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New Release Highlights The surprising success of Michael Tilson Thomas’s recent Beethoven recordings for SFS Media continues this month with a superb recording of the composer’s beloved Symphony No.9 (p.25). Marc-André Hamelin’s series of Haydn Piano Sonatas won the hearts of critics around the world. Now Hamelin partners with Canadian superstars Bernard Labadie and Les Violons du Roy on an exciting new recording of Haydn’s Piano Concertos for Hyperion (p.13). Canadian artists also feature prominently on Orange Mountain’s recording of the Symphony No.3 and suite from The Hours by Philip Glass with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra led by Anne Manson (p.23). On tour this month in North America, the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge presents the second release on their new label - taking a fresh look at Mozart’s unfinished Requiem (p.17). Volume 59 of Hyperion’s unstoppable Romantic Piano Concerto series focuses on works by Polish composers, with Jonathan Plowright as the soloist (p.15). The harmonia mundi label offers a wealth of riches, with new releases from La Nuova Musica (Handel & Vivaldi, p.5), cellist Emmanuelle Bertrand (Shostakovich, p.7), oboist Nicholas Daniel (Musgrave, p.8) and the Freiburger Barockorchester (Bach, p.9). Last but not least, up and coming young pianist Joseph Moog offers a Scarlatti Sonata recital with a twist for Onyx (p.21). Non-classical priorities include the latest from jazz guitarist Gilad Hekselman (p.31) and a world fusion release that partners Fanfara Tirana and Transglobal Underground (p.37).
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 17 & 27
More Mozart concertos from Angela Hewitt Angela Hewitt turns to two of Mozart’s greatest and most popular concertos for her latest album. Together with her frequent collaborators, the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova and brilliant Finnish conductor Hannu Lintu, she presents these works in performances which are both elegantly stylish and profoundly felt. This release is completed by a personal reflection on the music by Hewitt herself in the accompanying booklet.
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Xavier Sabata (counter-tenor), Pomo d’Oro, Riccardo Minasi Aparté • AP 048
IMPORT Spanish counter-tenor Xavier Sabata expresses tears, joy and rage in his portrayal of the ‘bad boys’ from Handel’s operas on this riveting new disc from Aparté. Performing a fascinating selection of arias from Tamerlano, Ariodante, Teseo, Amadigi di Gaula, Giulio Cesare and Ottone, Sabata is accompanied by the Italian ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro conducted by Riccardo Minasi. Sabata graduated in drama from the Theatre Institute in his hometown and studied with the famous duo of Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmut Höll. He also took master classes with Montserrat Figueras, Richard Levitt and Christoph Prégardien.
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April 2013
IMPORT Myra Hess, the most important of Matthay’s pupils, became a household name on both sides of the Atlantic. In her youth, she played a wide repertoire including much contemporary music, but in her later years she became best known for her playing of the great classics of the Germanic repertoire, particularly Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart and Schumann. During World War II, she established the National Gallery Concerts which became central to London’s cultural life. This set contains, for the first time, all the studio recordings she made from her first visit to the studio in 1928 to her final LP in 1957. Though Hess professed to hate recording (much preferring to play live), she did set down many wonderful performances, none greater than those of Beethoven’s late sonatas Op.109 and Op.110.
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Ragazze Quartet Channel Classics • CCS SA 34613
IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD The Ragazze Quartet has been acclaimed for their musical enthusiasm, talent, versatility and presentation. The young Dutch ensemble frequently collaborates with composers, musicians — classical or otherwise — and artists working in a variety of disciplines. In spite of its lifeaffirming title, Vivere, this is not exactly a cheerful disc. All three compositions refer in various ways to death. This is reflected in the key signatures of the repertoire (D minor is considered the key of death) and the programmatic content of the Schubert and Widmann quartets. The cellist actually ‘dies’ in the Widmann! Spectacularly well recorded, this disc presents an unusual and compelling program and a dynamic and exciting new ensemble.
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Neapolis Ensemble Eloquentia • EL 1235
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IMPORT Recorded live in Naples in July 2011, this album from the Neapolis Ensemble presents a selection of Neapolitan music spanning four centuries. Lo Guarracino ranges from traditional melodies and dances of the 15th and 16th centuries to an 18th-century Classical aria by Leonardo Vinci. In pursuit of an ideal mix of classic and traditional music, the Neapolis Ensemble performs on both classical instruments like the violoncello and baroque flutes and popular instruments like the tambourine, mandolin and guitar. The group performs in a wide range of venues — from opera houses to ethnic music festivals — ever reinventing the traditional Neapolitan musical repertoire.
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HANDEL Dixit Dominus HWV 282 VIVALDI Dixit Dominus RV 807, In furore iustissimae irae
Lucy Crowe (soprano), La Nuova Musica, David Bates harmonia mundi • HMU 807587
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“David Bates directs his expert period band with spirit and imagination…”
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IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD David Bates leads the ensemble La Nuova Musica in a pair of contrasting settings of Psalm 109. Handel’s masterful and ambitious HWV 282 was penned in 1707 during a visit to Italy. Vivaldi’s vivid and economical RV 807 (his third Dixit Dominus) was long mistakenly attributed to Baldassare Galuppi; it probably dates from the early 1730s. Rounding out the program is Vivaldi’s dazzling motet In furore iustissimae irae, featuring soprano Lucy Crowe.
