harmonia mundi distribution • new releases February 2012

NEW RELEASES FEBRUARY 2012

Stilo Antico 路 Fretwork Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart

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CLASSICAL harmonia mundi . . . . . . . . . . Page 3 Ambronay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 12 APR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 12 Channel Classics . . . . . . . . . . Page 13 Hyperion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 14 LSO Live . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 19 Mariinsky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 20 Mirare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 21 Orange Mountain . . . . . . . . . Page 21 Praga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 22 Testament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 23 Wergo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 24

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Our top release on the harmonia mundi label features Stile Antico, joined by viol consort Fretwork, on Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart (p.5) — an album of Tudor and Jacobean sacred music. Other key harmonia mundi releases include Isabelle Faust and Claudio Abbado in an album of violin concertos by Berg and Beethoven (p.7), Alexander Melnikov playing Shostakovich Piano Concertos (p.9), the début of violinist Tai Murray playing playing Ysaÿe Sonatas (p.3) and Werner Güra’s latest album of Schubert lieder (p.4). On Channel Classics, Iván Fischer leads the Budapest Festival Orchestra in a phenomenal reading of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring (p.13).

Hyperion’s key release for the month is a star-studded disc of concertos by Britten (p.15) featuring violinist Anthony Marwood and violist Lawrence Power joining forces with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. On LSO Live, Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra present the second release in their Nielsen cycle with Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6 (p.19) while on Mariinsky, Denis Matsuev is back playing concertos by Shostakovich and Shchedrin (p.20). On the non-classical front, new label Jazz Village makes its début with Blue Moon — the latest album by legendary pianist Ahmad Jamal (p.25). World Village delivers jazz for every Valentine on your list with Catherine Russell’s latest (and possibly best) album, Strictly Romancin’ (p.27).

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NPR’s favorite classical albums of 2011

La Sublime Porte

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Mendelssohn: Double Concerto

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“A Mendelssohn recording of amazing musicality.”

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“One of the quintessential and most revealing expressions of the couple’s shared artistic vision.”

“Ranks among the very best.”

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La Nuova Musica debuts with Il pastor fido

La Nuova Musica harmonia mundi • HMU 907585

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Handel: Il Pastor Fido

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For its harmonia mundi début, the London-based ensemble La Nuova Musica, led by David Bates, presents a true rarity: the original 1712 version of Handel’s opera Il pastor fido (The Faithful Shepherd) in its world première recording, featuring Lucy Crowe, Anna Dennis, Katherine Manley, Madeleine Shaw, and Clint van der Linde. La Nuova Musica is a vocal and instrumental ensemble dedicated to the music of the European Renaissance and Baroque. In less than five years since its foundation by countertenor David Bates, it has shot to prominence in the UK and abroad.

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An auspicious début harmonia mundi

YSAYË 6 Sonatas Op.27

Tai Murray (violin) harmonia mundi • HMU 907569

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IMPORT Chicago-born violinist Tai Murray, a BBC New Generation Artist in 2009, makes her harmonia mundi début in a dazzling reading of the six solo Sonatas by Eugène Ysaÿe. Each sonata was dedicated to one of Ysaÿe’s contemporary violinists — Joseph Szigeti (No.1), Jacques Thibaud (No.2), George Enescu (No.3), Fritz Kreisler (No.4), Mathieu Crickboom (No.5) and Manuel Quiroga (No.6). Inspired by hearing Szigeti perform J.S. Bach’s Sonata for solo violin in G minor, Ysaÿe wrote sonatas that represent the evolution of musical techniques and expressions of his time. He used prominent characteristics of early 20th century music such as whole tone scales and quartertones.

He also employed virtuoso bow and left hand techniques that place high technical demands on the performer. In spite of these challenges, Murray’s superb technique and burnished tone allow Ysaÿe’s fascinating music to sing as never before.

— THE NEW YORK TIMES

“She is a fabulous player, statuesque and strong, with a flawless control of line.”

— THE TELEGRAPH

February 2012

“A superb player.”

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Güra sings Schubert harmonia frémeaux mundi

SCHUBERT Willkommen und Abschied

Werner Güra (tenor), Christoph Berner (piano) harmonia mundi • HMC 902112

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IMPORT Goethe’s Willkommen und Abschied (Greeting and parting) provides a thematic connection for the Schubert lieder on this recording, as performed by tenor Werner Güra and pianist Christoph Berner.

The poem is emblematic of the Romantic ideal and the feelings it evokes permeate Schubert’s compositional output. The subject, a traveler in search of meaning and a feeling of oneness with nature, asks himself all his life what place he occupies in the world. To this existential question, the wanderer can see only one answer: “I am a stranger everywhere.”

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Schubert: Die Winterreise

harmonia mundi • HMC 902066 (794881943128)

“Güra and Berner embody the spirit of Winterreise on this elegant recording... this is certainly a performance to take to heart.”

— GRAMOPHONE

“Werner Güra is supremely intelligent and musically precise. His performance is always elegant and lucid...”

— THE TELEGRAPH

Stile Antico teams up with Fretwork Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart

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Stile Antico, Fretwork harmonia mundi • HMU 807554

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“This fabulous English a cappella vocal consort is enlivening Renaissance choral music for a new generation through a joyous engagement that’s utterly infectious.”

— TIME OUT NEW YORK

IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD On Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart, the choral ensemble Stile Antico, joined by the acclaimed viol consort Fretwork, explores a longneglected repertory: the wealth of Tudor and Jacobean sacred music written for domestic devotion, rather than for church worship.

