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Street Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009
NEW RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS
Leading off the month on harmonia mundi is Richard Egarr’s new recording of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos (p.5). Egarr’s keen scholarship and musical joie-de-vivre are present in equal measure in a set that is sure to win the hearts of critics everywhere. grammy®-nominated choral ensemble Conspirare is back with Requiem – We remember them, a disc of new music on themes of loss and remembrance (p.4). Philippe Herreweghe returns to the music of JS Bach with Jesu, deine Passion, a new disc of cantatas (p.3). On CSO Resound Bernard Haitink and the Chicago Symphony add a new volume to their Mahler series with the beloved Symphony No.1 (p.9). New from The Tallis Scholars is a disc of masses by Josquin for Gimell (p.14). Hyperion offers a new Romantic Piano Concerto disc (p.15) and a recital disc from pianist Stephen Hough (p.17). Cellist Pieter Wispelwey debuts on Onyx with a recording of the Walton concerto (p.21) and on SDG, John Eliot Gardiner adds a second volume to his Brahms series (p.23). On the world music front, Italian singer-songwriter Gianmaria Testa offers up a live album (p.25) and innovative Basque group Oreka Tx debuts on World Village with music from the film Nömadak Tx (p.27).
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Howard Shore launches Howe Records Howard Shore is among today’s most respected and prolific composers. Composing since the seventies, scores to the Lord of the Rings trilogy stand as his towering achievement to date, earning him three Academy Awards. The newly formed Howe Records label recently released his original scores for the Oscarnominated films Doubt and The Betrayal.
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Richard Egarr receives MIDEM Classical Award Richard Egarr, conductor and Music Director of the Academy of Ancient Music, received a MIDEM Classical Award in the Concerto category for his recording of Handel Organ Concertos Op 4. A critical and popular favorite, the recording reached the top five on Billboard’s Classical Chart and made numerous ‘Best of 2008’ lists.
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Herreweghe returns to Bach
Dorothee Mields (soprano), Ma hew White (counter-tenor) Jan Kobow (tenor), Peter Kooy (bass) Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe harmonia mundi • HMC 901998
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BACH Jesu, deine Passion Cantatas BWV22, 23, 127 & 159
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Bach reserved some of his most elaborate cantatas for worship on the Sunday before the beginning of Lent - and it was for that very day in 1723 that he composed the cantatas BWV 22 and 23, as test pieces destined to gain him the post of Leipzig Kantor. The cantatas BWV 127 and 159 were written for the same Sunday in subsequent years.
“One of the musical titans of our age.” — SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Also available harmonia mundi • HMC 901969 (794881868124)
“Herreweghe’s deeply felt... Bach is a godsend.” — INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
Bach: Cantatas BWV214 & 207 harmonia mundi • HMC 901860 (794881782727)
“Grace, style and impressive virtuosity.”
March 2009
Bach: Cantatas 27, 84 95 & 161
— THE DAILY TELEGRAPH 3
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Music of hope and remembrance Requiem
Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson harmonia mundi • HMU 807518
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® nominated O’Regan: Threshold of Night
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“Absolutely hypnotic...”
— AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD This CD returns Conspirare’s grammy®-nominated recording Requiem, originally released on the Clarion label in 2006, to the active catalog. Selections on the disc range from Herbert Howells’ Requiem to selections from Eric Whitacre’s sublime Three Songs of Faith. Two works – We remember them by Donald Grantham and Eliza Gilkyson’s Requiem (written in response to the catastrophic Asian tsunami in 2004) – received their debut recordings on this release.
“This is simply gorgeous choral singing...The choir achieves near-perfect interpretive consensus and vocal ensemble, wwwith stiletto-sharp intonation and unearthly tonal beauty.”
March 2009
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Egarr leads Bach’s Brandenburgs Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr harmonia mundi • HMU 807461
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Also available Bach: Harpsichord Concertos
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“A triumph from every point of view.”
— THE TIMES (London)
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BACH Brandenburg Concertos
SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD 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 endeavored to return to the original ‘chamber’ conception of the works, with one player per part. Also of interest is Egarr’s choice to use French baroque pitch, which is nearly a full step lower than modern tuning. This change adds a remarkable richness to the sound and improves balances in some of the concertos.
