía and Paulo Borges, a Portuguese pianist and composer from Azores Islands. The fifteen tracks of Eterno navegar showcase Uxía’s melodious and intimate voice. These excellent Lusophone musicians travel along the paths of little-heard Atlantic sounds, bringing their exquisite beauty to life once more. Special guests include Sara Tavares, Tito Paris, Jon Luz, Zeca Medeiros, Julio Pereira, João Afonso, Paulo de Carvalho and Ruben Santos, Anxo Quinto Pinto and Quim Farinha.

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Diego Amador World Village • 468081

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File in: World / Europe / Spain Following last year’s release of Piano Jondo, flamencoinfluenced jazz pianist Diego Amador is back with another infusion of richly improvisational Gitano soul. On Rio de los Canasteros (the title refers to a traditional livelihood of nomadic, rural-based Gitano tribes) the bandleader’s powerfully virile yet fluid and imaginative piano is heard in fierce, romantic interplay with guitars and vocals, plus blistering percussion and palmas (handclaps). Featuring guest turns from guitar master Tomatito, legendary cantaora (female singer) La Susi, Diego’s own brother Raimundo Amador, who is equally famed for his Gitano/blues-inflected guitar and inclusive individuality, super-bassist Carles Benavent and the versatile Argentinean guitarist Luis Salinas, the album has a charged yet relaxed feeling, much like the atmosphere at a juerga, an informal jam session where anyone can join in and anything can happen. Lopsided, incessantly mutating rhythms are wreathed in soaring melodies that can shift in a heartbeat between urbane coolness and feverish emotional engagement. Each of the nine tracks is as redolent of allnight urban back-room gatherings as long centuries of roadside bonding -- and singed by a hard-won, borderline supernatural and specifically Iberian musical bliss known as duende.

“Self-taught, he has found a way to communicate the age-old flamenco musical culture via the grand piano.”

— Audiophile Audition

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The timeless Sardana tradition La Sardana

Cobla Sant Jordi Ciutat de Barcelona World Village • 498021

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File in: World / Europe / Spain The cobla is a traditional music ensemble of Catalonia. It is generally used to accompany the Sardana, a traditional Catalan folk dance, danced in a circle. In Barcelona, capital of Catalonia, in the summer time, one can often see cobla performances in open outdoor squares, with dozens of Catalonians mixed with tourists dancing the Sardana, their purses and backpacks placed on the ground within the circle. Cobla Sant Jordi Ciutat de Barcelona (the official cobla of the city) is one of the best Catalan groups that plays the traditional Catalan Sardana. The group was formed in 1983 and with this recording they are celebrating their 25th anniversary.

New studio album from Moussu T Home Sweet Home

Moussu T et lei Jovents Chant du Monde • 2741600

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File in: World / Europe / France Moussu T e lei jovents, the finest band ever to come from La Ciotat (!) return with another slice of Occitan wit and wisdom. Home Sweet Home is the band’s third proper studio album and continues in the same vein as their previous work – i.e., gloriously catchy, melodic, quirky, funny, dark, poignant, gritty. Singing as usual mainly in the Occitan language, the band again invoke the heat and intensity of Marseille and its neighbor, the band’s hometown, La Ciotat. Forever Polida was a huge surprise hit in 2006 and this new album is sure to increase the momentum.

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Bucharest Tango

Oana Catalina Chitu Asphalt Tango • ATR 1808

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File in: World / Eastern Europe / Romania Bucharest Tango is a unique album, one that resurrects a lost music, the sound of Romanian Tango as played in Bucharest cafes and parks, restaurants and clubs, across the 1930s. Oana Catalina Chitu (pronounced Kitsu) and her musicians combine the lost tango songs of that era with the folk ballads of Maria Tanase (1913–1963; the Romanian Piaf ). Until now, no other singer of the younger generation from Romania has been able to approach both the tangos à la romanesque and Tanase’s ballads so authentically yet freely. Although Romania is a country with a rich musical tradition, a virus of cheap, electronic pop music has seized the nation post-revolution. Oana represents the cutting edge of a new generation of Romanians interested in the brilliant – now largely forgotten – musical traditions from a bygone age.

