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NEW RELEASES

OCTOBER 13, 2009

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2009 WINNERS Gold Medal

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Gold Medal

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Silver Medal

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In October, harmonia mundi’s key releases include 2 Handel discs. Richard Egarr and the Academy of Ancient Music perform the Trio Sonatas Opp.2 & 5 (p.3) and Andreas Scholl sings with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin on the Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne (p.6). Also highlighted is Kaija Saariaho’s 1st opera L’amour de loin performed by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Kent Nagano (p.4), as well as 3 thrilling showcases from the 13th Annual Van Cliburn Competition (p.5). Alia Vox offers their first DVD featuring Jordi Savall’s Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross (p.9). Cantaloupe debuts David Lang’s soundtrack to the upcoming film (untitled) (p.10) while Iván Fischer conducts Brahms on Channel Classics (p.11) and The Tallis Scholars sing music by Flemish masters for Gimell (p.13). Key releases on Hyperion include Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas played by Alina Ibragimova (p.15), an homage to Richard Runciman Terry by the Choir of Westminster Cathedral (p.17) and Dreamland, a sampler of from the label’s impressive choral collection (p.19). The Mariinsky label offers Valery Gergiev conducting

Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture (p.22), while on Soli Deo Gloria, John Eliot Gardiner directs his first recording of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos (p.26).

On the non-classical front, Howe Records highlights rare music from the archives of Howard Shore (p.32), World Village presents Tinariwen’s eagerly anticipated Imidiwan: Companions (p.31), and Otà offers Omar Sosa’s Tales From The Earth (p.33).

IN THE PRESS

The harmonia mundi family of labels celebrates 9 finalists in the Classic FM/Gramophone Awards for 2009. They are: Baroque Instrumental: Fretwork’s Purcell The Complete Fantazias (harmonia mundi) • Chamber: The Takács Quartet’s Brahms String Quartets Op. 51 (Hyperion) • Concerto: Steven Osborne’s Britten Piano Concerto (Hyperion) • Early Music: Stile Antico’s Song of Songs (harmonia mundi), The Cardinall’s Musick’s Byrd Hodie Simon Petrus (Hyperion) and the Brabant Ensemble’s Morales Magnificat (Hyperion) • Historic Archive: The Covent Garden Opera’s Berlioz Les Troyens (Testament) • Instrumental: Steven Osborne’s Rachmaninov Preludes (Hyperion) • Solo Vocal: Gerald Finley’s Schumann Dichterliebe (Hyperion).

Stile Antico’s Song of Songs: #1 on Billboard for 3 weeks Congratulations to Stile Antico, whose Song of Songs has charted in the Top 10 on the Billboard Classical Chart for seven weeks and held the #1 slot for three.

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The Silk Road Ensemble, whose members include Kayhan Kalhor, Wu Man, Cristina Pato and Wu Tong has slowly evolved from a group of strangers into a close-knit band of friends. Off the Map is a 10th-anniversary celebration of that transformation. Gabriela Frank’s Ritmos Anchinos transports us into the Andes, with pipa and sheng imitating the region’s folk instruments. Angel Lam explores childhood memories in Empty Mountain, Spirit Rain – an urban groove of Hong Kong carried by shakuhachi and bass. The creation of the

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world is at the center of Evan Ziporyn’s Sulvasutra, written for India’s great tabla player Sandeep Das. Osvaldo Golijov’s Air to Air features a Sicilian protest song, prayers to Holy Mother Guadalupe and popular songs known to millions of people across the Middle East through recordings by the incomparable Lebanese singer Fairouz.

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Egarr’s Handel Series concludes harmonia mundi

HANDEL Trio Sonatas Opp.2 & 5

Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr harmonia mundi • HMU 907467

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Richard Egarr and the Academy of Ancient Music conclude their award-winning Handel cycle with this dazzling traversal of the Trio Sonatas Op.2 and Op.5. These works, less frequently heard than much of Handel’s output, are brilliantly crafted, exciting, and (above all) fun pieces of chamber music. The Italianate singing style of the melodic writing is both virtuosic and sonorous. Handel took Corelli’s ‘sonata da chiesa’ model and with consummate ease, created sparklingly diverse and richly colorful works that are clearly stamped with his own unique stylistic signature.

“AAM has been reinvigorated since Richard Egarr assumed its directorship in 2006. He is not concerned to startle or shock for its own sake; rather he is determined to put the best musicological scholarship at the service of good music-making.”

— INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW

Handel: Organ Concertos Op.7

harmonia mundi • HMU 807447 (093046744762)

“Egarr’s exciting command of the technical and emotional elements of these concertos, [are] underpinned by the stellar performance of the Academy of Ancient Music.”

— BILLBOARD

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Saariaho’s beguiling L’amour de loin harmonia mundi

SAARIAHO L’amour de loin

Ekaterina Lekhina (soprano), Marie Ange Todorovitch (mezzo-soprano), Daniel Belcher (tenor) Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano harmonia mundi • HMC 801937

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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Composed to a libretto by Amin Maalouf and premiered at Salzburg in 2000 in a production by Peter Sellars, L’amour de loin was Kaija Saariaho’s first opera.

A reinterpretation of La vida breve, a narrative poem by the Medieval troubadour Jaufré Rudel, L’amour de loin tackles a number of highly topical themes: love from afar, the virtuality of ideal love and relations between East and West. The sensibilities and backgrounds of both Maalouf, a Lebanese-French author and journalist also living in Paris, and Saariaho — both voluntary exiles — brought them together to collaborate to turn a seemingly simple story into a complex story very simply told. On this spectacular new surround-sound recording, Kent Nagano leads the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and a trio of exceptional soloists.

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“A haunting and resonant work, L’amour de loin, the most important offering of this summer’s ambitious Salzburg Festival, is an often transfixing and utterly distinguished work. Idealized love is a well-worn theme, but Mr. Maalouf has found a fresh way to revisit it. Mr. Maalouf’s words invite music, and Ms. Saariaho has provided a lushly beautiful score... Her harmonic language is tonally grounded, with frequent use of sustained low pedal tones, but not tonal.

Bits of dissonance, piercing overtones and gently jarring electronic sound spike the undulant harmonies, but so subtly that the overall aural impression is of beguiling consonance. Her evocations of the troubadour songs, with medieval modal harmony and fragments of elegiac tunes, are marvelous.”