Culled from collections intended for use in private homes, these pieces by Tomkins, Campion, Byrd, Tallis, Dowland, Gibbons and others, offer a unique insight into the turbulent religious climate of the time and the thriving musical culture at its heart. The album features a capella and accompanied vocal works framed by instrumental solos played by Fretwork.

Also available harmonia mundi • HMU 807509 (093046750961)

“Stile Antico continues to set new standards for Renaissance polyphonic singing.”

— PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

February 2012

Sheppard: Media Vita

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Oboist Céline Moinet in recital harmonia mundi

BACH Partita BWV 1013 C.P.E. BACH Sonata Wq.132 BERIO Sequenza VII CARTER Inner Song BRITTEN Six Metamorphosen a er Ovid Céline Moinet (oboe) harmonia mundi • HMC 902118

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IMPORT Oboist Céline Moinet begins her collaboration with harmonia mundi with a veritable tour de force, combining, in a single collection, two repertories separated by more than two centuries. On it, 18th century works by Johann Sebastian and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach are paired with the 20th century of Benjamin Britten, Luciano Berio and Elliott Carter in a project that combines exceptional musical coherence with a decidedly gentle sonority, reminding us of the ‘tenderness’ with which Berlioz identified the oboe.

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Isabelle Faust partners with Claudio Abbado harmonia mundi

BERG Violin Concerto “To the memory of an angel” BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto

Isabelle Faust (violin), Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado harmonia mundi • HMC 902105

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IMPORT Violinist Isabelle Faust is featured on a disc of German violin concertos that marks the début recording for harmonia mundi by the great Italian conductor Claudio Abbado. Abbado is the artistic director and principal conductor of Orchestra Mozart, an ensemble based in Bologna. They team up here for Berg’s haunting Violin Concerto, subtitled “To the Memory of an Angel.” The work is dedicated to the memory of 18-year-old Manon Gropius, daughter of Alma Mahler, who died of polio in 1935. The pairing is Beethoven’s immortal Violin Concerto, a work of rare beauty that, surprisingly, was not a success at its first performance. It was an 1844 concert featuring Joseph Joachim and Felix Mendelssohn, well after Beethoven’s death, which revived the work and made it a permanent and beloved part of the violin repertoire.

“An eloquent and highly intelligent performer.”

— INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW

Also available harmonia mundi • HMC 902075 (794881984428)

“Faust and Harding have come up with an interpretation that is restrained, slimmed-down and light on its feet.”

— THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

February 2012

Brahms: Violin Concerto

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A troika of Russian masterworks harmonia mundi

Treasures of Russia / Trésors de Russie RACHMANINOV Vespers TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No.6 MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniele Ga i; Brigi e Engerer (piano) harmonia mundi • HMX 2908385

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IMPORT Russian classical music seems to have a dual consciousness: sometimes grave and introspective, sometimes luminous and resolutely forwardlooking. At root, this sentiment draws on the many traditions of the biggest country in the world and on its special relationship with western Europe (especially France) from the 18th century onwards.

The three compositional “Treasures of Russia” featured on this specially-priced set explore the principal influences on music of their time — Orthodox religion, a quest for modernity and the intense emotion and suffering of the Russian soul. Rachmaninov’s Vespers are performed by Paul Hillier, while Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition is performed in the original piano version by Brigitte Engerer. The tortured soul of Russia is encapsulated in Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique, performed by Daniele Gatti.

Pathétique

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Melnikov plays Shostakovich concertos harmonia mundi

SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concertos Nos.1 & 2, Violin Sonata Op.134

Alexander Melnikov (piano), Isabelle Faust (violin), Jeroen Berwaerts (trumpet), Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Teodor Currentzis harmonia mundi • HMC 902104

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IMPORT One of Shostakovich’s unique traits is the way he spurs the listener’s imagination by appropriating different languages and using them in unexpected fashion. The result is music with two faces, sometimes sublimated by ecstasy and joie de vivre, sometimes plunged into emptiness and suffused with a death wish. Accompanied by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Teodor Currentzis, Alexander Melnikov captures this feeling admirably in the two Piano Concertos, and perhaps still more poignantly, — “with disarming sincerity and fearless directness,” to quote his booklet note — alongside Isabelle Faust in the Violin Sonata Op.134.

“His playing, on its own terms, is so virtuosic and secure that you surrender to it immediately.”

— BAY AREA REPORTER

Also available harmonia mundi • HMC 902019 (794881942626)

“Melnikov unlocks the poetry, mysticism, violence and virtuosity in these pieces.”

— THE WASHINGTON POST

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February 2012

Shostakovich: Preludes & Fugues

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Budget-priced reissues MONTEVERDI Missa in illo tempore

Canciones & Ensaladas

Ensemble Clément Janequin, Dominique Visse harmonia mundi • HMA 1951627

Ensemble Vocal Européen, Philippe Herreweghe harmonia mundi • HMA 1951355

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Huelgas-Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel harmonia mundi • HMA 1951705

London Baroque, Charles Medlam harmonia mundi • HMA 1951511

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DEMANTIUS Vespers for Whitsun

C.P.E. BACH Trio Sonatas

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Cantus Cölln, Konrad Junghänel harmonia mundi • HMA 1951752

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Budget-priced reissues BRUCKNER Symphony No.6

RIAS-Kammerchor, Daniel Reuss harmonia mundi • HMA 1951834

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Deutsches SymphonieOrchester Berlin, Kent Nagano harmonia mundi • HMA 1951901

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SAINT-SAËNS Piano Trios

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Reflections Piano music by Ravel, Decaux and Schoenberg

Trio Wanderer harmonia mundi • HMA 1951862

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MARTIN Messe pour double choeur

