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STREET DATE FEBRUARY 10, 2009

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On harmonia mundi, the sublime voice of mezzo Lorraine Hunt Lieberson comes vividly to life once more in a heartrending live recital from Ravinia recorded two years before her untimely death (p.5). Alexandre Tharaud and friends explore the wit and wisdom of Erik Satie in a thought-provoking two-disc set of solos and duos (p.4). Bach’s solo cantatas are featured in the latest release from accliamed mezzo Bernarda Fink (p.3). On Hyperion, the latest release in the Romantic Violin Concerto series features Ilya Gringolts playing works by Arensky and Taneyev (p.9). Onyx scores another coup with a new recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations featuring the great Stephen Kovacevich (p.13) Worthy of special note are a musical memory game on harmonia mundi (p.6), a rare Mahler recording with Leonard Bernstein (p.15) and another Wagner Ring discovery from Testament (p.17). On the non-classical front, World Village offers releases from Argentinean chamamé wizard Chango Spasiuk (p.21) and an extraordinary Fado debut from Antonío Zambujo (p.20). Of special note is the release of Tinariwen’s hit recording Aman Iman as a deluxe, gatefold packaged two-LP set (p.19).

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World Village receives GRAMMY® nomination Hindustani-trained vocalist Lakshmi Shankar is nominated for a ® Award this year for her latest album Dancing In The Light, in the Best Traditional World Album category.

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Long neglected on a library shelf in Brandenburg Castle, these six ‘Concertos for several instruments’ have since become some of the best-known works in the classical repertoire for their musical inventiveness and their games of mathematical symmetry.

Richard Egarr and the Academy of Ancient Music have endeavoured to return to the original ‘chamber’ conception of the works, with one player per part. They will be performing this program in concert in March.

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Fink sings Bach’s solo cantatas

Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano) Freiburger Barockorchester Petra Müllejans harmonia mundi • HMC 902016

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BACH Cantatas for Alto — BWV35, 169 & 170

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In 1726, Bach entered a new period of creative innovation in Leipzig. Renouncing the chorus, he built up a constant dialogue between solo arias and finely sculpted instrumental parts. The three cantatas presented here represent the culmination of this development, and have established their place as a peak of the recorded repertoire.

“One of the most refreshing singers of the present time.”

— International Record Review

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Berlioz: Nuits d’ete

harmonia mundi • HMC 901932 (794881835522)

“A lieder disc of distinction.”

“This recital should find an honored place in any collection.”

— The Independent (UK)

— ClassicsToday.com

February 2009

Schubert: Lieder

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Satie’s musical kaleidoscope SATIE Avant-dernières pensées

Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Juliette Noureddine (vocals) Jean Delescluse (tenor), Eric Le Sage (piano) Isabelle Faust (violin), David Guerrier (trumpet) harmonia mundi • HMC 902017

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With this recording, Alexandre Tharaud aims to serve justice to Erik Satie — the real Erik Satie. Chock full of surprises and humor, Tharaud strives to reveal the coherence between Satie’s life and music. The first CD is devoted to piano solo works.

The second offers a selection of duos, many of which are world premiere recordings. Featuring well-known artists such as chanson singer Juliette, violinist Isabelle Faust, pianist Eric le Sage, trumpet player David Guerrier and tenor Jean Delescluse, this album will also include a private Internet access code to listen to bonus tracks and discover more about Satie’s life and work.

“My aim in these two discs has been to offer the richest possible panorama of Satie’s piano and chamber music, ranging over his whole lifetime... Immersed in the world of Satie, we were touched, often deeply moved by the trust he shows in his interpreters.”

— Alexandre Tharaud

February 2009

Also available Debussy & Poulenc: Cello Sonatas harmonia mundi • HMC 902012 (794881891023)

“Another superlative recording.”

— ClassicsToday.com

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Chopin: Preludes Op.28

harmonia mundi • HMC 901982 (794881867820)

“A breathtaking disc...”

