harmonia mundi usa • new releases February 2010

harmonia mundi usa NEW RELEASES

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Bestselling choral artists Stile Antico return this month with Media Vita — a new album of music by John Sheppard for harmonia mundi (p.5). Also on the hm label, clarinetist Jon Manasse joins the Seattle Symphony and Gerard Schwarz for a disc of concertos by Mozart and Spohr (p.4). Hyperion’s priority releases include Baltic Exchange — a disc of choral music by rarely heard composers from the region performed by Stephen Layton and Trinity College Choir (p.13) and Hommage à Chopin - a disc of piano works inspired by the great composer featuring Jonathan Plowright (p.15). Also of note, Bernard Haitink returns to LSO Live for a disc of Richard Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie (p.18) and pianist Denis Matsuev debuts on Mariinsky with Rachmaninov’s third concerto (p.19). On the non-classical front, World Village has three priority releases. Fernando Otero’s Vital expands the vocabulary of Argentinean music (p.23) while Trio Joubran’s À l’ombre des mots hits a more traditional note (p.24) and the Harold López-Nussa Trio offers hot jazz improv on Herencia (p.31). Also in the spotlight are Omar Sosa’s foray into big band jazz with Ceremony (p.32) and a reissue of Manu Dibango’s African Woodoo (p.25).

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Stile Antico harmonia mundi • HMU 807489

BEST OF 2009...

Song of Songs

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Stile Antico’s Song of Songs Stile Antico’s GRAMMY®-nominated album Song of Songs was named Best Classical Album of 2009 on iTunes. The group’s third album, which has spent an amazing 30 weeks on Billboard’s Top Classical Chart, was also featured on Best of 2009 lists from Amazon.com, The New Yorker, WNYC, Fanfare and Time Out New York.

Tinariwen’s Imidiwan: Companions In addition to winning the 2009 UnCut Music Award, Tinariwen’s fourth album has been featured on “Best of” lists from Q, Mojo, fRoots, Popmatters, Rhapsody, The Christian Science Monitor, Real Music, Metacritic and The Huffington Post.

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Bach: Goldberg Variations Andreas Staier harmonia mundi • HMC 902058

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Andreas Staier plays Bach’s Goldberg Variations Andreas Staier waited nearly a quarter of a century to play the Goldberg Variations in public. His long-awaited first performance was in Montreal at the end of April 2000, and this new set for harmonia mundi, which includes a free bonus DVD, is his first recording of Bach’s keyboard masterpiece. One of the most prominent harpsichord and fortepiano performers in the world, Staier’s indisputable musical mastery has made its mark on the interpretation of baroque, classical and romantic repertoire.

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The best of Chopin harmonia mundi

CHOPIN Waltzes

Alexandre Tharaud (piano) harmonia mundi • HMX 2901927

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CHOPIN The Essentials

Frederic Chiu, Brigitte Engerer, Olga Kern, Jon Nakamatsu, Alain Planès, Alexandre Tharaud, Cédric Tiberghien, Nobuyuki Tsujii, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit harmonia mundi • HMX 2908375

Hk948 1c($!$@VL Released to celebrate the 300th anniversary of his birth, these two specially-priced discs featuring the music of Frédéric Chopin cover a wide range of the composer’s output, both in variety of works and in range of emotional expression. Alexandre Tharaud’s highly acclaimed recording of the complete Waltzes is now available as a CD-plus-catalog combo. On The Essentials, some of harmonia mundi’s top artists present a compilation of some of Chopin’s most famous pieces, offering a glimpse of the inner world of this genius whom Liszt said, “made use of art solely to fulfill his own tragic destiny.”

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The Essentials • Contents list February 2010

Andante spianato Op.22 • Ballade No.1 Op.23 Concerto No.1, Finale • Étude Op.10 No.1 Étude Op.10 No.3 • Étude Op.10 No.12 Fantaisie-impromptu Op.66 • Mazurka Op.7 No.1 Nocturne Op.9 No.2 • Polonaise ‘héroïque’ Op.53 Prélude Op.28 No.6 • Prélude Op.28 No.15 Sonata No.2 Op.35, Marche funèbre • Waltz Op.69 No.1

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Mozart’s favorite instrument harmonia mundi

MOZART Clarinet Concerto SPOHR Clarinet Concerto No. 2

Jon Manasse (clarinet), Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz harmonia mundi • HMU 907516

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‘Non-standard’ solo instruments have always made their way in the chamber music and concerto worlds through the advocacy of exceptional players. In the last ten years of his short life, Mozart developed a strong predilection for the clarinet, prompted by his admiration for the playing of Anton Stadler. Quite aside from the new prominence he accorded the instrument in two of his last three symphonies, it was for Stadler that he wrote his trio, quintet and, just two months before his death, the concerto recorded here. American clarinetist Jon Manasse delivers an unusually insightful reading of this evergreen work, ably accompanied by the Seattle Symphony led by Gerard Schwarz. The second of Ludwig Spohr’s four concertos for the clarinet is an apt pairing for the Mozart, and Manasse gives the work a fresh and buoyant performance.

“At the center was an absolutely first-rate clarinet soloist, Jon Manasse. He had the taste, the sound and the technique to project this most beguiling of wind instruments in one of its more beguiling repertory pieces [Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto].”

— THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Manasse sports a gracious tone, easily glides through the three octaves of the instrument, from the reedy flute registrations down through the gorgeous chalumeau bass.”