—GRAMOPHONE
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“Bates’ instrumental players are outstanding, and his singers form a stylistically homogenous, vocally well-matched group.” —OPERA NEWS
April 2013
Handel: Il pastor fido
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Charming Schubert ensembles harmonia mundi
SCHUBERT Licht und Liebe — Lieder & Vocal Quartets Marlis Petersen (soprano), Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano), Werner Güra (tenor), Konrad Jarnot (baritone), Christoph Berner (piano) harmonia mundi • HMC 902130
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IMPORT Licht und Liebe features Schubert’s vocal duets, trios and quartets — works that reveal the full variety of his creative impulses. Composed for the famous ‘Schubertiads’ — the composer’s intimate gatherings of friends — they were sometimes written in dialogue and sometimes in unison; they were at times close to opera, or to Singspiel scenes or choral music. These delightful vocal ensembles, performed here by Marlis Petersen, Anke Vondung, Werner Güra and Konrad Jarnot, display a rare combination of skill, taste and compositional freedom that offers a special and immediate appeal for today’s listener.
April 2013
Also available Schumann: Spanische Liebeslieder harmonia mundi • HMC 902050 (794881966820)
“Performances to relish...” —GRAMOPHONE
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“Four world-class singers…” —BAY AREA REPORTER
Bertrand plays Shostakovich harmonia mundi
SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No.1, Cello Sonata Op.40
Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Pascal Amoyel (piano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Pascal Rophé harmonia mundi • HMC 902142
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IMPORT Written 25 years apart, the two masterpieces for cello by Shostakovich recorded here represent very different periods in the composer’s career. The audaciously insolent Cello Sonata of 1934 is contemporary with Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District — the opera soon to plunge Shostakovich into disgrace with Stalin. It is paired with the bitter and self-questioning Cello Concerto No.1 from 1959, a work by a traumatized humorist who had long since learned not to laugh. Soloist Emmanuelle Bertrand is joined by pianist Pascal Amoyel for the sonata and by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales led by Pascal Rophé for the concerto.
“Emmanuelle Bertrand shows an amazing affinity for 20th century music. Her perfect technique, splendid melancholy tone, and strong temperament permeate every note…” —CLASSICS TODAY
Also available harmonia mundi • HMU 902078 (794881984725)
“Beautiful, played with great accuracy and emotion...”
April 2013
Le violoncelle parle
—AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE 7
Chamber music of Musgrave harmonia mundi
MUSGRAVE Chamber works for oboe Night Windows, Impromptus Nos.1 & 2, Cantilena, Niobe, Trio, Take Two Oboes, Threnody Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Emer McDonough (flute), James Turnbull (oboe), Joy Farrall (clarinet), Huw Watkins (piano), Chilingirian String Quartet harmonia mundi • HMU 907568
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PRAISE FOR NICHOLAS DANIEL “A formidable virtuoso…”
April 2013
IMPORT Rich and powerful musical language and a strong sense of drama have made Scottish-American composer Thea Musgrave (b.1928) one of the most respected and exciting contemporary voices. This recording by star oboist Nicholas Daniel features a collection of Musgrave’s chamber works for oboe composed between 1960 and 2009 and includes several works written especially for Daniel. Joined by flutist Emer McDonough, oboist James Turnbull, clarinetist Joy Farrall, pianist Huw Watkins and members of the Chilingirian Quartet, Daniel plays eight works in a variety of combinations ranging from duos to quartets.
PRAISE FOR THE CHILINGIRIAN QUARTET “An expert ensemble…
refreshing in its skill, fluency, and energy.” —GRAMOPHONE
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Dazzling Bach concertos harmonia mundi
BACH Violin Concertos BWV1041-1043 & 1064
Petra Müllejans (violin), Gottfried von der Goltz (violin), Anne Katharina Schreiber (violin), Freiburger Barockorchester harmonia mundi • HMC 902145
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“Freiburg Baroque Orchestra outdoes all comers in zest and youthful joie de vivre.” —BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
IMPORT Bach’s three well-known Violin Concertos are paired here with a splendid concerto for three violins, reconstructed from the surviving version for three harpsichords, BWV 1064. The composer’s fascination with the Italian solo concerto, which resulted in numerous arrangements and compositions, dates to his second Weimar period from 1708 to 1717. However, current research has revealed that Bach wrote the violin concertos around 1720, during his engagement as Kapellmeister in Cöthen. On this recording, soloists Petra Müllejans, Gottfried von der Goltz, and Anne Katharina Schreiber are backed by the matchless Freiburger Barockorchester in dazzling readings of these evergreen favorites.
Also available harmonia mundi • HMC 902113 (3149020211328)
“It’s hard to imagine an eminent Baroque ensemble more temperamentally suited to the esprit of Bach’s four orchestral essays…” —GRAMOPHONE
April 2013
Bach: Orchestral Suites
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Passionate Brahms from the Jerusalem Quartet harmonia mundi
BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet, String Quartet No.2
Sharon Kam (clarinet), Jerusalem Quartet harmonia mundi • HMC 902152
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IMPORT Brahms’s implacable self-criticism was at its height in the domain of chamber music; he was already forty when he produced his second String Quartet (of three) after two decades of rejected attempts, which only makes the work’s formal perfection and intense lyricism all the more striking. In the case of the much-loved Clarinet Quintet, it was a meeting with the clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld that inspired Brahms to emerge from his self-imposed retirement to compose this almost unbearably nostalgic musical testament, completed five years before his death. The acclaimed Jerusalem Quartet is joined by clarinetist Sharon Kam in highly charged performances of these two masterworks of the Romantic.