— BBC Music Magazine

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson   

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Recital at Ravinia

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) Drew Minter (counter-tenor) Peter Serkin (piano) harmonia mundi • HMU 907500

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Two years before she died, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson gave this recital focusing on the theme of love at the Ravinia Festival. In this live recording, she displays her own very special sense of drama in a program ranging over several centuries and covering every facet of this universal emotion. Fittingly, Hunt Lieberson is accompanied by an eminent partner, the pianist Peter Serkin.

“Hunt’s burnished mezzo combines fire with a poignant intensity that breaks your heart.”

— BBC Music Magazine

Also available with Lorraine Hunt Lieberson San Francisco Symphony • 60006 (821936000625)

“Intense and vocally magnificent.”

— Gramophone

Handel: Arias

harmonia mundi • HMU 907149 (093046714925)

“A showcase for Hunt’s accomplished singing.”

February 2009

Mahler: Symphony No. 2

— The Denver Post 5

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A game to test your musical memory Musical Instruments — A Memory Game Various Artists harmonia mundi • HMX 2908238

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This musical memory game uses images of some of the world’s best-known paintings with world-class musical performances taken from the harmonia mundi catalog to test your knowledge of the instruments of the classical orchestra. The deluxe boxed set features sixty playing cards, an audio CD representing each instrument in a musical excerpt and a 60-page illustrated booklet explaining the rules of the game and describing how these instruments have been depicted in painting over the ages.

The ideal Bach sampler BACH The Essentials

Various Artists harmonia mundi • HMX 2968096

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How can one sum up on two CDs all that Johann Sebastian Bach contributed to music? The artists of harmonia mundi offer you this concise survey, which brings together some of his key works, carefully chosen highlights which aim above all to whet your appetite for further discoveries. Featured performers include Philippe Herreweghe, René Jacobs, Lionel Rogg, Andrew Manze, Kenneth Gilbert and many more.

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The Hilliard Ensemble Paul Hillier harmonia mundi • HMA 1951106

Previously Available as HCX 3951106 (713746110628) Deleted October 2005 BERLIOZ Harold in Italy — viola & piano transcription

Bruno Pasquier (viola) Jean-François Heisser (piano) harmonia mundi • HMA 1951246

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Previously Available as HMA 1901277 (794881439928) Deleted March 2002 LASSUS Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae Ensemble Vocal Européen Philippe Herreweghe harmonia mundi • HMA 1951299

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Previously Available as HMA 1901246 (093046124625) Deleted March 2001 HAYDN Piano Trios Nos.25-27

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Patrick Cohen (fortepiano) Erich Höbarth (violin) Christophe Coin (cello) harmonia mundi • HMA 1951277

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Michel Portal (clarinet) Georges Pludermacher (piano) harmonia mundi • HMA 195904

February 2009

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The golden tenor of Richard Tauber LEHAR Richard Tauber Sings Lehar Richard Tauber (tenor) Dutton Vocalion • CDVS 1912

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The fourth volume in Dutton’s Richard Tauber series focuses on music by Franz Lehár. Recorded during the late 1920s and early ‘30s, Tauber’s sumptuous tenor voice is heard in performances of works from such well-loved operettas as The Merry Widow, Land of Smiles, Gypsy Love and The Tinker. These delightful performances all feature orchestral accompaniments, some of which are directed by the composer himself, and are powerful reminders of the beauty of one of the finest tenor voices of all time.

February 2009

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Rediscover the charm of Vincent d’Indy

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D’INDY Wallenstein, Saugefleurie, Lied, Choral varié Lawrence Power (viola) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Thierry Fischer Hyperion • CDA 67690

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Vincent d’Indy is one of many great nineteenth-century composers whose reputation has suffered through the vagaries of fashion. Yet his fine body of works shows an imaginatively eclectic engagement with the musical trends of his age. This disc from Thierry Fischer and The BBC National Orchestral of Wales presents a fascinating selection of d’Indy’s orchestral works. Symphonic poems Wallenstein and Saugefleurie are paired with two charming single-movement works for solo viola and orchestra that showcase the talents of Hyperion artist Lawrence Power.