— AUDIOPHILE AUDITION

February 2010

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Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas

harmonia mundi • HMU 907430 (093046743024)

“Their fluent performances have a flowing charm and grace.”

— SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Stile Antico sings Tudor masterworks harminia mundi

SHEPPARD Media Vita

Stile Antico harmonia mundi • HMU 807509

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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD For its fourth recording, Stile Antico spotlights the work of the great Tudor master John Sheppard. Once overshadowed by his illustrious contemporary Thomas Tallis, Sheppard is now recognized as a composer of extraordinary originality. The program displays his genius across the range of genres in which he composed. Its centerpiece is the great antiphon Media Vita - a reflection on the frailty of human life and the hope for salvation. Stile Antico is one of the most original and exciting choral ensembles today.

The group’s most recent release, Song of Songs, won the 2009 Gramophone Award for Early Music and reached the top of the US Classical Chart. Notable engagements in the 2010 season include a New York debut in the Music before 1800 series.

“One of the brightest new stars in the firmament of Renaissance vocal ensembles.”

— THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

“An ensemble of breathtaking freshness, vitality and balance” — THE NEW YORK TIMES

Also available Heavenly Harmonies

harmonia mundi • HMU 807489 (093046748968)

harmonia mundi • HMU 807463 (093046746360)

“The best recording I heard all year.”

“Another triumph...

Be sure to hear it.”

— THE BOSTON GLOBE

— FANFARE

Music for Compline harmonia mundi • HMU 807419 (093046741969)

“A major debut...

— CLASSICSTODAY.COM

February 2010

Song of Songs

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Fauré’s chamber masterpieces harmonia mundi

FAURÉ Piano Quartets

Trio Wanderer, Antoine Tamestit (viola) harmonia mundi • HMC 902032

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Gabriel Fauré was a remarkable pianist who included his instrument in almost all his compositions, but seldom as a soloist. Instead, he preferred to combine the piano with chamber ensembles to produce the intimate atmosphere he so favored. Fauré’s Piano Quartets are among the finest works of French chamber music. With the instrumental formula of string trio and piano, he set out in his own way to follow in the footsteps of Schumann and Brahms. Performed here by Trio Wanderer, joined by violist Antoine Tamestit, these works receive idiomatic performances that emphasize the ‘French-ness’ that makes them unique and special.

The fiery music of Thierry Pécou PÉCOU Symphonie du jaguar, Vague de Pierre

February 2010

Ensemble Zellig, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, François-Xavier Roth, Jonathan Stockhammer harmonia mundi • HMC 905267

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Underpinned by an irresistible energy and impelled by an innate rhythmic drive, Thierry Pécou’s Symphonie du Jaguar and Vague de pierre explore the mysteries of pre-Columbian Mayan Mexico and literary painters of ancient China. The Symphonie du Jaguar depicts the cyclic course of time and the trajectory of the sun and in the form of a red jaguar in its journey into the bowels of the earth where it is regenerated. Vague de pierre (‘Stone wave’, a literal translation of ‘Shi Tao’, a Chinese literary painter of the late Manchu dynasty) is inspired by an external source, the writings of François Cheng and François Jullien on art and philosophy in China.

Budget-priced reissues OFFENBACH Suites for two cellos

Piotr Anderszewski (piano) harmonia mundi • HMA 1951679

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TARTINI Cello Concertos

Roel Dieltiens (cello), Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini harmonia mundi • HMA 1951548

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MONTEVERDI Pianto della Madonna

Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Concerto Soave, Jean-Marc Aymes harmonia mundi • HMA 1951680

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Previously Available as HMC 901680 (794881463824) Deleted March 2009

TELEMANN Trauer-Actus

Cantus Cölln, Konrad Junghänel harmonia mundi • HMA 1951768

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Previously Available as HMC 901768 (794881688623) Deleted May 2009

New Look — Eco-friendly Packaging This month marks the debut of a new look for the Musique d’Abord series. New releases CDs will now be housed in Sony’s Bend-It Green(r) packaging. This new cardboard case is produced using 100% recycled materials, soy-based inks, eco-friendly glue and waterbased varnish. Plus, the manufacturing produces a carbon-footprint savings of 50% over jewel-boxes.

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harminia mundi

Roland Pidoux (cello), Etienne Péclard (cello) harmonia mundi • HMA 1951043

BACH French Suite No.5, French Overture

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Music from the Missions channel classics

Bolivian Baroque Vol.3

Arakaendar Bolivia Choir, Florilegium, Ashley Solomon, James Johnstone (organ) Channel Classics • CCS SA 28009

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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Channel Classics’ third volume in their Bolivian Baroque series was recorded in three different venues and in two different countries almost 6,250 miles apart.

The majority of the CD was recorded in Holland during Arakaendar Bolivia Choir’s first tour of Europe with Florilegium in 2008. In addition, the release includes a number of solo organ works from the Bolivian archives that James Johnstone recorded on the restored 18th century Blockwerk organ in the Mission Church of Santa Ana de Chiquitos.

Baroque flute concertos TELEMANN Overture & Concerti

February 2010

Alexis Kossenko (flute), Holland Baroque Society Channel Classics • CCS SA 28409

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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Although the concerti selected for this recording are in the four-movement concerto grosso tradition, Telemann has given each work a unique character, without once repeating himself. For this CD, the Holland Baroque Society is joined by guest artist Alexis Kossenko. Kossenko is one of the very few flautists to perform on all the historical forms of his instrument. Here, he not only plays the solo parts but also leads the ensemble and sets the artistic tone for the recording.