Frederic Chiu (piano) harmonia mundi • HMA 1957166

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MOZART Symphonies Nos.35 & 36

Prague Philharmonia, Jirí Belohlávek harmonia mundi • HMA 1951891

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TELEMANN Burlesque de Quixo e, Concerto in E minor for 2 recorders, Gulliver Suite, Concerto in A minor for 2 recorders, Introduzzione à tre Les Esprits Animaux Ambronay • AMY 302

IMPORT Les Esprits Animaux, a young, Netherlandsbased Baroque band founded in 2009, has already earned the acclaim of both music critics and audiences. This collection of chamber works by Telemann was built around the concept of a journey through literature in music. From Don Quixote to Gulliver’s Travels to the story of Lucretia and Dido, Telemann’s music runs the

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The Complete Recordings

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Moriz Rosenthal (piano) APR • APR 7503

IMPORT Moriz Rosenthal was also one of the more important Liszt pupils, therefore his legacy is of the utmost importance as representative of 19th-century style.

He was renowned as one of the supreme technicians and, although he began to record only in old age, this can still be heard in his own two Strauss paraphrases recorded here. However, it is for his Chopin above all that Rosenthal should be remembered. He studied with the composer’s most important student,

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gamut from melancholy to wit to passion.

The program is rounded out with two double concertos that further illuminate the Telemann’s compositional range and brilliance.

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Karol Mikuli, and Rosenthal’s uniquely free lyricism must surely be considered close to the composer’s own. This is the first time all Rosenthal’s recordings have been transferred to CD. The set includes two recent discoveries issued only in Argentina and Japan as well as a beautiful live performance from his 75th birthday concert.

Iván Fischer sheds new light on Stravinsky harmoniaclassics channel mundi

STRAVINSKY Rite of Spring, Firebird Suite, Scherzo, Tango

Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer Channel Classics • CCS SA 32112

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IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD The concept for The Rite of Spring originated with the Russian philosopher and painter Nicholas Roerich. Roerich shared his idea with Stravinsky in 1910 — a fleeting vision of a pagan ritual in which a young girl dances herself to death. The duo joined forces with Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and Stravinsky’s composition began to take shape. Vaslav Nijinsky, the company’s leading male dancer, conceived of a completely original dance style that was a radical departure from ballet of the time. The Rite of Spring’s 1913 première created one of the most famous classical music riots in history. Its intensely rhythmic score, primitive scenery and radical choreography completely shocked the audience, who were accustomed to the elegant conventions of classical ballet. Almost 100 years later, The Rite of Spring still has the ability to shock — it still sounds fresh, pagan and new. On this Super Audio recording, Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra offer a powerful and intense performance that reveals the underlying simplicity that forms the foundation of the work.

“Every new release by Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra for Channel Classics is something of an event.”

— CLASSICS TODAY

Also available Channel Classics • CCS SA 90311 (723385903116)

“Fischer attends masterfully to all the atmospheric nuances of Bartok’s sumptuous orchestration.”

— THE ABSOLUTE SOUND

February 2012

Bartok: Bluebeard’s Castle

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Garrick Ohlsson plays Granados hyperion

GRANADOS Goyescas

Garrick Ohlsson (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67846

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IMPORT Garrick Ohlsson offers a brilliant reading of Granados’s pianistic masterpiece, Goyescas. Written in the first decade of the twentieth century, it is a musical tribute to the great Spanish artist Francisco de Goya, under whose spell Granados had fallen as a young man. Filled with a patriotic fervor for what he saw as a universally great Spanish genius, he wrote several pieces inspired by the painter’s life and times. The six pieces that make up Goyescas are not mere tone-poems but instead draw on details from Goya’s works — notably the Caprichos, a sequence of aquatints that satirized (and outraged) Spanish society. Another product of Granados’s preoccupation with the painter was the exuberant El pelele, which recounts the tale of a straw man being tossed on a trampoline, while the Allegro de concierto forms a fittingly brilliant endpiece.

“Technically, Ohlsson is right up there with Richter, yet he manages to produce an even more beautiful sound.”

— SAN FRANCISCO CLASSICAL VOICE

February 2012

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Brahms: The Complete Variations

Hyperion • CDA 67777 (034571177779)

“Garrick Ohlsson on peak technical and musical form... one of the finest recordings of his long career.”

— CLASSICS TODAY

Marwood and Power team up for Bri en’s concertos Anthony Marwood (violin), Lawrence Power (viola), BBC Sco ish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov Hyperion • CDA 67801

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BRITTEN Violin Concerto, Double Concerto

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IMPORT Long recognized as an outstanding chamber musician, Anthony Marwood has more recently been making waves as a concerto soloist, with two contributions to the Romantic Violin Concerto series and now a disc of Britten with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ilan Volkov. The youthful Violin Concerto, with its mix of anguished lyricism and changeability of mood, nods to both Berg and Prokofiev — but the result is entirely personal. Marwood is joined by star violist Lawrence Power for the still earlier Double Concerto, which is impressive above all for its precocious confidence. Written when Britten was just eighteen and still a student at the Royal College of Music, it had to wait sixty-five years before receiving its premiere in 1997. On the other end of the spectrum, the Lachrymae, inspired by a Dowland song, was written in 1950 but not orchestrated until 1976 — the year of the composer’s death.

Praise for Anthony Marwood

“Golden tone and surefire musicianship.” — THE WASHINGTON POST

Praise for Lawrence Power

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“A world-class combination of searingly intense tone, fabulous technique and consummate musicianship.” — THE GUARDIAN

Hyperion • CDA 67496 (034571174969)

“Precise, yet generous in emotion, Anthony Marwood’s violin is just what Kurt Weill’s violin concerto needs.”