April 2013
Also available Schumann: Piano Quintet, Piano Quartet
harmonia mundi • HMC 902122 (3149020212226)
“A combination of ardour and control characterizes the supremely musical approach here.” —INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
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“ The Jerusalem Quartet are at the peak of their career, still youthful yet playing with the wisdom of 20 years’ experience.” —THE OBSERVER
McAdams conducts orchestral favorites harmonia mundi helicon
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez
Angel Romero (guitar), Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Ryan McAdams Helicon • 02.9662
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CONCERT REVIEW
April 2013
“ Such a program of often-heard works can be welcome if the performance is extraordinary. This was indeed the case with Scheherazade. The masterful conducting of the American Ryan McAdams impressively highlighted the work’s abundant tone colors, produced flexible, fresh-sounding tempi that had nothing mechanical about them, never leaving a dull moment, and created immense dramatic tension.”
IMPORT This 2012 live recording from the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra couples two of the most popular works in the classical repertoire. Led by up-and-coming American conductor Ryan McAdams, the program leads off with an electrifying rendition of Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphonic suite Scheherazade. Based on One Thousand and One Nights, the work combines two features common to Russian music and of Rimsky-Korsakov in particular: dazzling, colorful orchestration and a keen interest in the Orient. The recording concludes with an outstanding performance of Rodrigo’s beloved Concierto de Aranjuez performed by Angel Romero, one of the greatest living masters of the classical guitar.
— THE JERUSALEM POST 1111
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PALESTRINA Missa Ad coenam Agni, Surrexit pastor bonus, Regina caeli I, Haec dies, Alleluia Tulerunt Dominum, Terra tremuit, Angelus Domini II, Deus, Deus meus, Lauda anima mea, Benedicite gentes, Ad coenam Agni providi The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice Hyperion • CDA 67978
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IMPORT The Brabant Ensemble, better known for uncovering works by forgotten composers such as Dominique de Phinot, turns to a giant of the Renaissance — perhaps the most celebrated name of the period. Yet within Palestrina’s huge output there are many hidden gems, lacking both recordings and modern performing editions, and it is from among these that the ensemble’s director Stephen Rice has chosen the repertoire for this album. A Mass — Missa Ad coenam Agni, from Palestrina’s first book of mass-settings — is included, plus antiphons, motets and five Eastertide Offertories. Each work is, as conductor Stephen Rice states in his typically informative booklet notes, “a finely crafted addition to the liturgy.” The Brabant Ensemble brings their dependably matchless blend of musicianship, scholarship and sensitive singing to this glorious music.
April 2013
Also available Mouton: Missa Tu es Petrus
Hyperion • CDA 67933 (034571179339)
“The lucidity of both The Brabant Ensemble’s singing and Rice’s direction is hugely impressive...” —INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
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Hamelin plays Haydn concertos hyperion
HAYDN Piano Concertos Nos.3, 4 & 11
Marc-André Hamelin (piano), Les Violons du Roy, Bernard Labadie Hyperion • CDA 67925
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IMPORT Marc-André Hamelin has proven himself — in three highly lauded volumes of Haydn’s piano sonatas — to be a formidable Haydn pianist, combining style, exuberance and dazzling technique with a palpable sense of joy in the music. This release is the fruit of a partnership with the award-winning Canadian chamber orchestra Les Violons du Roy and their director Bernard Labadie, whose previous recordings for Virgin Classics and other labels have received the highest critical acclaim. With his scintillating performances of Haydn’s three most popular Piano Concertos, Hamelin further demonstrates his special affinity for this repertoire.
Also available Hyperion • CDA 67554 (034571175546)
“Superb performances”
— SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
—CLASSICS TODAY Haydn: Piano Sonatas Vol.2
Hyperion • CDA 67710 (034571177106)
“Crisp, focused playing”
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
Haydn: Piano Sonatas Vol.3
Hyperion • CDA 67882 (034571178820)
April 2013
Haydn: Piano Sonatas Vol.1
“Hamelin gives us the total Haydn package…”
“Dazzlingly articulated”
— GRAMOPHONE
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Strauss showpieces hyperion
STRAUSS Don Quixote, Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Lawrence Power (viola), Alban Gerhardt (cello), Gürzenich Orchestra Köln, Markus Stenz Hyperion • CDA 67960
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April 2013
IMPORT Strauss’s tone poem Don Quixote, subtitled “Fantastic variations on a theme of knightly character,” is one of the composer’s most popular works, principally because of the beautifully drawn central characters of the Don (performed by a solo cellist) and Sancho Panza (performed by a solo violist). These complex roles are luxuriously portrayed in this new recording by Hyperion artists Alban Gerhardt and Lawrence Power. The merry tale of Till Eulenspiegel completes the program, which features The Gürzenich-Orchester Köln — the very orchestra that gave the premieres of both works in the 1890s — conducted by Markus Stenz, who has held the position of Principal Conductor since 2003.
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“ Whether in challenging virtuosic feats or in the airiest melodies, Power preserves that woody flavor of expensive old whiskey that characterizes the sound of the viola.” —THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
“Mr. Gerhardt’s cello playing is bold, technically resourceful and rhythmically incisive.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
Romantic concertos from Poland fra musica hyperion
Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.59 ZELENSKI Piano Concerto Op.60 ZARZYCKI Piano Concerto Op.17, Grande Polonaise Op.7
Jonathan Plowright (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz Hyperion • CDA 67958
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IMPORT This 59th volume of the Romantic Piano Concerto series features Jonathan Plowright, whose brilliant and utterly idiomatic performances of Romantic Polish piano music have confirmed him as a master of this repertoire. Here he collaborates with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Lukasz Borowicz to perform three very obscure but fascinating works. The music of Zelenski has already been championed by Plowright in a disc of Polish chamber music; now he performs his Piano Concerto in E flat major, which was written in 1903 and dedicated to the young Ignacy Friedman, who gave the premiere the following year. A Piano Concerto in A flat major by Aleksander Zarzycki is also included, plus his barnstorming Grande Polonaise, an outrageous masterpiece that is unknown even in specialist piano circles.