Channel’s Elgar series continues Price Code: A24 (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98)

Amanda Roocroft (soprano), Konrad Jarnot (baritone), Reinild Mees (piano) Channel Classics • CCS SA 28610

SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD The second release in Channel Classics’ project to record Elgar’s complete songs for voice and piano features the eloquent British soprano Amanda Roocroft and British baritone Konrad Jarnot, one of the most promising Lied singers of our time, performing a number of unknown Elgar songs. Partnered by the project’s initiator, the Dutch pianist Reinild Mees, they are among today’s finest champions of this rarely-heard song repertoire.

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ELGAR Complete Songs Vol. 2

Modern music for harp

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Visions

Lavinia Meijer (harp) Channel Classics • CCS SA 29709

Price Code: A24 (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98)

February 2010

(SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Although music for the harp has been composed in every imaginable style over the centuries, certain structures and “rules” came into being that were largely obeyed by every self-respecting composer. But in the last century things changed and composers broke though the restrictions of the past. Lavinia Meijer’s new album, Visions, presents a varied picture of harp repertoire from the last forty years. Featured composers include Benjamin Britten, Toru Takemitsu and Isang Yun.

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New in Dutton’s Epoch series CORP Piano Concerto No.1, Guernsey Postcards, Symphony No.1 Leon McCawley (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Ronald Corp Dutton Laboratories • CDLX 7233

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E.R. WARREN The Legend of King Arthur, Orchestral Works

Roderick Williams (baritone), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Ronald Corp, BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates Dutton Laboratories • CDLX 7235

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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Heroic Elegy & Triumphal Epilogue

ALWYN

Overture in the Form of a Serenade, Prelude, Blackdown, Peter Pan Suite, Ad Infinitum London Chorus, BBC Concert Orchestra, John Wilson

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Dutton Laboratories • CDLX 7237

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HERBERT Serenade for Strings FOOTE Serenade for Strings, Suite in E Major

London Octave, Kypros Markou Dutton Laboratories • CDLX 7238

This month, Dutton offers eight fascinating new releases in their acclaimed Epoch series. Their second disc of music by conductor Ronald Corp features his piano concerto, symphony and orchestral suite Guernsey Postcards. Next up is a collection of colorful orchestral music by American composer Elinor Remick Warren. It includes two programmatic orchestral suites and her Symphony in One Movement. Dutton’s world premiere recording of Vaughan Williams’ Heroic Elegy & Triumphal Epilogue is a terrific discovery. Much more than an interesting early work, it is a vibrant and haunting score that in its time must have been truly pioneering. More music from the USA comes in three distinctive and tuneful turn-of-the-century works for string orchestra by Victor Herbert and Arthur Foote - including the early serenades for strings by each composer. As usual for the series, all these discs feature spot on performances by top flight artists.

New in Dutton’s Epoch series

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Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates Dutton Laboratories • CDLX 7239

WRIGHT

Evocation - Spring Overture, A Li le Light Music, Threnody for Orchestra, Searching, Idyll, Divertimento, Capriccio Burlesque Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland, Barry Wordsworth, Manchester Sinfonia, Christopher Wright

Dutton Laboratories • CDLX 7240

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BATE Symphony No.3 ARNELL Black Mountain Prelude, Robert Flaherty - Impression CHISHOLM Pictures from Danté

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TOVEY The Bride of Dionysus - Excerpts Sally Silver (soprano), Yvonne Fontane (mezzosoprano), Robert Johnston (tenor), Michael Bundy (baritone), Belfast Philharmonic Choir, Ulster Orchestra, George Vass

Dutton Laboratories • CDLX 7241

Showtime - 25 Years of BBC Concert Orchestra Favourites BBC Concert Orchestra, Roderick Dunk Dutton Laboratories • CDLX 7242

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February 2010

This month, Dutton offers eight fascinating new releases in their acclaimed Epoch series. Their world premiere recording of Stanley Bate’s coruscating third symphony is quite a find. If you like Vaughan Williams or Walton you will revel in Bate’s lyrical and dramatic music. The suite A Little Light Music underlines that you will delight in Christopher Wright’s music, which lives in a world between approachable light music and music of deep seriousness. Extended highlights from Donald Francis Tovey’s lyrical and colorful opera The Bride of Dionysus show it to be a gorgeous work. The BBC Concert Orchestra’s Showtime is a typical presentation of their regular ‘Friday Night is Music Night’ broadcast. This release celebrates the 25th anniversary of the BBC Concert Orchestra’s Supporters Club.

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More Bolling favorites on DVD and CD BOLLING Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio

Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute), Claude Bolling (piano), Max Hédiguer, Pierre-Yves Sorin (double bass), Marcel Sabiani, Vincent Cordelette (drums) Frémeaux & Associés • FA 4003

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BOLLING Cross Over USA

Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute), Eric Franceries (guitar), Marielle Nordmann (harp), Guy Touvron (trumpet), Patrice Fontanarosa (violin), Renaud Fontanarosa (cello), Pierre-Yves Sorin (double bass), Vincent Cordelette (drums), Claude Bolling (piano) Frémeaux & Associés • FA 457

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The Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio was a true revelation in the world of classical recordings. Claude Bolling’s special blend of jazz and classical styles and his innate sense of what pleased listener’s ears kept his music at the top of the hit-parade for over ten years. For all intents and purposes, the term ‘crossover’ was coined to describe his music.