— THE TIMES

February 2012

Vasks & Weill: Violin Concertos

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The Power of Love

Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67888

IMPORT Alice Coote, one of the most distinctive mezzo-sopranos of today, makes her recital debut on Hyperion with pianist Graham Johnson, a stalwart of the label and tireless explorer of vocal repertoire. The Power of Love creates what Johnson describes as, “a pageant of English song and poetry,” covering half a century of song and surveying not just human love but love of nature and even of money. Some of the most touching pieces here involve

CHERUBINI Arias & Overtures

February 2012

Maria Grazia Schiavo (soprano), Auser Musici, Carlo Ipata Hyperion • CDA 67893

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IMPORT Following acclaimed discs exploring some of the more fascinating byways of the Italian eighteenth century, Auser Musici and its founderdirector Carlo Ipata turn to the man Beethoven regarded as the finest of his contemporaries, Luigi Cherubini.

It is not difficult to understand why Beethoven was so impressed: this is music full of character and seriousness of intent, from the strongjawed sinfonia for the opera Armida

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the loss of love through death, not least Ivor Gurney’s Lights Out and Gustav Holst’s Betelgeuse. There’s serenity, too, in mellifluous settings by Roger Quilter, while high spirits are supplied by Maude Valérie White’s The Spring has come and Warlock’s sardonic Queen Anne, which includes the immortal lines, “I am Queen Anne, of whom ‘tis said / I’m chiefly fam’d for being dead.”

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abandonnata, written when Cherubini was just twenty-two, to the dark drama of the overture to Démophon (which unaccountably failed to wow Parisian audiences). And there are vocal delights too, showcasing a virtuosity that looks forward to Rossini and sung here with effortless agility by soprano Maria Grazia Schiavo.

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SHOSTAKOVICH Music for Viola & Piano — Seven Preludes, Op.34 (arranged by Yevgeny Strakhov), Viola Sonata Op.147, Five Pieces from The Gadfly Op.97 (arranged by Vadim Borisovsky) Lawrence Power (viola), Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67865

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IMPORT On this disc, star violist Lawrence Power is joined by his regular pianist partner Simon Crawford-Phillips in a survey of the chamber music of Shostakovich. The centerpiece is the Viola Sonata, Shostakovich’s last completed work, premiered posthumously, on what would have been the composer’s sixty-ninth birthday. Its ravishing slow finale reworks the opening of Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata — a tribute to a composer he revered. Shostakovich the film composer also takes a bow in the form of The Gadfly, with its famous “Romance” beloved of violinists everywhere. That this works just as compellingly on the viola is triumphantly displayed in the arrangement made by Vadim Borisovsky (founding violist of the Beethoven Quartet), one of the Five Pieces he recast from Shostakovich’s original. Shostakovich’s piano Preludes have also proved irresistible to transcribers and here we have the seven brilliantly reworked by a pupil of Borisovsky, Yevgeny Strakhov.

Also available Hyperion • CDA 67774 (034571177748)

“If any recording could restore the exalted status Hindemith had among 20th-century composers during his lifetime after decades of relative eclipse, this one would be it.”

— THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

February 2012

Hindemith: Complete Viola Music Vol.3

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Mid-priced Helios series reissues

KUHNAU Sacred Music

February 2012

Deborah York, Marianne Hellgren (sopranos), James Bowman, Robin Blaze (countertenors), Charles Daniels, James Gilchrist (tenors), Peter Harvey (bass), The King’s Consort, Robert King Hyperion • CDH 55394

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Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano) Hyperion • CDH 55422

ZELENKA Sacred Music

Carolyn Sampson, Rebecca Outram (sopranos), Robin Blaze (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Michael George (bass), Peter Harvey (bass), The King’s Consort, Robert King Hyperion • CDH 55424

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Sir Colin Davis’ Nielsen cycle continues lso live

NIELSEN Symphonies Nos.1 & 6

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis LSO Live • LSO 0715

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CONCERT REVIEW “It’s difficult to imagine a more persuasive performance than this one.”

— THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD The second release in Sir Colin Davis’ acclaimed Nielsen cycle with the London Symphony Orchestra features the first and sixth symphonies. The debut recording of symphonies four and five was an Editor’s Choice in Gramophone and Orchestral Choice of the Month in BBC Music Magazine. Nielsen’s First Symphony draws inspiration from Brahms and Dvorak but also contains hints of the progressive tonality for which he was later celebrated. His enigmatic sixth and final symphony, entitled Sinfonia Semplice (Simple Symphony), turns out to be anything but this. Though written thirty years apart, both works feature folk-inflections, tonal ambiguity and Nielsen’s distinctive anti-Romantic style.

Also available LSO Live • LSO 0694 (822231169420)

“At last Nielsen’s two best-known symphonies in modern performances with real fire in their belly.”

— GRAMOPHONE

February 2012

Nielsen: Symphonies Nos.4 & 5

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Matsuev and Gergiev play Russian concertos mariinsky

SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concertos Nos.1 & 2 SHCHEDRIN Piano Concerto No.5

Denis Matsuev (piano), Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev Mariinsky • MAR 0509

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IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD For his second Mariinsky release, the acclaimed Russian pianist Denis Matsuev joins Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra for a program of music

by Shostakovich and Shchedrin. Despite being a prolific symphonist, Shostakovich only wrote two piano concertos. His first, displaying his usual wit and sardonic humor, features a prominent solo trumpet part, which provides dialogue with the piano and an independent voice “commenting” on the music of the piano and orchestra. The Second Concerto, by contrast, is unusually happy and optimistic in nature. This may be because it was written for his son, who gave the première, and has been described as showing, “the composer as though his own youth had returned to him.” Rodion Shchedrin has so far composed six piano concertos, each signifying a new phase in his compositional development. His colorful Fifth Concerto is influenced by the music of both Shostakovich and Prokofiev.