“Plowright’s enthusiasm, natural musicality, and idiomatic ease with such a wide range of styles makes you forget about his effortless, flexible technical mastery and range of nuance and tone color.” —CLASSICS TODAY
Previous release in the series Hyperion • CDA 67915 (034571179155)
“Neither Pixis nor Thalberg could have rivaled Howard Shelley’s immaculate taste and dexterity. Time and again he makes it difficult to imagine another pianist with such nonchalant ease and elegance.”
April 2013
Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.58
—GRAMOPHONE 15
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Mid-priced Helios series reissues MENDELSSOHN Lieder
Susan Gritton (soprano), Eugene Asti (piano) Hyperion • CDH 55360
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IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 67110 (034571171104) Deleted February 2009 Fanny Mendelssohn, Felix’s older sister, has been long and unjustly overlooked as a serious composer, despite a considerable and impressive output. She was writing music at a time when it was considered unsuitable for a woman from the upper middle classes to have ambitions as a professional musician. Despite her gifts and desire for recognition, throughout most of her life Fanny respected the prevailing conventions, accepting the prescribed role of a cultivated German woman of the time. This mid-priced reissue featuring soprano Susan Gritton and pianist Eugene Asti is devoted to 29 of her beautiful songs, most recorded here for the first time.
GRECHANINOV Piano Trio Nos.1-2, Cello Sonata Op.113
April 2013
Moscow Rachmaninov Trio Hyperion • CDH 55399
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IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 67295 (034571172958) Deleted April 2010 Aleksandr Grechaninov is more widely known for his liturgical music and songs. Until recently, his works in other genres were rarely performed or recorded. Grechaninov’s chamber music in particular is wholly undeserving of the neglect that has befallen it. There are ten major pieces of chamber music by Grechaninov: four string quartets, two clarinet sonatas, a violin sonata and three Piano Trios, which are presented here by the Moscow Rachmaninov Trio. These lesser-known works reveal that Grechaninov’s wide-ranging and creative artistry rivals that of his better-known compatriot composers more commonly represented on disc and in the concert hall.
A fresh look at Mozart’s Requiem king’s college
MOZART Requiem — Realisations
Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor), Christopher Purves (bass), Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Academy of Ancient Music, Stephen Cleobury King’s College • KGS 0002
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IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD The second release from the C h o i r o f K i n g’s C o l l e g e , Cambridge’s own record label features conductor Stephen Cleobury leading the choir and the Academy of Ancient Music in a performance of Mozart’s Requiem. In addition to the complete Sussmayr edition, the recording includes fascinating complete movement realizations by leading composers and musicologists including Michael Finnessy, Robert Levin and Duncan Druce. The recording’s stellar line up of special guest soloists includes soprano Elin Manahan Thomas, mezzo Christine Rice, tenor James Gilchrist and bass Christopher Purves. The release also features a unique audio documentary about Mozart’s Requiem narrated by Elin Manahan Thomas, with short extracts of music interwoven into the commentary. The choir will be embarking on a major North American tour in April 2013 coinciding with the release.
“A new recording by the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge offers unadulterated pleasure.” —GRAMOPHONE
Also available King’s College • KGS 0001 (822231700128)
“The King’s College Choir defines Christmas musically… the level of achievement reached in these live performances is enviable.”
April 2013
Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
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la dolce volta
Inventive Bach transcriptions BACH Transcriptions
Ensemble Contraste La Dolce Volta • LDV 04
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IMPORT Transcribing his compositions for different forces was probably easy enough for Johann Sebastian Bach. The source of the sound didn’t matter, because for the master of Leipzig, what counted were the thought and the intellect. The form of the work, the tonality and the melodic contours were more important than the instruments involved. In an era concerned with exchanges between the different European schools, musicians were allowed (even expected) to copy, transcribe and adapt the work of their contemporaries. Over the centuries, many composers have adapted Bach’s organ, orchestral and choral music. On this chamber music recording, the Ensemble Contraste presents its own vision that never betrays Bach’s conception but allows the arabesques, lyricism, rigorous construction and complex polyphony to shine through.
Achúcarro plays Schumann SCHUMANN Fantaisie Op.17, Kreisleriana Op.16
April 2013
Joaquín Achúcarro (piano) La Dolce Volta • LDV 10
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IMPORT One of the most important Spanish pianists today, Joaquín Achúccaro has made his mark with recordings of Granados’s Goyescas and Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain. However, one would be remiss to categorize him as merely a specialist in Spanish music since German music by composers such as Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann features prominently in his repertoire. Extraordinarily attentive to the specificities of Schumann’s rhythms, Achúccaro’s recording of the Fantaisie and the Kreisleriana highlights the essence of these works, made even more fascinating by the exceptional richness of his touch.
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Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo-soprano), Quatuor Sine Nomine, Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne, Jean-Claude Fasel Mirare • MIR 160
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CAPLET Le Miroir de Jésus — Triptyque sur les Mystères du Rosaire
IMPORT André Caplet is probably best known today for his work as Debussy’s orchestrator. However, he was also a fine composer in his own right, beating out none other than Maurice Ravel to win the Grand Prix du Rome in 1901. Le Miroir de Jésus is his spiritual masterpiece. The work, a setting of poems by Henri Ghéon, is cast in three sections devoted to Jesus’s birth, passion and resurrection. Its orchestration is quite unusual, with a mezzo-soprano soloist accompanied by a female chorus, harp and string quartet. With this innovative work, Caplet is revealed as an important transitional composer between Debussy and Messiaen. Mezzo Marie-Claude Chappuis is the featured soloist.