This month’s new releases include Frémeaux’s DVD of the immortal suite (performed live at the palace of Versailles) and CD of classic American songs reinterpreted in Bolling’s inimitable style and featuring a wealth of top artists.

February 2010

Also available from Claude Bolling

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Bolling: Suite for Violin & Jazz Piano Frémeaux & Associés • FA 442 (3448960244220)

Bolling: Suite for Violin & Jazz Piano Frémeaux & Associés • FA 443 (3448960244329)

Bolling: Concerto for Guitar & Jazz Piano Frémeaux & Associés • FA 444 (3448960244428)

Choral gems from the Baltics Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Stephen Layton Hyperion • CDA 67747

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Baltic Exchange Choral Works by Praulinš, Einfelde, Sisask & Miškinis

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With choral music at the heart of musical life in the Baltics, it is not surprising that the medium has been a central preoccupation for many of their composers. And while there is certainly no such thing as a pan-Baltic style (this recording offers only a glimpse of the choral riches to be found in these three tiny countries) all the composers on the disc share a number of characteristics — a sure-footed handling of choral orchestration, lucidity of texture, a pragmatic use of ‘avant-garde’ effects (shorn of their ideological baggage), a fondness for cluster-chords and diatonically saturated harmonies. Stephen Layton has single-handedly brought many of these composers to the attention of audiences and choirs in the West, and through his sensitive and inspirational direction, has won many fans for this repertoire. Together with his brilliant young choir, who sing this repertoire with passion and purity, he is the ideal guide to this beautiful and enchanting music.

“Trinity College Choir, Cambridge is one of the finest in England; and under Stephen Layton’s more than capable direction they are sustaining the dazzling reputation.”

— AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE

Also available with Trinity College Choir Hyperion • CDA 67639 (034571176390)

“Magical and sophisticated performances.”

— INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW

February 2010

Lukaszewski: Choral Music

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Stravinsky’s masterful transcriptions STRAVINSKY Complete Music for Violin & Piano Anthony Marwood (violin), Thomas Adès (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67723

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Stravinsky’s collaboration with the violinist Samuel Dushkin was a great artistic success, generating new works for the repertoire as well as arrangements of some of the composer’s most tuneful and popular works. Of these arrangements, Dushkin wrote that Stravinsky seemed, “to go back to the essence of the music and rewrite or recreate the music in the spirit of the new instrument.” Indeed, these are not ordinary transcriptions. As he reduced his orchestral works to their bare essence, Stravinsky rethought every note and chord. In the performing partnership of Anthony Marwood and Thomas Adès, Hyperion has a combination that seems to reignite the original flames of inspiration, creation and re-creation.

Lawrence Power plays Hindemith HINDEMITH Complete Viola Music Vol.2 Sonatas for Solo Viola

February 2010

Lawrence Power (viola) Hyperion • CDA 67769

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Lawrence Power, Britain’s greatest living violist, continues his fascinating and acclaimed series of Hindemith’s complete viola music. This second disc features the solo viola sonatas. These works were all written for Hindemith himself to perform and are thus are of special significance - as near to a personal testament, an intimate soliloquy, as exists in his output. The shadow of Bach lies over any composer writing a solo string sonata. This is clear in the Passacaglia from the sonata Opus 11 No 5, where Hindemith’s ultimate model is unmistakably Bach’s famous D minor Chaconne. This movement is the first example of a form that was to be one of Hindemith’s trademarks throughout his career and it makes the work something of a personal manifesto of artistic ambition.

Inspired by Chopin hyperion

CHOPIN Hommage à Chopin

Jonathan Plowright (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67803

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Among the many recordings celebrating the 300th anniversary of Chopin’s birth, this disc will stand out as an historic record of the composer’s extraordinary influence and legacy. Chopin’s unique style of piano writing utterly transformed the way in which composers wrote for and thought about the instrument. Few escaped some aspect of that legacy until the early years of the twentieth century and few pianists have not had Chopin’s music in their concert repertoire. Small wonder that so many composers and pianist composers - major and minor- have felt moved to pay their respects to a musician for whom there is almost universal approbation. A fascinating selection of hommages is represented here. Jonathan Plowright has recently been described by Gramophone as, “one of the finest living pianists; the possessor of qualities that should no longer remain a secret.” His formidable technique and musical integrity combine in a disc which is a must for any pianophile.

“A musical alchemist of rare distinction with a transcendent technique.”

— GRAMOPHONE

Also available Hyperion • CDA 67562 (034571175621)

“He gives Paderewski his due, revealing the seriousness of purpose, the lighthearted charm and a penchant for self-indulgence.”

February 2010

Paderewski: Piano Sonata

— SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE 15

Hyperion’s Byrd series concludes hyperion

BYRD Infelix ego - Byrd Edition Vol.13 The Cardinall’s Musick, Andrew Carwood Hyperion • CDA 67779

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The final volume of The Cardinall’s Musick’s awardwinning Byrd series includes some of the composer’s most sublime and adventurous music, drawn in the main from the 1591 Cantiones Sacrae collection. Throughout this series it has become evident that a comprehensive survey such as this shows the genius of the composer in a uniquely effective way. Andrew Carwood describes Byrd as the greatest composer of the age as he writes, “If there is an English musician who comes close to Shakespeare in his consummate artistry, his control over so many genres and his ability to speak with emotional directness it must be William Byrd.” The title track of this volume, Infelix ego, is the crowning glory of Byrd’s achievement and one of the greatest artistic statements of the sixteenth century. This remarkable text, taking the form of a number of rhetorical statements and questions, shows the gamut of emotion from a soul in torment to the joy of release when Christ’s mercy is accepted. It can be seen as a microcosm of Byrd’s sacred music and a fitting crown to this series.