“Egarr plays with a wealth of color and texture...” — THE STAR-LEDGER
March 2009
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A new Mozart Sonata series
MOZART Sonatas for fortepiano & violin K454, 379, 296
Petra Müllejans (violin) Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) harmonia mundi • HMU 907494
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According to legend, Mozart was so rushed when writing K379 and K454 that he was forced to premiere the pieces with incomplete piano parts. Paying homage to this spirit of spontaneity in a programme of some of Mozart’s most beloved chamber works, Petra Müllejans and Kristian Bezuidenhout present a reading of these pieces that recaptures the freshness and volatility of those early performances.
March 2009
Praise for Kristian Bezuidenhout
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“A vigorously intelligent musician, well equipped with the technique to back up some extraordinary new ideas about old music.” — BOSTON GLOBE
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Arcanto Quartet, Silke Avenhaus (piano) harmonia mundi • HMC 902000
Brahms had passed the age of forty before he finally deemed a string quartet worthy of appearing in his catalogue. Thus he joined those composers who, like Mendelssohn, Schumann and Dvorák, had succeeded in freeing themselves from the heritage of Beethoven in this genre. The work is extremely demanding for its performers, as is the Piano Quintet Op.34.
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BRAHMS Piano Quintet Op.34, String Quartet Op.51 No.1
An Italian Baroque rarity
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MAZZOCCHI Vespro della beata Vergine
Cantus Cölln, Konrad Junghänel harmonia mundi • HMC 902001
Rome in the eighteenth century: this reconstruction of the Marian Vespers – five psalms, a Magnificat and their brief antiphons – is drawn from the works of the maestro di cappella of St Peter’s, Virgilio Mazzocchi, and his close colleagues Carissimi and Frescobaldi. Anything but austere, this music is a worthy successor to that of the great Palestrina.
March 2009
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Budget-priced re-issues Plainchant from Auxerre Cathedral Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès harmonia mundi • HMA 1951319
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Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini harmonia mundi • HMA 1951512
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MAHLER Symphony No.1
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bernard Haitink CSO Resound • CSOR 901902
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An expert interpreter of Mahler’s symphonies, CSO Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink leads the triumphant first symphony, the work that introduced Mahler’s staggering talent to the public. According to the Chicago Tribune, “Haitink’s reading was warmly expansive and beautifully played.” The Chicago Sun-Times noted, “Haitink and the CSO demonstrated confidence, vigor and ease...and brought the capacity crowd to its feet for a five-minute series of ovations.”
“Haitink obviously brings out the best in this formidable ensemble.” — THE FINANCIAL TIMES
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“A triumph of symphonic color... and sheer wonder of scope.” — OPERA NEWS
Mahler: Symphony No.6
CSO Resound • CSOR 901804 (810449018043)
“A tightly focused, emotionally stirring performance.”
March 2009
Mahler: Symphony No.3
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Elizabethan Lute Music Knight of the Lute
Ma hew Wadsworth (lute) Channel Classics • CCS SA 25408
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In his youth, lutenist Matthew Wadsworth spent hours listening to recordings of his idol, Julian Bream. Since that time, it was one of his life’s goals to record the Varietie of Lute Lessons. 15 years later, the time was finally right. Wadsworth’s choice of pieces for this recording was largely instinctive. It wasn’t possible to record all 42 pieces, so he chose the ones that spoke to him the most at the time, with a view to representing all styles and genres of the book.
March 2009
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RAVEL Ravel Conducts Bolero
Various Artists, Maurice Ravel Dutton Laboratories • CDBP 9789
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This release marks a further installment in Dutton’s ongoing series of composers conducting their own works. Maurice Ravel is heard conducting the Lamoureux Orchestra in his 1928 recording of Boléro, written as a ballet for the Ida Rubinstein troupe. Also featured on this disc are Henri Tomasi’s 1931 orchestral suite Tam-Tam, Florent Schmitt’s ballet The Tragedy of Salomé and flautist composer Philippe Gaubert’s three symphonic poems Les Chants de la Mer appeared of 1929. All in all, this disc is a fascinating historical release.