Vocal works by Henry Lawes
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LAWES Ayres
La Rêveuse Mirare • MIR 177
April 2013
IMPORT Born in the final years of the reign of Elizabeth I, Henry Lawes lived through the troubled times of 17th century England. Brother of the charismatic but short lived William Lawes (1602-45), he was acknowledged in his day as one of the finest composers for the voice. This recording features a fascinating collection of his Ayres, performed by the French ensemble La Rêveuse. With his extended vocal ranges, expressive melodic formulas, vibrant dissonances and the highly poetic texts, Lawes was a subtle painter of the melancholy of his age, earning a place between John Dowland and Henry Purcell.
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Impressionist quartets DEBUSSY String Quartet SAINT-SAËNS String Quartet No.1 RAVEL String Quartet Modigliani Quartet Mirare • MIR 188
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IMPORT At the dawn of the twentieth century, the vibrations of colors and light found on the canvases of Monet, Seurat and their contemporaries were transmuted into sounds in the output of Debussy, whose String Quartet opened the way to a new aesthetic. Ten years later Ravel was to crystallize its style, as if to follow Debussy’s conception through to its conclusion. Between these two jewels of the French repertoire the Modigliani Quartet performs Saint-Saëns’ String Quartet No.1, revealing it as a tremendously appealing work, brimming with charm, humor and elegance.
Echoes of childhood L’enfance — Piano Works for Four Hands FAURÉ Dolly Op.56 BIZET Jeux d’enfants Op.22 DEBUSSY Petite suite RAVEL Ma mère l’Oye
April 2013
Claire Désert (piano), Emmanuel Strosser (piano) Mirare • MIR 190
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IMPORT This collection of works for piano duet by Bizet, Fauré, Debussy and Ravel evokes the colorful and naïve universe of the child. Much more than mere salon pieces, these charming works transport the listener to the land of dreams. Performed here by the impressive fourhands duo of Claire Désert and Emmanuel Strosser, they are tender, sensuous, touching and sincere. Repertoire includes Fauré’s Dolly, Bizet’s Jeux d’enfants, Debussy’s Petite Suite and Ravel’s Ma mère l’Oye.
Scarlatti, old and new onyx
Scarlatti Illuminated SCARLATTI Keyboard Sonatas
Joseph Moog (piano) Onyx Classics • ONYX 4106
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IMPORT Onyx presents a Scarlatti recital with a twist. Joseph Mo o g has assembled a fascinating survey of Scarlatti Sonatas that also includes a selection of the 18th-century master’s works as re-composed by some of the giants of the piano keyboard from the 19th and 20th centuries. The drama contained in Scarlatti’s short, one-movement sonatas has always exerted a hold over both musicians and listeners. The development of the piano in the 19th century provided too great a temptation for composer pianist Carl Tausig, a rival of Chopin and star pupil of Liszt, to ignore these works. He, along with Ignaz Friedman exploited the drama and poetry in Scarlatti’s music, using the new grand piano to its full extent. Walter Gieseking’s Chaconne, a fantastical composition on a theme by Scarlatti, forms the centerpiece of Moog’s unique and fascinating recital.
“A pianist of transcendental technique whose future should be well worth following.” —BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
Also available Onyx • ONYX 4089 (880040408925)
“Superb technique and a warm tone… an important talent whose versions of these concertos should wear very well.”
April 2013
Rachmaninov & Rubinstein: Piano Concertos
—FANFARE 21
Jette Parker Young Artists sing Massenet & Berlioz opera rara
MASSENET Le Portrait de Manon BERLIOZ Les nuits d’été
Susana Gaspar (soprano), Hanna Hipp (mezzo-soprano), Pablo Bemsch (tenor), ZhengZhong Zhou (baritone), Southbank Sinfonia, Geoffrey Paterson, Volker Krafft Opera Rara • ORC 47
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April 2013
IMPORT This release features a double bill of Massenet’s Le Portrait de Manon and Berlioz’s song cycle Les nuits d’été, recorded from live staged performances at the Royal Opera House with artists from the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme and the Southbank Sinfonia led by Geoffrey Paterson and Volker Krafft. This is the first time the composers Massenet and Berlioz have appeared as part of the Opera Rara catalogue. The single-disc set comes with a lavishly illustrated book, including a complete libretto for Le Portrait de Manon and song translations for Les nuits d’été, as well as detailed notes on both pieces written by the eminent musicologist Hugh Macdonald.
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A Glass tour de force orange mountain
GLASS Symphony No.3, Suite from The Hours (arranged by Michael Riesman)
Michael Riesman (piano), Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Anne Manson Orange Mountain • OMM 0086
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DOMESTIC In this new recording made at Canada’s famous Glenn Gould Studio at the CBC in Toronto, c o n d u c t o r a n d Ph i li p Glas s champion Anne Manson leads pianist Michael Riesman and her own Manitoba Chamber Orchestra in a tour de force performance of Glass’s Oscar nominated music from The Hours and a virtuosic performance of Glass’s Symphony No.3. Riesman, conductor and pianist on the original soundtrack recording of The Hours, was commissioned in 2002 to create a concert piece based on the score. Glass’s third symphony was written in 1995 for the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and is one of the composer’s most performed and accessible concert works. This recording shows off the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra’s versatility, especially in the quick paced second and fourth movements, as well as the ensemble’s silky interpretation of the many-layered voices of the third movement, all under the precise direction of Manson.