“Matsuev’s technique is stunning for velocity with power... an ‘edge of your seat’ experience.”

— PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE REVIEW

February 2012

Also available

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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.3

Mariinsky • MAR 0505 (822231850526)

“A magnificent performance.”

— CLASSIC FM MAGAZINE

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IMPORT The inspiration for Enrique Granados’ Goyescas was the Madrid of Goya’s time, which the painter immortalized with his marvelous palette of colors. It is — along with Iberia by Isaac Albéniz — one of the two great solo piano cycles of Spanish music. It represents both the peak of

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GLASS In The Penal Colony

Music Theatre Wales, Michael Rafferty Orange Mountain • OMM 0078

dedication to this method is based on his belief that the machine has the power to bring about a moment of transfiguration in the victim, the moment they understand the crime they have committed. Scored for string quintet and two singers, this world premiere recording by the Music Theatre Wales under the direction of Michael Rafferty features tenor Michael Bennett as the Visitor and baritone Omar Ebrahim as the Officer.

February 2012

DOMESTIC Philip Glass’ one act chamber opera In the Penal Colony was composed in 2000.

The libretto is by Rudolph Wurlitzer and based on a story by Franz Kafka. A condemned man is about to be executed.

The Officer describes the execution machine to the Visitor, detailing its conception, its construction and finally its method. The method of execution is the most horrific and inhumane imaginable. The Officer’s zealous

Granados’ career as composer and performer and his most important contribution to the classical repertoire as a whole. On this Mirare recording, Spanish pianist Luis Fernando Péres connects with his roots in performances that bring out the myriad colors in Granados’ fascinating score.

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Luis Fernando Perez (piano) Mirare • MIR 138

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Chamber music on SACD RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Piano Trio in C ARENSKY Piano Trio No.1 Kinsky Trio Prague Praga • PRD 250285

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IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD This disc pairs trios by two Russian late Romantic composers, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Anton Arensky, played by the Kinsky Trio Prague. It brings together a master with one of his former students and highlights the contrasts between a nationalistic approach to one of the cosmopolitan new generation. However, in spite of their differences, both works ultimately favor the splendor of Romanticism in which the keyboard is king. The dominant influences in these trios are the music of Brahms and Mendelssohn, albeit flavored with a keenly Slavic sense of lyricism.

RAVEL Chamber Works for Violin — Tzigane, Violin Sonata, Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré, Sonata for Violin & Cello, Pièce en forme de Habanera, Sonate Posthume

February 2012

Sasha Rozhdestvensky (violin), Michal Kanka (cello), Josiane Marfurt (piano) Praga • PRD 250286

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IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Maurice Ravel’s rich and colorful works for violin and piano have become part of the core repertoire. They acknowledge the influences of a range of musical styles from jazz to Impressionism and fuse the tonal colors of Debussy with the lyricism of Franck.

This disc, featuring violinist Sasha Rozhdestvensky (son of the great conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky) accompanied by pianist Josiane Marfurt, not only includes the complete works for violin and piano but also the Sonata for Violin and Cello with cellist Michal Kanka.

Great violinists — rare recordings Mischa Elman (violin) Testament • SBT2 1475

Price Code: 2A15 (2 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $31.98)

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BBC Radio Recitals 1961

IMPORT Violinist Mischa Elman rarely played for radio broadcasts, even in America, but he did so occasionally for the BBC. The two recitals on these compact discs were pre-recorded on a visit to England in 1961 and feature pianist Joseph Seiger. This Testament release marks their first appearance on disc. For the Elman enthusiast, two pieces stand out. The Brahms G major Sonata is the only one of the three that the violinist did not record commercially.

Also, the Gavotte en Rondeau from Bach’s E major Partita is important because we have virtually no unaccompanied Bach from Elman. Other repertoire includes a Handel Sonata, the Vitali Chaconne and Beethoven’s Spring Sonata.

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The Unpublished Recordings

Michael Rabin (violin) Testament • SBT3 1470

Price Code: 3A20 (3 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $62.98)

February 2012

IMPORT Michael Rabin’s musical voice may have been quiet the past forty years, but to violin aficionados his star still shines brightly. His discography is small, reflecting not only his premature death at the age of 35, but also the fact that for the last decade of Rabin’s ººlife, he did not have a recording contract. All of which adds to the importance of this recently discovered trove of recordings spanning his entire career, from the earliest extant recording when he was eleven years of age to one of his final live performances in 1971, the year before he died. These recordings, bookends to a remarkable life and career, give the listener a unique opportunity to revisit not only the beauty of his playing, but also to follow his transition from boy wonder to mature artist. The journey, no less than the playing, is deeply moving.

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Gems of contemporary music from Wergo CAGE Etudes Australes

Sabine Liebner (piano) Wergo • WER 6740

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IMPORT John Cage’s Etudes Australes, performed here by pianist Sabine Liebner, launched a series of virtuoso studies born out of the composer’s renewed interest in traditional instrumentation and notation. This complex work consists of a total of 32 etudes divided into four books, which John Cage based on maps of the southern night sky. From these maps, locations of planets were selected via chance and translated into pitches, transforming indeterminacy into a new aesthetic category. For Cage’s Etudes Australes, the moment of performance is its only moment of reality. Only what is in the present can be heard: in this case, a constantly changing kaleidoscope of sound.

Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series Vol.4 Various Artists Wergo • WER 6937

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CDS for the Price of

February 2012

Wergo’s reissues of the legendary Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series have been a big hit with fans of contemporary music around the world. Each set is a treasure-trove of works by a wide range of composers, performed by some of the finest musicians of the time. The three CDs of volume four feature string quartets by Boulez, Scelsi and Earle Brown, works for chamber orchestra by Xenakis, Aldo Clementi, Bo Nilsson, Wlodzimierz Kotonski and Yuji Takahashi and works by Milko Kelemen, Niccolò Castiglioni, Vittorio Fellegara and Isang Yun that were originally premiered by the Hamburger Kammersolisten.

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JAZZ

Ahmad Jamal headlines the launch of Jazz Village Blue Moon

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The album features original compositions of pure majesty and brilliant new interpretations of classics and standards. Each of the album’s nine tracks showcases Jamal’s creative reinvention of swing, provides a pretext for some breathtaking melodies and sophisticated syncopations that are guaranteed to amaze. Accompanied by three impeccable guardians of tempo, on Blue Moon, Jamal is clearly at the peak of his artistry.

new label

IMPORT File In: Jazz This month we proudly introduce Jazz Village — a new label from harmonia mundi. The label’s mission is to bring together all the jazz and blues recordings from the HM label group under one roof, to shine a well-deserved spotlight on the company’s acclaimed efforts in these key genres. Our debut release gets things off to a smashing start, with a major new recording from a jazz legend.

Blue Moon is not just Ahmad Jamal’s latest album, it’s his latest masterpiece — suffused with a feeling reminiscent of his greatest periods with Chess and Impulse.

jazz village

Ahmad Jamal Jazz Village • JV 570001

“All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.”

— MILES DAVIS

“No musician has had a more profound effect on the orchestral approach to small groups in the last 35 years than Ahmad Jamal.”

— THE VILLAGE VOICE

— MELODY MAKER

February 2012

“The most exciting, creative keyboard artist living.”

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JAZZ

Red-hot gypsy jazz New Quintet

chant du monde

Steeve Laffont Chant du Monde • 2742018

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IMPORT File In: Jazz Yes, Steeve Laffont is a Manouche, and yes again, he plays in Django style as only a handful of guitarists can. However, his artistic ambitions are not limited to working in the wake of Django and his singular approach to jazz. Laffont has equal talent playing guitar in many other styles and he approaches all of them with the same fervor and the same spontaneity.

In his playing you can hear the same supple feline grace as Grant Green, the same controlled fieriness as Wes Montgomery, the same sophisticated elegance as Joe Pass, the same sense of melody as Charlie Byrd and the same rolling groove as George Benson. New Quintet’s twelve brilliant tracks amply display the many colors and strengths of Laffont’s artistry.

February 2012

Also available

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Swing for Jess

Chant du Monde • 2741737 (794881928729)

“Sizzling gypsy jazz with lots of innovative flourishes... Keep your eye on this guy — he’s only going to get better.”

— LUCID CULTURE

JAZZ

Sultry songs and Valentine vamps Strictly Romancin’

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Catherine Russell World Village • 468101

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IMPORT File In: Jazz Strictly Romancin,’ Catherine Russell’s fourth album for World Village, is a paean to natural attractions: to a lover, an art form, to one’s family heritage. Our heroine explores love’s foibles, failures and bliss, from amorous to humorous. This acclaimed vocalist embodies the lost art of song savvy, inhabiting the lyric and allowing each melody to shine. On this fourteen song collection, Russell takes us on a journey — from Harlem dance hall to Parisian Café, from Store Front Church to Uptown Cabaret — blurring distinctions between the carnal and the eternal in a musical tour-de-force. For these sessions, Russell reunites with the team from her previous chart-topping album Inside This Heart of Mine, including recording engineer Katherine Miller, producer Paul Kahn and Musical Director/Guitarist/Banjoist/Arranger Matt Munisteri, who contributes his expansive vision to the project.

“A masterful singer who knows how to inject her own personality into the heart of a great song. And as she shows with ‘Luci,’ she’s capable of writing a nuanced, alluring number herself.”

— THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

Also available World Village • 468092 (713746809225)

“Outstanding.”

— THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

December February 2012 2011

Inside This Heart of Mine

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JAZZ

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Jazz classics on SACD The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus APO • CIPJ 35SA

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DOMESTIC SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD File In: Jazz

DOMESTIC SACD Hybrid/ Mono/ DSD File In: Jazz

Art Blakey APO • CIPJ 7SA

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February 2012

Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong APO • CVRJ 4003SA

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Jazz Messengers!!

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Ella and Louis

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Body And Soul

Billie Holiday APO • CVRJ 8197SA

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WORLD

Bi ersweet, meditative music from Iran I Will Not Stand Alone

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Kayhan Kalhor, Ali Bahrami Fard World Village • 468100

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“Kalhor has become the perfect guide and conduit between cultures.”

— GRAMOPHONE

IMPORT File In: World / Middle East / Iran On I Will Not Stand Alone, Kayhan Kalhor debuts a new instrument, the shah-kaman, designed especially for him. He is accompanied

by Ali Bahrami Fard, on the rarely-heard bass santour. The album is a meditation on one of the most difficult stages in his life, where darkness and violence seemed to be taking over yet through music and his connection to the people, hope rises. Its message is a bittersweet reflection on love, life and country.