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ARENSKY Violin Concerto TANEYEV Suite de Concert

Ilya Gringolts (violin) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov Hyperion • CDA 67642

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This disc juxtaposes two significant Russian works for violin and orchestra, each written by a composer with a close relationship to Tchaikovsky and each dedicated to the great violinist Leopold Auer. Both concertos are formidable display pieces and Ilya Gringolts, one of the great young violin virtuosos of today, dazzles in this repertoire. He is ably supported by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Ilan Volkov. Arensky’s concerto is a model of the flowering of Russian romantic nationalism and Tchaikovsky’s influence on his friend is pleasingly evident. Taneyev’s much larger Suite de concert is a clever synthesis of different styles from Baroque to Romantic and includes a musical homage to Tchaikovsky.

“Gringolts’s technical command, beautiful intonation and exciting, deep involvement with the music make for a great listening experience.”

— Gramophone

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Hyperion • CDA 67420 (034571174204)

“Lends just the right note of enchantment and authenticity to these forgotten scores.”

— Gramophone

Ernst: Violin Music

Hyperion • CDA 67619 (034571176192)

“Among the greatest displays of virtuosity I have ever heard.”

February 2009

Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concerto

— American Record Guide 9

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Hyperion’s Byrd series continues BYRD Hodie Simon Petrus

Cardinall’s Musick, Andrew Carwood Hyperion • CDA 67653

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This latest release in The Cardinall’s Musick complete Byrd Edition is surely one of the most eagerly-awaited events in the early music calendar. Previous discs in this award-winning survey have commanded the highest possible critical acclaim. The works in this eleventh volume present music are from two sources: the magnificent Cantiones Sacrae of 1591 and the Gradualia from 1607. The group’s inspirational director Andrew Carwood sets the scene with fascinating booklet notes that illustrate the complex political and religious circumstances in which this great music was engendered.

Volume four of Strauss Lieder STRAUSS Complete Songs Vol.4

February 2009

Christopher Maltman (baritone) Alastair Miles (bass) Roger Vignoles (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67667

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This fourth volume in Hyperion’s Strauss Lieder series features the great British baritone Christopher Maltman. The settings of Rückert, Dehmel, Goethe and others heard here are tinged with a dark regret which is enhanced by their low tessitura. Strauss the opera composer is evident in the epic scale of the lieder written post-Salome. Roger Vignoles provides his famous extensive booklet notes, with commentary about each individual song and scholarly discourse on the poetry.

Celebrating Haydn’s Bicentennial HAYDN Piano Trios Vol.1 — HOB XV:24-27

Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana Howard Shelley Hyperion • CDS 44371

Florestan Trio Hyperion • CDA 67719

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Howard Shelley presents the symphonies that made Haydn the most famous and popular composer alive in the 1790s. These are Haydn’s most glittering, worldly symphonies, and listening to them as a set one can sense the exhilarating milieu in which they were written. These new recordings, featuring high class performances, excellent recorded sound and illuminating booklet notes at a special price, are the perfect way to experience the joy and splendor of these works.

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HAYDN London Symphonies Nos.93-104

Chamber music devotees will welcome this first volume of a new series by the award-winning Florestan Trio. Haydn’s piano trios are a uniquely important body of work. The form (where the piano took center stage and was accompanied by a violin and a cello) was quite popular in domestic circles. Haydn took the form beyond the salon and poured into these accompanied sonatas as much inventiveness and range of musical expression as he did into his piano sonatas and string quartets.

Demidenko’s Medtner, now at mid-price

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MEDTNER Piano Music

Nikolai Demidenko (piano) Hyperion • CDH 55315

Previously Available as CDA 66636 (034571166360) Deleted April 2007

— BBC Music Magazine Top 1,000 CDs Guide

February 2009

“Few can touch this stunning Demidenko programme, excellently recorded and featuring playing of the highest order.”