“Canada’s tiny, perfect chamber orchestra.” —THE TORONTO STAR
Also available
“Two of my favourite collaborators working together on some of the best known music I’ve composed.” —PHILIP GLASS
Orange Mountain Music • OMM 0084 (801837008425)
“Will please both minimalists and cabaret fans alike.”
April 2013
Glass: Tara Hugo Sings Philip Glass
—U2’s THE EDGE 23
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Spanish music for strings Spain Through Strings ARRIAGA String Quartet No.3 TURINA La Oración del Torero TOLDRÁ Vistas al Mar CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Guitar Quintet
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IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Miriam Rodriguez Brüllová (guitar), The Zemlinsky Quartet presents Spain Zemlinsky Quartet Through Strings — an original selection Praga • PRD 250295 of Spanish and Spanish-inspired works. The program spans from the third String Quartet by Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga (nicknamed “The Spanish Mozart”) to Turina’s crowd-pleasing La Oración del Torero, best known in its later version for string orchestra. The collection concludes with Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s 1950 Guitar Quintet (written for Andrés Segovia) featuring guitarist Miriam Rodriguez Brüllová.
Historic Debussy recordings DEBUSSY La Mer, Nocturnes, Jeux, Salut Printemps, Marche Écossaise, Invocation
April 2013
Nadine Sautereau (soprano), Michel Caron (tenor), Choeurs de la Radiodiffusion Française, Orchestre du Théâtre National de l’Opéra de Paris, Manuel Rosenthal Praga • PRD 350072
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IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD Praga’s acclaimed Reminiscences series, which features SACD remasterings of historic recordings, turns to music of Debussy for this superb release of orchestral works conducted by the great French maestro Manuel Rosenthal. Taken from stereo tapes dating from 1957-58, the recording includes not only La Mer, Nocturnes and Jeux, but also highlights the less well-known Salut Printemps for soprano solo and Invocation for tenor solo. Praga’s superb audio presents these gems from the past in the best possible sound quality.
MTT conducts Beethoven’s 9th sfs media
BEETHOVEN Symphony No.9
Erin Wall (soprano), Kendall Gladen (mezzo-soprano), William Burden (tenor), Nathan Berg (bass-baritone), San Francisco Symphony Chorus, San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas SFS Media • SFS 0055
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“Michael Tilson Thomas continues to bring a welcome freshness to almost every piece he conducts — and having the San Francisco players at his fingertips to do as he asks is certainly a help. The orchestra is beyond reproach.”
DOMESTIC SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Michael Tilson Thomas leads the GRAMMY® award-winning San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Symphony Chorus in an all-new recording of Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No.9. From its stormy opening to the towering fourth movement, Beethoven’s final and perhaps greatest symphony is also one of the most universally loved works in all of classical music. The album features soprano Erin Wall, mezzo-soprano Kendall Gladen, tenor William Burden and bass-baritone Nathan Berg. Beethoven’s ninth is the latest addition to the San Francisco Symphony’s catalog of Beethoven recordings and is offered as a premium audio hybrid SACD.
—AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
Also available Beethoven: Symphony No.7
SFS Media • SFS 0054 (821936005422)
“Is there a better-sounding recording of a Beethoven symphony than this one? If so, I haven’t heard it.”
“This new 7th is also a portrait of wonder, beauty, underlying tension, and jubilation.”
—FANFARE
—AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
April 2013 March 2013
Beethoven: Symphony No.5
SFS Media • SFS 0037 (821936003725)
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Unreleased Cluytens from Tahra L’Art d’André Cluytens TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No.1 FRANCK Symphonic Variations DEBUSSY Nocturnes
Walter Gieseking (piano), Emil Gilels (piano), Orchestre National de France, André Cluytens Tahra • TAH 741
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IMPORT Tahra’s compilation L’Art d’André Cluytens presents three previously unreleased live recordings by the great Franco-Belgian conductor dating from the late 1950s and all featuring the Orchestre National de France. Emil Gilels is the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1 and Walter Gieseking takes the lead in Franck’s Symphonic Variations. The disc concludes with a wonderfully atmospheric reading of Debussy’s three Nocturnes.
April 2013
wergo
Music of Herbert Eimert
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EIMERT Epitaph für Aikichi Kuboyama, Sechs Studien
Richard Münch (speaker), Leopold von Knobelsdorff (electronics) Wergo • WER 6773
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IMPORT Herbert Eimert (1897-1972) was a German music theorist, musicologist and composer. Eimert, a fervent disciple of Arnold Schönberg, felt strongly that his mentor’s 12-tone ideal could be best achieved through the use of electronics. This classic reissue from Wergo’s influential Studio Reihe series features Epitaph, Eimert’s powerfully emotional spoken-word based tribute to Japanese fisherman Aikichi Kuboyama, who died of radiation poisoning incurred when the first hydrogen bomb was tested in the South Pacific in 1954. Eimert’s Sechs Studien, was derived from the same source material, but uses only abstract musical sounds in a spectrum where the spoken word can no longer be recognized.