Also available World Village • 468078 (713746807825)

“A hypnotic work.”

— THE NEW YORK TIMES

February 2012

Silent City

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WORLD

Bonga’s surefire remedy for the blues Hora Kota

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Bonga Lusafrica • 562752

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IMPORT File In: World / Africa / Angola This is Bonga’s thirtieth album — his fifth on the Lusafrica label — featuring eleven faultless new songs reporting on the state of his native Angola where he is again living after a very long absence. The Netherlands, Paris, Belgium, Lisbon: Bonga has lived everywhere — and in all those places and more, people recognize the power and soul in his musical message. Hora Kota is a remedy for the blues. It features the single “Kambua” and the duets “Dikanga” with Agnès Jaoui and “Angola” with Bernard Lavilliers.

February 2012

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Best of Bonga

Lusafrica • 562352 (3567255623523)

“Bonga’s ability to switch from emotive ballads to punchy shuffles is brilliantly evident in this collection. He has a delightfully raspy voice: full of fire and passion, and musically confident.”

— SONGLINES

WORLD

Gypsy-ska-punk with Zdob Si Zdub asphalt tango

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Basta Mafia!

Zdob Si Zdub Asphalt Tango • ATR 3112

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ALSO AVAILABLE ON VINYL LP Asphalt Tango • ATR 3212

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February 2011

IMPORT File In: World / Europe / Moldova Zdob Si Zdub is in the truest sense of the word an “international” band. They are constantly on the move, crossing borders from country to country on never-ending tours. Along the way, the band has picked up and mastered many musical flavors, incorporating them as they see fit to express the appropriate mood for a song. From their humble beginnings as a Moldavian folk influenced ska-punk band, they have created a sound that mixes electronica, dance and alt-rock muscle without losing connection to their roots. The band has been propelled not once but twice to the finals of the Eurovision song contest, this year achieving this feat with the song “So Lucky.” Their appearance caused a storm of interest on the internet from every country participating. The record’s title connects where they come from (the former Soviet Union) to what it has become now (another superpower of the underworld) to where they are heading (their own independent route). So with a sense of irony and humor, Basta Mafia! suggests an end to the old ways — not only in the political sense but also in a musical one.

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NOSTALGIA

Gleason, Mauriat & more…

1925-1930; 1930-1935

Franck Pourcel Du on Vocalion • CDLK 4464

Jackie Gleason Du on Vocalion • CDLK 4459

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IMPORT File In: Nostalgia

IMPORT File In: Nostalgia

Werner Müller’s Grosse Musical Show; International Film Festival

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IMPORT File In: Nostalgia

IMPORT File In: Nostalgia

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Carnival in the Sun; Compilation

Si Zentner Du on Vocalion • CDLK 4463

Stanley Black Du on Vocalion • CDVS 1971

IMPORT File In: Nostalgia

IMPORT File In: Nostalgia

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February 2012

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Gone is Love; Tombé La Neige

Desafinado; Swingin’ Country

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Werner Müller Du on Vocalion • CDLK 4460

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Champagne, Candlelight and Kisses; Love Embers and Flame

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Concert Calendar • CLASSICAL

Artist

Label

Date

City

State

Venue

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Jonathan Biss

Onyx Classics

Yefim Bronfman Sir Colin Davis James Ehnes

Helicon LSO Live Onyx Classics

Bernarda Fink Gerald Finley

harmonia mundi Hyperion

Fretwork Ma hias Goerne

harmonia mundi harmonia mundi

Susan Graham Marc-André Hamelin

Onyx Classics Hyperion

Angela Hewi

Hyperion

His Majestys Sagbu s & Corne s Stephen Hough

Hyperion Hyperion

Steven Isserlis

Hyperion

Jerusalem Quartet Olga Kern Steven Osborne

harmonia mundi harmonia mundi Hyperion

Feb 1 Feb 2 Feb 4 Mar 5 Mar 10 Mar 24 Feb 4 Feb 9-11 Feb 17 Feb 24-25 Mar 27 Mar 28 Mar 4 Mar 27, 29, 30 & 31 Feb 2-5 Feb 9-11 Feb 14 Mar 16 Mar 29-31 Feb 25 Feb 21, 24, 29 Feb 27 Mar 3, 7, 10, 14, & 17 Feb 8 Mar 5 Mar 15-16 Mar 17 Feb 1 Feb 17 Mar 18 Mar 22, 24 Mar 29 Feb 19 Feb 23-25 Feb 3-4 Feb 16 Feb 19 Feb 23 Feb 24-25 Mar 9 Mar 10-11 Mar 13 Mar 14 Mar 3 Mar 2 Mar 6 Mar 9 Mar 10-11 Mar 13 Mar 27-30 Feb 24 Mar 2-3 Mar 7 Feb 3 Feb 4 Feb 11-12 Feb 19 Feb 22 Feb 24 Feb 25 Feb 26 Mar 13 Mar 15 Mar 17 Mar 19 Mar 20 Mar 22-23 Feb 1 Mar 17 Feb 3 Feb 4 Feb 11-12 Feb 18 Feb 23

Li le Rock Jonesboro Griffin Santa Barbara Morrow New York Washington Nashville La Jolla Cincinnati Philadelphia Washington Morrow Boston Sea le Philadelphia New York Macon Sarasota New York New York New York New York New York Washington Dallas Dallas New York Kalamazoo Indianapolis Chicago Philadelphia Austin Nashville Berkeley Santa Fe Miami Wilmington Raleigh San Francisco Berkeley Palo Alto Philadelphia La Jolla Middlebury Miami San Francisco Berkeley Palo Alto New York Germantown Glen Ellyn Worcester Union Buffalo Boulder Berkeley Beverly Hills Phoenix La Jolla Pasadena Washington Winter Park Durham Napa Costa Mesa Savannah Cleveland New York Boston Big Spring Greenville Las Vegas West Palm Beach