“Carwood has given us a series of Byrd recordings that will be a monument when he has finished.”

— GRAMOPHONE

February 2010

Also available in the series

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Byrd: Laudibus in sanctis

Hyperion • CDA 67568 (034571175683)

Byrd: Hodie Simon Petrus

Hyperion • CDA 67653 (034571176536)

Byrd: Assumpta es Maria

Hyperion • CDA 67675 (034571176758)

Howard Shelley’s Spohr series Price Code: A19 (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)

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SPOHR Symphonies Nos.3 & 6, Overture to The Fall of Babylon

Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Howard Shelley Hyperion • CDA 67788

Howard Shelley’s enchanting series of Spohr’s symphonies continues to inspire interest and delight in this underrated composer. Spohr’s third symphony is a richer, more romantic work than its two predecessors.

The sixth was written in an entirely new form, with each movement in a different historical style. Today we accept compositions which borrow musical styles from earlier periods such as Grieg’s Holberg Suite, but when Spohr pioneered the process, contemporary listeners and critics completely failed to comprehend this concept. But it is in fact a very effective as the styles imitated are filtered through Spohr’s imagination so giving the symphony its enduring fascination.

Mid-price Helios reissues TARTINI Violin Concertos

The Service of Venus and Mars

Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin), Raglan Baroque Players, Nicholas Kraemer Hyperion • CDH 55334

Gothic Voices, Christopher Page Hyperion • CDH 55290

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February 2010

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STRAUSS Eine Alpensinfonie

London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink LSO Live • LSO 0689

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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD LSO Live is thrilled to welcome Bernard Haitink back for his first recording with the London Symphony Orchestra since their internationally acclaimed Beethoven cycle in 2006. In his massive Eine Alpensinfonie, Strauss recounts an attempt to conquer the summit of an Alpine mountain. He infuses the score with numerous instrumental colors and rich combinations of sounds, evoking the images and events that take place on the trek. It was to be one of his final large-scale orchestral works and shows the last great German Romantic composer at the pinnacle of his art.

CONCERT REVIEWS

“Rarely has the long haul to the summit seemed more purposeful.

Haitink’s perfect control of the orchestral palette at sunrise and at dusk, as strands of colour rose out of and sank back into the dark monochrome contours, made this performance an incarnation of the music’s own metaphysical struggle and triumph.”

— THE TIMES

February 2010

Also available Beethoven: Symphonies Nos.1-9

LSO Live • LSO 0598 (822231159827)

“Here are top-notch players palpably excited to be re-exploring these touchstone scores with a towering conductor.”

— THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Rachmaninov piano favorites Denis Matsuev (piano), Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev Mariinsky • MAR 0505

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RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No.3, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD The Mariinsky label’s fourth release features the acclaimed Russian pianist Denis Matsuev joining Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra for recordings of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 3 and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Since winning the 11th International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1998, Matsuev has established a reputation as one of Russia’s greatest and most dynamic pianists. He is particular renowned for his interpretations of music by the Russian Composers.

“Matsuev, winner of the 1998 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, has much in common with Vladimir Horowitz: the flaring virtuosity, the range of sonority going from a golden whisper to a mighty roar. But Matsuev seems to command equal reserves of intelligent musicianship and fiery showmanship.”

— THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Recent release from Mariinsky Mariinsky • MAR 0503 (822231850328)

“A superbly sensitive treatment.”

— POST-BULLETIN

February 2010

Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture

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Schubert chamber music SCHUBERT Arpeggione Sonata, Fantasy in C, Duo in A Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Paolo Giacometti (piano) Onyx Classics • ONYX 4046

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On this new disc, cellist Pieter Wispelwey’s second for the award-winning Onyx label, Schubert’s evergreen Arpeggione Sonata is coupled with new arrangements by of the great Fantasy in C and the Duo in A. The latter two were written for the violin, and the sonata for the now extinct arpeggione.- a hybrid guitar/cello instrument. Wispelwey’s debut recording for Onyx of the Walton Cello Concerto (ONYX4042) was received with critical acclaim.

Pianist Paolo Giacometti provides sensitive and dynamic accompaniment.

February 2010

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Giulini’s towering Bruckner

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BRUCKNER Symphony No.8

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini Testament • SBT2 1436

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For many Bruckner fans, Carlo Maria Giulini’s haunting interpretations with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra still linger in the memory. This live performance of the eighth symphony dates from 1984. Critics at the time found Giulini’s reading to be full of grandeur - melodious and delighting in the details, from the plaintive calls of the oboes and clarinets in the first movement to the radiant and thunderous brass of the finale. Testament is to be lauded for issuing these performances and returning the consummate artistry of this great conductor to the spotlight.

Giulini conducts Slavic favorites Price Code: 2A18 (2 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $37.98)

Kyung Wha Chung (violin), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini Testament • SBT2 1439

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TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto DVORÁK Symphony No.7 MUSSORGSKY Khovanshchina Prelude

This live concert recording dates from 1973. Carlo Maria Giulini led the Berlin Philharmonic in performances of the Tchaikovsky concerto with the Korean violinist Kyung-Wha Chung, who was making her début with the orchestra, and Dvorák’s seventh symphony. In both works, Giulini once again displayed the energy that powerfully synthesized the form and created a firm foundation for the drive and inspiration of his interpretations, and even so early in Chung’s career, one can appreciate why she became a favorite of critics and collectors alike.