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Balkan Electro-roots music

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Fake No More

La Cherga Asphalt Tango • ATR 1708

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File in: World / Eastern Europe / Balkans Ripe, bright and tasty as stuffed peppers, La Cherga create 21st-century electro-roots music with a pan-Balkanic consciousness. La Cherga consist of six musicians, all from former Yugoslavia. They came together in Germany and Austria as musicians seeking a new musical identity, sharing what one member calls a “Post Pessimist” philosophy. La Cherga (named after a Balkan rag rug, appropriate for these musical recyclers) began weaving a sonic collage, inventing a Balkan internationalist music & manifesto. Their sound draws on the best of both East and West, bringing together Balkan brass, jazz vocals, Jamaican grooves and electronic beats.

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Cuban roots music Punto and Trova of Sancti Spiritus Various Artists Ocora • C 560208

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File in: World / Caribbean / Cuba Sancti Spiritus, in the centre of Cuba now appears as the place where the cultures of Spain, Canaries and Africa, all deeply rooted locally, fused into original types of music. The many genres played here, guajira, trova, guaracha, bolero and diverse types of punto like the zesty controversias, are all spiced with popular poetry, subtle rhythms and harmonies, luminous timbres of the tres and the lute. This comprehensive collection explores both these types of music as well as the musical and cultural atmosphere of the region.

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A legend of Egyptian music L’Egyptien

Abdo Dagher Ad Vitam • AV 080523

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File in: World / Africa / Egypt Abdo Dagher was born in Egypt in 1936. He taught himself to play the oud when he was seven and a performance by a foreign soloist (possibly David Oistrakh) attracted him to the violin when he was ten. The greatest impact on Dagher’s musical life goes back to the religious music performed by the Sufi orders, which he learned in his childhood. Dagher was a member of several famous Arabic orchestras including the one that accompanied Um Kulthum, the best-known singer in Egypt and the Arab world in the 20th century. It was not until 1992 that he started performing his own compositions. In support of his efforts to revive Arabic musical heritage, he received funding from the Egyptian Ministry of Culture.

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Miri Familia

Tchavolo Schmi Chant du Monde • 2741629

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Master of manouche

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File in: Jazz Tchavolo Schmitt was introduced to the guitar at the age of 6 by his mother; his father played the violin. He developed, with time, a virtuosity in the manouche style and his renown rapidly exceeded the limits of Alsace, his ancestral region. He became influential among his peers, in particular at Porte de Montreuil or Chope des Puces in Saint-Ouen, legendary homes of manouche swing.

In 1979, he became a professional musician, and in that year, after leaving Paris to return to his Alsatian roots, he joined the band “Hot Club da Sinti,” which included the violinist Wedeli Köhler, the guitarist Schmeling Lehmann, and the bass player Jani Lehmann. A single LP recording (now a collector’s item) was released in 1981. While his career paused during the 1980s, in 1993 he joined the band “Gypsy Reunion” (with, among others, Dorado Schmitt, Patrick Saussois and Gino Reinhardt). In 2000, he released the first album under his own name, with the friendly support and the active participation of Romane. This album was followed in 2001 by Miri Familia.

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Paris for Lovers; Meet Mr Barclay Eddie Barclay Dutton Vocalion • CDNJT 5204

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Melachrino Strings, George Melachrino Dutton Vocalion • CDVS 1956

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Brentano String Quartet

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Richard Egarr

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Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