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Christ Church Arkansas State University Rapp-Owen Granary Lobero Theater Spivey Hall Merkin Concert Hall Sixth & I Historic Synagogue Schermerhorn Symphony Center Sherwood Auditorium Music Hall Perelman Theater The Library of Congress Spivey Hall Symphony Hall Benaroya Hall Verizon Hall Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage Neva Langley Fickling Hall Neel Performing Arts Center Stern Auditorium: Perelman Stage Metropolitan Opera House Alice Tully Hall Metropolitan Opera House Weill Recital Hall Terrace Theater Meyerson Symphony Center Meyerson Symphony Center Stern Auditorium: Perelman Stage Miller Auditorium Indiana Landmarks Center Symphony Hall Perelman Theater Bates Recital Hall Laura Turner Concert Hall First Congregational Church The Lensic Gusman Concert Hall Kenan Auditorium Meymandi Concert Hall Herbst Theatre First Congregational Church First United Methodist Church Independence Seaport Museum Sherwood Auditorium Mahaney Center for the Arts Broward Center for the Performing Arts Herbst Theatre First Congregational Church First United Methodist Church Carnegie Hall Germantown Performing Arts Centre McAnnich Arts Center Mechanics Hall Enlow Recital Hall Flickinger Performing Arts Center Grusin Music Hall Hertz Hall Ace Gallery Camelback Bible Church Sherwood Auditorium Beckman Auditorium Terrace Theater Tiedtke Concert Hall Reynolds Industries Theater First United Methodist Church Irvine Barclay Theatre Telfair Academy Gartner Auditorium 92nd Street Y Jordan Hall Municipal Auditorium The Peace Center Concert Hall Artemus W. Ham Hall Marshall E. Rinker, Sr. Playhouse

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan harmonia mundi

February 2012

San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas SFS Media Yeol Eum Son harmonia mundi

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Maurice Steger

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Takács Quartet

Hyperion

Theatre of Voices Tokyo String Quartet Pieter Wispelwey Haochen Zhang

harmonia mundi harmonia mundi Onyx Classics harmonia mundi

Label

Date

City

State

Venue

C.J. Chenier

World Village

Zakir Hussain

Network

Kayhan Kalhor

World Village

Klezmatics Ana Moura

Piranha World Village

New Orleans Jazz Orchestra

World Village

Catherine Russell

World Village

Sierra Maestra

World Village

Talvin Singh Marta Topferova

World Village World Village

Feb 2 Feb 3 Feb 4 Feb 15 Feb 17 Feb 18 Feb 19 Feb 20 Feb 21 Mar 15 Mar 16 Mar 18 Jun 15 Mar 21 Mar 24 Feb 2 Feb 4 Feb 6 Feb 25 Feb 4 Feb 5 Feb 10 Feb 11 Feb 17 Feb 18 Feb 4 Mar 3 May 26 Feb 3 Feb 18 Feb 19 Mar 1 Mar 6 Mar 30 Mar 31 Apr 13 Apr 28 Mar 23 Mar 24 Mar 29 Apr 1 Apr 4 Apr 5 Apr 7 Apr 10 Apr 11 Apr 13 Apr 21 Apr 12 Feb 18 Feb 28

Ann Arbor Berwyn Berwyn Greensboro Pawling Cranston New York Northampton Mount Vernon Washington New Hope Webster Louisville Los Angeles Berkeley San Francisco Milwaukee Appleton Bloomington New Bedford Amherst New York Chicago Santa Monica Berkeley Urbana Berkeley Minneapolis Brooklyn North Adams Wellfleet Boston Sea le New York New York Washington Syracuse Madison Chicago West Lafaye e Napa San Francisco Los Angeles Albuquerque Taos Santa Fe Manchester New York Los Angeles Marlboro Boston

MI IL IL NC NY RI NY MA NY DC PA NY CO CA CA CA WI WI IN MA MA NY IL CA CA IL CA MN NY MA MA MA WA NY NY DC NY WI IL IN CA CA CA NM NM NM NH NY CA NY MA

Live at PJ's Fitzgerald's Fitzgerald's The Blind Tiger The Towne Crier Rhodes on The Pawtuxet Let's Zydeco at Connolly's Iron Horse Bayou Restaurant Hill Country BBQ New Hope Winery The Harmony House Louisville Street Faire Walt Disney Concert Hall Zellerbach Hall Herbst Theatre Alverno College: Pitman Theater Lawrence University: Harper Hall Bloomington Centre for the Performing Arts Zeiterion Theatre University of Massachuse s Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts Old Town School of Folk Music The Broad Stage Zellerbach Hall Krannert Center: Tryon Festival Theatre Zellerbach Hall Orchestra Hall Grand Prospect Hall Mass MOCA First Congregational Church of Wellfleet Scullers Jazz Club S. Mark Taper Foundation: Benaroya Hall Jazz at The Lincoln Center Jazz at The Lincoln Center Kennedy Center Jazz Club Palace Theatre Wisconsin Union Theater Old Town School of Folk Music Purdue University: Loeb Playhouse Napa Valley Opera House SF Jazz Skirball Center National Hispanic Cultural Center KTAOS Solar Center The Lensic Saint Anselm College: Dana Center Town Hall Skirball Center The Falcon Scullers Jazz Club

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