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MacMillan’s dramatic St John Passion MACMILLAN St John Passion

Christopher Maltman (baritone), London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis LSO Live • LSO 0671

February 2009

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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD When Sir Colin Davis was asked to select a composer to write a new work for his 80th birthday, he chose James MacMillan. MacMillan had previously considered writing a passion and used the opportunity of the commission to produce a setting based on the Gospel of St John. The result is a highly dramatic work, featuring a small choir to provide the narration and a solitary baritone soloist to portray Christ. The work received its premiere on April 27, 2008 at the Barbican in London and was recorded for LSO Live.

Stotijn sings Tchaikovsky

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TCHAIKOVSKY Romances

Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano) Julius Drake (piano) Onyx Classics • ONYX 4034

The third release on Onyx from young Dutch mezzo and rising star Christianne Stotijn features a beautiful collection of twenty Tchaikovsky songs representing the whole range of his creative life. Included are his first performed composition, “My Genius, My angel, my friend,” written when we was 16, and his last published song from the year of his death “,Again, as before, alone.” Stotijn learned Russian especially for this recording and toured it widely before recording it with the renowned accompanist Julius Drake.

This recording should do much to re-evaluate Tchaikovsky as one of the great art song composers.

Stephen Kovacevich plays Beethoven onyx

BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations BACH Partita No.4

Stephen Kovacevich (piano) Onyx Classics • ONYX 4035

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After more than 40 years, pianist Stephen Kovacevich returns to the piece that brought him worldwide fame — in Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. In the 1990s, Kovacevich recorded the complete Beethoven sonatas for EMI and the set is now one of the standard recommendations. This recording effectively completes that cycle. Kovacevich made his sensational UK debut with this piece in 1961 and recorded it in a still-classic version for Philips in 1968. His conception has changed — it has a more live quality (despite being a studio recording) and more dramatic — quite simply, it picks you up and sweeps you along irresistibly to the very end. As a generous bonus, Onyx offers Kovacevich’s first-ever recording of music by Bach.

“In a period when Beethoven interpretation has become fairly standardized, Kovacevich remains a free spirit, making a profoundly personal response to the music and playing in an improvisatory style, which fits descriptions of how Beethoven performed his own music.”

— The Boston Globe

Another Onyx superstar

Onyx Classics • ONYX 4030 (880040403029)

“A model of gorgeous singing...”

February 2009

Susan Graham

Un Frisson Français

— Opera News 13

Einaudi back-catalog now available ponderosa

The tremendous success of the recent releases of music by Ludovico Einaudi, coupled with the strong critical response to his recent US tour, prompted the re-issue of his complete back catalog on Ponderosa. These four CDs represent the full range of Einaudi’s genius as both a composer and a performer.

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EINAUDI Le Onde

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Ludovico Einaudi (piano) Ponderosa • CD 021

Ludovico Einaudi (piano) Ponderosa • CD 040

EINAUDI La Scala Concert

EINAUDI Una Ma ina

Ludovico Einaudi (piano) Ponderosa • CD 041

Ludovico Einaudi (piano) Ponderosa • CD 043

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MAHLER Symphony No.2 CONSTANT Preludes for Orchestra

Berthe Monmart (soprano) Oralia Dominguez (mezzo-soprano) Chœur et Orchestre National de l’ORTF Leonard Bernstein Radio France • FRF 002

Leonard Bernstein was one of the most influential figures in the history of American classical music, championing the works of American composers and inspiring the careers of a generation of musicians. This disc features a live concert from 1958 that was broadcast on Radio France. Along with another performance and recording from the same year featuring Carl Schuricht, it marked the return of Mahler’s second symphony to French concert halls after a haitus of over half a century. Also included is Bernstein’s premiere recording of Marius Constant’s Preludes for Orchestra.

Kempe conducts Strauss Alan Civil (French horn) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Rudolf Kempe Testament • SBT 1428

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February 2009

Before this recording, which was made following a concert at the Royal Festival Hall, Rudolf Kempe had never conducted the Alpine Symphony.