Havergal Brian’s massive Gothic Symphony

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BRIAN Symphony No.1 - The Gothic

Honor Sheppard (soprano), Shirley Minty (contralto), Ronald Dowd (tenor), Roger Stalman (bass), BBC Chorus, BBC Choral Society, City of London Choir, Hampstead Choral Society, Emanuel School Choir, Orpington Junior Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult Testament • SBT2 1454

February 2010

This recording of Havergal Brian’s colossal Gothic Symphony is taken from a 1966 live performance given in the Royal Albert Hall under Sir Adrian Boult, was made in the presence of the 90-year-old composer. Boult recalled, “I used a stick an inch or two longer than usual and it was remarkable how clearly the Albert Hall platform allows even the most distant people to see the beat. There was a moving scene at the close. Many were deeply excited not only by the circumstances, but by the power of the music, and when [the composer] came on to the platform, and the audience stood up to applaud him, it seemed a fitting close to it all. It was an evening that none of us will ever forget.”

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A new DVD from the Van Cliburn Foundation van cliburn

Contest to Carnegie Hall - 5th Van Cliburn Steven de Groote (piano), Alexander Toradze (piano), Jeffrey Swann (piano), Tokyo String Quartet, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Van Cliburn • DVD 02

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This documentary, the first produced by the Van Cliburn Foundation, chronicles the 1977 competition from the opening dinner through the final awards ceremony, and then accompanies the gold medalist to a Carnegie Hall debut. The film features interviews with Van Cliburn and Maestro John Giordano, as well as behind-the-scenes footage of competitors and rehearsals with the Tokyo String Quartet and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.

February 2010

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Socialist piano music

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RZEWSKI The People United Will Never Be Defeated

Kai Schumacher (piano) Wergo • WER 6730

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On this new CD, Kai Schumacher performs Frederic Rzewski’s work The People United Will Never Be Defeated, a work based on the Chilean protest song, ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!, written by Sergio Ortega a few months before Pinochet’s military coup in September of 1973. “A masterpiece,” says composer Bernhard Wambach. “It is a work that would be unthinkable without Bach, but also without Stockhausen, Boulez and Cage. Whoever wishes to interpret this work has not only to master a text of the highest pianistic difficulty, but must also ‘take a position.’ The pianist must embody a political perspective. Without such a ‘position,’ it is impossible to interpret this work of a committed socialist.”

WORLD

Expanding the vocabulary of Argentinean music

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Vital

Fernando Otero World Village • 468094

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“Urbane and exotic, surreal and streetwise, and alive with invention and emotion.”

— BBC

February 2010

File in: World / South America / Argentina Argentine pianist, composer and bandleader Fernando Otero’s new album for World Village, Vital, is a meditative yet emotionally refractive set of eleven modern chamber music pieces, redolent of new-style tango, twentieth century atonality, sharp-edged downtown jazz, and other sounds Otero picked up at home and on his travels. The opening duet for piano and violin, “Nocturno,” is a limping waltz that appears to depict an insomniac’s midnight musings; it leads seamlessly into two succeeding yet unrelated movements. “Siderata,” scored for six players including a bandonéon, Argentina’s emblematic squeezebox, is an exercise in stillness, like the uneasy peace that so often precedes a difficult decision. Between them, the violin and bandonéon achieve a small universe of sonic color on “Noche Illuminata,” while “Fin de Revision” contradicts its title by continuing to mutate and evolve until the final, wheezing exhalation.

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Trio Joubran’s tribute to Mahmoud Darwish A l’ombre des mots

Trio Joubran World Village • 479036

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“There are few enough oud ensembles in the world and none that come close to Trio Joubran for imaginative compositions and intuitive interplay.”

February 2010

— SONGLINES

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File in: World / Middle East / Palestine Trio Joubran has been breaking musical barriers for over ten years.

Brothers Samir, Wissam and Adnan make up the world’s first and only oud’ trio. With their skillful, heart-wrenching improvisations that tell of Palestine, the trio brings to bear harmony and sweetness, depth and joy. On stage, as their eyes meet, their instruments join together to express that which the spoken word cannot. Working here with the great poet Mahmoud Darwich, the group has reached a pinnacle. The trio comments, “Mahmoud Darwich was as sensitive to the notes of our ouds as our ears and hearts to his poetry. We accompanied him in more than thirty shows in Europe and the Arab world. The last one was in France, in Arles, this beautiful city where we decided to begin a common work and where our music would accompany the variations of his voice, in strength and weakness, certainty and doubt, life and death... When he passed away, we decided to realize this project and the accompanying became a tribute.”

WORLD Rare Manu Dibango frémeaux

African Woodoo

Manu Dibango Frémeaux & Associés • FA 502

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File in: World / Africa / Cameroon / or Jazz These tracks were recorded between 1971 and 1975 by Manu Dibango for professional sound illustration for the cinema, television or advertising. They have never been released on disc and are therefore exclusive. Unfortunately, information is missing but Dibango remembers that his Parisian band then comprised Jacques Bolognesi, Ivan Julien, François Jeanneau and Slim Pezin. On the sides cut in New York, we can appreciate prestigious guests such as Buster Williams and Cedar Walton (“Lea’s Love Theme”) and even Tony Williams.