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Gerald Finley

Hyperion

Alban Gerhardt Ma hias Goerne

Hyperion harmonia mundi

Susan Graham Marc-André Hamelin

Onyx Classics Hyperion

Stephen Hough

Hyperion

Stephen Isserlis Paul Lewis Jon Manasse

Hyperion harmonia mundi harmonia mundi

Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra MariJon Nakamatsu

LSO Live harmonia mundi

Paul O'De e

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Prazák Quartet

Praga

Pascal Rogé Howard Shelley Takács Quartet

Onyx Classics Hyperion Hyperion

Cedric Tiberghien

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Hamilton Waco Reading Norte Dame New London Hanover Goshen Boston Houston Los Angeles Durham Baltimore Pi sburgh New York Richmond St. Louis Overland Park College Park Cincinnati Ann Arbor Cleveland Ithaca Kutztown New York Atlanta Boston Cincinnati Chapel Hill New York Ithaca Wheaton Troy Evanston Atlanta Plano Detroit New York Chicago Casper Stamford Los Alamos Corrales New York Rochester Rochester Santa Rosa Boston Rochester New York Beverly Hills Pasadena Montgomery San Antonio New York Ames Farmington Hills San Diego Naples Boulder Durham Washington Cleveland Iowa City Washington Boston Durham New Haven Champain Los Angeles Carmel San Luis Obispo Middlebury Dayton Portland

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Colgate University: Memorial Chapel Baylor University: Roxy Grove Hall Miller Center for the Arts Leighton Concert Hall Connecticut College Hopkins Center for the Arts Stauder Concert Hall Symphony Hall First Unitarian Universalist Church Doheny Mansion First Presbyterian Church Baltimore Museum of Art Auditorium Synod Hall Weill Recital Hall Modlin Center for the Arts Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis Carlsen Center Dekelboum Concert Hall St. Peter in Chains Cathedral St. Francis of Assisi St. John the Evangelist Cathedral Bailey Hall Schaeffer Auditorium Lincoln Center/The Metropolitan Opera Atlanta Symphony Hall Symphony Hall Cincinnati Music Hall University of North Carolina: Memorial Hall Lincoln Center/The Metropolitan Opera Cornell University: Bailey Hall Wheaton College: Edman Memorial Chapel Troy Savings Bank Hall Northwestern University Spivey Hall Collin College: John Anthony Theater Max M. Fisher Music Center Tisch Center for the Arts: Kaufmann Concert Hall Symphony Center Chicago Natrona County High School Auditorium Palace Theatre of the Arts Los Alamos High School: Duane Smith Auditorium Historic Old San Ysidro Church Lincoln Center Eastman Theatre Hochstein School of Music: Performance Hall Santa Rosa Junior College: Newman Auditorium Jordan Hall Eastman School of Music Rose Theater Ace Gallery Beckman Auditorium Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Temple Beth-El New York Society for Ethical Culture Ames Town & Gown Seligman Performing Arts Center Copley Symphony Hall Hayes Hall Grusin Music Hall: University of Colorado at Boulder Duke University Corcoran Gallery Fairmount Temple Auditorium Clapp Recital Hall Library of Congress Jordan Hall University of New Hampshire Yale University Krannert Center Royce Hall Sunset Center Spanos Theatre Mahaney Center for the Arts Concert Hall Shiloh Church Merrill Auditorium

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Natacha Atlas

World Village

C.J. Chenier

World Village

Mamadou Diabaté

World Village

Zakir Hussain

Network

Kayhan Kalhor Klezmatics

World Village Piranha

Habib Koité

World Village

Tania Libertad Ana Moura New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Catherine Russell

World Village World Village World Village World Village

Chango Spasiuk

Piranha

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SF Jazz: Herbst Theatre The El Rey Dakota Jazz Club Rhodes on the Pawtucket Cedarburg Performing Arts Center Arts Council of Tamworth University of North Carolina Zankel Hall Stern Auditorium: Perelman Stage Royce Hall Fermilab The Cedar Cultural Center Somerville Theatre Colonial Theatre Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center Orcas Center Broadway Center Kirkland Performance Center Royce Hall University of Arizona Congregation Beth Israel Stern Auditorium: Perelman Stage South Broadway Cultural Center San Juan College Zellerbach Hall Phelps Stokes Auditorium Steward Theatre The Lincoln Theatre Highline Ballroom Benaroya Hall Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise Mayo Center for the Performing Arts Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts Weinberg Center for the Arts Carnegie Hall (WV) Jefferson Center: Shaftman Performance Hall Zankel Hall

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