The sessions are particularly well remembered by horn player Alan Civil, who was famously cynical about many conductors. On his stand he would keep a complete pocket score of the work he was rehearsing, and was known to make musical points from it to conductors he felt were lacking in talent or detail.

Rudolf Kempe, however, was one of the conductors (along with Beecham, Karajan and Klemperer) that Civil especially admired.

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STRAUSS Eine Alpensinfonie, Horn Concerto No.1

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Bruno Walter conducts the LPO STRAUSS Tod und Verklärung MAHLER Symphony No.1

BBC Symphony Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Bruno Walter Testament • SBT 1429

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In the late 1940’s, the London Philharmonic attracted a very impressive list of celebrity conductors, thanks to brilliant managing by its former viola player, Thomas Russell. He was a major force in the Orchestra’s rebirth as a selfgoverning orchestra in 1940 when Sir Thomas Beecham was no longer able to maintain it. The LPO became a national symbol of survival and cultural ideals for the people of England during the war. As well as playing with Bruno Walter, the orchestra was led by Victor de Sabata, Ernest Ansermet, Erich Kleiber, Charles Münch, Paul Paray, Eduard van Beinum and Serge Koussevitsky. This Testament release features rare recordings that are issued here for the very first time.

A David Oistrakh recital Oistrakh plays Schumann, Franck & Ravel

February 2009

David Oistrakh (violin) Vladimir Yampolsky (piano) Testament • SBT 1442

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This Enescu Festival program is a very interesting one. Its repertoire ranges from Fritz Kreisler’s transcription of the Schumann violin concerto to Franck’s immortal violin sonata. The performances capture violinist David Oistrakh in his prime, accompanied by the great Vladimir Yampolsky on the piano.

Oistrakh’s rocketed to stardom in 1937 when he won first prize at the Ysaÿe Competition in Brussels. Oistrakh’s playing was marked, apart from a phenomenal technique, by stylistic fidelity to works by different composers of different historical periods.

New Wagner discovery Price Code: 4A22 (4 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $91.98)

Martha Mödl (soprano), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor), Hans Hotter (bass-baritone), Josef Greindl (bass), Bayreuth Festival Choir & Orchestra Joseph Keilberth Testament • SBT4 1433

Testament’s highly acclaimed release of the legendary 1955 stereo recordings of the Ring made by Decca at Bayreuth featured the first of two cycles of performances conducted by Joseph Keilberth and staged by the Festival’s co-director Wieland Wagner. Partly for security, partly out of interest, Decca’s engineers, under Peter Andry, also recorded the second cycle, from which this first-ever release of Götterdämmerung is drawn. It provides listeners a chance not only to hear a different musical perspective but also to appreciate the amazing depth of Bayreuth’s casting resources. For these performances Martha Mödl took over as Brünnhilde while Hans Hotter, the production’s Wotan/Wanderer from 1952, took on the role of Gunther.

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A fascinating Debussy retrospective Price Code: A19 (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)

Ricardo Vines, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Artur Rubinstein, Walter Gieseking, Marcelle Meyer, Marius François Gaillard, Claudio Arrau, Jean Doyen, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (pianos) Ysaÿe • IM 01

February 2009

This CD from Ysaÿe Records is a collection of historic recordings of the works of Claude Debussy, reproduced from originals made in the first half of the 20th century on wax cylinders, 78 rpm and long-playing records. These recordings represent the work of a generation of pianists, some of whom were contemporaries of Debussy. The variety and depth of their interpretive directions and technical expertise provide listeners a fascinating retrospective both on Debussy’s music and changes in pianistic style.