— THE NEW YORK TIMES (Salzburg premiere)

2009 Van Cliburn Competition Winners harmonia mundi

13th Van Cliburn Competition Gold Medal

13th Van Cliburn Competition Gold Medal

13th Van Cliburn CompetitionSilver Medal

Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano) harmonia mundi • HMU 907505

Haochen Zhang (piano) harmonia mundi • HMU 907506

Yeol Eum Son (piano) harmonia mundi • HMU 907507

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Every four years, the Van Cliburn Competition offers the opportunity for a select group of outstanding young musicians to showcase their talent while challenging themselves to reach new standards of artistic excellence. This year’s three winners raise the bar once again. 20-year-old Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii claimed the Gold Medal. Already known in his home country for his refined and effortless playing, a webcast of his spellbinding performances at the 2009 Cliburn brought Tsujii to the attention of hundreds of countless new fans throughout the world, while raising his status in Japan to superstar. Blind since birth, Tsujii states his firm belief that, “there are no barriers in the field of music.” The youngest participant in the competition, 19-year-old co-Gold Medalist Haochen Zhang gave his debut recital at the Shanghai Music Hall at the age of five. He moved to the United States at fifteen to attend the Curtis Institute of Music where he is pursing a Bachelor of Music degree.

23-year-old Silver Medalist Yeol Eum Son is considered among the most important artists of her generation in South Korea. She has been a featured soloist with the New York Philharmonic on several occasions, most recently as part of the orchestra’s historic visit to Seoul.

“Tsujii kept the audience spellbound from start to completion.”

— FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM

— DALLAS MORNING NEWS

“Son should have no trouble building a career. She’s got the fingers and the personality.”

October 2009

“Zhang demonstrated a musical maturity almost unimaginable in one so young.”

— DALLAS MORNING NEWS 5

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Choral favorites by Handel HANDEL Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne Dixit Dominus

Hélène Guilme e (soprano) Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor) Andreas Wolf (bass) Vocalconsort Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Marcus Creed harmonia mundi • HMC 902041

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Composed to celebrate the birthday of Queen Anne of England, Handel’s Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne was subtitled ‘Ode for the Peace’ in reference to the Treaty of Utrecht which marked the end of the War of the Spanish Succession. Six years earlier, the 22-year-old composer brought the techniques he learned from writing Italian opera to his sacred music. The result was the powerful, intensely passionate Dixit Dominus. Marcus Creed leads the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin in definitive readings of these works, which feature the glorious voice of counter-tenor Andreas Scholl. Scholl has consistently collected the top international awards for his many solo and ensemble recordings (most notably Gramophone Awards for Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater and Caldara’s Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo).

“Scholl’s technique is unimpeachable, his tone polished beyond doubt.”

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Also available Handel: Ombra mai fù

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— THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

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BERLIOZ Nuits d’été, Herminie

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Les Arts Florissants, William Christie harmonia mundi • HMG 501108

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CHOPIN Préludes Op.28

Alain Planès (piano) harmonia mundi • HMG 501721

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Mireille Delunsch (soprano) Brigi e Balleys (alto) Orchestre des Champs-Élysées Philippe Herreweghe harmonia mundi • HMG 501522

MONTEVERDI Il Ballo delle Ingrate

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RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez

Marco Socías (guitar), Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Josep Pons harmonia mundi • HMG 501764

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PANDOLFI Violin Sonatas Opp.3 & 4

Andrew Manze (violin) Richard Egarr (harpsichord) harmonia mundi • HMG 507241

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Stille Nacht

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RIAS-Kammerchor Uwe Gronostay harmonia mundi • HMG 501794

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Clemencic Consort René Clemencic harmonia mundi • HMG 508099

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A Haydn masterpiece, now on DVD Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall Alia Vox • AVDVD 9868

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HAYDN Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross

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All Zones/ 68 Minutes/ PCM Stereo/ 16/9 Aspect This DVD is not just another filmed concert. It is a real movie (conceived, lighted, filmed and edited as such). On it, Jordi Savall performs the original orchestral version of Haydn’s masterpiece in the Santa Cueva church in Cádiz (decorated

by Goya), where the work was premiered in 1787. The disc includes outstanding bonuses, including “The Seven Last Words of Man,” a spiritual commentary written and read by Jose Saramago, Nobel Prize in Literature, a complete interactive Alia Vox catalogue featuring musical highlights from each album and interviews with Raimon Panikkar, theologist (about the meaning of the Seven Last Words), Jordi Savall, (about the music and the performance) and the Priest of the Santa Cueva Church (about the history of commission to Haydn).

“Very few artists transform the scholarly into the genuinely entertaining as successfully as Jordi Savall.”

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Haydn: Seven Last Words Alia Vox • AVSA 9854 (7619986398549)

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A new soundtrack from David Lang

LANG (Untitled) Soundtrack

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“Lang writes music of hard-earned simplicity...voices intertwine, forming piquant medieval dissonances that ring against fields of luminous choral harmony. The atmosphere is at once knowing and pure, like a Pre-Raphaelite painting. Medieval counterpoint and Renaissance harmony hang in air, but so does the tang of today.”

— NEW YORK MAGAZINE

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“Lang, once a postminimalist enfant terrible, has solidified his standing as an American master,” wrote the New York Times in a recent review.

Indeed, David Lang won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for the little match girl passion (just released on harmonia mundi) and has joined the faculty at Yale University. Now Lang has scored (Untitled), a major independent feature about a composer’s life.

He writes, “Most of the time film music is in the background, setting the mood or advancing the story in a supporting role. This project was different. Because the leading character is a composer, it is a film as much about musical development as it is about character development.”

The soundtrack combines music composed especially for the film with excerpts compiled from Lang’s discography on the Cantaloupe label.

Edited and produced by former So Percussion member Lawson White, this soundtrack serves as perfect introduction to Lang’s work — a mid-career retrospective of sorts for this composer’s composer.

Also available featuring David Lang Lang: The Passing Measures

Cantaloupe • CA 21003 (682452003527)

Lang: Child

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Lang: Elevated

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Iván Fischer conducts Brahms channel classics

SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Brahms never made a secret of the inspiration he drew from Beethoven’s symphonies, but before he published his first symphony — inspired by Beethoven’s fifth and ninth — he had struggled for no less than fourteen years with it.