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Margaret Ritchie (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Aeolian Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, Sir Henry Wood, Ernest Irving, Ralph Vaughan Williams Dutton Laboratories • CDBP 9790
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Wasps Overture, Old King Cole, A Flourish for the Coronation, Serenade to Music, Thanksgiving for Victory, Sco of the Antarctic
This fascinating and important release features recordings of Vaughan Williams works, remastered from the composer’s personal collection of 78-rpm discs. Works include the film score for 1948’s Scott of the Antarctic, the composer conducting the Aeolian Orchestra in his 1925 recordings of the overture to The Wasps and the suite from his ballet Old King Cole, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting A Flourish for the Coronation (written in 1937 for King George VI) and Sir Henry Wood conducting the Serenade to Music. Rounding off this superb release is Vaughan Williams’ stirring Thanksgiving for Victory with Sir Adrian Boult and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and chorus.
Baritone Heinrich Schlusnus
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Quintessential Baritone Vol.2
Heinrich Schlusnus Dutton Laboratories • CDBP 9791
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March 2009
The immortal sound of baritone Heinrich Schlusnus is served up in this second volume, collating his recordings from the late 1920s and ‘30s. Among the many delights on offer are Schlusnus’ peerless readings of Mahler’s Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellenand arias by Tchaikovsky, Borodin and Offenbach. Other composers represented include Richard Strauss, Pressel, Radecke, Wolf, Giordano and Lortzing. Schlusnus is accompanied by pianists Franz Rupp, Michael Raucheisen and Sebastian Peschko and orchestral accompaniment is offered by conductors including Leo Blech, Manfred Gurlitt and Hermann Weigert.
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Music of Rubbra RUBBRA String Quartet No.2, Piano Trio No.1 Griller Quartet, Rubbra Trio Dutton Laboratories • CDBP 9792
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The Rubbra Trio had its origins during the Second World War, when Edmund Rubbra and William Pleeth were in the Army Classical Music Group. Here they perform Rubbra’s Piano Trio in One Movement (1949-50) and Mozart’s Piano Trio No.1 - both originally issued on a rare early 1950s Argo LP - as well as the Adagio cantabile from Haydn’s Piano Trio in F sharp minor. The legendary Griller Quartet provide a typically exquisite reading of Rubbra’s String Quartet No.2 (1950-51), making this an essential release for lovers of British and European chamber music.
Soprano Eidé Norena Eidé Norena - Arias
Eidé Norena (soprano) Dutton Laboratories • CDBP 9793
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The rare, late 1920s and ‘30s recordings of the little-known Scandinavian soprano Eidé Norena are the subject of this release. Norena’s debut took place in Oslo, where she sang Cupid in Gluck’s Orfeo in 1907. These tracks date from the second phase of her recording career. Norena had established herself as a notable Juliette in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette and recorded six 78-rpm sides, five with Gaston Micheletti, a leading tenor at the Paris Opera. These excerpts are featured here on CD for the first time, and reveal a touching innocence combined with a worldly maturity. Other composers represented include Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Meyerbeer, Rimsky-Korsakov, Verdi, Bizet and Puccini.
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Georg Kulenkampff (violin) Enrico Mainardi (cello) Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Carl Schuricht Dutton Laboratories • CDBP 9795
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BRAHMS Violin Concerto, Double Concerto
In the first half of last century, the Romantic wing of the German violin school had no finer exemplar than Georg Kulenkampff. Although he did not enjoy an international career like his colleague Adolf Busch, he made a number of recordings and his discography was rich in concertos. In the 1947 recording of the Double Concerto heard on this release, Kulenkampff is partnered by cellist Enrico Mainardi, with Carl Schuricht conducting the L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. The 1937 recording of the Violin Concerto reissued here, sees Kulenkampff in fine form.