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An African music safari

Marabi Africa 1 Various Artists Marabi • 46818

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Marabi Africa 2 Various Artists Marabi • 46829

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File in: World / Africa Collections From the Maghreb to southern Africa, from the Gulf of Guinea to the islands of the Indian Ocean, the music of the African continent makes up an always-changing patchwork of sounds, colors and rhythms. It can be acoustic or electric, more or less rooted in the tradition, it can festive, it can be dance compelling or trance enticing, it can be meditative, leading to contemplation; but it is always marked by an incredible richness. This collection by Marabi presents a selection of the label’s artists (singers, composers-songwriters, instrumentalists) who are part of this creative effervescence. Featured performers include Boubacar Traoré, Mahotella Queens, Johnny Clegg, Wendo Kolosoy and Jaojoby.

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A treat for vinyl collectors Tinariwen Independiente • ISOM 65LP

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Aman Iman

File in: World / Africa / Mali Tinariwen’s critically acclaimed Aman Iman is now available as a gatefold two-LP set. Aman Iman, is the band’s third recording for World Village. It was produced by British bluesman and Justin Adams and recorded at Bogolan studios in Bamako, Mali. The album’s fifteen tracks celebrate their Tamashek heritage in all its trance-inducing, hipshaking, majesty, mystery and magic.

“If you’ve never bought a Tinariwen album, make it this one.”

— Songlines

“A mesmeric evocation of the mood of yearning inculcated through years of exile, all nourished by the vast emptiness of the desert...an album that deserves to hoist Tinariwen onto the international stage occupied by high-profile world music acts such as the Buena Vista Social Club and Ali Farka Touré.”

— Andy Gill, The Independent

Now available on DVD

World Village • 458086 (713746808693)

“Tinariwen capture the poetry and hardships of nomadic life and exile in hypnotic, modal vocals and a tangle of sidewinding riffs that sound like a mirage come true.”

February 2009

Live in London

— Rolling Stone 19

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A new voice in Fado Outro sentido

Antonio Zambujo World Village • 479024

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February 2009

File in: World / Europe / Portugal António Zambujo was born in Beja, Alentejo (South of Portugal) in 1975. He fell in love with Fado when listening to Amália Rodrigues, Alfredo Marceneiro, Maria Teresa de Noronha and João Ferreira Rosa. And it was singing, when Zambujo was only sixteen years old, that he won a regional Fado contest. His professional career started when Mário Pacheco, the renowned Portuguese guitarist and composer, invited him to sing in his Club de Fado, in Lisbon. Soon after that Zambujo was chosen to take the role of Francisco da Cruz, Amalia Rodrigues’ first husband, in the blockbuster musical Amália. He performed the role continuously during the musical’s four year run in Lisbon and after that he toured all around Portugal achieving enormous success. His new record Outro sentido is a statement from a mature artist that has found his own unique Fado style.

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Advance Review “Outro Sentido is António Zambujo coming of age as a great singer. The highlights on this CD are just too many to mention: it is one not to be missed.” — Songlines

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An Argentinean love le er

Chango Spasiuk World Village • 468083

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Advance Review “Pynandí showcases Spasiuk and his excellent band as we know them best. This is the genuine red dirt article, and an equally great album ... you can listen to all the way through, just letting the surging rhythms wash over you.”

— fRoots

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Pynandí (Los Descalzos)

File in: World / South America / Argentina Innovative Argentinean accordion virtuoso and composer Chango Spasiuk’s latest CD is entitled Pynandí (Los Descalzos) (Barefoot), from an indigenous Guaraní word, referring to that nation’s impoverished rural populations. This is quite fitting as, like American blues, Portuguese Fado and Argentina’s own tango, the sunny, lilting chamamé was at one time considered too lower-class to be of interest to educated listeners. But that was before Spasiuk, with his uninhibited stage demeanor and flying blond hair, put his spin on it, delighting traditionalists while intriguing rock and jazz audiences.

The current album is a love letter to the land of Spasiuk’s birth, capturing the red earth, blinding heat, and rough good humor and warm fellowship of laborers heading out for an evening’s fun. Each of the 15 tunes harbors a contradiction of some kind; although this music is seductively accessible, it is also anything but easy listening – in the best possible sense.

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“One of the very finest albums of the year.”