In the mean time he wrote many more pieces and his Variations on a theme by Haydn are considered to be a preliminary exercise before venturing on to the first symphony.

The opening piece of this recording, the Hungarian Dance No.14, goes back to Brahms as a young café pianist, when he and his father earned a bit on the side in bars in the red-light district of Hamburg and where he first heard Hungarian gipsy music. It was this experience that gave birth to Brahms’ lifelong attachment to and admiration for this rich folk music style.

BRAHMS Symphony No.1, Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Hungarian Dance No.14

Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer Channel Classics • CCS SA 28309

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Mahler: Symphony No. 4

Channel • CCS SA 26109 (723385261094)

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Falla favorites FALLA Guitar Transcriptions

Peter & Zóltan Katona (guitar) Juanita Lascarro (soprano) David Garcia Mir (percussion) Channel Classics • CCS SA 28809

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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Manuel de Falla is widely regarded as the most distinguished Spanish composer of the early twentieth century. Although he only composed one piece for guitar, his music is strongly influenced by Spanish folk music, in which the guitar plays a central role. For this recording, the Katona Twins have selected and transcribed works in which the influence of the guitar was dominant.

The Katonas felt that adding percussion, played here by David Garcia Mir, would enhance the rhythmic element that is central to the music of Spain. Also featured are the singing talents of Juanita Lascarro, who made a spectacular British operatic debut as the heroine of Strauss’ Daphne.

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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD In presenting their sixth SACD sampler, Channel Classics looks back at an exciting eight years since the introduction of Super Audio CD technology.

Many people think that SACDs have had limited success in the commercial market but there are actually more releases from more labels with each passing month. In the end the high quality of this format (together with the backward compatibility) is a deciding factor against all other formats. For this disc, Channel has selected nineteen tracks that they feel are most representative of the label’s past year’s releases. These are placed in a random order so that every release has its own distinct flavor.

The Tallis Scholars: a new 2-for-1 set

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The Tallis Scholars Sing Flemish Masters

The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips Gimell • CDGIM 211

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The Flemish masters have been at the heart of The Tallis Scholars’ repertoire from the beginning, just as they were at the heart of the whole Renaissance musical scene. Masses were the showcase works through which these composers displayed their most sophisticated achievements. This new Gimell 2-for-1 set features five of the greatest, from five of the greatest masters, Brumel, De Rore, Lassus, Ockeghem and Isaac, specially selected by conductor Peter Phillips.

“You will rarely find an ensemble as carefully rehearsed or skillfully prepared for the repertory they choose to engage in — simply one of the finest ever, legendary.”

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Tudor Church Music Vol.1

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“With the Tallis Scholars, the highest standard of technical polish may simply be taken for granted.”

— AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE

Tudor Church Music Vol.2

Gimell • CDGIM 210 (755138121027)

“Phillips has a profound grasp of the Tudor era and has given it some of his best work.”

— FANFARE

October 2009

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Scarla i’s Biblical opera SCARLATTI Davidis pugna et victoria

Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Robin Johannsen (soprano), Martin Oro (counter-tenor), Fredrik Akselberg (tenor), Antonio Abete (bass) Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro de Marchi Hyperion • CDA 67714

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The banning of opera performances during Lent in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Rome meant that composers had to turn their attention to biblical subjects. Scarlatti’s work tells the dramatic story of David and Goliath.

Whilst the biblical account relays the story in a few sentences, the anonymous librettist of Davidis pugna et victoria expands upon these to create an extensive libretto, with the characters fully developed and explored. Scarlatti’s musical response to the libretto demonstrates his gift for characterization, which acts as a commentary on the unfolding narrative. Performances of thrilling dynamism and instinctive style from Academia Montis Regalis make the strongest possible case for this work.

Shelley’s Clementi series continues CLEMENTI Piano Sonatas Vol.4

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Howard Shelley (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67738

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Howard Shelley’s splendid series of Clementi’s complete piano sonatas continues with a fourth volume containing some of the composer’s most important works. The ten sonatas of Opp. 25, 26 and 33 heard here are all products of a period in Clementi’s life when he was the darling of the London music scene. As well as stunning virtuosity, the works recorded here contain a high degree of compositional originality and forward-looking piano writing.

The A major sonata (No. 4) has a curiously nineteenth-century sound. The first movement displays a profusion of melodic ornamentation reminiscent of Chopin. The fifth, perhaps Clementi’s greatest sonata, was much championed

by Horowitz, among others.

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BACH Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin

Alina Ibragimova (violin) Hyperion • CDA 67691

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The dazzling young violin virtuoso Alina Ibragimova has enthralled audiences for years with her live Bach performances. Critics have acclaimed her faultless intonation, achingly beautiful tone, superlative technique and a musical wisdom far beyond her years. Now, in this important new recording of Bach’s complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, Ibragimova brings all these qualities and more to create an interpretation that is both excitingly original and profoundly humble. This is music of unfathomable subtlety, astounding virtuosity and great expressive and architectural beauty.

“Ibragimova does not play or perform — she utterly possesses.”

— FANFARE

Also available featuring Alina Ibragimova Hyperion • CDA 67547 (034571175478)

Rosavlets: Violin Concertos

Hyperion • CDA 67637 (034571176376)

Szymanowski: Violin Music

Hyperion • CDA 67703 (034571177038)

October 2009

Hartmann: Concerto funebre

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The Florestan Trio’s Haydn series continues HAYDN Piano Trios Vol.2

Florestan Trio Hyperion • CDA 67757

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Haydn’s Piano Trios are among the most delightful and inventive of all his works. They have a ‘domestic’ reputation, and indeed they were intended for playing at home. Many outstanding musicians of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries never performed in public for one simple reason: they were women. Who knows how many gifted women musicians were denied opportunities that their male counterparts enjoyed? Haydn wrote a set of three piano trios for Therese Jansen, a pupil of Clementi and a pianist Haydn considered to be among London’s finest. The Florestan Trio, with their magnificent pianist Susan Tomes, dazzle in this repertoire. Their first disc of Haydn’s piano trios was enthusiastically acclaimed.