Great Danish Conductors
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NIELSEN Symphonies Nos.3 & 6, Moderen
Ruth Güldbaek (soprano) Erik Sjoberg (baritone) Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra John Frandsen, Thomas Jensen, Emil Reesen Dutton Laboratories • CDBP 9796
March 2009
Two of the leading Danish conductors of the 1950s are featured on this release in performances of music by Carl Nielsen. Thomas Jensen studied with Nielsen and played under his baton. His interpretation of the sixth symphony is heard here in a 1952 recording. The 1955 recording of the third symphony reissued here helped consolidate the reputation of conductor John Frandsen. Like his Danish compatriots, Frandsen never achieved a significant reputation outside Scandinavia, though within Denmark he became a considerable force. The two purely orchestral excerpts from Nielsen’s incidental music for Helge Rode’s play Moderen feature Emil Reesen, one of the Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra’s founders.
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The Tallis Scholars sing Josquin
JOSQUIN Missa Malheur me bat
Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips Gimell • CDGIM 042
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It has recently become a favorite intellectual game to compare Josquin’s career with that of Beethoven. Essentially the point is that Josquin was as influential a composer in his time as Beethoven was in his; but the subplot is that Josquin ought to be taken as seriously as any later composer even though he lived so long ago and only wrote for voices. These Mass-settings are two of the finest to come from any pen. The Tallis Scholars have been performing the music of Josquin regularly in concert for over twenty years. Their 1986 CD of his music remains the only recording of Early Music to have won the Gramophone Record of the Year Award. This new release is the latest in The Tallis Scholars’ projected Complete Josquin Mass Cycle.
“Josquin’s music certainly rewards repeated listening, but it particularly shines when performed by such 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.” — CLASSICSTODAY.COM
March 2009
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Josquin: Missa Pange Lingua, Missa la sol fa re mi
Josquin: Missa Sine nomine, Missa Ad fugam GIMELL • CDGIM 039 (755138103924)
GIMELL • CDGIM 009 (755138100923)
“A disc that elevated Early Music to the mainstream.”
“The Tallis Scholars, with their crystalline clarity and superb intonation, are ideal interpreters.”
— GRAMOPHONE
— INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
Piano concertos by Jadassohn & Draeseke hyperion
Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.47 JADASSOHN Piano Concertos Nos.1 & 2 DRAESEKE Piano Concerto
Markus Becker (piano) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Michael Sanderling Hyperion • CDA 67636
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Though barely remembered now, both Salomon Jadassohn and Felix Draeseke were major figures in German musical life in the second half of the 19th century. Both began their studies at the Leipzig Conservatory but after independently encountering Liszt and his work at Weimar in the 1850s both became disciples of that composer. Jadassohn subsequently returned to Leipzig where he composed and had a long and distinguished teaching career, his pupils including Delius, Grieg and Busoni. Draeseke moved to Dresden and taught at the Conservatory there. Both composers’ concertos are expertly crafted and feature wonderfully idiomatic piano writing, as one would expect of Liszt pupils. While not ground-breaking these are thoroughly enjoyable examples of the genre and one must question why the Jadassohn works in particular, which have truly memorable themes, have been so completely forgotten.
Also available Hyperion • CDA 67659 (034571176598)
“An invaluable addition to the Bowen discography.”
— INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
Hiller: Piano Concertos 1 & 3
Hyperion • CDA 67655 (034571176550)
“Skillfully rendered beauty from a little-known Romantic.”
March 2009
Bowen: Piano Concertos 3 & 4
— AUDIOPHILE AUDITION 15
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SCHUMANN Music for Cello and Piano Steven Isserlis (cello) Dénes Várjon (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67661
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Cellist Steven Isserlis’ own words give the background to this fascinating disc as he states, “There is no composer to whom I feel closer than to Schumann. He has been a beloved friend since I was a child; I remain as fascinated today as I was then by his unique blend of poetry, ecstatic strength and confessional intimacy.” Schumann’s affection for the cello ran deep. It was an instrument he had played in his youth, and considered taking up again when, at the age of twenty-two, an accident to his hand forced him to relinquish his dream of being a virtuoso pianist. His love for the instrument is clearly demonstrated by the cello parts in all four of his symphonies, as well as in the concertos for piano and violin, and of course throughout his chamber music.