“Four Stars” — THE TIMES February 2010

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NOSTALGIA dutton

Nostalgia titles from Dutton I’m Just A Vagabond Lover

Rudy Vallee and the Connecticut Yankees Dutton Vocalion • CDEA 6164

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Percussion Around The World; Twelve Star Percussion

International Pop All Stars Dutton Vocalion • CDLK 4401

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Mexico!; Westward Ho!

Roland Shaw Dutton Vocalion • CDLK 4402

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The Sound of Sight; Memories Are Made of Music

Ray Martin Dutton Vocalion • CDLK 4403

February 2010

File in: Nostalgia

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The great Rudy Valee needs no introduction. This reissue features a collection of songs with his stellar Connecticut Yankees. The mysteriously titled International Pop All Stars make another welcome appearance, following the warm reception of our previous reissue (CDLK 4394). The albums compiled here (from the very early days of Decca’s ‘Phase 4’ imprint) display just what a top-notch band they were. Best known for the staggering volume of arrangements he wrote for artists such as Mantovani, Caterina Valente, Gracie Fields, Frank Chacksfield, legendary British arrangercomposer-conductor and Decca stalwart Roland Shaw gets the opportunity to come out from behind the scenes on this superb Vocalion release. Famed arranger-composer-conductor Ray Martin is back on Vocalion with more recording from his Decca discography, remastered from the original analogue stereo tapes.

NOSTALGIA

Nostalgia titles from Dutton Price Code: A22 (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98)

Ricardo Santos Dutton Vocalion • CDLK 4405

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It’s Latin Time; The New Ricardo Santos Sound

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Strictly Oompah; Oktoberfest

Will Glahé Dutton Vocalion • CDLK 4406

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The Cascading Strings; Contrasts

The Cascading Strings, John Gregory Dutton Vocalion • CDLK 4407

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The Art of Noël Coward

Noël Coward Dutton Vocalion • CDVS 1961

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February 2010

Ricardo Santos was a nom de plume for famous German arranger-composer-conductor Werner Müller, who has featured on the Vocalion label many times. Here, he presents us with two albums of popular music from the late 1970s. Famed accordionist-composer Will Glahé is heard on two of his finest Decca albums, available here for the first time on CD. Next up is the gorgeous sound of The Cascading Strings, the Philips label’s answer to popular light music orchestras such as Mantovani’s, with a disc comprising two sumptuous albums from the early 70s. The legendary wit and songwriting genius of Noël Coward is on display in this superb Vocalion release. It features twenty-five famous Coward tracks from “Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans” to the evergreen “Mad Dogs and Englishmen.”

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JAZZ chant du monde

A Gypsy jazz innovator Swing for Jess

Steeve Laffont Chant du Monde • 2741737

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File in: Jazz Every time a new gypsy guitarist is presented, the introduction begins with ecstatic praise about his ability to play the guitar with such talent at such an early age.

Steeve Laffont was no such prodigy. He worked hard to get to where he is now, thanks in large part to his uncle, Boy Bauer, who pushed Laffont to stick to the Manouche tradition. The immense gaps in his mentor’s knowledge of rhythm and harmony, coupled with Laffont’s ignorance of music theory, forced him to develop his own musical vocabulary. He created new versions of chords and fingerings according to the demands of the music he was playing. Today, everyone’s fighting to record him, and that’s just the beginning of the story. This album attests to the great maturity of a very special artist of rare personality and singular musical talent.

Hot Latin jazz Latinidad

Patrice Caratini Jazz Ensemble Chant du Monde • 2741749

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February 2010

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File in: Jazz Latinidad is a colorful, highly unusual program that combines the best aspects and idioms of jazz and Latin-American music, and is sure to be another success for rising star Patrice Caratini. The album was recorded live in 2009 and features music from Argentina and Cuba includes in particular a suite composed around the Bata drums. These drums originally came from Niger and are used in Cuban Santeria, a variation of Haitian voodoo.

JAZZ A Gypsy jazz prodigy Yorgui Loeffler Chant du Monde • 2741773

Price Code: A18 (Suggested Retail Price: $18.98)

File in: Jazz This new gypsy guitar prodigy, who just happens to be brilliant composer and musician too, delivers a breathtakingly original album with strikingly unusual rhythms. Yorgui Loeffler is part of the new generation of gifted musicians from Alsace. His technique and accuracy are both outstanding and his virtuosic style a model of its kind.

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Bouncin’ Around

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Extremadura

Raphaël Faÿs Chant du Monde • 2741776

Price Code: A18 (Suggested Retail Price: $18.98)

File in: Jazz For Raphael Fays this album represents a big step forward in his flamenco-jazz adventure. His style with the plectrum sets him apart from all the other flamencostyle guitarists. He developed it in the company of the talented guitarists Daniel Manzanas and singer/bass player Pablo Gilabert, both true Flamenco artists, which led ultimately to the creation of his own compositions.

February 2010

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A night at the jazz club...

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Un Soir au Club Original Film Soundtrack Elise Caron (vocals), Michel Benita Chant du Monde • 2741851

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February 2010

File in: Jazz Chant du Monde presents the soundtrack of Un Soir au Club - a French art film by Jean Achache. A selection at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival, the movie is adapted from the best-selling novel by Christian Gailly and is the first major film for actress and jazz vocalist Elise Caron, who sings music written for her by Michel Benita. The movie tells the story of Simon Nardis, once an internationally renowned jazz pianist, who for the past ten years has led a more orderly life as a husband and father. All that changes when he walks into a jazz club by chance one evening. He is quickly hooked by the club’s atmosphere and his encounter with Debbie (Caron), the club owner. He then must come face-to-face with the demons he thought he had tamed: music, alcohol and doubts about himself.