Hyperion’s latest Romantic music discovery MORTELMANS Homeric Symphony, Morgenstemming, Mythe der Lente

October 2009

Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Martyn Brabbins Hyperion • CDA 67766

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Lodewijk Mortelmans (1868-1952) was a key figure in the Flemish orchestral renaissance. He won the Prix de Rome in 1893, and used the prize money to travel to Germany and Italy to broaden his cultural experience. As a music correspondent, he kept his finger on the pulse of European musical life. Mortelmans was not musically avant-garde or adventurous. He was aware that European classical music was following a new path, but right up to his death he was unwilling to abandon romanticism.

His music is deeply attractive, showing the influence of both Sibelius and Wagner.

A selection of his greatest works for orchestra are recorded here. Hyperion regular Martyn Brabbins conducts the Royal Flemish Philharmonic in their first recording for Hyperion.

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From the Vaults of Westminster Cathedral

Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Martin Baker, Ma hew Martin (organ) Hyperion • CDA 67707

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“Westminster Cathedral Choir is one of this country’s most spectacular choral offerings.”

— MUSICALCRITICISM.COM

A century ago, Richard Runciman Terry re-introduced the wonders of the Renaissance into liturgical polyphony and placed Westminster Cathedral Choir at the pinnacle of the art. Terry was a musical pioneer whose work as Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral between 1902 and 1924 is legendary. The musical roadmap that Richard Terry charted for London’s new Roman Catholic cathedral remains largely unrevised today. Plainchant and Renaissance polyphony are the bedrock of Westminster Cathedral’s sung liturgy-early music is the root from which the cathedral’s musical endeavors have branched for over a century. Also, from Westminster Cathedral’s earliest years, alongside the fascination with early vocal repertory, composers have been commissioned to contribute to the canon. When they have done so, the choir’s antique musical diet has frequently been at the forefront of those composers’ imagination.

This disc is an homage to Terry’s work — a procession through a particularly rich section of the church’s year that perfectly illustrates the changing glories of the liturgy.

Also available at mid-price Hyperion • WCC 100 (034571100210)

“Westminster Cathedral Choir excite, enthrall and electrify.”

October 2009

Music of Westminster Cathedral Choir

— CATHEDRAL MUSIC 17

Joan Rodgers sings Russian songs Puskin Romances

hyperion

Joan Rodgers (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67773

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October 2009

Few Russian composers could resist setting verses by Alexander Pushkin, and his influence on the development of Russian music was indirectly as great as his influence on literature. This collection demonstrates the compelling power of the poet, and the beauty of the music he inspired. It is performed by Joan Rodgers, herself an acknowledged master of Russian repertoire, and Malcolm Martineau.

Joan Rodgers, one of Britain’s best loved singers, is internationally established in opera, concert, and as a recitalist. After graduating from the University of Liverpool with an Honors degree in Russian, she entered the Royal Northern College of Music where in 1981 she won the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship.

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Also available featuring Joan Rodgers Russian Songs

Hyperion • CDA 67355 (034571173559)

“This is Hyperion at its best: a pair of fine artists exploring a less-than-familiar corner of the repertoire. More please!”

— INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW

Explore Hyperion’s Choral catalog hyperion

Dreamland Contemporary choral riches from the Hyperion catalogue

Polyphony, Holst Singers, Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Layton; Schola Cantorum of Oxford, James Burton; Wells Cathedral Choir, Ma hew Owens; Tonus Peregrinus, Antony Pi s; Royal Holloway Choir, Rupert Gough; Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker; Westminster Abbey Choir, James O’Donnell; Schola Cantorum of Oxford, Mark Shepherd, Jeremy Summerly Hyperion • HYP 41

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Special Price Dreamland is a new and intriguing specially-priced sampler that features a selection of pieces from Hyperion’s extensive and varied choral music catalog. This disc seeks to give a flavor of the contemporary choral music recorded by Hyperion over the last decade.

Whilst on one level it can stand alone as a tribute to the beauty of its composers’ writing and choirs’ singing, it also lifts the lid on the albums from which the tracks are drawn. Dreamland is a perfect introduction to the magic new worlds of sound that await the listener.

TRACK LISTING Arvo Pärt: Magnificat Rihards Dubra: Stetit Angelus James MacMillan: A child’s prayer Bob Chilcott: The Shepherd’s Carol Nicholas Maw: Balulalow Pawel Lukaszewski: Nunc dimittis Ruth Byrchmore: In the silence of the night – Movement 2: Song Eric Whitacre: Sleep

October 2009

Gabriel Jackson: To Morning John Tavener: As one who has slept Morten Lauridsen: Ave, dulcissima Maria Randall Thompson: Alleluia Pierre Villette: O sacrum convivium Veljo Tormis: Four Estonian Lullabies – Äiutus ‘Lulling’ Geoffrey Burgon: Christ’s Love – No 2: The Corpus Christi Carol Antony Pitts: Adoro te

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Mid-priced re-issues MARTUCCI La Canzone dei Ricordi, No urno RESPIGHI Il Tramonto Carol Madalin (mezzo-soprano) English Chamber Orchestra Alfredo Bonavera Hyperion • CDH 55049

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Previously Available as CDA 66290 (034571162904) Deleted December 2000

“A praiseworthy achievement in every respect...

Carol Madalin sings both works beautifully.”

— GRAMOPHONE

BRITTEN Saint Nicolas, Hymn to Saint Cecilia Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Corydon Singers English Chamber Orchestra Ma hew Best Hyperion • CDH 55378

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Previously Available as CDA 66333 (034571163338) Deleted May 2009

“A fresh and atmospheric account of Britten’s colourful cantata.”

October 2009

— THE PENGUIN GUIDE TO COMPACT DISCS

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Sibelius symphonies with Sir Colin Davis lso live

SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos.1-7, Kullervo

Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano) Peter Ma ei (baritone) London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis LSO Live • LSO 0191

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For the first time, Sir Colin Davis’ acclaimed LSO Live recordings of Sibelius’s symphonies appear together as a four disc set. Sibelius is one of the composer’s with whom Davis has been most closely associated throughout his career. His LSO Live recordings of the symphonies were recorded between 2002 and 2008 and have collected numerous awards. All seven symphonies, plus Sibelius’s early symphonic poem Kullervo, are packaged on 4 CDs in a custom box together with extensive notes and the complete text for Kullervo. SACD versions of the recordings remain available as single discs.