ROCK
A 90s Rock classic August and Everything After
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Counting Crows APO • CAPP 24528 SA
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April 2013
DOMESTIC SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD File in: Rock Analogue Productions proudly presents an audiophile SACD remaster of the Counting Crows’s superb début album August and Everything After. The album’s eleven tracks, masterfully produced by T Bone Burnett, were like an intimate song cycle — marrying post-punk with old-school jams in a magical blend that appealed to fans of both alternative and classic rock in equal measure. Riding high on the success of mega-hits like “Mr. Jones” and “Rain King,” the album quickly went multi-platinum. Twenty years on, the album still holds up well. Channeling legends like Van Morrisson, The Band and Dylan, Counting Crows crafted a recipe for success that will no doubt reserve them a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. An interesting bit of trivia — the album’s cover depicts handwritten lyrics to a song called “August and Everything After,” but the band decided against featuring the song on the album. First played at one of their live concerts, fans had to wait for over a decade to finally hear it.
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Classic jazz remastered for SACD
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All Night Long
Prestige All Stars APO • CPRJ 7073 SA
Coltrane
John Coltrane APO • CPRJ 7105 SA
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Tommy Flanagan Overseas
April 2013
Tommy Flanagan Trio APO • CPRJ 7134 SA
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Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! Ella Fitzgerald APO • CVRJ 4053 SA
Classic jazz remastered for SACD
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Back to Back
Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges APO • CVRJ 6055 SA
Side By Side
Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges APO • CVRJ 6109 SA
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Coleman Hawkins and His Confrères Coleman Hawkins APO • CVRJ 6110 SA
All or Nothing at All
Billie Holiday APO • CVRJ 8329 SA
April 2013
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JAZZ
Daring jazz from Koby Israelite Blues from Elsewhere
asphalt tango
Koby Israelite Asphalt Tango • ATR 3513
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April 2013
IMPORT File in: Jazz With four releases on the legendary John Zorn’s alt-Jewish label Tzadik, Koby Israelite has been called prolific, genius and avantgarde. The Israeli-born South Londoner’s musical journey has included everything from classical piano to speed metal drumming. At heart he is a man after a good tune and it doesn’t matter whether that tune is inspired by Black Sabbath, Beethoven or Bucharest Gypsies. At times hauntingly beautiful, Koby’s music is expressed on plaintive Armenian duduk and wistful accordion, connecting his love of Balkan music with the blues. Featuring vocals by the mellifluous Mor Karbasi and the edgy Annique, Blues from Elsewhere is a collision of styles and influences that coheres around a unique musical vision that is daringly powerful and strangely sweet.
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The golden guitar of Gilad Hekselman This Just In
jazz village
Gilad Hekselman Jazz Village • JV 570013
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“A distinctive lyricism and easily embraceable artfulness that seems to reach beyond his years.” —ALL ABOUT JAZZ
IMPORT File in: Jazz This Just In, Gilad Hekselman’s fourth album, is by far his most exciting. It plays out like a news broadcast, peppered with short, improvised news breaks that highlight his compositions and their openness to a multitude of influences. Jazz, rock, folk, African, Israeli and North Indian classical music are dispersed throughout the album where Hekselman’s harmonic creativity and rhythmic mastery prove to be natural elements of the melodic virtuosity that has become his trademark. Leading his powerful trio with Joe Martin on bass, Marcus Gilmore on drums and guest saxophonist Mark Turner on two tracks, Gilad Hekselman’s deliciously dynamic music truly shines.
Also available Le Chant du Monde • 2742037 (3149024203725)
“They are melodies that stay with you... He’s on a good road, and he’s still moving.”
April 2013
Hearts Wide Open
—THE NEW YORK TIMES 31
JAZZ
Dueling geniuses jazz village
Heavens — Amadeus & The Duke Raphaël Imbert Project Jazz Village • JV 570011
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IMPORT File in: This project creates an exciting new bridge between Western classical music and AfricanAmerican music. With his band of virtuosos, Raphaël Imbert weaves together the common themes in the worlds of Ellington and Mozart. Heavens is an immense modern jam session, drawing on eclectic multicultural sources: blues, chamber music, secular song, German lied, sacred music, stomp, gospel opera and more. Inspired by both written and oral traditions, driven by improvisation and a swinging momentum, the saxophonist reveals the genius of these two great masters.
April 2013
frémeaux
Stars of French jazz scene
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L’enjeu des paradoxes
Ludovic de Preissac with Sylvain Beuf Frémeaux • FA 580
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IMPORT File in: Jazz After his excellent tribute to Oscar Peterson in West Side Story, Ludovic de Preissac is back with L’enjeu des paradoxes, a sextet album featuring his own compositions. Apart from his skills as a pianist, de Preissac’s composing and arranging talents make this album a major contribution to the French jazz scene. The guest artist here is virtuoso saxophonist Sylvain Beuf, whose brio combines with that of the others to produce some truly sumptuous improvisations.
BLUES
Belgian blues Back To Hesta
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Elmore D Frémeaux • FA 575
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IMPORT File in: Blues Elm o re D is the Belgian alter ego of Be n oî t Blue B oy, the French-speaking bluesman who pays tribute to the musical legacy of the Southern United States. He borrows from the greatest American bluesmen, drawing on their strength and authenticity. A linguist and an academic, he transposes English into his own Walloon dialect. Through personal memories he evokes Herstal, his birthplace, and provides humorous, tender testimony to the working-class traditions of the Walloons. Situated at the confines of blues and World Music, Back to Hèsta is a rare look into French-language culture.
April 2013
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WORLD JAZZ
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Romanian reggae remixed Balkan Reggae
Mahala Rai Banda Asphalt Tango • ATR 3713
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IMPORT File in: World / Romania Since the early 60s, Jamaican music has rocked the world. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Romania’s Gypsy musicians, with their furious brass bands, made a similar impression on the West. “Balkan Reggae,” the top track from Mahala Rai Banda’s acclaimed 2009 album Ghetto Blasters, showed how Eastern instruments could embrace a very Caribbean flavor. Reggae DJs across Europe began dropping the tune in their sets, and this album presents hot dub remixes of the track. Featured DJs include Mad Professor, Nick Manasseh (featuring dread DJ Gregory Fabulous), Jstar, G-Vibes (featuring acclaimed Brixton blues man Errol Linton), Vibronics, Kanka and Asphalt Tango artists La Cherga and Koby Israelite.