— BBC Radio

February 2009

Tarefero de mis Pagos

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TV Themes ’70s style Favourite TV Themes Vols.1 & 2 Ray Martin Dutton Vocalion • CDLK 4376

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File in: TV Themes With this Vocalion release, Ray Martin, one of Britain’s best-known orchestra leaders of the 1940s and ’50s shows that he was more than capable of getting in a funk groove, ’70s-style. Both volumes of Favourite TV Themes were recorded for Decca and feature Martin’s own skilful, hip arrangements. This release features an exciting bonus in that it contains three previously unreleased Ray Martin recordings from the ’70s — namely, the themes for Anglia TV game show “Sale of the Century,” BBC TV’s long-running film review series “Film ’74” and cult sci-fi series “Star Trek.”

Melodies from cinema favorites Great Movie Hits Vols.1 & 2

Cyril Stapleton Dutton Vocalion • CDLK 4383

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February 2009

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File in: Movie Music Cyril Stapleton serves up a double helping of his glorious big band sound on this release, highlighting some evergreen melodies from the movies. Both albums were originally recorded for the US market, and both feature the good taste and impeccable musicianship that were the hallmarks of Stapleton’s years at Decca. Here he runs his band through superb renditions of classic tunes including “The Harry Lime Theme,” “Unchained Melody,” “Three Coins in the Fountain,” “Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo,” “The High and the Mighty” and many others.

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Frank Chacksfield Dutton Vocalion • CDLK 4384

File in: Nostalgia Frank Chacksfield is once again featured on this release, which compiles a further two albums from his extensive Decca discography. Here, Chacksfield concentrates on material drawn from the world of light classical music. Immortal Classics comprises hauntingly beautiful melodies by Debussy, Elgar, Saint-Saëns, Dvorák and Tchaikovsky. Immortal Lullabies features charming orchestral arrangements of traditional melodies including “An Eriskay Love Lilt,” “Golden Slumbers,” “Sweet and Low” and many more.

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Immortal Classics; Immortal Lullabies

Strauss Waltzes; Mantovani Favourites

Mantovani Dutton Vocalion • CDLK 4385

February 2009

File in: Nostalgia Mantovani, the king of British light music, is showcased here with two shining jewels from his vast Decca discography. Strauss Waltzes features Mantovani’s sublime renderings of “Roses from the South,” “Blue Danube,” “Wine, Women and Song,” “Tales from the Vienna Woods” and many more. From two decades later, Mantovani Favourites is a fascinating curio. Compiled by Decca in-house producer Tony D’Amato at time when Mantovani had retired from the music business, it features recordings that were either not released or did not achieve album status.

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Nostalgia classics Tonight’s The Night; Decca Rarities

Edmundo Ros Dutton Vocalion • CDLK 4386

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File in: Nostalgia Edmundo Ros is featured on this release, which gathers together thirty-one numbers he recorded for Decca between 1952-63, none of which have been previously issued on CD. Included here are rarities such as Desafinado, One Note Sambaand Monte Carlo cha cha. There is much, much more to enjoy on this delightful release, which is a fine tribute to the man who did so much to popularize Latin American music throughout the world.

The World of Johnny Howard; Moonlight Serenades

February 2009

Johnny Howard Dutton Vocalion • CDLK 4391

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File in: Nostalgia The big band led by Johnny Howard was one of Britain’s most popular groups of the 1960s and ’70s. The World of Johnny Howard showcases brilliant big band arrangements — by Steve Gray, Pete Smith and Len Hunter — of songs that had been chart successes during the previous decade. Moonlight Serenades displays the delicate side of the Johnny Howard Orchestra. Romantic melodies are heard in beguiling arrangements courtesy of Alan Moorhouse and Steve Gray.

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George Melachrino Dutton Vocalion • CDNJT 5205

File in: Nostalgia This release focuses on the talents of English light music legend George Melachrino. The first album in this compilation, the delightful Immortal Ladies, features song titles named after famous women. Under Western Skies takes its inspiration from the American west. Each track is a musical portrait inspired by the American landscape.