Also available on Super Audio CD LSO Live • LSO 0574 (822231157427)

Symphony No. 2

LSO Live • LSO 0605 (822231160526)

Symphonies Nos. 1& 4

LSO Live • LSO 0601 (822231160120)

Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7

LSO Live • LSO 0552 (822231105220)

October 2009

Kullervo

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Gergiev conducts Tchaikovsky mariinsky

TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture, Moscow Cantata, Marche Slave, Coronation March, Danish Overture Mariinsky Chorus & Orchestra, Valery Gergiev Mariinsky • MAR 0503

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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Following acclaimed recordings of Shostakovich, the third release on the Mariinsky Theatre’s new label features a selection of popular and rarelyheard works by Tchaikovsky, the first ‘professional’ Russian composer. Many of the works for which Tchaikovsky was commissioned celebrated great state and political events. The Danish Overture was written to mark the marriage of the future Tsar Alexander III to the Danish Princess Dagmar. He was later commissioned to produce the Moscow Cantata and Coronation March as part of the celebrations to mark Alexander’s coronation. The patriotic Marche Slave was written for a concert to raise funds for Russian volunteers in the Serbo-Turkish War. Although the 1812 Overture depicts Russia’s earlier war with Napoleonic France, the piece was actually commissioned for the opening of the Christ The Saviour Cathedral in Moscow. The cathedral itself was built to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Russia’s victory in the 1812 campaign of the wars.

October 2009

Also available from Mariinsky

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Shostakovich: The Nose

Mariinsky • MAR 0501 (822231850120)

“It must be heard to be believed.”

— THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 15

Mariinsky • MAR 0502 (822231850229)

“A tour-de-force.”

— CLASSIC FM

Donize i’s gripping Parisina Price Code: 3A25 (3 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $77.98)

Carmen Gianna asio (soprano) Ann Taylor (mezzo-soprano) José Bros (tenor), Dario Solari (baritone) Nicola Ulivieri (bass-baritone) Geoffrey Mitchell Choir London Philharmonic Orchestra, David Parry Opera Rara • ORC 40

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DONIZETTI Parisina

Donizetti’s gripping opera Parisina is rarely performed today — even though it was widely staged during the two decades following its premiere. The plot is unusually dark. Parisina, the wife of Azzo, a 15th-century Duke of Ferrara, has fallen in love with Ugo, who turns out to be a child of Azzo’s previous marriage.

In furious anger at her outlandish passion, Azzo has his own son murdered, and presents his anguished stepmother with the corpse. This horrifying scenario was just the sort of passionate narrative to set the composer’s musical pulses racing and the opera remained Donizetti’s personal favorite among his works for many years.

Film music by Philip Glass Price Code: A18 (Suggested Retail Price: $18.98)

Keith Underwood, (flute) Henry Schuman (oboe) Fred Sherry (cello), Susan Jolies (harp) English Chamber Orchestra Harry Rabinowitz, Michael Riesman Orange Mountain • OMM 0059

Previously Available as Nonesuch 79442 (075597944228) Deleted The Secret Agent is a watershed score in Philip Glass’ career in writing for film.

Based on a novel by Joseph Conrad, Christopher Hampton’s independent 1995 film exposes the confused motives that lie at the heart of political terrorism.

Glass’ score for the film is lushly romantic and expressionistic. Christopher Hampton, the film’s director and screenwriter, is also known for his stage and screen versions of Dangerous Liaisons and more recently for his screenplay to the award-winning Atonement. Hampton and Glass also collaborated on librettos for Waiting for the Barbarians and Appomattox.

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GLASS The Secret Agent Philip Glass Recording Archive Vol.5

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Musical diaries by Smetana & Sibelius SMETANA String Quartet No.1 SIBELIUS String Quartet No.4, Andante Festivo Kocian Quartet Praga • PRD 250257

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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Smetana’s first quartet, subtitled “From My Life,” is semi-autobiographical and features musical sketches depicting parts of the composer’s life. The programmatic content ranges from an expression of the composer’s inclination to the romantic ideals in life and in his music to reminiscences of his happy youth. Completed as he was recovering from illness, Sibelius created one of his most heartfelt scores in the D minor quartet. It is music of reminiscences, of mercurial changes of mood; melancholy but never despairing. At the heart of the piece are three mysterious whispered chords over which Sibelius wrote ‘Voces Intimae’ - inner voices. Praga’s brilliant pairing of these two musical diaries is played with keen insight by the Kocian Quartet.

October 2009

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Schumann’s rarely-heard masterwork

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SCHUMANN Szenen aus Goethes Faust

Mojca Erdmann, Christiane Iven (sopranos), Birgit Remmert (alto), Elisabeth von Magnus (alto), Werner Güra (tenor), Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Alastair Miles (bass), Franz-Josef Selig (bass), Netherlands Radio Choir, Netherlands Children’s Choir, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nicolaus Harnoncourt RCO Live • RCO 09001

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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Nicolaus Harnoncourt’s acclaimed 2008 performances of Schumann’s rarely heard masterpiece Szenen aus Goethes Faust with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra were recorded live and edited for this exciting new release. Harnoncourt’s long association with the orchestra includes impressive opera productions and a great number of symphonic concerts, including works by Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Dvorák.

Much of the repertoire Harnoncourt conducted with the Concertgebouw has been recorded and has received many awards. Harnoncourt was appointed honorary guest conductor in October 2000.

Jansons conducts Bruckner Price Code: 2A21 (2 SACD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $43.98)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Mariss Jansons RCO Live • RCO 09002

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BRUCKNER Symphonies Nos.3 & 4

SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Ever since the tenure of conductor Eduard van Beinum, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra has maintained one of the greatest Bruckner symphonic traditions in the world. With this release of Bruckner’s third and fourth symphonies, Mariss Jansons and his Amsterdam-based orchestra add a new chapter to the RCO’s impressive performance and recording history of Bruckner’s works. In Jansons’ view, the refinement of Bruckner’s music — however grandiose it may be — will always win out over grandiloquence. Under Jansons’ baton, Bruckner has a warm, beating heart: his rhythms are not simply played, they are, above all, experienced.