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A rising star of Latin jazz

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Herencia

Harold López-Nussa Trio World Village • 479035

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ADVANCE REVIEW

“With his subtly interactive but lively trio occasionally augmented by singer Omara Portuondo and trumpeter Mayquel Gonzalez, López-Nussa has produced a highly effective calling-card, with Herencia, for his arrival on the international jazz scene.”

— THE VORTEX

February 2010

File in: Jazz Herencia means ‘heritage,’ and this album of Latin jazz draws on a rising star pianist’s roots in Cuba and France. 24-year-old Harold López-Nussa was born into a Cuban musical dynasty - the nephew of famous pianist Ernan López-Nussa and the son of drummer Ruy López-Nussa. Harold is best known for his piano work as part of Omara Portuondo’s band, and indeed the lead female singer of the Buena Vista Social Club appears on his album. López-Nussa’s formidable technique earned him the Laureate prize of the prestigious Montreux Jazz Piano Competition in 2005, leading to this stylish World Village debut that wanders carefree from the sultry clubs of Havana to the bright lights of NYC. On Herencia, López-Nussa fronts a trio comprised of bassist Felipe Cabrera (most widely known as a member of Gonzalo Rubalcaba’s band) and drummer Ruy Adrian López-Nussa (his brother). It makes ideal listening for fans of Chucho Valdes, Roberto Fonseca and the Buena Vista Social Club.

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JAZZ otá

Omar Sosa’s big-band project Ceremony

Omar Sosa Otá • OTA 1021

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File in: Jazz Ceremony is a major new project, the fruit of pianistc o m p o s e r O m a r S o s a’s first big-band collaboration with composer-arrangercellist Jaques Morelenbaum, Hamburg’s 18-piece NDR Bi g b a n d ( No r t h Ge r m a n Radio/Norddeutscher Rundfunk), and the Omar Sosa Quartet, featuring Julio Barreto (drums), Childo Tomas (electric bass), and Marcos Ilukán (Afro-Cuban percussion). Sosa himself plays piano and marimba. Recorded in two sessions (2007 and 2008) at NDR’s Hamburg studios under the direction of Morelenbaum and Sosa, Ceremony features Morelenbaum’s brilliant arrangements of selections from Omar’s Spirit Of The Roots (1999), Bembón (2000), and Afreecanos (2009) It also acknowledges the majesty of the legendary Afro-Cuban big bands of Frank “Machito” Grillo, Chico O’Farrill and Dizzy Gillespie, while extending those revered traditions in a contemporary salute to the expansive universe of world jazz, wherein Sosa himself continues to reign as a joyous, generous, abundant, and essential creative spirit.

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

February 2010

— AUDIOPHILE AUDITION

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Recent release Tales From The Earth

Otá Records • OTA 1020 (616444102028)

“Not so much a collection of songs as a compilation of musical spaces... This is a journey.”

— AUDIOPHILE AUDITION

Fascinating music DVDs from Frémeaux Various Artists Frémeaux & Associés • FA 4001

Price Code: A23 (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98)

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The Spirit of Gospel

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All Zones/ 95 minutes/ Dolby Stereo/ Format 16:9 File in: Music DVDs/Gospel This DVD presents a contemporary panorama of Gospel music in the USA. Highly rated by the press when first released in Europe in 1998, the long version of this musical film is a must for all lovers of soul, jazz and gospel. Featured artist include the Campbell Brothers, Willie Neal Johnson & The Gospel Singers, Ethel Holloway, Elder Roma Wilson, and Aubrey Ghent and Friends.

Set on location in Mississippi, Texas, Florida, Brooklyn, Rochester and Chicago.

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Louisiana Blues

Various Artists Frémeaux & Associés • FA 4007

Price Code: A23 (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98)

February 2010

All Zones/ 52 minutes/ Stereo/ Format 4:3 File in: Music DVDs/Blues This delightful documentary takes you an amazing ride as it celebrates the wonderful variety of French Louisiana’s treasured musical heritage. In the intimacy of their homes as well as in rollicking honky-tonks, we get an earful of the most renowned and talented Cajun and Creole musicians.

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Concert Calendar • CLASSICAL February 2010

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Laura Claycomb & Katarina Karnéus James Ehnes

Opera Rara Onyx Classics

Gerald Finley & Julius Drake Valery Gergiev Alban Gerhardt Paul Goodwin Marc-André Hamelin

Hyperion Mariinsky Hyperion harmonia mundi Hyperion

Angela Hewitt King's Singers Mariinsky Orchestra & Valery Gergiev

Hyperion World Village Mariinsky

Daniel Müller-Schott Viktoria Mullova

Hyperion Onyx Classics

Jon Nakamatsu

harmonia mundi

Garrick Ohlsson Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Hyperion RCO Live

Jordi Savall

Alia Vox

Yeol Eum Son

harmonia mundi

Takács Quartet

Hyperion

Tokyo String Quartet

harmonia mundi

Haochen Zhang

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World Village

Zakir Hussain Shujaat Husain Khan Klezmatics

Network World Village Piranha

Gary Lucas Masters of Persian Music

World Village World Village

Susan McKeown Ana Moura

World Village World Village

Christopher O'Riley

World Village

Omara Portuondo

World Village

Catherine Russell

World Village

Tinariwen

World Village

Marta Topferova So Percussion Omara Sosa

World Village Cantaloupe Otá

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