Cinquecento perform music of Vaet
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VAET Missa Ego flos campi
Cinquecento Hyperion • CDA 67733
The vocal sextet Cinquecento are rapidly becoming one of the most admired early music ensembles recording today. This latest release presents the music of Jacobus Vaet. Vaet would undoubtedly be among the best-known composers of the sixteenth century had he not died at the age of about thirty-seven. In his short career Vaet produced, among other things, nine settings of the mass. His Missa Ego flos campi, a parody mass on an extraordinary motet by Clemens non Papa (also on the disc), is a notable example of his particular artistry. A fascinating selection of motets also demonstrates the composer’s vivid approach to word-setting and imaginative choice of texts.
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Stephen Hough In Recital
Stephen Hough (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67686
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The Stephen Hough discography is enhanced by this delightful recital disc from the winner of the Gramophone Gold Disc Award, acclaimed recently as, “Britain’s finest pianist” (Sunday Times), and as one of the six greatest pianists performing in the world today (The Guardian). The selection of works reflects a concert programme which Hough performed all round the world in the 2007/8 season, with a theme of Variations and Waltzes. These appear in many guises: for instance the ‘first half ’ concludes with Beethoven’s piano sonata No. 32, with its extraordinary set of variations. Then Hough takes the listener on a whirlwind tour of the waltz, performing some of the gems of the genre with his trademark immaculate polish and unerring style.
“Stephen Hough is the immaculate, perfectly poised pianist.” — THE GUARDIAN
Also available Hyperion • CDA 67598 (034571175980)
“An exhilarating performance guaranteed to bring the house down.”
Brahms: String Quartet, Piano Quintet Hyperion • CDA 67551 (034571175515)
“Definitive.”
March 2009
A Mozart Album
— SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
— BBC MUSIC 17
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Polyphony sings music of Lukaszewski LUKASZEWSKI Via Crucis
Polyphony, Bri en Sinfonia, Stephen Layton Hyperion • CDA 67724
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Stephen Layton’s first disc of Lukaszewski choral works was widely praised by listeners entranced by the composer’s unique yet accessible musical language. For this new release, Layton is joined by Polyphony, the Britten Sinfonia and a team of world-class soloists to take on a major work which is destined to become a modern classic in the vein of Taverner’s The Veil of the Temple or Pärt’s St John Passion. Via Crucis is a dramatization of the Stations of the Cross, a musical reading of this most solemn journey that evolves through its 55-minutes in an arc of culminatory ritual power.
An auspicious debut PAGANINI Caprices
March 2009
Tanja Becker-Bender (violin) Hyperion • CDA 67763
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In his day, Paganini’s Caprices were considered unplayable by most violinists, but the composer himself bestrode their difficulties with contemptuous ease. Paganini was the archetype of the virtuoso performer. His technique was so phenomenal, and his presence so magnetic, that he was popularly believed to be in league with the Devil. Virtuoso violinists are plentiful these days, but the challenges posed by the Caprices are still daunting. Few can achieve such brilliance in this repertoire as the young German violinist Tanja BeckerBender has in her debut recording for Hyperion.
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English Lute Songs
Robin Blaze (counter-tenor) Elizabeth Kenny (lute) Hyperion • CDH 55249
Previously Available as CDA 67126 (034571171265) Deleted February 2006 English Lute Songs covers a variety of styles by composers such as Blow, Dowland, Campion, Lawes and Purcell, with works voice and lute and some for lute alone. It is a disc that aims to look beyond the standard repertoire for countertenor and lute and hopefully introduce listeners to some lesser known pieces which will delight and enthrall. Robin Blaze and Elizabeth Kenny have performed these works together on the concert stage to great acclaim.
TCHAIKOVSKY Songs
Joan Rodgers (soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano) Hyperion • CDH 55331
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Previously Available as CDA 66617 (034571166179) Deleted February 2009 Reviews of this disc have been uniformly passionate. The great pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy said, “I find this British singer’s identification with Tchaikovsky almost uncanny. Having heard countless performances in my native Russia, I was totally overcome by Rodgers’ unaffectedness and sincerity. Her intonation is faultless, her Russian excellent. A rare treat indeed.” The Sunday Times summed it up with three simple words, “A lovely record.”