Gardiner’s Bach cycle continues Price Code: 2A18 (2 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $37.98)

The Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner Soli Deo Gloria • SDG 159

October 2009

John Eliot Gardiner’s award-winning Bach Cantata series on Soli Deo Gloria continues with volume nine in the series featuring cantatas for the seventeenth and eighteenth Sunday after Trinity, recorded live in October 2000. Works include BWV 148 Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens, BWV 114 Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost, BWV 47 Wer sich selbst erhöhet, der soll erniedriget werden, the motet BWV 226 Der Geist hilft unser Schwacheit auf, BWV 96 Herr Christ, der ein’ge Gottessohn, BWV 169 Gott soll allein mein Herze haben, BWV 116 Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ and BWV 668 Vor deinen Thron tret’ ich hiermit, the so-called “Deathbed Chorale.”

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BACH Cantatas Vol.9

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Gardiner’s first Brandenburgs soli deo gloria

BACH Brandenburg Concertos Nos.1-6 English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner Soli Deo Gloria • SDG 707

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On this new release from SDG, John Eliot Gardiner and his superb period-instr ument chamber orchestra, the English Baroque Soloists, offer their unique interpretation of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. This is Gardiner’s first recording of these works and it follows a phenomenal elevenconcert residency at the Spitalfieds Music Winter Festival in December 2008 and January 2009. These concertos, described by Bach as ‘Concertos for several instruments’, are widely regarded as among the finest musical compositions of the Baroque. Now considered a benchmark of Baroque music, the concertos still have the power to move people almost three centuries later.

Concert review

“Gardiner encouraged rampaging exuberance from his excellent horns, subtle dynamic variations from oboes and strings, and some unusually complex phrasing...delivered with such conviction.”

— THE TIMES

October 2009

Recent release

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Brahms: Symphony No. 3

Soli Deo Gloria • SDG 704 (843183070428)

“A new way to hear Brahms.”

— THE STAR-LEDGER

Keilberth’s second Ring cycle testament

WAGNER Die Walküre (1955, Second Cycle), Tannhäuser Excerpts

Martha Mödl (soprano), Astrid Varnay (soprano), Georgine von Milinkovic (mezzo-soprano) Ramón Vinay (tenor), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Hans Ho er (baritone), Josef Greindl (bass) Bayreuth Festival Choir & Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth Testament • SBT4 1432

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The release of Joseph Ke i l b e r t h’s legendar y stereo recordings of the first cycle of the 1955 Ring at Bayreuth brought Testament worldwide acclaim. Partly for recording security, partly out of interest, Decca’s engineers also recorded the second cycle, from which this first-ever release of Die Walküre is drawn. While taping both the Ring cycles and the performances of Der fliegende Holländer (also conducted that year

by Keilberth, see Testament SBT2 1384), the Decca team also made some experimental recordings of excerpts from his Tannhäuser performances. Keilberth inspires his orchestra here to a Toscanini-like sensuality in the dance music. The section recorded from Act III catches the young Dietrich FischerDieskau in his second year at the festival and shows the risks that Wolfgang Windgassen was prepared to take with the title role — employing, as Wagner himself asked for at the opera’s Paris première in 1861, a deliberately hoarse, broken tone for this failed pilgrim’s search for grace.

Also available in the series Testament • SBT4 1433 (749677143329)

“On the highest level, unthinkably superior to anything that could take place in Bayreuth or anywhere else now.”

— INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW

October 2009

Wagner: Go erdämmerung (1955)

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Ida Haendel plays Sibelius SIBELIUS Violin Concerto ELGAR Violin Concerto

Ida Haendel (violin) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Ra le Testament • SBT 1444

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This previously unreleased recording was taken from live performances at the 1993 London Proms. At that time, Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra were on the top of their game and enjoying worldwide celebrity. Even in her late 60’s, Ida Haendel’s technique was firm. Her connection to the Sibelius concerto in particular was almost legendary, and critics at the time praised her performance with rare unanimity. The Times’ critic stated, “She can claim the composer’s approval for her interpretation... It is still one to compel admiration for its cogency as well as its unimpaired technical assurance.” Haendel first played the Elgar in her teens. Her noted recording of the work for EMI marked one of Adrian Boult’s last visits to the studio (Testament SBT 1146).

Barbirolli Mahler at its best MAHLER Symphony No.6

October 2009

New Philharmonia Orchestra Sir John Barbirolli Testament • SBT 1451

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By the time of this BBC Henry Wood Proms performance in August 1967, Sir John Barbirolli’s grasp of Mahler’s powerful sixth symphony was complete. The result is a performance of electrifying insight and interpretative mastery, displaying the New Philharmonia Orchestra at its very best. Barbirolli’s EMI recording of the work (made within a few days of this live, previously unreleased version) is not as consistently impressive. This live performance is not only demonstrably superior in several respects to the studio version, it is also living proof of Barbirolli’s greatness, his intensity and sensitivity, as a Mahler interpreter.

Rare, unreleased Karajan Price Code: A20 (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98)

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BEETHOVEN Symphony No.6 STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan Testament • SBT 1452

MOZART Divertimento No.15, K287 STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan Testament • SBT 1453

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These two discs of unreleased live recordings from the ‘70s run the gamut musically, thus proving once again, beyond doubt, that Herbert von Karajan was truly deserving of his legendary status as a conductor. Both feature the Berlin Philharmonic and were recorded in London by the BBC. Karajan’s Rite of Spring wowed critics and offers a fascinating comparison to his 1977 studio recording. For recorded music aficionados, Strauss and Beethoven are composers with whom Karajan’s name will always be inextricably linked. This disc of ‘programmatic’ works, Ein Heldenleben and the ‘Pastoral’ symphony, demonstrates both the conductor’s supreme technique and innate musical vision, but also the amazing virtuosity of his orchestra. As always, Testament’s transfers of the original tapes are flawless.

Also available Testament • SBT 1430 (749677143022)

Brahms: Symphony No.1 Testament • SBT 1431 (749677143121)

October 2009

Beethoven: Symphony No.4

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WORLD A spicy DJ mix from [dunkelbunt] piranha

Raindrops & Elephants

Piranha • PIR 2335 LP

[dunkelbunt] Piranha • PIR 2335

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File In: World / Europe / Balkans Vienna-based [dunkelbunt] is part of a DJ movement that transcends standard Central European techno and house music by drawing inspiration from other genres and cultures. His remixes for artists as various as Balkan Beat Box, 17 Hippies and the Amsterdam Klezmer Band have gained him international renown. A passionate blender of spices in his spare time, [dunkelbunt] sees composing and cooking as related arts. On the CD and LP of Raindrops and Elephants, [dunkelbunt] has applied his passion for blending to selected Piranha tracks from Simentera, Frank London, Watcha Clan and more.