April 2013
accords croisés
Palestinian fusion
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Nhaoul’
Kamilya Jubran, Sarah Murcia Accords Croisés • AC 147
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IMPORT File in: World / Palestine Nhaoul’ is the latest collaboration between Israeli vocalist and oud player Kamilya Jubran and French jazz bassist Sarah Murcia. Creating a bridge between early 20th century classical Arabic music and contemporary styles, this project of musical exchange revisits compositions from Jubran’s 2008 album Makan. A former member of the Sabreen Association for Artistic Development, which is a voice of resistance and freedom as well as of modern Arabic song, Jubran has toured with different groups and given solo performances. She and Murcia are joined here by a trio of string instruments.
WORLD
Rocking Occitan beats Artemis
chant du monde
Moussu T et lei Jovents Chant du Monde • 2742235
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IMPORT File in: World / France Founded by members of the Massilia Sound System, Moussu T e lei Jovents have managed to come up with a very unique style — midway between popular music and Mediterranean blues, and inspired by the musical melting pot of 1930s Marseilles. It was a time when the air was humming with Provençal and Occitan songs, operettas, blues, jazz and sounds of the Caribbean, North Africa and Brazil. The songs on the band’s new release Artemis are redolent with both the smell of the sea and the smoky intimacy of a harbor-front dance hall, permeated with the universal rhythms of the blues.
Also available Le Chant du Monde • 2742039 (3149024203923)
“Another top album from the Pastis-swilling, garlic-mayonnaise-munching stalwarts of Occitan culture.”
April 2013
Empeche-Nous
—SONGLINES 35
WORLD
Music of Argentina frémeaux
Buenas Noches, Compatriotas Atahualpa Yupanqui Frémeaux • FA 439
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IMPORT File in: World / Argentina A monument of South-American music, author, singer, guitarist and composer Atahualpa Yupanqui (1908-1992) was born Hector Roberto Chavero in Pergamino, a province of Buenos Aires. He took a stage name that paid tribute to two Incan rulers and became a revolutionary who studied indigenous cultures. His ethnographic work became internationally known; he performed with Edith Piaf and his compositions were later recorded by the likes of Mercedes Sosa. Yupanqui is considered the most important Argentine folk musician of the 20th century, and this 1982 album, Buenas Noches, Compatriotas, reissued here on Fremeaux, is now considered a historical recording.
Que Nadie Seda Mi Sufrir
Rául Barboza & Juanjo Dominguez Frémeaux • LLL 277
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April 2013
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IMPORT File in: World / Argentina When Raúl Barboza first settled in France in 1987, he quickly came to the realization that he could not classify himself in any musical genre. The Buenos Aires born accordionist’s music represented a unique global mix of Indian, European and African influences, incorporating everything from tangos to mazurkas and waltzes. The recipient of a Konex Prize as one of the five Best Figures in the History of Argentinean Popular Music, Barboza continues to explore new paths on his latest recording, on which he partners with Argentine classical guitarist Juanjo Dominguez.
WORLD
A cross-cultural jamboree harmonia world village mundi
Kabatronics
Fanfara Tirana & Transglobal Underground World Village • 450022
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ADVANCE REVIEWS “Here’s an experiment that actually works... a highly entertaining clash of Albanian brass and beats, with unexpected echoes of India or the Caribbean added in. The best Transglobal offering since Moonshout.”
IMPORT File in: World Fusion Two maverick groups, Albanian brass maestros Fanfara Tirana and Britain’s eclectic world-fusion collective Transglobal Underground, team up for Kabatronics — a dynamic cross-border, cross-cultural jamboree. Drawing on a wealth of musical treasures, Balkan and otherwise, they exchange ideas, melodies and lyrics to tell new tales of mystery and re-imagination in a sparkling celebration of life, love and solidarity with its roots in history and its sights on the future.
—THE GUARDIAN
—THE INDEPENDENT
April 2013
“There’s a real vitality and immediacy to the meaty beats, crunching tubas and mercurial clarinets that speak lucidly of both past and present.”
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Concert Calendar • CLASSICAL April 2013
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Artists
Label
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City
State
Venue
Anonymous 4
harmonia mundi
Kristian Bezuidenhout Jonathan Biss
harmonia mundi Onyx
Gloria Cheng Choir of King's College, Cambridge
harmonia mundi King's College
Conspirare
harmonia mundi
James Ehnes
Onyx
Ludovico Einaudi
Ponderosa
Alban Gerhardt
Hyperion
Matthias Goerne Marc-André Hamelin
harmonia mundi Hyperion
Olga Kern
harmonia mundi
Dejan Lazic Nicholas McGegan
Channel Classics Philharmonia Baroque
Paul O'Dette Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
harmonia mundi Philharmonia Baroque
Christophe Rousset Stile Antico
Aparté harmonia mundi
Takács Quartet
Hyperion
Tokyo String Quartet
harmonia mundi
Danill Trifonov
Mariinsky
Shai Wosner
Onyx
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Label
Date
City
State
Venue
C.J. Chenier Kyle Eastwood
World Village Jazz Village
Ahmad Jamal Ana Moura
Jazz Village World Village
New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Catherine Russell
World Village World Village
Terakaft
World Village
Tinariwen
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