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Two views on Bach performance BACH Aus der Tieffen
Ricercar Consort, Philippe Pierlot Mirare • MIR 057
Price Code: 2A21 (2 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $43.98)
BACH B-Minor Mass
Yumiko Tanimura (soprano) Valerie Bonnard (alto), Sébastien Droy (tenor) Christian Immler (bass) Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne Ensemble Instrumental de Lausanne Michel Corboz Mirare • MIR 081
A monument of musical history, the Mass in B minor, like Beethoven’s Missa solemnis to which it has often been compared, is one of the greatest manifestations of religious art. At once teeming with invention and astonishingly poetic, this gigantic work, a veritable compendium of Bach’s musical erudition, has achieved justifiably mythical status. On this new disc from Mirare, the great choral conductor Michel Corboz leads an ensemble of modern instruments and a stellar group of soloists. March 2009
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At the age of twenty, Bach traveled hundreds of miles to meet the great Dietrich Buxtehude. Though intending to stay only a few weeks, he remained for months. The three sacred works presented on this CD are among the very first written by the young Johann Sebastian in his first posts as Kapellmeister in Mühlausen and Weimar. They display the heritage and influence of the old master Buxtehude, but also the force, the modernity, and the genius of the future Kantor. On this fascinating recording, the period instrument Ricercar Consort is led by Philippe Pierlot.
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WALTON Cello Concerto, Passacaglia BLOCH Cello Suite No.1 LIGETI Sonata BRITTEN Ciaconna
Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Sydney Symphony, Jeffrey Tate Onyx Classics • ONYX 4042
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Pieter Wispelwey, one of the world’s greatest cellists, is the latest star to join the Onyx roster. In this outstanding recording of 20th century cello music, Wispelwey presents his first recording of the Walton concerto, accompanied by the Sydney Symphony under the experienced baton of British conductor Jeffrey Tate. The works for solo cello are interrelated and comprise the Bloch Suite (written at the same time as the Walton Concerto in 1957), the early Ligeti Sonata (1948-53) and two works written for Rostropovich, Britten’s Ciaconna from the 2nd suite and one of Walton’s own contributions to the solo cello repertoire, the Passacaglia. For the concerto Wispelwey plays his usual Guadagnini cello but for the solo cello works he was thrilled to be able to record on the great ‘Magg’ Stradivarius from 1698.
— THE ABSOLUTE SOUND
March 2009
“Pieter Wispelwey has a penetrating musical intelligence.”
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opera rara
A once-banned opera revived MERCADANTE Virginia
Susan Pa erson (soprano), Stefano Antonucci (baritone), Paul Charles Clarke (tenor), Charles Castronovo (tenor), Andrew Foster-Williams (bass-baritone), Katherine Manley (soprano), Mark Le Brocq (tenor), Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Maurizio Benini Opera Rara • ORC 39
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Many 19th century Italian operatic composers had problems with censors. Verdi’s disputes over Rigoletto notorious, but many other works by Rossini and Donizetti were rewritten to appease the arbiters of what was deemed morally, religiously or politically correct. Another victim was Saverio Mercadante. Virginia, completed in 1850, was not performed until 1866 because the composer refused to make alterations. The work is set in ancient Rome where the heroine, daughter of the soldier Virginio, is assailed by the corrupt and powerful Appio as part of an ongoing conflict between patricians and plebeians. It ends with Virginia’s father stabbing her rather than relinquish his daughter to their oppressor.
March 2009
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The history of the Concertgebouw
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Anthology Live 1980-90
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Various Artists RCO Live • RCO 08005
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Price Code: 14A14 (14 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $209.98)
The Anthology of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is a transcription in sound of the concert-giving history of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, based upon radio recordings from the archives of Dutch Radio and Radio Netherlands World Service. Six decades of the 20th century will be put under the spotlight in six boxes, each containing 14 CDs. RCO Live has chosen not only legendary performances under chief conductors, but also concerts led by countless guest conductors of both greater and lesser renown. Famous soloists make their debuts with the orchestra alongside world premieres of works that have since become classics of the repertoire. This fifth volume of the series features the radio recordings made by the orchestra in the 1980s.