Traditional music from Sweden ocora

Between Triol & Sextondel Various Artists Ocora • C 560225

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October 2009

File In: World / Europe / Sweden This disc features musicians from all over Sweden north, south, east and west playing the polska in triol (triplets) and sextondel (semiquavers). There are solos, duos, trios and a quintet, played on instruments like the nyckelharpa, the cittra, the harmonica, the flute and the guitar. The result is a collection of rich and varied Swedish traditional music where the violin still reigns supreme.

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New from Tinariwen

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Imidiwan: Companions

Tinariwen World Village • 468096

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File In: World / Africa / Mali In December of 2008, Tinariwen gathered in the Sahara to record a new album.

The sessions took place in a rented house, out in the bush, in nomad camps and in other magical locations. The whole adventure was filmed by the French director Jessy Nottola and a DVD of that film is included with the CD. Imidiwan: Companions is the band’s fourth release for World Village and it possesses all the elements that have made them so magnetic to western ears: raw simplicity, melodic beauty and songs ranging from the epic and universal to the intimate and personal. This fourteen track album, produced by Jean-Paul Romann, who had previously worked with Tinariwen on their 2001 debut album, The Radio Tisdas Sessions, was recorded in Malian village of Tessalit, home of band members Ibrahim Ag Alhabib and Hassan Ag Touhami. Since their debut, Tinariwen has picked up a number of awards and a raft of ‘legendary’ fans including the likes of Robert Plant, Carlos Santana, Brian Eno, Thom Yorke, TV on the Radio, Bono and The Edge.

Advance Press

“It’s invigorating to encounter music that sounds utterly unselfconscious, that mines its own earthy terrain apparently indifferent to the fact that the rest of the world is even listening.”

— THE GUARDIAN

“These marvellous guitar toting bandits take no prisoners with this fourth album, unleashing joyous lick after bad ass African blues riff... like Led Zeppelin spoken in tongues, and despite any ‘world’ or other westernised labels, this is one heck of a rock record.”

— THE SCOTSMAN

Also available World Village • 468010 (713746801021)

Amassakoul

World Village • 468026 (713746802622)

Aman Iman

World Village • 468067 (713746806729)

October 2009

Radio Tisdas Sessions

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SOUNDTRACK howe records

A new Howard Shore series

Collector’s Edition Vol.1

Howard Shore Howe Records • HWR 1003

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October 2009

File In: Soundtrack Collections Howe Records is pleased to announce the inaugural release of their new Collector’s Edition series from the vaults of Grammy Awardwinning composer Howard Shore. Album series producer Jonathan Schultz has uncovered thousands of recordings documenting Shore’s career of composing original scores, concert pieces, chamber music and songs.

Access to some of this material requires expert restoration of analog tapes in which reels are carefully baked and calibrated, splices are repaired and original balances are replicated or adjusted as needed to make this music available. Volume One launches the series with a collection of unreleased recordings, some from films and many pieces that have never been heard in any form. The first four tracks are from the score to the Martin Scorsese film After Hours and the last track is from the Diane Keaton documentary Heaven. These five tracks showcase Shore as both musician and performer. The middle tracks of the disc (tracks 5-11) have never been heard before.

These compositions are unique, jazz-influenced pieces with captivating solos for guitar and harmonica with orchestra. Collector’s Edition Volume 1 is just the beginning — there is much more to explore.

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Also available featuring Howard Shore Doubt — Original Soundtrack Howe Records • HWR 1001 (899158002017)

“Howard Shore’s score provides unobtrusive strength.”

— VARIETY

Betrayal — Original Soundtrack

Howe Records • HWR 1002 (899158002024)

“The film is lyrical, expansive, unbearably beautiful, with a melting violin score by Howard Shore.”

— NEW YORK MAGAZINE

JAZZ Celebrating the African spirit otá

Tales From The Earth

Omar Sosa Otá • OTA 1020

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File In: Jazz Tales From The Earth features a thoroughly cosmopolitan outlook rooted in the rhythmic intensity and improvisatory, call-and-response spirit of Africa. Artists of Cuban, Haitian, West African, European, African American and Jewish American heritage converged in a Berlin studio for two days of intensive recording, without music or a predetermined conception, only a shared commitment to the communal, celebratory character that embodies the expressive riches of Mother Africa. Weaving a musical lineage of a thousand strands, Tales From The Earth recalls something of the creative spirit of M’Boom, the inventive all-percussion octet founded by Max Roach in 1970. But above all, it resounds with the Afro-Cuban traditions of Omar Sosa. Featured guests include Mark Weinstein (flutes), Jean Paul Bourelly (guitar), Aly Keita (balafon), Marque Gilmore (drums) and Aho Luc Nicaise and Mathias Agbokou (vocals).

“Omar Sosa may be the best little-known musician on the planet.”

— AUDIOPHILE AUDITION

Also available Otá • OTA 1019 (616444101922)

“The open sentimentality manifested here still reflects the crisp, direct, intuitive connections he long ago mastered.”

— GLOBAL RHYTHM

October 2009

Afreecanos

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JAZZ Trumpeter Eric Le Lann plus loin

Le Lann, Kikosky, Foster & Weiss Eric Le Lann Plus Loin • PL 4516

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File In: Jazz Eric Le Lann started his career as a professional trumpeter at the age of 20.

He won the Grand Prix at La Defence in 1979 and the Django Reinhardt prize in 1983. He has recorded fifteen albums under his own name so far with the likes of Mike Stern, Martial Solal, Archie Shepp, Eddie Gomez and Mino Cinelu and he has played with Chet Baker, Herbie Hancock, Billy Hart and Dexter Gordon. This new album was recorded in October 2008 in Systems Two Studio, NYC. Le Lann is accompanied by three major American artists: David Kikoski, Doug Weiss and Al Foster. The album was been produced like a recorded live performance: the musicians met and discovered each other while playing, with a maximum of two takes per track to keep the music as improvised and inspired as possible.