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Ambrose Dutton Vocalion • CDVS 1959

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File in: Nostalgia This mid-priced compilation showcases Dutton’s series of Ambrose dance band CDs. Ambrose is rightly famous as having led one of Britain’s finest dance bands during the golden era of the 1920s, ‘30s and ‘40s, and here he provides further evidence of just why his band was one of the best in the land. Many of the compositions featured here come from the pen of clarinetist Sid Phillips, who for a time during the 1930s was a member of Ambrose’s band.

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Brentano String Quartet

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Michael Chance Concerto Palatino Conspirare

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Cuarteto Casals

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Ricahrd Egarr & Academy of Ancient Music

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Houston Philadelphia South Orange New York Cambridge Cambridge Fredericksburg San Antonio Austin Austin Dallas New York New York Kansas City Davis Sea le Santa Barbara Denver Costa Mesa Fairfax New York Iowa City Savannah Athens Morrow San Diego Washington Birmingham Chicago New York Sea le Boston San Jose Davis Urbana Durham San Francisco Oberlin New York Boston New York Madison La Jolla Eugene Portland Salt Lake City Greenvale Pasadena New York New York Bozeman Greensboro Roanoke Winchester Amherst Birmingham New York New York San Francisco Palo Alto Berkeley New York Berkeley Atlanta Middlebury Boulder Berkeley Crawfordsville Chicago Milton Boulder Sea le Sea le

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The Menil Collection Independence Seaport Museum Seton Hall Zankel Hall First Church in Cambridge, Congregational Houghton Chapel St. Mary's Catholic Church Laurel Heights Methodist Church St. Martin's Lutheran Church St. Martin's Lutheran Church Perkins Chapel Walter Reade Theater Walter Reade Theater Folly Theatre Jackson Hall Benaroya Hall The Granada Theatre Gates Concert Hall Segerstrom Hall Mason Center for the Arts Concert Hall Zankel Hall Clapp Recital Hall Savannah Music Festival Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall Spivey Hall Mainly Mozart The Kennedy Center Jemison Hall Mandel Hall Alice Tully Hall Meany Hall Jordan Hall San Jose State University Concert Hall Jackson Hall Krannert Center Page Auditorium Davies Symphony Hall Finney Chapel Stern Auditorium: Perelman Stage Symphony Hall Kaufmann Concert Hall Madison Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall Sherwood Auditorium Jacqua Concert Hall Newmark Theatre Abravanel Hall Tilles Center Concert Hall Beckman Auditorium Alice Tully Hall Zankel Hall Wilson Auditorium UNC School of Music Recital Hall Jefferson Center: Shaftman Performance Hall Armstrong Concert Hall UMass: Fine Arts Center Concert Hall Independent Presbyterian Church Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium Alice Tully Hall Herbst Theatre First United Methodist Church First Congregational Church Alice Tully Hall First Congregational Church Spivey Hall Mahaney Center for the Arts Grusin Music Hall Hertz Hall Wabash College University of Chicago Milton Academy Grusin Music Hall Benaroya Hall Nordstrom Recital Hall

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James Ehnes Iván Fischer Alban Gerhardt Marc-André Hamelin Philippe Herreweghe & Collegium Vocale

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Stephen Hough

Hyperion

Steven Isserlis Olga Kern

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Les Violons du Roy London Symphony Orchestra Andrew Manze Spencer Myer Jon Nakamatsu

Dorian LSO Live harmonia mundi harmonia mundi harmonia mundi

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

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Jordi Savall

Alia Vox

Christianne Stotijn

Onyx Classics

Takács Quartet

Hyperion

Talich Quartet Marion Verbruggen

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C.J. Chenier

World Village

Mamadou Diabaté

World Village

Zakir Hussain

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Kayhan Kalhor Klezmatics

World Village Piranha

Habib Koité

World Village

Chango Spasiuk

World Village

Tinariwen

World Village

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