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BRAHMS Symphony No.2, Alto Rhapsody SCHUBERT Choral Works
Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto) The Monteverdi Choir Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique John Eliot Gardiner Soli Deo Gloria • SDG 703
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Following on the phenomenal worldwide success of the first release, SDG continues their Brahms series with a stellar recording of the second symphony. The recordings from this series are drawn from John Eliot Gardiner’s two-year “Brahms and his Antecedents” project, which not only celebrated Brahms the composer but traced the roots from which Brahms drew his creative inspiration. On this disc, the symphony is paired with the dark and moving Alto Rhapsody and three choral works by Franz Schubert. The disc is elegantly packaged in the same style as SDG’s acclaimed the Bach Cantatas CDs and the liner notes feature an in-depth conversation between Gardiner and composer Hugh Wood.
“A fascinating series.” — THE GUARDIAN
Also available Soli Deo Gloria • SDG 702 (843183070220)
“One of the most stimulating Brahms releases to have appeared in recent years.”
March 2009
Brahms: Symphony No 1
—BBC MUSIC 23
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Important new historic recordings BRAHMS Symphony No.1, Variations on a theme by Haydn Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Wilhelm Furtwängler Tahra • FURT 2005
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March 2009
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In Wilhelm Furtwängler’s vision, Brahms was like a composer who came from the same lineage of Bach and Handel, an artist who fused in himself an enormous physical presence and extreme sensitivity. Furtwängler considered Brahms as the successor of the ancient German and Dutch Masters such as Van Eyck. To him, the Brahms symphonies depict a savage, fantastic and almost demonic world. Ultimately, Furtwängler considers Brahms as the image of the “classical” German, representing most strikingly German art with all its asperities and its sweetness, its vehemence and its discipline.
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STRAUSS The Last Concerts
Alfred Blumen (piano) Philharmonia Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra Richard Strauss Testament • SBT2 1441
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The festival of Richard Strauss’ music held in London during October 1947 was the result of a joint initiative by Sir Thomas Beecham and Ernst Roth, Richard Strauss’s publisher at Boosey & Hawkes. A vital part of this initiative was the presence of the composer himself. Strauss and his wife were then living as impoverished exiles in Switzerland. UK performance royalties on the composer’s work had been frozen during the war, but if he came to England he could collect those royalties and gather new payments for performances of his music. The acetate recordings transferred onto this disc were taken from this festival and include Don Juan, the Burleske for piano and orchestra, Till Eulenspiegel and the Sinfonia domestica.
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Gianmaria Testa Live
Solo dal vivo
Gianmaria Testa Chant du Monde • 2741731
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File in: World / Europe / Italy Solo dal vivo is the full-length recording of a solo concert given in the Auditorium of Rome (Teatro Studio) on May 3rd 2008. After so much travel, so many adventures in both human and musical terms, a live album became essential to ensure some concrete trace of it all. An album that will make its way round the world as a record of the close relationship that has grown up between Gianmaria Testa and his audiences everywhere.
“Gianmaria Testa writes his own material, and the poetry of his words has grown stronger through time... Far from being a mere balladeer, he creates a varied texture with jazzy, Latin American and flamenco inflections.” — SONGLINES
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Chant du Monde • 2741546 (794881871322)
Da questa parte del mare Chant du Monde • 2741442 (794881827725)
March 2009
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March 2009
A great voice from Syria
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A Voice for Love
Waed Bouhassoun Institut du Monde Arabe • 321071
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File in: World / Middle East / Syria “A voice for love” is how some have described Waed Bouhassoun, a talented Syrian musician who sings to her own accompaniment on the lute. The youthful Bouhassoun is undoubtedly the embodiment of love, as is borne out by the choice of poems and texts for this, her first recording. Sometimes with strength, sometimes with fragility, her voice intensifies emotion and meaning to the point of ecstasy in the poems of Ibn Zaydoun, Jalal-Eddine, Rumi, Wallada or even Tahar Abou Facha and Mahmoud Bayram al Tounissi, the famous lyricists to Oum Kalthoum. The purity and intimacy of this recording invite the listener to enter into a world alive with sensitivity and elegance.