The King of Jazz

October 2009

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Happy Feet — Vol.3

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Paul Whiteman Dutton Vocalion • CDEA 6158

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File In: Jazz The legendary orchestra of ‘The King of Jazz,’ Paul Whiteman, returns to Dutton with this, their third volume of his recordings, here spanning the years 1926-33. As is well-documented, Whiteman’s orchestra of this period contained several star players such as Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer, and here Beiderbecke is heard to great effect. Whiteman has his usual lineup of star vocalists in tow, the most notable among them being Bing Crosby, and his inimitable vocal style adorns various numbers in this compilation. Other featured vocalists included Harry Barris, Al Rinker, Peggy Healy and Jack Fulton, while several of the arrangements are by Bill Challis.

NOSTALGIA

The best in nostalgia on Du on Frank Chacksfield Dutton Vocalion • CDLK 4380

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The New Limelight; Chacksfield Plays Bacharach

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File In: Nostalgia This collection highlights Frank Chacksfield’s ability to handle music from the standard repertoire as well as the more contemporary pop songs of the 1970s. The New Limelight features classic melodies by Cole Porter and Harold Arlen and timeless tunes from films.

Chacksfield Plays Bacharach is of a tribute to the song writing genius of Burt Bacharach.

Brass ‘n’ Ivory; Brass in the Night

Tony Osborne Dutton Vocalion • CDLK 4390

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File In: Nostalgia Tony Osborne was one of Britain’s leading arranger-composers, and was the arranger of choice for Judy Garland, Eartha Kitt and Shirley Bassey. This release focuses on his considerable skills as both an arranger and a composer. Brass ‘n’ Ivory and Brass in the Night mix originals with arrangements of contemporary popular tunes and give Osborne’s many talents a well-deserved spotlight.

Price Code: A22 (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98)

Frank Chacksfield Dutton Vocalion • CDLK 4392

File In: Nostalgia Here Frank Chacksfield interprets, in his own inimitable style, the legendary repertoire of Simon & Garfunkel, Jim Webb and the Beatles. Aided and abetted on both albums by arranger Johnny Keating, these classic tunes are rendered in inventive, modern interpretations that more than do justice the timeless originals.

October 2009

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Plays Simon & Garfunkel and Jim Webb; Plays the Beatles Songbook

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The best in nostalgia on Du on To Lovers Everywhere; From Mantovani with Love

Mantovani Dutton Vocalion • CDLK 4393

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Great Film Themes from Many Lands; Vibrations Around the World

International Pop All Stars Dutton Vocalion • CDLK 4394

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All Time Jazz Hits; Top of the World

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Ronnie Aldrich Dutton Vocalion • CDLK 4395

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File In: Nostalgia The lush, romantic sound of the Mantovani orchestra is heard here in two classic albums, To Lovers Everywhere and From Mantovani with Love.

Both feature the great bandleader at the height of his powers, leading his orchestra through various Roland Shaw and Cecil Milner arrangements.

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File In: Nostalgia The mysterious International Pop All Stars make their first appearance on Dutton with this release, which compiles two of their albums recorded for Decca’s ‘Phase 4’ series. Great Film Themes from Many Lands showcases immaculate, elegant renditions of music from the movies and Vibrations Around the World is a mélange of glorious melodies.

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File In: Nostalgia Pianist, arranger-composer and one of Decca’s best-known recording artists, Ronnie Aldrich, is spotlighted in this delightful Vocalion release. All Time Jazz Hits features Aldrich’s swinging, tasteful arrangements of classic jazz standards while Top of the World features Aldrich in more familiar territory playing standards with his trademark two pianos plus orchestra.

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File In: Nostalgia Famed accordionist-composer Will Glahé makes his first appearance on Dutton with this release, compiling two of his finest Decca albums of the 1970s. Bavarian Merry-Go-Round and Viennese MerryGo-Round are charming confections featuring Glahé’s virtuoso accordion technique backed by tasteful orchestrations.

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Mantovani Dutton Vocalion • CDLK 4396

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Bavarian Merry Go Round; Wiener Praterbummel

Will Glahé Dutton Vocalion • CDLK 4399

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Plays Lerner & Loewe; Plays Rodgers & Hart

Frank Chacksfield Dutton Vocalion • CDLK 4400

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File In: Nostalgia Dutton’s third Frank Chacksfield release this month compiles a further two very worthy albums from the maestro’s extensive Decca discography. Plays Lerner and Loewe features legendary jazz musician Kenny Baker and session singer Joanne Brown. Plays Rodgers and Hart serves up more typically elegant Chacksfield orchestral readings.-

The Mantovani Touch; Opere a Memories

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File In: Nostalgia The Mantovani Touch displays Mantovani’s ability to stay abreast of contemporary songs and melodies. Operetta Memories showcases Mantovani interpreting the cream of the operetta canon. The booklet accompanying this release features several rare publicity photographs of Mantovani.

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Colin Currie

Onyx Classics

James Ehnes

Onyx Classics

Isabelle Faust

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Iván Fischer John Eliot Gardiner Alban Gerhardt

Soli Deo Gloria Hyperion

Susan Graham

Onyx Classics

Marc André-Hamelin

Hyperion

Angela Hewi

Hyperion

Stephen Hough

Hyperion

Emma Kirkby

Hyperion

Dejan Lazic Paul Lewis London Symphony Orchestra Wu Man Anthony Marwood Jon Nakamatsu Steven Osborne

Channel harmonia mundi LSO Live Onyx Classics Hyperion harmonia mundi Hyperion

Mark Padmore Philharmonia Baroque Dorothea Röschmann Andreas Scholl Andreas Staier

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Stile Antico

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Takács Quartet

Hyperion

Tallis Scholars

Gimell

Tokyo String Quartet

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C.J. Chenier

World Village

Mamadou Diabaté Ethel

World Village Cantaloupe

Kayhan Kalhor Klezmatics Phil Kline Masters of Persian Music

World Village Piranha Cantaloupe World Village

Ana Moura

World Village

Omar Sosa

Otá

So Percussion Omara Portuondo

Cantaloupe World Village

Catherine Russell

World Village

Teraka

World Village

Tinariwen

World Village

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