WORLD
Reinvigorating a Basque music tradition
Nömadak Tx
Oreka Tx World Village • 468085
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“The music does the talking in Nomadak Tx, an exhilarating, feverishly globe-hopping doc...” — VARIETY
March 2009
File in: World / Europe / Spain / Basque In the early part of the new millennium, a pair of intrepid musicians who call themselves Oreka Tx (from the Basque word for “balance” and the initial letters of their chosen medium) took their txalaparta, a locally beloved but otherwise little-known instrument, and traveled to India, Lapland, Mongolia, and the Sahara in search of fresh collaborations, adventures and ideas. The result was an astounding documentary film called Nömadak Tx (“Nomadic Txalaparta”) which won multiple awards at international film festivals and is coming soon to theaters worldwide. The beautifully designed CD of the same name, which offers a wealth of newly arranged material, makes an ideal companion to the film. The txalaparta, although nearly extinct as recently as the 1950s, is inextricably tied to Basque culture and is now enjoying a renaissance. It consists of wooden planks supported by insulated stands and is struck from above by two players, each employing a pair of thick, pestle-like wooden sticks. The players create complex, lightning-fast, changeable rhythmic and melodic patterns, moving between the tenor range and bass notes so profound that they pummel the listener’s solar plexus. Inspired for life by their far-flung encounters, the men of Oreka TX have obliterated established boundaries of culture, time and space by embracing and transforming them.
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A Habib Koité bestseller Muso Ko
Habib Koité, Bamada World Village • 468055
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“Here’s an album to get lost in: Malian rock built on tautly picked guitar parts – electric and acoustic – that ricochet against the percussion to create a contrapuntal vortex.” — THE NEW YORK TIMES
Previously Available as 468005 (713746800529) Deleted December 2007 File in: World / Africa / Mali Muso Ko, Habib Koité’s first release, made him an instant star back home in Mali and it contains some of his best and most enduring compositions to date. Muso Ko raised Koité and his group, Bamada, from the status of respected Bamako bar band to national headliners with a budding global career. The album draws upon Koité’s many years of songwriting and delivers one crowd-pleaser after another. This is a particularly welcome reissue that restores an important world music title to the active catalog.
March 2009
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Foly! Live Around the World World Village • 468021 (713746802127)
“This is truly a fine document of the great group’s transcendent live shows.” — AMAZON.COM
WORLD Hot beats from the Congo
Brakka System
So Kalmery World Village • 479023
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File in: World / Africa / Mali So Kalmery, the roving ambassador of brakka (a vibrant music-and-dance style from his native Congo), is back in the spotlight with a new album, Brakka System. The fruition of more than thirty years wandering the globe, Brakka System is not just an album — it’s a journey through a lifetime, a musical voyage deep into the heart of one man’s soul. Kalmery sings in Kiswahili, English and French. His lyrics are simple, but his strong voice reverberates with life. Even when he is accompanied by an assortment of instruments including the didgeridoo, flute and sax, Kalmery manages to evoke the image of the musician as a troubadour, providing wholesome outdoor entertainment to the local townsfolk.
— All Music Guide
March 2009
“Kalmery approaches his music with a joy and jauntiness that’s rare, pulling strands from all styles for African music, whether it’s the dry guitar sound of Kenya, the rich polyrhythms of West Africa, the density of the northern deserts, or the joyful guitar and vocals that characterize so much South African music – he’s a pan-African man, the continent’s equivalent of Taj Mahal. There’s a wonderful warmth to his voice and writing that brings to mind a less-bland James Taylor.... His songs and arrangements show a remarkable sophistication, and there’s an irresistible verve about the whole album that makes Kalmery a talent well worth hearing on a debut that’s assured and thoroughly individual.”
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